The Sticky From The Inside Podcast

Equal, Diverse & Inclusive Recruitment

Equality, diversity and inclusion are important principles to build a modern workplace on.  Recruiting for that breadth of experience and perspective can be a delicate subject though.  Leading a discussion on this topic even made me nervous as a podcast host, for fear of upsetting someone, or unintentionally saying the wrong thing.  But that's no excuse for not talking about this important topic.
 
Andy Goram talks to Nicky Wright, MD of Diversity Works Group, who is trying to take out conscious and unconscious bias from the recruitment process, as he seeks to understand and get better educated about the issues and opportunities the combination of E,D,&I, and Recruitment present.

Leading With Joy

With everything that’s going on in the world at the moment, could there be a better way to take a break from all that, than talking about the topic of joy? In a world where there’s a tonne of leadership books and doctrines about the choices and responsibilities of leadership, this conversation hones in on the real human side of things and speaks of transformation, love and joy in leadership that can sustain purposeful action and social change.
 
Andy Goram talks to Rajasvini Bhansali, co-author of the book "Leading With Joy" about why leading with joy is a serious business, is by no means the easy path, but can bring wonderful results.

How To Fortify Your Culture

Employee engagement and workplace cultures took a bashing during and post the Pandemic.  Many employees today are far less tolerant of outdated, uncaring, and inauthentic practices, attitudes, and behaviours. We know this because they are voting with their feet.  So how can you fortify your culture and set your business and the people that power it up for success?
 
Andy Goram talks to Shaara Roman, author of the book "The Conscious Workplace" about what it takes to build a sustainably enabling culture, where you hold on to more of your talent, who succeed and thrive.

How To Increase Employee Engagement in 2023

In this special, shorter episode, your host, Andy Goram, goes solo, to take stock of what's happened in 2022, and offer up 7 tips on how to increase employee engagement and retention in 2023.

Engagement In A Hybrid World

Andy Goram talks to Brad Taylor, former CIPD Director of People, Organisation Design and Workplace about the challenges the hybrid model is bringing to leaders trying to build, maintain or grow levels of genuine employee engagement, and create sustainably enabling, and productive cultures.
Brad is now the founder of Strategically People, and a Senior Associate with Advanced Workplace Associates, where he helps organisations develop their workplace experience and approach to hybrid working.

Commercial Compassionate Leadership

Who's the best leader you've ever worked for?  What made them special?  How did they engage you? How did they stretch and challenge you? Why were they different from other leaders you've worked for?
 
In episode 54, Andy Goram chats to Barrie Robinson, Operations Director for Parkdean Resorts, the UK's biggest Holiday Park operator about what the ideal leadership qualities he looks for are, which all comes down to a balance between commercial focus and business acumen and the ability to show compassion and act with emotional intelligence.

The Human-Centric Workplace

What does it take to construct a place of work where people love to be and are enabled to bring their best selves and do their very best work, every day, willingly? There's lots of talk about the future of the workplace. One day hybrid is the new black, the next day we're all going back to 5-days-a-week in the office. Who knows what the reality will be?
 
In episode 53, Andy Goram chats to Simone Fenton-Jarvis, a Facilities Maintenance expert and author of the book "The Human-Centric Workplace". In this episode, Simone passionately shares her views on the future of the workplace, and the impact this has on the people that work there, the wider community and the planet we inhabit.

Why Values Are Important

What is it that makes some businesses perform better than others? What makes them more attractive to candidates than others? How do they hold on to more of their talent than others? Well, one commonality, that I'd wager, is seen in all of those consistently top-performing businesses is having a set of guiding core values that are alive and working in the organisation, every day.
 
In episode 52 of Sticky From The Inside, the popular employee engagement, culture and human leadership podcast, your host, Andy Goram, discusses the importance and benefits of having core values alive and working in  your business, and how to achieve that with Marc Reifenrath, CEO and Co-Founder of Spinutech, who puts a lot of the company's success down to having just that.

Why Use Personality Profiling?

Have you ever taken a personality profiling test? Have you ever read the result and felt as though you've been put in a box, or pigeon-holed? Or have you felt for the first time, that you've been truly seen? In episode 51 of Sticky From The Inside, the popular employee engagement, culture and human leadership podcast, your host, Andy Goram, discusses the merits and pitfalls of such tools, with Nicola Jackson, a strengths assessment coach.
 
The pair compare notes on the opportunities lost and gained, and the absolute joy of seeing the results of self-awareness happening right before you.

Linking Purpose & Profit

What's more important today, a company's profit or purpose?  Are the two mutually exclusive or are they inextricably linked? And where's the evidence?
 
In the 50th episode of the popular employee engagement, workplace culture and leadership podcast, Sticky From The Inside, your host, Andy Goram, talks to consultant, researcher, passionate advocate of Purpose and the co-author of Selling With Noble Purpose, Elizabeth Lotardo.
 
In this episode's conversation the pair discuss the links, the disconnects and the reasons why that might be.  They also talk about how Jack Welch's GE reign has a lot to answer for, quiet quitting and share some great examples of exemplar companies and those who really must try harder!