The Sticky From The Inside Podcast

Unlock the hidden genius in your team as leadership expert Myles Downey challenges control-driven leaders to embrace trust, tap into individual strengths, and unleash a powerhouse of performance and innovation.
In this engaging episode of Sticky From The Inside, Andy Goram sits down with Myles Downey, an accomplished executive coach and leadership development expert. The episode focuses on enabling genius and tapping into individual strengths within organizations.
Myles shares practical insights and strategies for leaders to unlock the full potential of their team members. He highlights the importance of clear communication, regular one-on-one meetings, and understanding individual strengths to create a transformative environment where creativity and innovation thrive. He also stresses the significance of taking time to reflect and think, which leads to more effective decision-making and interventions.
The episode addresses the challenges of implementing these concepts within organizations that have a command-and-control culture, while also offering inspiring examples of how embracing a culture of trust and empowerment can lead to tangible benefits such as increased performance and productivity. Leaders and managers who want to foster a culture of genius and unlock the potential of their teams will find this episode highly valuable.

Host, Andy Goram, talks to Organisational Psychologist, Laura Howard about the experiences of dealing with issues of gender stereotyping, inequality and both conscious and unconscious bias, in the small sample of female leaders she spoke to during her Masters Degree research.
In this episode, Laura shares some of the stories, and her own thoughts and experiences to bring more awareness to the issues still faced by many women in the workplace and to suggest a positive path forwards.

How do you know what's going on with engagement levels and culture in your business?  The traditional method is to bang out a survey, asking employees to tell you what they're thinking.  But is that the best we can do? And when we get the data back, what should we be doing with it?
Andy Goram talks to Jaakko Kaikuluoma, co-founder of Teamspective, about what's happening in the world of engagement today, and how it's involving methods like Organisational Network Analysis (ONA) and moving from surveys to actionable people analytics.

A recent Korn Ferry report suggests that by 2030 there will be a global talent shortage of 85 million people. So if ever focusing on employee engagement and retention was necessary, that time is now.  Excellent internal communications can form part of the cultural glue that holds an organisation together, helps it retain its people and connect them to the bigger mission.  Yet, communication is still given as the number one problem in many businesses. So what needs to change.
Andy Goram talks to Katie Macaulay, Managing Director of AB, the world’s longest-established internal communication agency, founded in 1964, about how internal communications needs reframing and refocusing to help with this challenge.

"We've got a perfect storm brewing", says my guest and CEO of 1105 Media, Rajeev Kapur and he says it calls for a new style of leadership.  The generational and gender shifts in the workplace, the huge amount of technology disruption coming from things like AI, and the movement and tensions we're seeing in world power, let alone climate change.  It all needs what Rajeev calls, "Enlightened Leadership" which is what he wrote about in his book "Chase Greatness - Enlightened Leadership for the next generation of disruption", and what he discusses with your host, Andy Goram in this episode.

In a world where we are exposed to and have access to more information than ever, and where we're working increasingly at a distance from others, but still expected to collaborate, share and learn, Personal Knowledge Management or PKM, is a modern way to synthesise the myriad of information we are exposed to today. It works in a way that is both intuitive and gives us access to a range of insight at our fingertips. Andy Goram talks to Scott Novis, who spent decades as a Video Games Exec and a VP at Disney, who says that PKM was a game-changer for him, making him more productive, happier and less overwhelmed. In this episode Scott tells us all how we can get started with PKM.

Traditional management training struggles to cope with the diversity of requirements that an organisations employees need developing, and the cost of building programmes to suit all those needs.  The result can be a range of broad programmes that attempt to cover as many bases as possible, or that just cover the basics.  At an exec level, organisations turn to coaching as the way to help a smaller, more manageable number of people develop and maximise their effectiveness, impact and potential.  What if you could cost effectively take that approach to development with all your people?  Andy Goram talks to Paul Burton, who's found a way to do it.

Psychological safety often comes down to the quality of interpersonal skills managers possess. But can you develop and measure those skills?  Your host, Andy Goram, speaks to Psychological Expert and volunteer firefighter, Stephan Wiedner to try to find answers to that question. The conversation also focuses in on the new piece of research that Stephan and renowned Harvard Professor of Leadership and Management, and architect of the famous 7 Psychological Safety questions, Amy Edmondson, are embarking on to measure the link between specific interpersonal skills managers possess and use and psychological safety.

The latest Women in the Workplace article, by McKinsey, said women leaders were switching jobs at the highest rates ever, far more than men. And ambitious, younger women were prepared to do the same.  They called it “The Great Break Up”. The report went on to highlight that this could be disastrous for some companies.  Women are already significantly under-represented in senior leadership roles, and now businesses are losing more of them.  Why is that?  What is happening?  What can and should we be doing about that?
In this episode your host, Andy Goram, talks to Career Coach, Claudia Miller about some of the causes behind this phenomenon and discusses what businesses and women themselves can do to reverse the situation.
 

Dr. Stewart Desson discusses the humanistic psychology approach that informed the development of the Lumina Spark personality assessment tool.  The Lumina Learning Mission "To transform organisations by celebrating people, one human at a time", perfectly aligns with the podcast's sentiment and the current focus on putting more humanity in the workplace, making for an energetic episode.