Emma Matthews and Corina Roobeck

Bad Work Stories Made Good

Business EN ↓ 83 episodes

We hear too many stories of suffering at work and want to help you get some ideas and relief to make your life healthier and happier. In each episode, we will take a bad work story from our client work, the media, or even your own bad work story and make it good. 

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Author

Emma Matthews and Corina Roobeck

Category

Business

Latest episode

Jan 23, 2025

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Episodes

A Good Work Story - Celebration, presence and remembering why you love what you do. 18.08.2023

Tell us what you like about our show and share your Bad work stories so we can help. Thanks Emma & Corina Emma and Corina are on a mission to stop bad work stories. Work need not be a place of drama and suffering. It can be a place of joyful collaboration and growth for all.  We take everyday situations and apply practical and kind strategies to improve them.  You take what resonates with you...

When ‘authentic self’ is used to justify bad behaviour in teams 11.08.2023

Tell us what you like about our show and share your Bad work stories so we can help. Thanks Emma & Corina Emma and Corina are on a mission to stop bad work stories. Work need not be a place of drama and suffering. It can be a place of joyful collaboration and growth for all.  We take everyday situations and apply practical and kind strategies to improve them.  You take what resonates with you...

The Pain of Cross-Functional Collaboration 04.08.2023

Tell us what you like about our show and share your Bad work stories so we can help. Thanks Emma & Corina Emma and Corina are on a mission to stop bad work stories. Work need not be a place of drama and suffering. It can be a place of joyful collaboration and growth for all.  We take everyday situations and apply practical and kind strategies to improve them.  You take what resonates with you...

Mixing Family in Business Can Be Tricky 28.07.2023

Tell us what you like about our show and share your Bad work stories so we can help. Thanks Emma & Corina Emma and Corina are on a mission to stop bad work stories. Work need not be a place of drama and suffering. It can be a place of joyful collaboration and growth for all.  We take everyday situations and apply practical and kind strategies to improve them.  You take what resonates with you...

Is Resilience a Dirty Word ? 21.07.2023

Tell us what you like about our show and share your Bad work stories so we can help. Thanks Emma & Corina Emma and Corina are on a mission to stop bad work stories. Work need not be a place of drama and suffering. It can be a place of joyful collaboration and growth for all.  We take everyday situations and apply practical and kind strategies to improve them.  You take what resonates with you...

Table Talk - Leaders Lean In 13.07.2023

Tell us what you like about our show and share your Bad work stories so we can help. Thanks Emma & Corina Emma and Corina are on a mission to stop bad work stories. Work need not be a place of drama and suffering. It can be a place of joyful collaboration and growth for all.  We take everyday situations and apply practical and kind strategies to improve them.  You take what resonates with you...

Do we need to protect our staff from our customers? 07.07.2023

Tell us what you like about our show and share your Bad work stories so we can help. Thanks Emma & Corina Emma and Corina are on a mission to stop bad work stories. Work need not be a place of drama and suffering. It can be a place of joyful collaboration and growth for all.  We take everyday situations and apply practical and kind strategies to improve them.  You take what resonates with you...

Internal Candidate Gets The Cold Shoulder 30.06.2023

Tell us what you like about our show and share your Bad work stories so we can help. Thanks Emma & Corina Emma and Corina are on a mission to stop bad work stories. Work need not be a place of drama and suffering. It can be a place of joyful collaboration and growth for all.  We take everyday situations and apply practical and kind strategies to improve them.  You take what resonates with you...

A Touchy Subject 26.06.2023

Tell us what you like about our show and share your Bad work stories so we can help. Thanks Emma & Corina Emma and Corina are on a mission to stop bad work stories. Work need not be a place of drama and suffering. It can be a place of joyful collaboration and growth for all.  We take everyday situations and apply practical and kind strategies to improve them.  You take what resonates with you...

Intro to Season 3 13.06.2023

Tell us what you like about our show and share your Bad work stories so we can help. Thanks Emma & Corina Welcome back for Season 3 where Emma and Corina continue their mission to help you stop the bad stuff that's happening at work. And this season we are launching on You Tube.

Lessons From ITV's Toxic Culture Exposed 13.06.2023

Tell us what you like about our show and share your Bad work stories so we can help. Thanks Emma & Corina Emma and Corina are on a mission to stop bad work stories. Work need not be a place of drama and suffering. It can be a place of joyful collaboration and growth for all.  We take everyday situations and apply practical and kind strategies to improve them.  You take what resonates with you...

A Good Work Story - Time for reflection 05.04.2023

Tell us what you like about our show and share your Bad work stories so we can help. Thanks Emma & Corina Emma and Corina are on a mission to stop bad work stories.  Work need not be a place of drama and suffering.  It can be a place of joyful collaboration and growth for all.  Emma and Corina take everyday situations and apply practical and kind strategies to improve them. Add what resonates...

Leading with emotion. 30.03.2023

Tell us what you like about our show and share your Bad work stories so we can help. Thanks Emma & Corina Emma and Corina are on a mission to stop bad work stories.  Work need not be a place of drama and suffering.  It can be a place of joyful collaboration and growth for all.  Emma and Corina take everyday situations and apply practical and kind strategies to improve them. Add what resonates...

No time for cake. 23.03.2023

Tell us what you like about our show and share your Bad work stories so we can help. Thanks Emma & Corina Emma and Corina are on a mission to stop bad work stories.  Work need not be a place of drama and suffering.  It can be a place of joyful collaboration and growth for all.  Emma and Corina take everyday situations and apply practical and kind strategies to improve them. Take what resonates...

How ‘honesty’ can cancel your culture. 16.03.2023

Tell us what you like about our show and share your Bad work stories so we can help. Thanks Emma & Corina Emma and Corina are on a mission to stop bad work stories.  Join Emma and Corina as they discuss a situation where a team has worked on their development all day, including their culture. Right at the end of the session, as they are checking out, a team member says, “ I dont think everyone...

#Embrace Equity - Our International Women’s Day Special. 07.03.2023

Tell us what you like about our show and share your Bad work stories so we can help. Thanks Emma & Corina Emma and Corina are on a mission to stop bad work stories.  Embrace Equity is the theme of this year's International Women's Day. To help us explore this, we are excited to welcome Sarah Nodarse, PHD, our first guest on BWSMG.  Sarah is a Cultural Anthropologist and Practitioner...

Honour your gut - an important input to the recruitment process. 02.03.2023

Tell us what you like about our show and share your Bad work stories so we can help. Thanks Emma & Corina Emma and Corina are on a mission to stop bad work stories.  In today's episode, Emma and Corina discuss the case of a leader who didnt trust their intuition , went with the pressure of HR and and a year later is looking for a replacement candidate.  If you are a leader or HR partner w...

My Boss is a Narcissist - help me! 23.02.2023

Tell us what you like about our show and share your Bad work stories so we can help. Thanks Emma & Corina Emma and Corina are on a mission to stop bad work stories.  In today's episode, Emma and Corina discuss the destructive impact of narcissistic behaviors on individual/team health and performance at work. When this toxic load becomes too much, what can we do?  If you are in this situat...

Restructure - testing times. 17.02.2023

Tell us what you like about our show and share your Bad work stories so we can help. Thanks Emma & Corina Emma and Corina are on a mission to stop bad work stories.  In today's episode, Emma and Corina discuss the communication void of an organization undergoing restructuring and an opportunity to show up with love, compassion, and respect.   Points covered:  A critical Moment of Truth fo...

The Gift of Love this Valentines Day : A good work story. 09.02.2023

Tell us what you like about our show and share your Bad work stories so we can help. Thanks Emma & Corina Emma and Corina are on a mission to stop bad work stories.  In todays special episode Emma and Corina share their thoughts and tips on increasing Love at work - the healthy, oxytocin collaboration, empathy building kind.  Points covered:  Bringing our value of love to work  3 ways you can...

Helpful foundational habits to stop bad work stories in 2023 02.02.2023

Tell us what you like about our show and share your Bad work stories so we can help. Thanks Emma & Corina Emma and Corina are on a mission to stop bad work stories.  In todays episode  we discuss the question - Are we ( humans) the bad work story ? We often turn up tired, malnourished with short attention spans and fuses,  expecting amazing collaboration and no drama. By focusing our attention...

Welcome to Season 2 02.02.2023

Tell us what you like about our show and share your Bad work stories so we can help. Thanks Emma & Corina Welcome to the second season of Bad Work Stories Made Good.  Together Emma and Corina are on a mission to stop bad work stories.  The internal suffering many of us experience as a result of these, not to mention the ripples into other parts of our lives does not serve us to be healthy and...

A Very Merry Work Story 15.12.2022

Tell us what you like about our show and share your Bad work stories so we can help. Thanks Emma & Corina Join Emma and Corina as they riff on their final story of the first series. They close out 2022 with a Good work story - their co-creation of this podcast. Listen to their own GUBA analysis of the journey from podcast novices to slightly more experienced, more confident, and still playful...

Gone and Ghosted. What happens when you leave a team. 07.12.2022

Tell us what you like about our show and share your Bad work stories so we can help. Thanks Emma & Corina Join Emma and Corina as they riff on the bad work story of today - Ghosted or dumped by your former team mates when you leave a team. Work break ups can be hurtful so what do you do if that is your experience and if you are a Leader or team member who would prefer to create something diffe...

Holiday Special Part 2 - A way through Deadlines in Holiday time. Plus a gift for Elon Musk. 30.11.2022

Tell us what you like about our show and share your Bad work stories so we can help. Thanks Emma & Corina Join Emma and Corina as they riff on the bad work story of today - What do you do when deadlines are calling you through the holiday season? There is a way to manage conflicting priorities that allow you to achieve both at work and at home.  In this part 2 of our holiday-focused episodes,...

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