Eat Sleep Work Repeat - better workplace culture

We often overlook the fact that trust is the basis for all good culture. I called out some of the remarkable data on this in the Work In 2024 deck. In Slack’s August 2023 survey of over 10,000 global office workers, trust was the top determinant of employees’ productivity scores. Employees who felt trusted were 2X as productive as those who didn’t. They were 30% more likely to put in ext...

The role of managers are pivotal in our working lives but most managers aren't trained or prepared for the responsibilities that they are given. When we look at the research from Gallup about burnout and why people hate their jobs managers are regarded as having the biggest responsibility. Half of people who say they don't rate their manager say they are looking for jobs. So what can we do to make...

Eat Sleep Work Repeat is hosted by Bruce Daisley , Ellen Scott and Matthew Cook . Sign up to the newsletter We talk through the hottest topics in work: New research says that bosses think going part-time signals the end of career ambition Radio 5 Live's Nihal Arthanayake says he feels alienated as the only brown face in a sea of white at his workplace Bill Gates advocates for the three-day week bu...

Professor Frances Frei is the biggest brain in the field of workplace culture and I was delighted to get another opportunity to talk to her. She explains the one thing that firms should do to fix their cultures (spoiler: train their managers), why she thinks inclusion is a more important element of culture than just diversity. The previous episode with Frances Frei Frances and Anne’s podcast Fixab...

Is toxic culture driving your team away? If you’re someone whose job it is think about culture, or maybe you’re a boss who has tried to communicate values to your team then today’s episode is an essential listen. Donald Sull and Charlie Sull are a father and son research team who have discovered extraordinary insights into values and what they look like in the real world. Here are some articles to...

Eat Sleep Work Repeat is hosted by Bruce Daisley , Ellen Scott and Matthew Cook . Sign up to the newsletter This week we go deep on the latest news about work. ITV tell staff to declare ‘friendships’ Moderation staff at Facebook are suing over PTSD BBC staff given help for stress levels 'We Had To Remove This Post' - brilliant novella by Hanna Bervoets Oobah Butler ’s Amazon show on Channel 4 Redd...

Eat Sleep Work Repeat is hosted by Bruce Daisley , Ellen C Scott and Matthew Cook . Sign up to the newsletter This week we go deep on the latest news about work. We discuss: Two thirds of bosses expect a return to the office by 2036 KPMG CEO survey David Foster Wallace - This is Water commencement speech Shonda Rhimes “Whenever you see me somewhere succeeding in one area of my life, that almost ce...

Sign up for the newsletter What Ange Postecoglou changed at Spurs in his first 100 days: ‘The mood has been transformed’ Charlie writes about the oratory of Ange Postecoglou Last week I read something wonderful about the culture of Tottenham Hotspur, I contacted the writer and it felt like it was worth putting out quickly. We’ve got a couple of podcast recorded with Matt and Ellen so we’ll be back...

Eat Sleep Work Repeat is hosted by Bruce Daisley , Ellen C Scott and Matthew Cook . Ellen is away this week - we were working hard to squeeze an elite guest in. Amy Edmondson is the most renowned organisational psychologist in the world. In other words she's looked to more than anyone else for the answers of how to fix work. In this in depth discussion she talks us through what she understands by...

Sign up for the Make Work Better newsletter This episode explores the concept of fun and its importance in adult life, challenging the misperception that fun is frivolous. What is fun? Catherine Price suggests that it is the confluence of playfulness, connection, and flow. The discussion also addresses the impact of social media on fake fun and the role of playfulness in work and productivity. The...

Sign up for the Make Work Better newsletter Eat Sleep Work Repeat is hosted by Bruce Daisley , Ellen C Scott and Matthew Cook . Ellen wrote about her learnings about being a manager Despite government threats of legal action Cambridgeshire council are continuing their evidence-led trial of the 4-day week. “Nine in ten councils are struggling with job recruitment and retention and a four-day workin...

I’m joined again by new cohosts Ellen C Scott and Matthew Cook . Buy Belonging Owen Eastwood is the most in-demand team performance coach in the world He's earned that reputation by delivering break-through results with a diverse range of teams from Gareth Southgate’s England team and the England women’s team, to the senior leadership team of NATO. His former clients represent an elite range of te...

A few months ago I put out a call asking for other voices to get involved in the podcast and I’m delighted today to add Ellen C Scott and Matthew Cook to Eat Sleep Work Repeat. You may have read Ellen’s brilliant writing in The Stylist where she is the Deputy Digital Editor and previously in Metro. She writes and edits pieces on work, mental health, relationships, and more. Here’s her own Substack...

Sorry for duplicate - the previous version had no intro! If you liked this I actually shared a lot of the data on the newsletter a couple of weeks ago - read that here . Today's episode is an in depth exploration of the latest Gallup Global Workplace Report, Anna Sawyer, a Principal at Gallup takes us through the findings - and the implications for all leaders. Get your hands on Gallup’s ‘State of...

If you liked this I actually shared a lot of the data on the newsletter a couple of weeks ago - read that here . Today's episode is an in depth exploration of the latest Gallup Global Workplace Report, Anna Sawyer, a Principal at Gallup takes us through the findings - and the implications for all leaders. Get your hands on Gallup’s ‘State of the Global Workplace Report’ Here’s Anna on LinkedIn I l...

Alex's book: Work less, do more Make Work Better newsletter covered the 4 day week trials For today’s episode I went to meet Alex Soujung Kim Pang . Alex has written a lot about our relationship with work, first in his book Rest and now in his book WORK LESS, DO MORE which is a refreshed version of Shorter. When we first spoke the evidence for shorter working was a series of quirky stories of pion...

Sign up for the newsletter We’re in a stage place with AI right now where for most of us it’s still a parlour trick. Something that we’ve seen create images of the Pope in bling or summon up meal planners that we’ll never use. But we’ve not really seen how it will impact our jobs. Along the way there have been some huge claims: An MIT study said that knowledge work could become 37% faster and more...

Zeynep Ton is the author of the Good Jobs Strategy - which holds the honour of being the book I refer to the most when it comes to talking about work. In that book she set about making the case for firms to create good jobs for their employees, not just for the moral reason but because it was a route to faster growth.  Now she returns with a new book, The Case for Good Jobs , which not only e...

Are you touch starved? Do you feel a touch hunger in your life? Michael Banissy is a psychologist whose work focusses on the importance of physical connection between people, he styles himself as part of a group of ‘scientists who stroke’. Touch has become sigmatised by the actions of those who have misused it, to the extent that many of us have become fearful of touching the arm or shoulder of ot...

An episode today that is a reflection on where work is going and what implications there are for cities, for workers and for life.  Dror Poleg is a writer and commentator who thinks about how the internet is disrupting our lives. What sets him apart is his ability to see second and third order effects of change. Dror Poleg's newsletter (and draft book of the future of work) can be found at hi...

Today’s discussion should land you right in the sweetspot of thinking about AI for your own job by taking a step back, by asking yourself how you can connect with AI and why you should. Today’s guest Professor Costas Andriopoulos explain curiosity is the engine of creativity. And by striving to be curious our minds will surprise us with the creativity that results. There was a wonderful piece of w...

Sign up for the Make Work Better newsletter   Ellen Scott is the deputy digital editor of Stylist and someone who has achieved recognition for having a sharp eye when it comes to observing the changing face of work. Ellen was one of the first voices to pick up on the TikTok trend of Quiet Quitting, she's written about 'the ambi-work' movement and continues to give voice to the challenges...

Are there forces at work that might impact the way work feels? Could we use those forces to make work better? This discussion with Robin Dunbar and Tracey Camilleri took me to places I hadn't expected to go. That hormones, our brains and time would play a part in the relationships we forge at work isn't something that you would expect to find in a company's culture document, but as you'll hear tod...

Today’s episode is a discussion with Amy Gallo . During the pandemic I had a wonderful discussion about work and where it was going and I was delighted to have another conversation with her two years on.  Amy is the author of Getting Along: How to Work with Anyone (Even Difficult People) and The HBR Guide to Dealing with Conflict . She also co-hosts the Women at Work podcast , and is a contri...

Jeremy shares his: free bonus chapter Jeremy Utley leads some of the most popular courses on creativity and innovation at the d.school of Stanford University. I was delighted to see that he was making his teaching of such popular courses available to a wider audience and chased him for an interview. This is one of his first interviews to talk about his brand new book Ideaflow. In it he discusses t...