Eat Sleep Work Repeat - better workplace culture

Sign up for the Eat Sleep Work Repeat newsletter here. New podcast today - the first of four podcasts about what’s next with work - specifically how can we make work feel like a community again, especially when you’re hunkered down under the duvet trying to survive the November chill. Over the next few weeks I’m going to be chatting to some incredible guests. Today I kick off with Sarah Drinkwater...

Can't Even can be ordered now AHP's original article in Buzzfeed AHP's newsletter is here Last year Anne Helen Petersen’s Buzzfeed article about burnout became a viral sensation, spawning a seemingly never-ending wave of ‘Year of Burnout’ headlines. Petersen’s writing triggered such recognition because she rooted it in the ordinary, in everyday experiences that were instantly relatable. She evoked...

Subscribe to the newsletter Today's interviewees: Bhushan Sethi leads PwC's workplace strategy business and Ben Waber is the CEO of workplace analytics firm, Humanyze. Read the Humanyze research about the way work has changed since lockdown. Here's the previous episode I recorded with Ben Waber. Sign up to the Make Work Better newsletter or check out the best ever episodes at the website . Eat Sle...

I was fortunate to speak to Gary Hamel about his forthcoming new book,  Humanocracy . He believes that the single most empowering (and profitable) thing that businesses can do is eliminate their creeping bureaucracy. He talks about how increasingly organisations are paralysed with red tape and bureaucracy. The end result is that they can’t get anything done. There are some clear examples of t...

Subscribe to the newsletter What are other firms doing about returning to work? How can any of us work out the right thing to do? I chat to 4 more firms to hear their plans. Listen to conversations with Beth Marie Norbury from Babcock International, Tom Ellis from Brand Genetics, Richard from a big secret pharmaceuticals firm and Laura Pleasance from Captify. This is addition to Dan Cullen Shute l...

Subscribe to the newsletter Here's Dan's tweets that started this conversation. Today's episode is first of two episodes about the big return to work. It covers themes that I've covered in the newsletter over the last few weeks. What are other firms doing? How will they make their decisions. Over the 2 episodes I've chatted to stacks of people to get their views. Firstly I talk to someone who went...

"We think people want to be liked, but they need to be needed". A thoroughly stimulating discussion here - that I've allowed to run long because it's so interesting. I met a brilliant guy called Misha Byrne who worked for a company called NeuroPower . I was so taken with what he was talking about (applying neuroscience to work) that we arranged to meet up, and he brought Peter Burow , the founder...

"Tuesday and Thursday, see you there. BOOM!" A lot of us are starting to long for human contact again and the office feels like a happy place to be. But what does the office of the future look like? I chatted to the brilliant Antony Slumbers ( follow him on Twitter here ). Antony is regarded as a visionary thinker in the real estate market and runs a course for you to learn to be the same . Antony...

Firstly a conversation with David D'Souza the membership director of CIPD (incidentally is a fantastic Twitter follow). David talks about the choices available to firms right now: do we want to be famous for the new culture that we've created? or our actions going to be defined by reactive actions to bosses' whims? If you want to follow the Twitter list I mention you'll find it here . If you're in...

Subscribe to the Make Work Better mailout I'm so excited about what is in the next few episodes. This is a short series of episodes about what we're about to lose with the end of office culture, and how we can build something new. If you like this please do share it. Today's episode has two great interviews. Later I’m going to hear from the frontline how firms are changing their use of technology...

Subscribe to the Make Work Better mailout Subscribe to Your Table's Ready Podcast Varied episode today, firstly for Mental Health Awareness week, two members of West Midlands Fire Service talk about stress at work and when it's ok to say you're not ok. Then later in the show a brief discussion with April Vellacott and Jez Groom who give us a brief glimpse of how to use behavioural hacks to improve...

If you're interested in workplace culture you might like my newsletter makeworkbetter.substack.com I've been chasing this conversation for over 2 years and I'm delighted today to talk to the world’s most sought after culture doctor: Frances Frei is the Red Adair of work culture problems. If something goes wrong at WeWork , Uber or Riot Games there’s one name you call… You’ll be thrilled to hear th...

If you're interested in workplace culture you might like my newsletter makeworkbetter.substack.com Recorded live at Vidcon 2020 As we sit in a strange period of work, a slight distraction from the normal cycle with a discussion with two digital creators. Arron Crascall has almost certainly appeared in your feed on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram . He started using Vine when he was working at Willia...

If you're interested in workplace culture you might like my newsletter makeworkbetter.substack.com This episode is about the power of diverse thinking. Our guest is the thinker, writer, commentator Matthew Syed . Matthew represented Great Britain in table tennis at the Barcelona and Sydney Olympics. He’s since gone on to the one of the biggest, most successful business writers in the UK with his b...

"Purpose is something that can be found but cannot be given" For this episode I talk with London Business School professor Dan Cable about what work is going to look like in the future as we contemplate the fall out of coronavirus and homeworking. Clearly a lot of firms aren't going to make it through this completely unprecedented situation and to some extent maybe these discussions might seem lik...

You can talk about this episode - and more - on our new forum. Well what a strange time we’re living through. I don’t what I can say that hasn’t already been said. So to some extent this episode is a distraction - something interesting to listen to from a profession that is always in our highest regard in times like this but too easily forgotten in easy times. Christie Watson is a trained nurse wh...

Join tens of thousands of listeners by signing up for the newsletter now. Second episode on the 4 day week. We go deep with someone who made the 4 day leap, Andrew Barnes' firm Perpetual Guardian made the shift to 4 days. He explains why some workers never told their partners, why others felt it transformed their experience of work and he gives the clear way to make a 4 day experiment work at your...

First of two new episodes on one theme. Until coronavirus swept the world the discussion of 2020 was about the future of work being based on working less to achieve more. There are two episodes on this today. Firstly former guest Alex Soojung Kim Pang talks about the research celebrating the benefits of working shorter (his book on the same subject came out this week). He spent the last 3 years go...

When the biggest company in the world slipped from its throne how did a new CEO try to rescue it using culture. What did Satya Nadella do? How did it succeed, how did it fail? What can any of us do to change our company culture? Download the PDF of the episode's lessons. This episode draws on the outstanding paper by Herminia Ibarra, Aneeta Rattan and Anna Johnston from London Business School. Her...

"We used to think 'the medium is the message', now we know that the messenger is the message". Stephen Martin was the co-writer of one of my favourite books, Yes ! so I was thrilled when I saw he had a new book, Messengers . He agreed to come on and talk about both books. How important are superficial aspects like appearance in our credibility. What is the one thing that we should do to make peopl...

Here he is, the philosopher king. Alain de Botton is the man that wrote philosophy books that sold like airport thrillers. He's sold millions of books reflecting on life, work and happiness. We share a wonderful discussion about what role work can fulfil in our lives, where education is going wrong and how we can use psychology to help diagnose the challenges of our problem colleagues. Alain's two...

Join tens of thousands of listeners by signing up for the newsletter now. Sarah Ellis and Helen Tupper are the creators of the Squiggly Careers podcast - and the authors of a brand new book, The Squiggly Career . If you're wondering what to do with your life Sarah and Helen might be the best person to help you find the right answers for you. This episode answers questions about what we should expe...

Hot topic right now. Annie Auerbach talks about her way of working flexibly and explains how all of us could be living a life we love. Annie is the author of Flex . Sign up to the Make Work Better newsletter or check out the best ever episodes at the website . Eat Sleep Work Repeat is made and hosted by Bruce Daisley . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What's stopping you from you doing your best work ever? That's the question that Aaron Dignan (working at his culture consultancy, The Ready ) asks the companies he meets.  Often the biggest barrier to us doing our best work is often our own attitude and mindset - and Dignan takes us step by step into his process. Aaron's book Brave New Work , is out now. Also mentioned in this episode: Johan...

Recorded at the Good Day at Work event in Manchester, hosted by Robertson Cooper. During the last World Cup, as we gradually started believing in the prospects of a team whose members had surprised us with their humour, work-rate and calm demeanour there was a  wonderful newspaper article that garnered lots of attention  about the secrets of their transformation. The piece introduced us...