The Sticky From The Inside Podcast

In the concluding part of this special two-part episode, Steve Armstrong continues to share his insights and experiences of 15 Destructive Leadership Behaviours he's admittedly shown, but is now adept at recognising and taking mitigating action against. He knows firsthand the damage they can do to a leader, employees and organisations as a whole. In this honest and frank interview, he hopes others...

In part 1 of a two-part episode, former McDonald's exec shares 15 destructive behaviours to recognise and avoid, as Steve Armstrong guides you through the minefield of self-sabotage on the path to becoming the best boss you can be. In this episode of the Sticky From The Inside podcast, host Andy Goram sits down with Steve Armstrong, a former leader at McDonald's Corporation and current strategist...

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 enablin...

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 issu...

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...

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 sti...

"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 Leaders...

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...

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...

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...

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, a...

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. ----more---...

How many times have you been asked for feedback, to complete a survey or submit new ideas, and then hear nothing back?  Plenty I'm sure.  A surefire way to destroy engagement and lose great people is to ignore people when you've asked them to give you something more than just their time.  If you are going to ask for ideas, you have to have a decent way of directing, collating, responding to and im...

Andy Goram talks to the author and award-winning Apple Podcast host, Oscar Trimboli, about what makes a deep listener.  Oscar is on a quest to create 100 million deep listeners across the globe, but what is deep listening and how does that differ from being a good listener?   In a lively conversation, Andy asks Oscar to unlock the secrets of deep listening and share the benefits of taking your lis...

The Pandemic has had a dramatic effect on the levels of employee engagement in the UK.  But trying to find a consolidated answer to what has actually happened, who has faired better, and why, has been pretty much impossible. Until now.   Andy Goram talks to Sarah Pass, Senior Lecturer at Nottingham Business School, part of Nottingham Trent University and James Court-Smith, Data Scientist and Direc...

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....

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 c...

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 Roma...

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. ----more---- Join The Conversation Find Andy Goram on LinkedIn here Follow the Podcast on Instagram here Follow the Podcast on Twitter here Check out the Bizjuicer website here Check out the Bizjuicer blog he...

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, w...

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...

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...

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...

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 N...

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 No...