The Sticky From The Inside Podcast

Rory Underwood MBE DL shares his insights across elite sport, the military and business as to what lies at the heart of high-performing teams. Andy Goram, your host of the employee engagement and workplace culture podcast, Sticky From The Inside, chats to Rory about life as an elite player, fighter pilot and businessman and the influences that have shaped his views on what really lies at the heart...

What separates companies that successfully embed their values, from the rest?  What does it really take to transfer ownership for the behaviours that the business, its customers and employees really value, to the front line?  Andy Goram is joined by Andrew Stothert and Gary Moss, from Brand Vista, who've built a successful company, helping businesses from Astra Zeneca to Alton Towers do just that....

By the time the mediator comes in to sort out a problem, it's too late, right?  Wrong.  Pete Colby, owner of Pragmatism talks to Andy Goram about why he thinks mediation can be the key to open, progressive and productive go-forward relationships, how it can improve employee engagement, why the old adage, "It's good to talk" is so true. ----more---- Join The Conversation   Find me on LinkedIn here...

Episode Overview   If you're familiar with Patrick Lencioni's work on the 5 Dysfunctions of a Team, you'll know that the secret to sustainably high levels of performance and results from your team, is to first establish a strong foundation of trust between leader and team members.  So why, do too many leaders still forego that, and immediately put all their focus on outcomes and results and then w...

Episode Overview   It's probable that right now, that fostering a culture of creativity and innovation has never been more important, as the world continues to crack on around us at a furious, non-linear pace, with increased hyper-competition and ever-emerging new markets.  So, what is needed and why do so many businesses fail in this quest to build such a culture? In this episode, host, Andy Gora...

Episode Overview How is working like a comedian the key to a happier working culture? Andy Goram discusses the surprising parallels with guest, stand-up comic, trainer, coach and founder of "Happy At Work", Mel Byron. The pair talk about the process comedians go through to get to the outcomes they are looking for and how that directly relates to how leaders and employees can up their engagement, p...

Episode Overview Belief can do amazing things.  It can create razor-sharp focus on a vision, create an iron-will, build resilience to the toughest challenges, and unleash your maximum potential.  Belief can form a major foundation of a great and successful culture and be a heavy influence on, engagement, alignment and ultimately performance.   In episode 18 of the Sticky From The Inside podcast ,...

Episode Overview The future of an engaging, post-pandemic workplace is a matter of debate right now. Is hybrid-working here to stay? Will remote-first be the norm? Or will we all be back in the office 5 days a week before we know it? Who knows? In all this debate, where is the voice of the employee, and are managers and supervisors emotionally equipped to ask the right questions to hear it and res...

Episode Overview Nowadays we rarely purchase anything before checking out the reviews. Why? Because we believe they will give us the real, reliable, honest inside track on whether we're about to make a great purchase or help us avoid a terrible mistake. The same is happening when it comes to job-hunting, for the same reasons. Checking out websites like Glassdoor, to see what employees really think...

Episode Overview Is asking who owns company culture and employee engagement a good, provocative, or just plain daft question? Well, in episode 15 of the Sticky From The Inside podcast, your host Andy Goram , talks to ex-Madison Avenue agency guy and international business consultant, Michael Taylor , to see where the answers may lie.   But did they answer the question? Well, it was a bit more comp...

Episode Overview "There's a war for talent", or so we've been told, but in Episode 14 of the employee engagement and company culture podcast, Sticky From The Inside, Andy Goram of Bizjuicer , chats to Dr. Maggi Evans , who sees it very differently. She believes there are huge benefits to liberating the talents of your existing workforce and provides some simple, practical steps to begin doing that...

Episode Overview In episode 13 Andy Goram is joined by Andrew Deighton from AWD Development Solutions to discuss the practical steps businesses can take to try and rebuild or re-establish teams and cultures that have been affected by the last tumultuous year.   In this honest, practical conversation, Andrew shares his own experiences of working in great teams and the lessons he's learnt from worki...

Episode Overview In episode 12 Andy Goram is joined by Giles Thomas from MIMO Brands to discuss what's gone wrong with Brand Purpose. It's come in for some real stick recently and there looks to be a whole bunch of confusion with it.   In this honest conversation, Giles and Andy wade through what's going on with Brand Purpose, the link and confusion with the sustainability agenda, why "profit" is...

Episode Overview In episode 11 Andy Goram is joined by Katy Kurn of Showoff Communications to chat about the secrets of creating internal communications that really connect with your internal audience. Billions of pounds and work-hours are spent crafting customer communications that aim to cause an emotional response, but normally far less effort is put into trying to get the same response from yo...

Episode Overview Andy Goram chats with Alice Smith and Graham Watson from We Can Creative on the subject of Company Values.  As they chat they cover topics such as the value that a good set of company values can bring to a business and the people inside it; the lack of authenticity that's creeping into company values and the harm that can do; how the process of discovering your business purpose an...

Episode Overview Professor Zach Mercurio thinks Company Purpose is getting a bit too popular. In their engaging conversation on Company Purpose and Mattering, Andy Goram asks Professor Zach Mercurio to explain himself.  They discuss the fact that purpose is not new, it's something that's innate in humans. Why purpose gets into trouble when it's used as a tactic and not a genuine driver of why you...

Episode Overview In a not too distant future world where remote and hybrid working remains commonplace, Andy speaks to Mark Saxby, about Mark's belief that you can't run a truly values-led business, remotely. Mark was a BBC journalist for 20 years and is now the proud co-director of Status Social, a social media agency that really does live and breathe its core values. They even bring in outside b...

Episode Overview Andy speaks to Helen Frewin, about the impact one of the hottest topics in workplace culture right now is having on employee engagement, productivity, and leadership - Psychological Safety. Helen is a friend, business psychologist, executive coach, professional speaker and host of the popular Totem Talks podcast.  Together they discuss the findings and resulting impact of Google's...

Episode Overview Andy speaks to Mike Hurst, a Partner at Lane4, Adrian Moorhouse's performance improvement consultancy, about the effect that genuine customer care has on customer advocacy and employee engagement. Mike has over 30 years of experience in bringing about effective and lasting culture change, both in his work in Retail brands and now helping a wide cross-section of businesses harness...

Episode Overview Andy speaks to Julian Saipe, former opera singer, entrepreneur, business leader, and now an international executive coach and member of the Forbes Coaches Council about the power, benefits and pitfalls of bringing a unified purpose to a business. Julian talks about his experiences of being an entrepreneur and his purpose journey from the solo "vanity trip" to an involving and insp...

Episode Overview In the first episode of the shorter, solo, "sticky bits" format, Andy Goram summarises his experiences of the first few episodes of the full, Sticky From The Inside Podcast, and looks at the opportunities that businesses have ahead of them to grow employee engagement in the New Year. Full Transcript Right, we’re a few episodes into this new podcast and I thought I’d just record my...

Episode Overview Andy speaks to Megan V Walker, podcast host, independent Power Platform consultant and Microsoft Business Applications MVP about no matter how big or small your business, you have to be to really think about your workplace culture. But what have these two got in common?  Well, they're both independent, both go into other peoples' businesses and have to work with and adapt to those...

Episode Overview My first ever guest, Karen Turton, serial entrepreneur, CEO of Purple Story, ex Learning & Development Director of Transition, and National Innovation in Training Award nominee,  joins me to talk about her controversial views on modern performance measurement, empathy, employee engagement, workplace culture, customer experience, and how well leaders are equipped to deal with some...

What on earth is the "Sticky From The Inside Podcast" all about?  And, what is a "Stickier Business" for goodness sake? Well, this first, introductory episode seeks to answer both these questions and give you a little more insight into what this podcast is about. The level of employee engagement across the globe is frankly shocking and it hasn't changed in years.  I'm your host, Andy Goram and I'm...