Special: How to talk about politics and race in the workplace.

We can't think of a better way to mark International Women's Day than with a crystal clear call to action to all employers laying out exactly what is needed to improve the world of work for women. 

Jamila is Deputy Managing Director of Future Women, where she supports governments and employer organisations working towards gender equality.

Listen to Jamila dictate the email that she would like us to send to CEO’s around the world who are ready to improve the world of work for women. 

Jamila's email is not only a conversation starter, but a shareable resource brimful of practical advice on what we can all do to create real change. 

Show notes:

To hear Damon and Jamila's full conversation head here.

To read or copy Jamila's complete email head here.

Learn more about Jamila at jamilarizvi.com.au and Future Women at futurewomen.com

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More than four years since we released the first episode of this podcast, we're announcing a BIG change!

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How will the top 7 HR trends of 2024 impact your workplace? 

Damon breaks down his top three employee experience predictions for 2024, along with key predictions from four experts around the globe. 

In this new era of work, our technology, leadership, and communication are all hyper-focused on prioritizing ease and creating more cohesive workplaces. 

It’s a new era born of an understanding that when both work and the world outside work feel hard, it can be overwhelming to be a working human. 

So, listen in to see how 2024 promises to make it easier for people to do their best work, and to feel valued, purposeful, and confident that they have the tools and support to work well. 

If you’re ready to level up as a new year begins, 2024 has the potential to drive essential progress in the workplace evolution – where we tune into the requirements of organizations and employees to create truly impactful and engaging employee experiences. 

As we navigate generational workplace change, rethink the role of the office, and adapt to emerging technologies, the possibilities are endless. Here’s to a new year of making good things happen at work.

To read Damon’s article on this topic click here.

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We're signing off for the year with the one thing we all need to hear right now + some exciting news about 2024.

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The research team at Culture Amp are on the cutting edge of everything people + data science, and in this episode you'll get access to the top findings from their latest publication: The State of the Manager Report.

The study looks at feedback from over 1 million employees, which analyzed 250,000 plus managers from 3,304 companies during the time period of July, 2022 to 2023. This makes it one of the largest and most comprehensive State of the Manager reports published.

Fresia is a Lead Research People Scientist at Culture Amp. She's bringing her I/O Psychology background (M.S.) to the Culture First podcast for the third time to dive deep into this report and talk about how she and the team identify research projects, determine hypotheses, oversee the data analysis, interpret results, and ensure those insights get into the hands of campers and the broader community.

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Sarah Walsh has been integral in making women’s football in Australia what it is today. Following a club career that saw her play in the NWSL in the United States and in the A-League Women in Australia, she won 70 caps for Australia’s national team the Matildas and has spent the second half of her career fighting for equity and equality for today’s athletes.

In the 2023 Women’s World Cup, the Matildas captured the hearts of Australia and the world with record breaking audiences glued to their screens to see the Matildas secure Australia’s highest-ever finish at a World Cup.

The timing of this episode was made even more special by the announcement that  the 2023 Collective Bargaining Agreement from Football Australia has gone even further to create the right conditions for high performance. 

For Sarah, the years and years of work leading up to this moment in time just keep paying off, and to hear her fully grasp the enormity of what she has achieved as she speaks with Damon in this episode is truly special.

Sarah and Damon recorded this conversation live at the inaugural SXSW Sydney in front of a standing room only audience. They discuss the conditions needed for high performance, the importance of culture on and off the pitch and the pivotal moments in Sarah’s life that saw her become the trailblazer she is today.

Show notes: 

This episode pairs well with Damon’s recent conversation with Jamila Rizvi, who detailed exactly what we need to do to make work and the workplace a better, safer and more equitable place for women. 

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Are you stressed? Or could you get benefit from getting a little more specific and looking within to see if something else is happening? Maybe you identify disappointment, exhaustion or feeling unsupported?

Damon's guest today is Award-winning psychologist Susan David, and in this episode she'll break down why getting specific with our emotions activates our readiness potential, allowing us to move forward and have the necessary conversations about why work can sometimes feel really hard. 

As one of the world’s leading management thinkers, Susan won the management idea of the year when she expertly defined emotional agility. Her book Emotional Agility went on to be a #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller and winner of an Amazon Best Books of the Year Award. With more than 11 million views, Susan’s TED Talk, The Gift and Power of Emotional Courage, was named one of the most popular talks of the year.

Right when the world needs it most, Susan and David discuss emotions, how we process them, how we handle them, how they show up in the workplace and then they narrow in on how to create space between ourselves and our emotions in order to take action and move forward. 

At the heart of this conversation is a quest to figure out why we have normalised the idea that while emotions are foundational to our experience as a human, they are still misunderstood or sometimes even excluded from our experience at work.

This conversation will sharpen your emotional agility and help you learn how to see your emotions as helpful data points that signpost our deepest needs and values.

If you're craving a healthier relationship with your emotions and the emotions of others this episode will help!

Show notes:

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Susan has generously offered all Culture First listeners free access to the Emotional Agility Quiz: Join over 140,000 people who have taken the free Emotional Agility Quiz. The quiz takes just 5 minutes to complete. You'll receive a free 10-page personalized report offering specific strategies to help you become more Emotionally Agile.

She has also offered our listeners the Emotional Agility Pyramid and How to Get Unstuck resources.

Listen to Checking In with Susan David created in partnership with TED and which focuses on coping with our heightened emotions brought on by the pandemic and its aftermath.

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Adam Bryant is currently senior managing director at the Ex-Co Group, but you might also know Adam for his work as a columnist on one of the most popular NY Times columns of all time. 

That column was the iconic Corner Office, where he interviewed CEO’s of the world’s top companies and notoriously never missed a single week of publication in his 18 year tenure. 

If your ambition is to be a leader who leads with empathy and humanity, then you had better take notes during this conversation with Adam. After interviewing so many leaders, he knows what it takes to step up and ground an organization's strategies in meaningful, mission-driven, and purposeful ways.

Adam and Damon cover a lot of ground in this chat. How to build a great CEO-CHRO relationship, Adam's thoughts on why there are way “too many bad bosses in the world”, and we talk diversity - Adam is confident we need a path forward that includes lived experience and connecting with other people’s stories on an emotional level.

Adam hasn’t stopped interviewing the world’s great leaders, even after leaving the New York Times. His latest book, The Leap to Leader, contains practical strategies and tactics for building a loyal following, moving up quickly to broaden your impact, and making the subtle but crucial mindset shifts that are required to lead others effectively.

If you have a leadership program at your work or a slack or teams channel for managers, we humbly request that you share this episode with those groups. Adam has interviewed arguably the most important business leaders of the 21st century and he’s distilled those learnings to help you become the leader that the world needs right now.

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Welcome to Part II of this special episode with Lucy Prebble, executive producer and writer from the hit tv show Succession. If you’re curious about why you both loved and hated Logan, why Shiv was as deeply flawed as her brothers and why a bromance like Tom and Greg’s made us feel all kinds of things, then hit play because all those questions and more will be answered.

As Lucy and Damon take a deep dive into the world of Waystar Royco and Succession, Lucy shares openly to what lengths deeply researched real world stories were used to create this fictional company, goes on to explain that Logan Roy’s media mogul character was the only archetype in the show, and then takes us inside the writer’s room that leaned on the power of constraint to tell this story for the ages in the most Succession-y way possible, and yes, Succession-y is a word. 

As hard as it was to watch at times, as the dark side of the world of work was broadcast into our living rooms, this television show that is, at it’s core, about love and power - the need for it, the absence of it, and the lengths people will go to get it and then keep it - can be received as a gift to us all in the way it helps us find clarity on the types of companies and company cultures that we want to create and be part of.

If you haven’t already listened to Part I, where we learned about Lucy’s background as a playwright in London’s West End, her time as a TV Showrunner and how she nearly didn’t accept the offer to work on Succession, you can - check it out here.

Show notes: 

If you love our Pop Culture First episodes, be sure to check out this joyous conversation between Damon, Priya Parker and Gary Ware about a very different workplace run by, the legend himself, Ted Lasso.

Damon also mentioned his recent conversation with Jamila Rizvi on how to make work actually work for women. You can find that brilliant episode here.

Bonus content:

Culture Amp is excited to announce that Culture First is back and our virtual event series is going global with three events across APAC, The Americas and EMEA. 

At this year’s Culture First, today’s guest Lucy Prebble, will be doing an exclusive sit-down with Culture Amp CEO Didier Elzinga. As a thank-you for listening to the Culture First podcast, we’d love to give you access to this brilliant bonus session. 

Head to http://cultureamp.com/podcastcfg to register for what is sure to be jam-packed conversation between Didier and Lucy.

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Lucy is an award winning British playwright and is the Executive Producer, and writer for the TV show Succession. She is known for her compelling story telling that often explores themes of power, corruption, and the dark side of human nature.

In part one of this episode we are going to learn about Lucy the writer, the storyteller and the world creator.

You’ll hear Lucy applying her techniques for world creation to the company cultures we all experience every day and we'll explore the “note behind the note” - a brilliant mechanism Lucy uses to analyze feedback from above to help her get to the heart of what the right next step to take is. 

Lucy helps us to remember that stories are not just entertainment. They can also be powerful tools for understanding ourselves and the world around us. They can help us to see things from different perspectives, challenge our assumptions and help us to feel connected to others. Ultimately, the best stories help us to find meaning in our lives.

Show notes: 

If you love our Pop Culture First episodes, be sure to check out this conversation between Damon, Priya Parker and Gary Ware about a very different workplace run by, the legend himself, Ted Lasso.

Bonus content:

Culture Amp is excited to announce that Culture First is back and our virtual event series is going global with three events across APAC, The Americas and EMEA. 

At this year’s Culture First, today’s guest Lucy Prebble, will be doing an exclusive sit-down with Culture Amp CEO Didier Elzinga. As a thank-you for listening to the Culture First podcast, we’d love to give you access to this brilliant bonus session. 

Head to http://cultureamp.com/podcastcfg to register for what is sure to be jam-packed conversation between Didier and Lucy.

If you've enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, follow and leave a review.

Learn more about Culture Amp at www.cultureamp.com or @cultureamp on Instagram

Connect with Lucy Prebble on Twitter @lucyprebblish

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