organisational development

Today on the Bouncebackability Podcast we speak to 

James Rutter, Chief Creative Officer at a pioneering frozen food company COOK. James joined COOK in 2010 after 15 years as a financial journalist and editor. He now oversees internal and external branding and communications across the organisation. 

COOK is a founding UK B Corp, committed to using its business as a force for good in society and has been ranked in the ‘Top 100 Best Companies To Work For’ every year since 2013.

Today’s episode explores how they have earned that accolade by shining a light on the significance of community resilience and the role businesses must play in contributing to the well-being of the communities they operate in. We discussed the virtuous cycle of businesses supporting resilient communities and the positive impact this has on both the business and the community.

In this episode:

04:58 Thriving shops build resilient, community-based economies.

08:31 Relationships are crucial for organisational success.

15:56 Four-day week boosts productivity and connections.

20:23 Empower elders in the evolving workplace environment.

44:01 Incredible stories of support and personal growth.

47:44 Encouraging radical transparency and openness at work.

51:25 Focusing on gatherings for more energy.

You can connect with James Rutter here:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-rutter-8972079/

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In this episode of #TheNewAbnormal, I interview Khalil Zafar, who is a renowned HR & Strategy Consultant in the United Arab Emirates and Pakistan.

He's also travelled widely around the world, teaching and consulting about human resources and leadership. An ex-journalist, who still writes for a range of international magazines and newspapers, he's also the author of the recently published 'Future of Work: Simplified'. 

In it, he explores the issues of business management, leadership, employment and automation. In order to write the book, Khalil interviewed and collaborated with leading thinkers on an international basis to set out the possibilities, challenges, changes and scenarios that could emerge Post-Covid as they relate to workforces and workplaces.

Therefore, in this episode, we discuss his viewpoints on a wide range of issues relating to the future of work, with a particular focus on the reinvention of leadership, emerging technology, upskilling, cultural eloquence, organisational renewal, and the freelance revolution. 

Have you ever been cheated on?

Remember how it stings?

Remember how it was to rebuild trust? Or perhaps you never got to that stage, as often, when trust is broken, it is difficult or near impossible to regain.

Let's think about breaking of trust in a workplace...

I regularly talk about the concept of positional power that you hold in the workplace.

If you break trust of your team, peers, colleagues, leaders, stakeholders +++ it's going to:

• Impact your professional brand negatively.
• Leave your team in a potential mess.
• It's going to take a long time to rebuild trust in you. 

In this episode I cover:

• Reasons for why we feel it so difficult to trust some people at work.
• How you can genuinely enable people to trust in you.
• How you can start to trust others at work and why it is important that you should! 

No doubt you will enjoy this episode!

Prina (helping your workplace to be less crappy) Shah!

Learn more about your host Prina Shah and the Ways to Change the Workplace Movement!

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Prina (Helping you find GREAT ways to change your workplace) Shah

How can you create a meaningful career that pays the bills AND gives you joy?

You know you need to make changes in your career, but don’t know how to…

Spoiler alert: we are all heading to one destination (death) – therefore make your work life matter more…
 
About today’s episode:

Today I chat with Tammy Gooler Loeb, the author of Work from the Inside Out: Break Through Nine Common Obstacles and Design a Career That Fulfills You.

I speak with Tammy about: Work from the Inside Out – Designing a Career that is Fulfilling. Some of the things we discuss: 

• The personal internal barriers people come across when examining their work life.
• Self work and self development is an important leadership and skill, yet still difficult for some to adapt to as many still rely solely on their workplace to develop them, Tammy shares how people can own their career.
•  Tammy speaks to those who feel a state of "meh" with their career, but feel they have no other option but to continue doing the same…
• And listen in to Tammy’s answer to my question: if you had a magic wand, what is one way you would change the workplace? 

About today’s guest: Tammy Gooler Loeb is the author of Work from the Inside Out: Break Through Nine Common Obstacles and Design a Career That Fulfills You. She is a career and executive coach, speaker and facilitator with expertise in career transitions, and leadership development. Tammy’s clients represent many sectors and industries. 

Tammy’s weekly podcast, Work from the Inside Out, showcases career transition stories of people who found more meaningful work. I am on episode 132! 

Resources and links

Free gift from Tammy: www.tammygoolerloeb.com/workbook Companion Workbook plus bonus exercises to go along with my book, Work from the Inside Out: Break through Nine Common Obstacles and Design a Career That Fulfills You

Tammy's Website: https://www.tammygoolerloeb.com

More about your host, Prina Shah:

We spend more time of our waking day at work than with loved ones, my mission is to make your workplace a good place to be!
  
Sometimes I speak to amazing thought leaders, sometimes the podcasts will be solo episodes. 

I am Prina Shah, I am a Coach, Consultant, Trainer and Speaker with 20+ years of experience in developing Executives, Leaders and Teams.
 
My specialty is in developing your people and working with you to optimise your organisational cultures.

Thank you for tuning in!
 
Prina (helping you find Ways to Change the Workplace) Shah
  

Learn more about your host Prina Shah and the Ways to Change the Workplace Movement!

• Work with Prina - email her!
• Subscribe to Prina’s monthly-ish newsletter.
• Help yourself to free stuff!
• Connect with Prina!
• Buy Prina a coffee (tea actually) to keep her going!

Prina (Helping you find GREAT ways to change your workplace) Shah

This week, Lucinda is joined by the Director of Roffey Park Academy, Dr Graham Curtis, for a deep dive into organisational development - demystifying the sometimes cluttered phraseology surrounding it, and busting the jargon that often clouds the subject itself.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Organisational development people who truly thrive upon it, have a deep curiosity, and strive to make positive, impactful change.
• Flexibility and comfort with change is an essential component in organisational development. Those who are this way are likely to make more intuitive decisions in the long run.
• We are always trying to look across the whole organisational effort in an attempt to find places where we can effect alignment and create positive change.

BEST MOMENTS

'Our job as HR professionals is to help organisations to remember those values'

'I'm curious and I care about people'

'You have a real reflexive interest in what makes me tick and how do I impact others'

'Good judgment is founded on the ethical challenge'

Valuable Resources 

• Organisational Development Resources Flyer
• Blog: The 5-Step Organisational Development (O.D.) Process
• Additional free HR Resources 
• Virtual Training Programmes

If you liked this episode, try these

• Podcast Episode 177: How To Do Organisational Development
• Podcast Episode 19: Delivering Organisational Change
• Podcast Episode 3: The Art of Demystifying O.D.

Contact Method

• Join the HR Uprising LinkedIn community: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/13714397/
• Email: Lucinda@advancechange.co.uk
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucindacarney/
• Twitter: @lucindacarney
• Instagram: @hruprising
• Facebook: @hruprising
• YouTube: Channel

About The Guest, Dr Graham Curtis

Graham’s focus is on supporting people and organisations to be the best they can  possibly be through maximising their potential. 

Graham has over 25 years of experience, working in the UK and internationally. He has  designed and led the delivery of global leadership and management development  programmes in the UK, Nigeria, Kenya and Columbia aimed at supporting and challenging  participants to reflect on their practice and their relationships with their teams. He has  also led global transformation programmes, supporting organisations to deliver more  distributed and diverse governance and leadership. 

Graham believes that great leadership is founded on developing our flexibility in  response to dynamic and emergent situations through growing our curiosity, and our  capability to reflect upon the contexts we find ourselves in and our relationships with  those around us.

ABOUT THE HOST

Lucinda Carney is a Business Psychologist with 15 years in Senior Corporate L&D roles and a further 10 as CEO of Actus Software where she worked closely with HR colleagues helping them to solve the same challenges across a huge range of industries. It was this breadth of experience that inspired Lucinda to set up the HR Uprising community to facilitate greater collaboration across HR professionals in different sectors, helping them to ‘rise up’ together.

“If you look up, you rise up”

CONTACT METHOD

• Join the LinkedIn community - https://www.linkedin.com/groups/13714397/
• Email: Lucinda@advancechange.co.uk
• Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucindacarney/
• Twitter: @lucindacarney
• Instagram: @hruprising
• Facebook: @hruprising

HR podcast, The HR Uprising, Diversity, Equality & Inclusion, Learning and Development, Culture & Change: https://hruprising.com/hr-podcasts/

सुनिए मुंबई की रहने वाली रुक्मिणी अय्यर के जीवन की कहानी। ये एक्सल्ट सोल्यूशन्स की फाउंडर एंड डायरेक्टर है, जिसकी स्थापना इन्होंने 2008 में की थी। आपको बतादें रुक्मिणी एक एनएलपी प्रैक्टिशनर होने के साथही लीडर्स एक्सीलेंस हार्वर्ड स्क्वायर की मेंबर भी है। ज़िन्दगी में एक सफल मुकाम प्राप्त करने वाली रुक्मिणी ने अपने इस सफर की शुरुआत मुंबई शहर से की थी। जी हाँ मुंबई युनिवर्सिटी से वाणिज्य में स्नातक की डिग्री लेने के बाद संगठनात्मक मनोविज्ञान (ऑर्गेनाइजेशनल साइकोलॉजी) के साथ-साथ प्रबंधन में मास्टर डिग्री प्राप्त की और अपनी पढ़ाई पूरी करने के बाद ज़िन्दगी में एक लक्ष्य के साथ आगे बढ़ी और आखिरकार सफल हुई। अपनी इस जर्नी के बीच कुछ उतार-चढ़ाव भी आये, लेकिन बड़ी ही हिम्मत के साथ उन हालातों का सामना किया। काफी कुछ अनुभव करने के बाद आज ये एक सफल मुकाम पर आ पहुंची है। पूरी कहानी पढ़ें: https://stories.workmob.com/rukmini-iyer-human-resources 

वर्कमोब द्वारा #मेरीकहानी कार्यक्रम के माध्यम से एक नयी पहल शुरू की गयी है जिसके ज़रिये हर कोई छोटे बड़े बिज़नेस ओनर्स अपनी प्रेरक कहानियों को यहाँ सभी के साथ साझा कर सकते है। क्योंकि हर शख्स की कहानी में है वो बात जो जीवन को बदलकर एक नयी दिशा दिखाएगी, और ज़िन्दगी में ले आएगी आशा की एक नयी चमकती किरण। #बनाओअपनीपहचान #प्रेरककहानियाँ #रुक्मिणी अय्यर #एक्सल्ट सोल्यूशन्स #फाउंडर #डायरेक्टर #एनएलपी प्रैक्टिशनर #लीडर्स एक्सीलेंस हार्वर्ड स्क्वायर #मुंबई युनिवर्सिटी #ऑर्गेनाइजेशनल साइकोलॉजी 

जानिए वर्कमोब के बारे में: जुड़िये वर्कमोब पर अपनी कहानी साझा करने और प्रेरणादायक कहानियाँ देखने के लिए। ये एक ऐसा मंच है जहां आप पेशेवरों, लघु व्यापारियों, उद्यमियों और सामाजिक कार्यकर्ताओं की वीडियो कहानियां देख सकते हैं और दूसरों को प्रेरित करने के लिए अपनी व्यक्तिगत और व्यावसायिक कहानी सभी के साथ साझा कर सकते हैं। आपकी कहानी में लोगों को आशा देने, प्रेरणा देने और दूसरों का जीवन बदलने में मदद करने की एक अद्भुत क्षमता है। यह 100% मुफ़्त है। इस लिंक पर क्लिक करें और देखें प्रेरक कहानियां https://stories.workmob.com/ 

हमारे ऐप्प को डाउनलोड करें: 

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.workmob 

iOS: https://apps.apple.com/in/app/workmob/id901802570
 

The Digital Adoption Show today features Lou Tedrick, the Vice President of Learning & Development at Verizon. Lou will answer a few unsaid questions including How to Create an Outstanding Learning Strategy to Prepare Organizations for the Future of Work.

Lou is a Human Resources professional with extensive knowledge of organizational development, learning, and development, and employee relations. At Verizon, Lou is responsible for enterprise-wide learning and development opportunities including leadership development, product training, CS and sales skills training (consumer and business channels), HR/compliance training, IT technical training, tuition assistance, and L&D operations monitoring and analytics. Lou manages a virtual team of over 900 learning professionals across the globe.

10:17 -What are some of the common digital transformation or learning initiatives that companies should focus on to upskill their employees?

• Have a strategic workforce planning process and very specific roles as part of a broader job taxonomy. It helps build a clear picture of the critical skills needed for the future
• The technology that's going to be required for the future, not only for our employees but for our business, we need to have highly technical folks. We should always look for ways to keep our technical staff on the cutting edge and at the forefront of technology skills
• We're starting to see people asking us for more work in the areas of leadership, empathy, and generally on how to treat people in an engaging way. So that they feel excited and energised about coming to work. Now, the focus for us is on how to ensure that this paradigm shift continues in a consistent manner

16:32 -What are consumer-grade technologies, and then how can enterprises and companies leverage them for creating a better learning experience for employees?

• Consumer-grade technologies are those we use in our lives outside of work, and we expect them to operate the same way inside our work 
• These platforms are being designed in such a way that we can create really engaging learning experiences, that could be as near to face-to-face as possible
• It's so hard for our employees to keep everything in their minds. What they really need is that simple, digital information at their fingertips while they are supporting a customer while doing their work in the flow of work. Organizations should understand that, it's high time to start engaging employees in the flow of work

24:44 -Why do you think there is such a discrepancy in employee behaviour? And how can companies overcome it?

• Successful companies are those, that truly look for the voice of their employees, appreciate their voice, know about where their employees can pivot, and where you can balance employee needs and business needs together for the same goal
• You have to create those types of experiences that are frictionless for employees which are really appealing to them, and also allow them to develop and grow with a business that offers flexibility

In today's episode we are joined by a very dear friend, Ross Nicol.  Ross is an Organisational Development Consultant with the NSW Department of Health. Ross shares with us his wisdom and experience on how to develop high performance; how to establish a strong team culture; and how to put in place a team charter.

Ross and I have known each other for many years and discuss our shared experiences in putting some of this into practice.

It was a great honour to have him on the share.

Anyone that is looking to lead your team to higher levels of performance does not want to miss this great episode and interview.

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If you are into all-things Leadership, Organizational Change and Development....then this episode is for YOU! 

We welcome back Leadership and Training Guru Charlie Walsh as he gives a historical view of how Leadership has changed over the past 40 years. Charlie also discusses Democratization of Leadership, Incubation of Leadership, the Leadership Forum in Silver Bay, New York.....and Elvis Presley.

Built on a foundation of progressive contributions in both the public & private sectors since the 1960's, Charlie started HOPS International LLC in 1992 where he currently serves as President & Chief Provocateur,  providing organizational development and leadership performance improvement solutions through the design, development, management and facilitation of innovative adult learning strategies and skill development programs. Visit his website at https://www.hopsintl.com/ to learn more.

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In this episode, I talk to Patrick Cowden, founder of Beyond Leadership, an agency that helps organizations to unleash their full potential. By introducing a new way of leadership, Patrick empowers organizations to master future challenges. 

Patrick is a book author, TEDx speaker and enhancer of collaboration. In this episode, we talk about the importance of human connection in workshops. Patricks shares how facilitators can change the game and deal with egos and politics by kicking off working sessions with a simple check-in exercise.  

Don’t miss the hands-on advice, tips and tricks and Patrick’s energy that will spill over and inspire you to deliver workshops that work.

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Questions and Answers

[1:38]     What is wrong with the way we gather professionally at work?

[4:08]     What can we do to combine joy and results in meetings and workshops?

[8:06]     Can we achieve the same results when we meet remotely?

[14:45] How can we create human connection in workshops?

[17:20] Can you explain how the “connect exercise” works? 

[23:19] To what extend do you explain why you are doing specific exercises? Do you achieve the same results when you do the connect exercise in 3 minutes versus 30 seconds?

[28:11] How do you shift from the connection exercise to the “real” business-related topic of the meeting?

[33:45] How can you assure sustainable results of your intervention?

[35:13] Can you adjust the “connect exercise” to other topics without compromising the effect? 

[38:19] What is your advice to facilitators to achieve results, foster connection and fight egos?    

Related links you may want to check out:

• Patrick’s organisation: http://www.thebeyond.company 
• Patrick’s Book “Neustart”
• Muhammad Yunus, founder of Grameen Bank and Nobel laureate
• From my desk on the value of check-ins: “You need one key to make meetings successful”
• Our sponsor Session Lab (affiliate link) 

Connect to Patrick:

• LinkedIn 

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