With the businesses going into administration and liquidations in the news repeatedly at the moment, this week Carly and Gareth talk about redundancy and how to handle it with empathy, respect and trying to make the best of a bad situation. Outside of the current situation, redundancy is a natural part of the business cycle: not all redundancies occur because of businesses failing. In this case there is a real opportunity to turn redundancy into a positive, creating win-win outcomes, but only...

This  week Carly and Gareth discuss what it means to have coaching culture in your organisation - what are the pre-requisites of a coaching culture, what are the alternatives, what are the benefits and what are some of the challenges. As an aside, we also ask why is followership not discussed as often, as passionately or as reverently as leadership?  After all, without excellence in followership you can't have excellence in leadership, can you?. If you'd like to know more about Culture Gym...

This week Carly and Gareth talk with Rae Gaukroger, Presentation and Leadership Coach, about the particular challenges associated with leading from a distance. They talk about empathy, curiosity and personality.  To learn more about Rae and the work she does with organisations, head over to upfrontpresenting.co.uk.  If you'd like to know more about Culture Gym and improving cultural fitness, get in touch at [email protected]. --- Send in a voice message:...

In  this week's episode we talk about our own personal experiences of social isolation during this pandemic and discuss how business leaders can help their employees through it to everyone's benefit. If you'd like to know more about Culture Gym and how we can help you improve your cultural fitness, get in touch at [email protected]. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/culture-gym/message

In this week's episode we speak with Harsha Moore of Moore Solicitors about staying on the right side of the law when it comes to discrimination and fair-play, particularly in relation to the increase in redundancies occurring right now as a consequence of the global political response to SARS-CoV-2. If you'd like to get in touch with Harsha about employment law, unfair dismissal claims, discrimination or redundancy you can do so by emailing her at [email protected] or calling...

Listen for tips and ideas about how to help your employees thrive and tap into their potential. Subscribe and leave your comments - it all adds to a richer conversation. To find out more about how Culture Gym can help improve your  organisation's cultural fitness get in touch at [email protected]. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/culture-gym/message

Listen for tips and ideas about how to help your employees thrive and tap into their potential. Subscribe and leave your comments - it all adds to a richer conversation. To find out more about how Culture Gym can help improve your  organisation's cultural fitness get in touch at [email protected]. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/culture-gym/message

It's important to listen to employees and act on their input but is "employee voice" the right way to go about it? A more holistic approach is needed. It's challenging and complex, but if we don't accept that every single employee is different, with different needs and contributions to make then organisations are missing out on so much potential. Listen for tips and ideas about how to help your employees thrive and tap into their potential. Subscribe and leave your comments - it all adds to...

What does it take to thrive at work? Work has evolved over the centuries and progressive businesses recognise the importance of the mutual benefits of work and strive to improve employee's lives as well as improving the bottom line. In this episode we look at how humans thrive and how to develop a pro-thriving culture in an organisation.  Listen for more tips and ideas about how to help your employees thrive. Subscribe and leave your comments - it all adds to a richer conversation. To find...

In this week's episode, after a week off, Psychology Consultant, Carly Richards, and Business Coach, Gareth Shackleton, discuss Mazlow's theory of human needs and what it takes for people to thrive in general and during the current Covid-19 pandemic in particular. Listen for tips and ideas about how to help your employees thrive. Subscribe and leave your comments - it all adds to a richer conversation. To find out more about how Culture Gym can help improve your organisation's cultural...

Flow. What is it? How can we achieve it? Why do we want to achieve it? Why do we want to create a culture that promotes flow? Are there any negatives to flow? All questions that we answer on this week's podcast together with the cost of leavism and how it relates to flow. To find out more about how Culture Gym can help improve your organisation's cultural fitness get in touch at [email protected]. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/culture-gym/message

The awareness that emotional intelligence is a vital ingredient in the success of a leader has become far greater in the last ten years and yet it is often easier to focus on the more rational and logical aspects in our day to day roles as leaders and managers. In this weeks show we look at why that is a mistake, how to develop emotional intelligence and how to apply it more effectively. We also discuss alexithymia and introduce the topic of genetics and its influence on culture. To find out...

The culture of an organisation has a large part to play in the well-being of its employees and it doesn't start with well-being initiatives.  What are some of the dimensions, and how can you adapt your culture to improve the well-being of your employees and increase productivity as a welcome side-effect? We explore some of the areas to look at and answer the question "Should I hire for cultural fit and if so, how?" To find out more about how Culture Gym can help improve your organisation's...

The coronavirus pandemic has brought upheaval and disaster, but it has also brought huge opportunities. We discuss one of these on this week's show. The veil has been lifted on working from home or remote working. Many businesses have discovered the benefits for employees and themselves and are now considering reducing their office space as they move more people to permanent home-working. This is likely to be a revolution in the world of work, for the better as we discuss. The question is, if...

In this week's episode we explore the concept of psychological capital and how leaders can influence the psych cap of their employees with dramatic impacts on performance. We examine the value of goal setting, when done well, for improving psychological capital and how a culture built around psych cap leads to a better organisation. To find out more about Culture Gym go to www.culturegym.co.uk or email Carly or Gareth at [email protected]. --- Send in a voice message:...

Not so long ago it was thought that after adolescence the brain was fixed, unable to adapt, only decline. We now know that's not true. It is constantly remodelling, creating new connections in response to new challenges and opportunities. In this weeks episode we discuss what this means. We also draw analogies with organisational culture - another entity that is often thought of as stable and difficult to change, but needn't be if it is exercised effectively. To find out more about Culture...

Organisational cultures could be tested as some kind of normality returns and more and more people return to work. Is this a good thing in disguise, creating an opportunity to reflect on your culture and how it is supporting, or otherwise, your goals? We discuss the positives and negatives of the return from lockdown on culture, wellbeing and business recovery. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/culture-gym/message

In this episode we answer a listeners question, "What is Culture?" and discuss three qualities of an organisation that are absolutely critical to companies emerging from lockdown that are the products of a strong, sustainable culture. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/culture-gym/message

This episode covers the "origin story" of culture gym - why we are interested in culture, what we're about and how we feel our approach to organisational culture is different. If you'd like to learn more about Culture Gym you can get in touch at [email protected]. We look forward to "working out" with you. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/culture-gym/message