Special Guest: Aaron Betesta Aaron runs the team building brand ‘Laughtercise’. After two years of studying the team building market and delivering team building sessions, he believes that some approaches to team building are stuck in the 90s. At Laughtercise, they believe most team building and icebreaker resources on Google are poor, and are working hard to provide better. Their approach is to shake things up. They want to support people to take the forced out of forced fun and get rid of the cringe factor when it comes to team building activities. At Laughtercise, they deliver wild and fun team building sessions to organisations all over the UK. All the exhilaration of drinking games, but without the alcohol! They have also delivered over £10,000 worth of sessions, for free, to NHS Trusts and Charities. In this episode, Aaron wants to shake up your thinking when it comes to team building and team away days and provide you with creative insights. Most importantly, his  goal is to convince you to ditch the word ‘icebreaker’ and never ever use it again! So, shall we break the ice…? The 6 Unusual Team Building Activities Icebreaker Research Host: Jo Dodds

Jo Moffatt and Jo Dodds visited the CIPD Festival of Work 2019 and in Jo M's words 'accosted people' to get their views as to what #onechange they want to see happen in organisations to improve employee engagement. This special show is the result. Also available on our Engage for Success YouTube channel.  

Special Guest: Paul Nuki, CEO and Co-Founder of StepJockey Join us as we talk about how StepJockey works with some of the UK's largest corporates to make their offices more productive and less sedentary. Paul Nuki is a co-founder and CEO of StepJockey, a digital health business dedicated to improving workplace health through behavioural interventions that maximise staff engagement. StepJockey works with some of the UK's largest corporates to make their offices more productive and less sedentary. Host: Jo Dodds

Special Guest: Adam Hutchison, Managing Director, Belmont Sandbanks Care Group & Author of Risk v Reward Join us as we challenge perceptions and talk about how employee engagement can drive business performance in traditionally difficult sectors. Adam Hutchison is Managing Director at Belmont Sandbanks Care Group, having previously been a management consultant and worked in the call centre sector. We’ll be exploring the themes of Adam’s book, Risk v Reward, and talking about how to attract and engage workforces in sectors where they are traditionally undervalued and low paid. We will discuss how this can really power business success – and, importantly, in the healthcare sector improve patient outcomes. What lessons for the wider business world can we learn from success in these tougher, ‘hard to reach’ sectors? Whose responsibility is it to make this happen? Host: Jo Moffatt

Special Guest: Michael Moran, CEO and Founder at 10Eighty Few organisations focus on the careers of their people but it's vital to their engagement and your business performance. Join us as we discuss why it's important to enable your managers to have ongoing career discussions with their people. Michael’s background is in Human Resources, having worked in the NHS and Financial Services sector. He has successfully run HR consultancies specialising in career management for the last 20 years. He is passionate about helping people maximise their potential and believes everyone should have job satisfaction and a successful career. He helps organisations design jobs and career paths that maximise employee engagement. As an avid reader/commentator on the world of work and sport, he regularly draws parallels between the two. Michael’s favourite scribe is Matthew Syed, Times sports correspondent and author of ‘Bounce’. You could describe Michael as a budding author with “The Guide to Everlasting Employability” already under his belt, and technophile who’s created 2 career management apps to help people manage their careers.  He’s a season ticket holder of Derby County which helps build his resilience given their inconsistent performances and he’s a proud father of Hannah, 10Eighty’s Business Development Exec, and Tom who’s currently on active service in Calgary chasing tanks. Host: Jo Dodds

Special Guest: Jemma Peers, Client Services Director, Top Banana As more baby boomers work past retirement age and tech-savvy millennials enter the workforce, the variety of values, communication styles and work habits amongst employees is vast. This can quickly become a barrier to trust and communication – both vital for positive workplace cultures and organisational productivity. With the employee age of a UK company potentially now ranging from 17 to 70, is it possible to unite five generations into one harmonious workforce? Join Jemma Peers, Client Services Director at events and communications specialists Top Banana, who will share her thoughts on how to communicate with and get key business messages across to every single member of the team…whether they’re pushing 70 or skimming 20. Join us as we talk about how businesses can tell a story, how to make it matter to every person in the room and what tools and tactics can be used to bring strategy to life in original ways. Jemma joined Top Banana back in May 2016 bringing a wealth of live event experience and bags of energy to her role. Leading a team of event professionals in her role as Client Services Director, Jemma’s skills lie in taking an objective or a challenging situation and creating the perfect solution, evoking emotions and embracing all things new and creative. She understands the dynamics of live events, is creative in her thinking and builds strong relationships with her clients … who trust her to deliver strategically driven events. Host: Jo Dodds

Special Guest: Beth Stallwood, Director & Lead Consultant, Transforment You’re on the engagement train. You’ve championed the importance, sold the benefits and you’ve got the leaders on board. Perhaps you’ve even done a survey and have the results. You want to act… But what do you focus on? Of course, taking action is critical (and there’s no point investing in surveys if you don’t do anything with the results!) but the survey only tells a part of the story. In this show, Beth will talk about taking a pause to observe what’s really going on. Join us as we discuss that adding insight to data and considering where to act will help you make the most difference to employee engagement in your organisation. With practical tips and techniques, Beth will guide you on what to look and listen for to help you work out what to do. Beth is an organisational and people development expert, with an impressive track record of enabling businesses to achieve results by transforming the way they develop, engage and lead their people. She has a reputation for being an impactful presenter, engaging facilitator and leadership coach. By getting under the skin of organisations, she develops and delivers practical solutions that are right for the business – whatever the product, service or sector. A real relationship-builder and stakeholder-influencer at all levels, she intuitively adapts to meet the needs of individuals, teams and organisations. Host: Jo Dodds

Special Guest: Andy Cast, Director of HR Business Partnering, University of Southampton In this modern world where the employee seems to have all the power, it's important for us all to remember that with all the employment rights we covet and expect, employment responsibilities shouldn't be forgotten. Join us as we discuss how it's all too easy for us to become reliant on managers or employers to do everything for us, but when we become the child in a parental relationship we start being done to, rather than done with and that leads to a loss of reasonable employee voice. Andy Cast is the Director of HR Business Partnering at the University of Southampton, managing the HR Business Partner and Employee Relations Teams.  A qualified mediator, counsellor and executive coach, Andy has a passion for people development and firmly believes in the balance of rights and responsibilities when it comes to employee engagement. Andy’s career has been varied, having worked for 18 years within the retail sector at John Lewis and Waitrose, owned his own restaurant, worked for Carnival UK and also a two year stint as the Learning and Development Director for Emphasis HR Consultancy. In his spare time, Andy is a non-executive director at The Southern Co-Operative community food stores and funeral homes group, the Founder and Campaign Director for the LGBT Rights Charity, Holding Hands 4 Equality and enjoys sharing his random thoughts about life in his blog. Host: Jo Moffatt

Special Guest: Meghan Walsh, Internal Communications & Employee Engagement Manager, Comic Relief Meghan has a unique challenge of boosting engagement and development with little or no budget available. People that work for Comic Relief have a huge sense of pride to do so, but this doesn’t mean that they don’t have some of the same business challenges as many organisations. After receiving some insightful feedback via their engagement survey in 2015 it was clear that collaboration was a challenge within the business. Join us as we talk about how Meghan put collaboration back at the heart of Comic Relief using a mix of engagement initiatives and events all of which were delivered with minimal cost. The results saw a 30% increase in their engagement score in the area on collaboration. Meghan has a lot of plans around further cross organisational engagement and after recently taking on the Learning & Development function at Comic Relief, looking how the current development offering can be improved and how this plays into the overall engagement plan. Meghan started at Comic Relief in November 2014 initially to upgrade and gain engagement in their new intranet tool on a 12 month contract, but was then asked to stay and look at the wider internal communication and employee engagement activity for their core 250 staff. Meghan started her career in the retail sector and has worked in operations and communications at brands such as Ann Summers, Hobbs London and Kookai. Previous to this she graduated from Glasgow Caledonian University with a degree in Marketing. Host: Jo Moffatt

Special Guest: Nell Sanders, Head of People at Sleeping Giant Sleeping Giant Media is a multi-award winning Digital Marketing Agency based in Kent. Providing solutions such as Search Engine Optimisation, Paid Advertising, Social Account Management and Video solutions, Sleeping Giant Media are currently celebrating their 8th year in operation. They work with clients on a local, national and international basis, and have developed two stand alone companies - Giant Campus and Pocket Giant - that deliver these services as training and as a service provision for companies wishing to expand their offerings. Nell Sanders first joined Sleeping Giant Media in 2014, and has benefited from the company’s support and engagement; going from a new starter position to Head of People in two short years. She now leads the recruitment and retention strategies within the company, ensuring an engaged and effective workforce to support the business in their success. Join us as we talk about how engaging the creative workforce has encouraged and supported the high rate of growth for the company, and will continue to be the success of Sleeping Giant Media. Host: Jo Moffatt

Special Guest: Erwin Van Waeleghem, International Speaker, Global Seedplanter of www.tealspirator.com Erwin talks about the possible cultural transformation an organisation, and its top management, can make towards the ‘teal’-paradigm, where working collaborations are based on trust, respect, authenticity, integrity, benevolence, equivalence, human connection, and other basic human values and soft-skills, which in a lot of organisations are never talked about, let alone used as a base for success. Join us as we talk about how inspiring leaders’ biggest contribution is based on making other inspiring leaders which is inside all people. Host: Jo Moffatt

Special Guest: Luke Fisher, Founder & CEO of Thanksbox ThanksBox is a digital communication platform that connects a business's most important asset, it's people. We offer a range of tools which replace and digitise existing processes to make them smarter and more inclusive. This helps create a stronger sense of engagement for employees while gathering real-time data based insights for management. ThanksBox has recently had a case study written by the CIPD, about their work with the NHS on cultural transformation. A big part of this was using digital technology and smart insights to engage their employees. Join us as we discuss the case study and how you can drive engagement and improve culture with digital. Luke is Co-Founder and CEO at Thanksbox and is a passionate believer that people provide the only long term competitive advantage for an organisation. His main aim at ThanksBox is to revolutionise the relationship between employers and employees – helping to maintain personalisation at scale. He loves talking about people insights, digital technologies and the future of work. Thanksbox provide a suite of digital tools for employees to share ideas, offer feedback, complete surveys and recognise each other.   Host: Jo Dodds Archive available here

Special Guest: Katy Downes, Senior Engagement Manager, Network Rail Join us as we discuss the 'You Said, We Did' campaign that Network Rail have used to develop their employee voice. With over 15 years’ experience in employee reward gained across both private and public sectors, Katy now leads the Employee Engagement at Network Rail. Understanding what motivates individuals is a key strength in the engagement field and recognising that changes in behaviours are individual to each employee is also important in driving the Network Rail engagement strategy. Katy has also recently joined the Engage for Success taskforce. Host: Jo Dodds

Join us as we discuss how Mike believes that the overly close relationship between Internal Communications and Employee Engagement doesn't serve either of them very well. Mike goes into companies and helps identify business problems that focused communication can tackle. As Author and Principal of Changing the Terms, Mike consults, writes, blogs and speaks on strategic communication and the role of internal influencers as a potential driver of acceleration and impact.  Recent projects include external positioning for Europe-based communication start-ups, M&A-related internal and external communications work for a global Fortune 500 player in packaging materials, and delivering networking workshops for communication leaders. Vice Chair, Europe – Middle East – North Africa region, IABC. Host: Jo Dodds

Special Guest: Fran Woodward, Director People & Culture, Good Energy It can be challenging growing a small business with high ethical standards, in a highly price competitive market. through some of the key steps we have taken, and share some of our successes and learnings. Join us as we talk about how Good Energy have focused on building their culture to ensure it aligns with their purpose and values, and enables them to achieve their significant growth ambitions. Fran explains the key steps they have taken and shares some of their successes and learnings. Fran joined Good Energy in June 2014 with responsibility for human resources and organisation development, including training and facilities. Having begun her career with Marks & Spencer plc, she has over 20 years multi sector industry experience including senior human resources roles within the Coca-Cola Company, Dyson and EDF Energy. Fran is a graduate from Oxford University and a Chartered Member of the Institute for Personnel and Development. Host: Jo Moffatt

Special Guest: Jennifer Sproul, Chief Executive, Institute of Internal Communication IoIC has recently partnered the Engage for Success movement. Join us as we talk about the latest developments at the Institute across professional development, thought leadership, career development, events and awards. In particular Jennifer will be talking to us about their new Profession Map which sets out the purpose for internal communication to ‘create an informed, engaged & connected workforce to drive organisational performance’. She will give us more detail behind this thinking, to include a new competency framework and also tell us more about the recent developments to highlight the importance of internal communication for employee engagement. Jennifer is responsible for the leadership of IoIC, the only independent professional body solely dedicated to internal communication. IoIC is the voice of internal communication, setting standards for more than 65 years through qualifications, career development, thought leadership and best practice.   Prior to joining IoIC, Jennifer has worked for over 15 years in professional associations, most recently as Strategic Marketing & Sales Director at the Market Research Society, developing and leading on activities across marketing communications (both internal & external), careers, membership, professional development and publishing. Host: Jo Moffatt Listen live here (archive available)

Special Guest: Charlotte Dahl, Creative Planning Director, Woodreed and Co-Founder of Muse. "Islands of brilliance within a sea of mediocrity" is how Drew McMillan, Head of Internal Communication & Engagement at Virgin Trains describes the state of the internal comms profession in the UK. Join us as we discuss the challenges IC practitioners face and what can be done about them. Charlotte Dahl is Creative Planning Director at Woodreed and co-founder of Muse. She is a marketing and communications professional with a wealth of experience in both advertising and internal communication. She’s worked for some of the world’s most successful ad agencies and latterly works for specialist advertising agency Woodreed where she fuses her passion for brands with employee engagement. Host: Jo Dodds

Special Guest: Ali Godding of aligodding.com In this show we will be joined by Ali Godding, who has recently re-joined the Engage for Success Core Team as our Career Development Director. Join us as we discuss how employee engagement can help individuals improve their own career opportunities. Ali is also founder and creator of The Career Leap, a programme specifically designed to help you ascend, adapt and accomplish in your career. You can register to attend one of her complimentary trainings here: www.aligodding.com Host: Jo Moffatt

Special Guests: Arnaud Henneville - Founder of Internaldesk and Kristian Cholmondeley - Head of Sales Development, Citroen Join us as we talk about how Citroen have been using the platform, internalDesk, to engage their employees and underpin their evolving brand strategy over the last two years. About internalDesk: internalDesk is more than a platform for collaboration and internal communication. It is the only platform on the market you, your agency or your advisory firm can customise to help you achieve your goals. internalDesk clients include GE, Peugeot-Citroën, Absolut, Atlas Copco, UPM. Kris has worked at the PSA Groupe for 13 years and has a wide breadth of experience across Sales and Marketing roles. He believes it’s vital to lead by example, put the customer first and embrace the fact that the only thing that is constant in today’s business world, is change. The PSA Groupe is a global automotive company that encompasses the Citroën and Peugeot brands. And, excitingly and more recently, it launched DS Automobiles, its first premium brand, and has acquired Opel/ Vauxhall. Host: Jo Dodds

Special Guests: Lindsay McGhie, Managing Director of 3P & Trevor Norman, Customer Relationship Director of 3P One of the four enablers of engagement is Engaging Managers. This role is pivotal in driving employee engagement; according to Gallup “The line manager relationship is the most important work-based relationship for all of us and has been found to effect up to 70% variability in engagement levels”. Front line managers, who typically account for 5% of the whole organisation, have an influence on the other 95%. This is why, at 3P, we consider the impact of this group of key influencers the ‘Power of 95’. Engagement is relevant at all levels of the organisation; from leadership, to management, to the workforce. As a business leader, do your key influencers have the required competencies to manage and influence effectively? As a manager, do you understand the key drivers to engage your teams? As an employee, does your manager have the awareness and understanding to meet your expectations to engage you in the business? Based on the 4 Key Drivers of Engagement; Growth, Recognition, Communication and Trust, from New York Times best-selling author Kevin Kruse’s Employee Engagement 2.0, we have developed an Engaging Manager framework to benchmark 10 essential behavioural traits. Join us as we discuss the 10 essential traits, the Power of 95 and the impact on employee engagement. Host:Jo Moffatt

Special Guest: Cathy Brown, Exec Director, Engage for Success Listen in to EFS Exec Director Cathy Brown and Happy Founder Henry Stewart talking about the upcoming event on June 14th, jointly sponsored by EFS, Happy and the CIPD. Join us as we talk about the reason for the Happy Workplaces collaboration, and share details of the speakers, programme and associated workshop. And if you can't listen to the radio show, you can always book a ticket and come along to the event! Host: Jo Dodds

Special Guest: Paul Osgood, Global Head of Internal Communications, Clifford Chance Paul is passionate about branding and the power of a brand to engage leaders and employees. This discussion is focused on how organisations can create pride, passion and persuasion through their brand and, of course, one or two tried and tested communication techniques. Paul is a pragmatist at heart and he will share some of his real-life experiences when he was Global Head of Internal Communications at Philips where the introduction of a new brand was pitted against poor performance, a global transformation agenda and a digitally challenged workforce. Join us to discuss why traditional communication approaches need challenging and re-thinking when a new brand comes knocking. Host: Jo Moffatt

Special Guest: Anisa Kurti and McVal Osborne of ORC International Women make up half of the world’s population, yet only contribute 37% to the global GDP. According to a recent study conducted by McKinsey & Company, shifts to gender equality in the workplace could feasibly increase the global GDP by $12 trillion in the next 10 years. When it comes to women in leadership, the benefits of increasing gender equality at senior levels are clear. Numerous studies show that companies which maintain a high level of female representation at board level significantly outperform those with only male board directors. But there are many challenges related to how to best grow the number of women in leadership roles, and whilst progress is being made, it’s slow. We’ve undertaken an extensive study into today’s world of women in leadership. Join us as we share what you can do to help promote and retain women leaders within your organisation, along with five steps you can take to get closer to your leadership and gender equality strategy goals. Host: Jo Moffatt

Special Guests: Martyn Dicker TAG Chair, Barbara Frost CEO of Water Aid & Siobhan Victoria Renshaw, TAG Co-ordinator Special edition of the Engage for Success radio show with some clips from the ‘Engaging the Engaged?’ event which launched the Employee Engagement toolkit for the not-for-profit sector on 4th April 2017. More than 40 organisations representing tens of thousands of staff employed in the sector have been involved in the work of the Engage for Success Not-for-Profit Thought and Action Group (TAG).  You can get hold of the toolkit from the Engage for Success website and have a brief listen to some of the contributors in this special podcast. Host: Jo Moffatt

Special Guest: Teddy Burriss, LinkedIn Trainer, Coach , Consultant of Burriss Consulting, Inc. Our employees deserve a leader who will engage with them beyond the conference room table. Social Leadership is the newest way our leaders can engage with their employees. With the many different social media platforms, types of content and post formats available to our leaders social leadership becomes a powerful and highly useful leadership tool. Join us as will discuss a few unique ways our leaders can use social media today and offer some best practices on content styles and activities that can increase employee engagement and improve the trust and respect our leaders can build with their employees. Host: Jo Dodds

Special Guest: Peter Wakefield, Owner of Loving Monday In the 20 or so years Peter’s been working in the field of employee engagement the single biggest thing he’s learnt is that too many people, leaders or organisations who are looking to drive engagement focus on the wrong word. They spend too much time focusing on the word ‘employee’ and not enough on the word ‘engagement’. Peter believes that there is no engagement formula, no engagement strategy, no engagement plan that can ‘engage’ us, only people that we can be ‘engaged’ by. Join us as we discuss that, if you don’t invest in developing your people, particularly people who have accountability, responsibility or influence in driving engagement, organisations will spend all their time, money and resources simply ‘doing’ engagement rather than ‘being’ engaging. And that's not what people need, want or recognise as engagement. As owner of Loving Monday Peter uses his experience of employee engagement to develop the skills, knowledge and behaviour of managers and leaders. Loving Monday also works in partnership with one of the major employee research organisations in the world supporting organisations to develop the infrastructure and tools to measure and improve their performance and save costs. Host: Jo Moffatt

Special Guest: David MacLeod and Nita Clarke, Co-Founders of Engage for Success Join us as we discuss the Engage for Success movement on our 200th show; the radio podcast has been going since just after the movement went live in November 2012. What's happened in the meantime, where are we now, where are we going? Host: Jo Moffatt

Special Guest: Freddie Guilmard, Managing Director, and Adrian Spurrell, Executive Director of The Red Thread Partnership and Nick Isles, Chief Executive of Corporate Agenda, authors of Frontier Leadership Join us as we discuss the challenges facing leaders today as we head into what must be some of the most turbulent times in recent history. There is no doubt Brexit has added to that uncertainty, but what should leaders actually do? Brexit, transformational technology, the changing local, national and world political and economic landscape, environmental change, large scale migration, the list goes on. If you’re running a business or leading any organisation what will help your organisation be well placed to be successful. Frontier Leadership, the soon to be published book by Nick Isles, Adrian Spurrell and Freddie Guilmard from The Red Thread Partnership sets out what they have discovered from their research and experience of dealing with some of the largest businesses in the world. They will share their insights and the 7 key steps to Mastering Frontier Leadership, from really understanding your context through to deciding exactly what it means to be a leader of an effective organisation in the highly complex, interconnected and turbulent times we face. Host: Jo Dodds

Special Guest: Jeff Corbin, Founder and CEO, APPrise Mobile In this show we discuss the importance of communications to employee engagement and how the mobile revolution as well as Millennial workforce trends are requiring companies to think differently about the content they use in dealing with employees and its distribution. Join us as we discuss, with recent data showing that only 1/3 of employees are engaged, best practices and examples of how companies are trying to buck the trend through a unique approach to their internal communications. As a public relations consultant for the past 20 years, Jeff Corbin is pioneering the use of technology in the communications industry as the founder of APPrise Mobile, a business-to-business/enterprise native app platform that includes theEMPLOYEEapp®, for internal communications; theIRapp®, for public companies; theCOMMSapp™, for external communications; and theCONFERENCEapp™, for investor, analyst and other conference and event communications.  Prior to APPrise Mobile, Jeff served as the CEO of KCSA Strategic Communications in New York City. Host: Jo Moffatt

Special Guest: Mike Allen of Everything Brilliant Mike Allen of Everything Brilliant starts with an idea. Staff suggestion schemes are nothing new. There are plenty of great examples to draw from, but equally there's plenty of schemes that have fallen flat or failed all together.  What are the keys to making them work?  Mike has been working with organisations to help them introduce or revitalise their employee idea schemes for the last 15 years and will share his insights and experience. Join us as we discuss the positives and pitfalls of staff suggestion schemes Host: Jo Moffatt

Special Guest: Martyn Dicker, Director of People & Learning, The Prince's Trust In addition to his current role as Director of People & Learning at The Prince’s Trust, Martyn is a member of the Engage for Success Taskforce, and the Chair of the Not-for-profit Thought & Action Group (TAG). He is a business graduate and a Chartered Fellow of the CIPD. Prior to The Prince’s Trust, Martyn has held HR Director posts at the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation and Fairtrade Foundation. He also previously held senior HR roles at British Red Cross. The Not-for-profit TAG that Martyn chairs has been exploring employee engagement in the sector for three years. They recognise that the sector is generally good at engaging staff with their mission but that doesn’t necessarily translate into engagement with the organisation. Employee may arrive for work with high-levels of intrinsic motivation (as reflected in typically high engagement scores), but there is often a disparity between this and the reality. Martyn shares key findings of research involving over 40 organisations exploring engagement beyond the mission of the organisation. Join us as we discuss the importance of communication and leadership to successful employee engagement, along with tips on ensuring that measures of engagement reflect genuine engagement and accurately represent the voice of employees. Martyn also shares insights from some of the case studies featured in the Toolkit on the approach to engagement taken by some of these organisations presented through the lenses of the four enablers of engagement as first proposed by David Macleod and Nita Clarke. Host: Jo Dodds

Special Guest: Gautam Sahgal, Chief Operating Officer, Perkbox ‘Employee engagement’ is increasingly becoming a buzz term as leaders are starting to recognise that it’s not simply a fluffy, immeasurable and intangible HR concept. Employees that are engaged at work are more productive, more committed and more likely to go above and beyond to contribute to common business goals. They are essential to driving growth and act as a real competitive advantage. Join us as we discuss the positive impact that an engaged workforce can have on business growth. Host: Jo Moffatt

Special Guest: Kevin Ames, Director of Speaking and Training, OC Tanner Institute of Speaking and Training Join us as we discuss why appreciation matters and how to unlock its power to create great teams and cultures. With a mission to instill in others a passion for personal and professional excellence, Kevin Ames is one of the highest ranked speakers at the Evanta Leadership Summits. He’s spoken to thousands of people and leadership groups at conferences and companies such as National Grid, Dow Chemical, Frito Lay, Bose, Miller Thompson, Pier 1, Kennedy Health, and more. An expert in the areas of workplace culture, engagement, great work, teambuilding, leadership, and personal development, his presentations have been called, "dynamic, insightful, clear, honest, and informative." Host: Jo Moffatt

Special Guest: Gary Gill, Knowledge Director, Engage for Success Join us as we discuss the work of the TAGs with our new Knowledge Director, Gary Gill. Host: Jo Dodds Listen Live here (archive available)

Special Guests: David Firth and Charrise McCrorey, The CoQuora Project The future is not what it used to be. This can certainly be said for the concept of ‘leadership’. Prior to 2016, despite still agreeing that there are countless definitions of what leadership is. we might have all coalesced around the general idea that leaders set visions, engage followers and, above all, model certain key values such as integrity, honesty and perseverance. Events across the world challenged that default thinking. At CoQuora we believe the time is right for a radical shift in our understanding of where leadership is and how it works (as opposed to asking ‘Who is the leader?).’ Join us to hear 5 provocative principles - five crazy ideas - that we see as foundational to a new era for leadership in the world. We will also share the essential mindset that current leaders need to have to kick start this new way of leading and will illustrate that with a couple of recent case studies. Working together in The CoQuora Project, Charrise McCrorey and David Firth are committed to deepening engagement around what matters in all aspects of society - communities, education and healthcare as well as in commercial organizations. They work with clients to create new levels of connection and trust among all stakeholders, and then set up the conditions for inspired action and positive change to take place. If you joined in the exercise at the end of the show, why not send your thoughts to [email protected] or [email protected] ? Host: Jo Moffatt

Special Guest: Lee Caraher, Founder & CEO of Double Forte, Speaker and Author Today’s most productive businesses are strong talent brands known for being places where the best people work or have moved on from. In today’s workplace, where tenures are shorter by employee choice, no longer can companies ignore their former employees if they want to thrive now and in the future. This is business sustainability in the new economy. Join us as Lee shares how leaders and managers can put The Boomerang Principle to work to their advantage, and create engaged, positive, high-performing cultures that inspire lifetime loyalty from their employees – currently or formerly employed. Lee shares key principles of creating a company to return to and stories that leaders can put to use right away to create a more positive and productive workplace. Lee is the author of the upcoming book The Boomerang Principle: Inspiring Lifetime Employee Loyalty (April, 2017 Routledge) and the recent Millennials & Management: The Essential Guide to Making It Work at Work. She is a sought-after speaker where she shows leaders how to create the best possible workplace culture and talent brands so that their best employees with Boomerang, perhaps returning for a second tour of duty, becoming strong business partners, or referring customers and future employees. The founder and CEO of Double Forte, Lee is a recognized Communication Strategist known for her practical solutions to big problems. Host: Jo Dodds

Special Guests: David Evans and Alistair Aitchison, Founding Partners of Emenex Employees are more willing than ever to share their opinions at work. Their collective voice can be a powerful competitive advantage, helping organisations make better-informed decisions and take better associated actions. Technology now allows us to translate the voice of the employee into actionable insights that help create a more engaged, productive and satisfied workforce. Expanding listening methods and going beyond the annual survey can significantly amplify these benefits. This show reflects upon the recent joint seminar that Emenex facilitated with Engage for Success, hosted by and featuring IBM Kenexa's most recent research, Employee Voice case studies and gained significant insights into where organisations currently sit regarding Employee Voice through the delegate feedback about their plans for the future. Join us as David and Alistair will present an overview of the seminar and share the insights that they gained on the day. Emenex - a consulting firm specialising in the development of leadership behaviours at every level - its effect upon employee engagement and the corresponding contribution to the success of organisations. Emenex is a UK Business partner of IBM Kenexa and its Employee Voice solutions. David Evans - has 30 years experience in consulting engineering and business management and is a founding partner of Emenex. Alistair Aitchison - has 30 years experience in marketing, sales and business management and is also a foundation partner and senior consultant with Emenex. Host: Jo Moffatt

Special Guest: Natasha Davis Branding is an essential component to any business in any industry. Without cohesive and effective branding the company will face many challenges. One of those key challenges will be attracting, retaining and engaging employees. A recent Ragan Survey revealed that poorly branded companies in the top 3 industries experienced high turnover rates. Join us as we discuss the 3 most valuable types of branding every company will need to achieve when focused on improving and sustaining employee engagement. Natasha, authored and published her first book “Get Grounded; Stay Grounded” to educate individuals on how to achieve personal branding and development. She published her 2nd book “Unleash Your Millionaire Mindset and Build your Brand” to educate business owners on how to achieve professional branding and business growth. Over the past 10 years, Natasha has gained recognition as the Executive Professional & Entrepreneur of the Year , noted as one of the 40 under 40 Movers and Shakers in Business by Career Magazine. Presented with recognition as a “Woman of Outstanding Leadership in Business” by the International Women’s Leadership Association and awarded by the USIEC with the “2013 Georgia Excellence Award in Marketing”. Through her branding bootcamps, keynotes, talks, training and consulting, Natasha helps companies strategically achieve and retain profitable visual branding, auditory branding and emotional branding. View full details about Natasha on www.NatashaDavisVisionary.com Host: Jo Dodds

Special Guest: Chris Cooper, Founder of Business Elevation, Speaker, Coach, Consultant Author and Broadcaster Today the best organisational leaders appreciate how essential ‘Employee Engagement’ is to productivity. In fact, research has concluded that highly engaged people generate 43% more revenue. Join us as Chris shares how, in order to achieve greater employee engagement and personal success, we must all take responsibility for becoming more engaging as leaders and managers. We must all become more to achieve more! His belief is that an essential place to look for greater engagement and productivity is to take a very good look at where we can improve ourselves. By increasing our personal engagement we are more able to build engagement amongst others, even in the most challenging situations. Chris shares key principles, advice and memorable stories about increasing your personal engagement drawn from extensive research and experience with international business experts, high achievers and organizations. Information that will help you in your pursuit of greater business results! Chris helps leaders and teams to elevate the performance of their businesses, people and themselves through consultancy, masterclasses, coaching, interviewing, speaking and broadcasting. He has hosted the 'Business Elevation Radio Show (Be More. Achieve More)' on Voice America for 5 years, accessed monthly in over 50 countries which has given him unusual access to high achievers and leading business and self development best practice. For more information on Chris Cooper Business Elevation Host: Jo Moffatt