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Episode 96: Understanding Gen Z: Welcome to a special episode of our podcast where we delve into the intersection of social media, expectations, and stereotypes within the workplace for Generation Z professionals. In this episode, we explore how social media influences the way Gen Z approaches work and relationships within their careers. We'll discuss the unique expectations Gen Z brings to the workplace, from a desire for purpose-driven work to a preference for flexibility and authenticity. We’ll also address common stereotypes associated with this generation and how they can be reframed to better understand Gen Z employees by Engaging People, Powering Companies - The Leadership Podcast

27 min listen

Episode 95: Boosting Personal and Business Performance: Over the last few decades, many organisations have moved away from deliberate strategies to more emergent strategic approaches. This has allowed organisations to reman agile, but has this had a longer term impact, preventing organisations from achieving their full potential? Is VUCA the new norm, meaning we need to rethink our strategic approaches? And how do we go about improving our personal performances at work? Amrit refers back to history seeing what lessons we can learn from pre- and post Russian history to improve our personal and business performances in this week's podcast. by Engaging People, Powering Companies - The Leadership Podcast

12 min listen

Episode 94: Breaking the Caste - Creating Inclusive Workplaces: What drives discrimination? If the colour of someone's skin is the only reason, how did the holocaust happen with Nazi Germany creating a 'Master race'? What then do we make of the caste system in India, where some people born into castes are considered untouchable, where their very touch could pollute another? Is race a version of a systemic caste system where humanity has artificially created superior groups and inferior groups, putting in place structures to perpetuate this very notion? Despite all the efforts by organisations to create more inclusive workplaces through ED&B initiatives, could this be the reason we haven't seen an impact? Join Amrit as he explores this topic, driven by the film 'Origins', highlighting the book 'Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents', in this week's podcast. by Engaging People, Powering Companies - The Leadership Podcast

13 min listen

Episode 93: Flexible Working and the Hybrid Ceiling: Just when you thought companies had adapted to remote and hybrid working, Boots announces that all their employees must come back into the office five days a week. The reason? Because they felt remote and hybrid working was having an impact on their culture. Cultures are made up of the values we hold most dear. What are the values driving Boots? Are companies making decisions aligned to their values? And for those who choose to work remotely, what impact is this having on their chances of career development and promotion? Join Amrit for this week's podcast on Flexibility and the Hybrid Ceiling. by Engaging People, Powering Companies - The Leadership Podcast

17 min listen

Episode 92: Are You Communicating to Your Employees Like Investors?: Have you noticed how when companies have had a fantastic financial performance, they share the great news, but then tell employees they cannot invest in any additional resources because they just don't have the budgets? It leaves employees confused about the decisions being made, and questioning where all the money is going to? Leaders are working in a different time zone to employees, and if this isn't taking into account, it can cause disengagement, rather than driving engagement. Join Amrit as he explores this topic in this week's podcast - Communicating to Employees like Investors. by Engaging People, Powering Companies - The Leadership Podcast

9 min listen

Episode 91: Leadership - Power and Hypocrisy: Is it inevitable that power will corrupt? Is this something we need to accept as the frailty of the human condition, that as soon as we achieve powerful positions, corruption is inevitable, irrespective of who you are and your benevolent intentions? Whilst power tends to corrupt, could power attract those with pathological tendencies acting like a magnet, only enhancing and magnifying what already existed in those people? What can companies do to protect those positions of power from those looking to get drunk on power? Join Amrit as he discusses Leader: Power and Hypocrisy in this week's podcast. by Engaging People, Powering Companies - The Leadership Podcast

15 min listen

Episode 90: Values, Identity and Our Best Performance: How much does your reputation matter to you? Obviously, we don't want people around us saying horrible things about us, but for some people, that can matter far more than for others. How important is reputation to those best performers? What role does having a clearly defined identity play in helping performance? It turns out, quite a lot. Our Values and Identity play a pivotal role based on the experiences of authors of a new book 'Learned Excellence', findings we can all apply to improve our own performance. by Engaging People, Powering Companies - The Leadership Podcast

14 min listen

Episode 89: Are Your Employees Living in Poverty?: Would you know if your employees were living in poverty? What signs would you see? Would a drop in performance towards the end of the month be something you would ever associate with poverty, questioning whether some people are rationing food because they have no more money? This might sound extreme, but with the findings from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation highlighting how millions of employees are living in poverty, what does this mean to the role of the employer? Join Amrit as he explores this topic in this week's podcast. by Engaging People, Powering Companies - The Leadership Podcast

13 min listen

Episode 88: the Post Office Scandal - What can we learn?: Many of us will have watched the documentary called 'Mr Bates vs The Post Office', which showed the way sub-postmasters were treated after the roll-out of a new computer system which started to show hundred of sub-postmasters having huge gaps in their takings. Instead of questioning the system, the default of the senior leadership team was to blame their people. Not just blame, but to pursue criminal prosecutions and convictions, which were based on errors. Lives were wreaked, lives were lost, yet no one has been held to account. What can we learn from The Post Office scandal? Join Amrit for this week's podcast as he shares his thoughts. by Engaging People, Powering Companies - The Leadership Podcast

17 min listen

Episode 87: Stop Doubting Yourself - Imposter Phenomenon: Despite all the experience you have across your career, do you find you doubting yourself? Do you suffer from Imposter Syndrome? Are you afraid of being 'found out'? You are not alone. Many of us suffer from this and for those in senior positions, it could go on to impact on the culture. How can we overcome this and what could we do to improve how we feel? Join Amrit as he explores this in this week's podcast. by Engaging People, Powering Companies - The Leadership Podcast

18 min listen

Episode 86: The Value of Work is the Value We Give it: How often do you sit there on Sunday night thinking 'I really don't want to go to work tomorrow'? As winter draws closer, the thought of work on a Monday morning may fill some with dread. But whilst most of us think work is a means to an end - if we could find another way of earning a living, we would, could work mean something completely different? What if work just happened to be an avenue for you to positively touch the lives of the people you come into contact with? How would this change how you thought about work? Join Amrit as he explores our thoughts about the value of our work. by Engaging People, Powering Companies - The Leadership Podcast

10 min listen

Episode 85: Multiculturalism and DEI&B by Engaging People, Powering Companies - The Leadership Podcast

15 min listen

Episode 84: Developing Leadership Open-Mindedness: Have you ever been accused of flip-flopping? When we think of leaders, we often have images of strong, charismatic individuals who are clear visionaries, with the ability to immediately know where to go and how to get there. Whilst this applies to some very exceptional people, the world is full of great leaders who are more open-minded. When being open-minded is a great predictor of workplace success, engagement and innovation, isn't it more important that we focus on developing this critical skill? Join Amrit as he explores 'Leadership Open-Mindedness' in this week's podcast. by Engaging People, Powering Companies - The Leadership Podcast

12 min listen

Episode 83: Embracing Personal Uncertainty and Change Whilst Being Our Best at Work: How is your home life? Perfect and all unfolding the way you planned it out? I suspect not. Whilst there's a huge focus on employee experiences and employee engagement, we can often forget the human beings experiencing life outside of work, trying to cope with the uncertainty life throws at us, and the constant change we are having to deal with. This week, Amrit shares his own challenges over the summer that made him reflect on how hard we can be on ourselves, trying to control things we cannot, whilst feeling guilty about not being our best at work. Embracing Personal Uncertainty and Change Whilst Being our Best at Work - the topic of this week's podcast. by Engaging People, Powering Companies - The Leadership Podcast

14 min listen

Episode 82: Stop Blaming Gen Z: How many times have you heard the word 'entitled' when people describe Gen Z employees? What's so different about this generation than any other, that they can't seem to handle work? Well, maybe there's nothing wrong with them, and it's our work we need to fix. How supportive are our workplaces to those aged 18-24 years? Have we got lazy with job descriptions and recruiting the right fit, only to use Gen Z as our scapegoats? Join Amrit as he focuses on Stop Blaming Gen Z's in this week's podcast. by Engaging People, Powering Companies - The Leadership Podcast

15 min listen

Episode 81: Challenges of Promoting from Within: Many organisations are focused on promoting from within and whilst there are huge benefits, promoting someone to manage the team they were part of can be a huge challenge. The balance of still being friends, whilst managing performance can in itself cause problems and damage the very trust that underpinned those relationships. What can organisations do to better support newly promoted colleagues who are now managing the team they were part of? Join Amrit as he explores this topic. by Engaging People, Powering Companies - The Leadership Podcast

12 min listen

Episode 80: Trust in Leadership: Following the report from the Institute of Leadership, the Index of Leadership Trust 2023, trust in CEOs was shown to be lower than trust for line managers. Despite the millions spent on employee engagement each year, what are organisations, and more importantly, CEOs doing wrong? How can we focus to rebuild trust? Join Amrit as he explores this topic in this week's podcast. by Engaging People, Powering Companies - The Leadership Podcast

11 min listen

Episode 79: UK Employee Engagement Levels - What's Holding Us Back?: We've just had the release of the Gallup report highlighting that the UK has some of the lowest employee engagement levels across the world - a figure of only 10%! When you combine this with our productivity amongst the G7 countries, you've got to question why this is? Do you believe it really is only 10%? If so, what might be causing this and why is it remaining so stubbornly low? Join Amrit as he shares his thoughts on this topic in this week's podcast. by Engaging People, Powering Companies - The Leadership Podcast

10 min listen

Episode 78: Extraordinary People creating Extraordinary Companies: Would you describe yourself as extraordinary? Most of us would have an immediate reaction of 'absolutely not!. But what if we were all extraordinary, but we just hadn't taken enough time to see it, appreciate it, acknowledge it? How can we possibly see extraordinary in others, if we cannot see it within ourselves? What are the traits of extraordinary people? And as leaders and managers, if we cannot see the extraordinary in the people around us, how could we ever create remarkable companies? Join Amrit as he explores 'Extraordinary People Creating Extraordinary Companies', in this week's podcast by Engaging People, Powering Companies - The Leadership Podcast

11 min listen

Episode 77: Leaders: The Weather Makers: In the UK, we've been experiencing lovely weather, and have you noticed how much nicer everyone is to one another when the sun shines? The weather makes a huge difference to our mood and motivation. Yet we don't often think about it, but leaders create the weather in our workplaces. Think of managers as the gardeners - there's a limit of what they can do if the weather doesn't help them. Join Amrit as he shares he thoughts on the impact leaders can have on managers and their ability to be effective. by Engaging People, Powering Companies - The Leadership Podcast

11 min listen

Episode 76: On Purpose - Passion with Action: How passionate are you about what your organisation does? Does the purpose statement excite you? What's the point of these purpose statements, if they have no impact on how we work? Passion and action are critical components of Purpose, yet across organisations, we don't think about how well we enable our teams to action upon the shared passion that brings us together. Join Amrit as he explores On Purpose, in this week's podcast. by Engaging People, Powering Companies - The Leadership Podcast

10 min listen

Episode 75: Valuing You: When was the last time you indulged in time for you? We spend our lives focusing on everyone around us, and have little time to do everything we want to achieve, leaving any notion of spending time on ourselves as a luxury that can never happen. If we don't manage our time, we do not value ourselves - and this is important. Join Amrit as he explores taking time to Value You, in this week's podcast. by Engaging People, Powering Companies - The Leadership Podcast

11 min listen

Episode 74: Workplace Bullying: Following the news that the Deputy Prime Minister has resigned in the UK, following reports of bullying, it has raised a debate of what gets classed as bullying. Are managers who are 'robust' in their approach, bullies? Is there a standard definition of bullying? What then can individuals and organisations do to tackle bullying in the workplace, both for themselves and to help others? Join Amrit as he explores this topic in this week's podcast. by Engaging People, Powering Companies - The Leadership Podcast

14 min listen

Episode 73: How Work Ready Are We Really?: Whilst on the London Underground, during rush hour, Amrit noticed how many people looked exhausted and were sleeping. It's hard to imagine people being able to be the best of themselves when they're exhausted by the time they get to work. How well are we getting ourselves work ready? What can organisations do to help create meaningful roles that drive passion and energy at work? Join Amrit as he explores this topic in this week's podcast. by Engaging People, Powering Companies - The Leadership Podcast

11 min listen

Episode 72: Learned Hopefulness: During challenging times, it's easy to get caught up thinking about worst-case scenarios and all that could go wrong. Whilst we might do this to protect ourselves, we can get into a habit of learned helplessness - resigned to the situations we find ourselves in. What if we were to focus on learned hopefulness? What is this and how do we achieve it? Imagine what this could do to our ability to act and find solutions. Join Amrit as he explores this topic in this week's podcast. by Engaging People, Powering Companies - The Leadership Podcast

11 min listen

Episode 71: Institutional Trust and Improving Standards: With the recent report into the Met police, and the horrific case of the school teacher who took her own life following an OFSTED inspection, it raises questions about how we go about improving standards, whilst using language such as 'Inadequate'. How can putting so much stress on people and branding them as 'inadequate', help motivate? We need to know standards are the best, but how can we go about doing this, by providing hope and motivating people to improve? Join Amrit as he explores this topic in this week's podcast. by Engaging People, Powering Companies - The Leadership Podcast

12 min listen

Episode 70: Preventing the Great Regret - Amazing On boardings: What happened to those employees who were part of the 'Great Resignation'? Would you be surprised to hear a recent survey identified 8 out of 10 people regretted moving jobs? It takes so much for someone to leave, so when causes people to regret moving? Organisations work hard to entice new employees, but how well do we look after them when it comes to onboarding? Amrit explores how creating amazing on boardings could help. by Engaging People, Powering Companies - The Leadership Podcast

12 min listen

Episode 69: Productivity and the Four Day Working Week: There's been much noise about the results of the four day working week trial. But once we get over the headlines, what does the report actually tell us and what learnings can we take from it - even if four days are not an option? Then there's how we challenge our mindsets, where we tell ourselves this isn't possible. What impact could this have and what could those organisations where this isn't possible, do to improve the wellbeing of their employees? Join Amrit as he explores Productivity and the Four Day Working week. by Engaging People, Powering Companies - The Leadership Podcast

11 min listen

Episode 68: Acts of Kindness to Create a Kinder Workplace: How kind is your workplace? How kind are the people to each other? Following the experience of a CEO of a large organisation, reaching out to Amrit, to meet up to say thank you for all the work carried out, reflecting on the emotions he experienced, and the feelings he was left with, Amrit shares his thoughts of how amazing he felt and how this random act was such a stark reminder of the huge impact kindness can have on our workplaces. by Engaging People, Powering Companies - The Leadership Podcast

11 min listen

Episode 68: Valuing an Older Workforce: Are you over 50 years old, struggling to find work? Why do we assume older employees will add less value that younger ones to our organisations? Whilst it's a protected characteristic, there's still some views that to create a dynamic organisation, you need young people. What value do older employees bring to organisations in terms of culture and performance? Join Amrit as he shared his experiences in this week's podcast. by Engaging People, Powering Companies - The Leadership Podcast

11 min listen

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