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Better, Faster, Happier

11 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratings

Brought to you by Unikable the Better, Faster & Happier is a podcast for strategic minds hosted Nancy Evbuomwan.

The podcast features guests who openly share their experiences and strategies on how to create better products, happier teams and faster processes.


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Episodes

Leadership and the power of anticipation

March 30, 2020 15:55 - 22 minutes - 31.6 MB

I had the honour of speaking to the power houses Lois and Carmen from Rebels at Work. Tune in to listen to our conversation, with the following highlights: 🔍Anticipation: Having the time to think about what will be on the road ahead. 🔍Killing assumptions along the way will lead to better collaboration 🔍What % of your processes do you need to change to keep up with the changing environment. Had a light bulb moment on how we can improve the podcast or want to appear on the show as a guest...

The pursuit of better faster happier organisations with Claire Donald

November 23, 2019 12:40 - 30 minutes - 41.9 MB

I had the honour to speak to the VP of Engineering at MOO Claire Donald on the subject creating better, faster and happier organizations. Claire doesn't know this but she is a badass and one of my favourite women to talk to about this subject. Tune in to listen to our conversation, with the following highlights: 🔍 The role of leadership as a facilitator, motivator and extraction of talent not acommander. 🙏 Moving away from a big bi annual pulse survey to monthly incremental pulse checks. ...

The impact of getting closer to the customer.

October 06, 2019 13:17 - 25 minutes - 35.6 MB

I had the honour to speak to Agile coach Bharti Rupani on the subject creating better, faster and happier organizations. Tune in to listen to our conversation, with the following highlights: 🔍 Go into detail with practical advice on how to bring the customer closer to teams. 🙏 We have policies in the workplace that come from a place of a mistrust which doesn't allow us to do better. 🎁 Lack of clarity around what we're trying to achieve in teams stops us from delivering better products/pr...

We need to talk - the influence of radical candor in teams

September 27, 2019 07:23 - 31 minutes - 42.9 MB

Personal trainer turned Agile Coach, Ben Clayton shares his view on what it takes to create a better, faster and happier teams within organisations. His unique experience as a personal trainer really enables him to have what I would call radical condor conversations with teams and leaders. We explore principles of personal training and how we can learn a thing or two from that when it comes to making teams and organisations better, faster and happier. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/priva...

Management is not a reward its an art

September 14, 2019 08:18 - 27 minutes - 37.2 MB

I had the honour to speak to Nikita Ingratta an experienced Product Manager and fellow Agile Coach on the subject creating better, faster and happier organizations. Tune in to listen to our conversation, with the following highlights: 🔍 Management should not be a reward for work as it takes away the importance of getting the right people into the role. 🙏 The importance behind trust in teams and organisations, especially when it comes to stakeholders. Had a light bulb moment on how we can...

Customising a better, faster and happier workplace

September 03, 2019 10:01 - 26 minutes - 36.2 MB

I had the honour to speak to Shar and Frank from Plural Futures lab on the subject creating better, faster and happier organizations. Tune in to listen to our conversation, with the following highlights: 🔍 The challenge is to find a balance between efficiency and effectiveness. 🎁 We often work based on assumptions, what happens when we get the customer in the room and get them to define what better, faster and happier means and look like. 🙏 What happens when a team is able to understand ...

The impact of culture and leadership on organisational development

August 15, 2019 10:34 - 26 minutes - 36.2 MB

In this episode we have an awesome chat with Gidion from Organize Agile, who are based in The Netherlands and New York. We explore what happens when we adopt agile or other tools such as OKRs without a clear sense of what culture we want to build. Moreover we also explored the idea of a leadership team working like a scrum team, imagine the mayhem and awesomeness that would come out of it. Then we also dive into the impact broken relationships have on organisation culture. You may also want...

From managing the burnout burn down to the science behind micro managing

June 03, 2019 15:18 - 35 minutes - 48.7 MB

In this episode, we discuss with Dr Aneika Simmons and her husband, Anjuan Simmons, are public speakers who operate at the intersection of business and technology. They share their thoughts about how managing stress can help organisations achieve better business outcomes, deliver faster value to customers, and create a happier workforce Here's the link that covers the topic of their talk at The Lead Developer conference in New York back in April https://anjuansimmons.com/talks/managing-the-...

Embedding Continuous Improvement

May 27, 2019 18:25 - 28 minutes - 38.8 MB

In this episode, we discuss with Chris Lacinak, the founder and president from AVP.  We explore the topic of continuous improvement and the shadow of perfectionism. In particular, Chris does a great job in providing examples of how AVP is trying to embed continuous improvement and balance of happiness into their DNA. Find out more about AVP here: https://www.weareavp.com     Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We Make the Rule Book

April 13, 2019 17:58 - 26 minutes - 36.3 MB

In this episode, we discuss with FatFree Media's founder and Director Kate Rostance. Kate shares her thoughts on monitoring your business health both from a financial and mental health perspective. We talk about a wide range of topics from saying no to projects that don't bring value to not needing to abide by the same rules as big businesses.  Kate does a great job at reminding us that we make the rule book when it comes to better, faster and happier.  Find out more about Fat-Free Media he...

Authentic Innovation is What Counts

March 26, 2019 11:14 - 34 minutes - 63.4 MB

In this episode, we discuss with Happify's science advisor and Head of Behavioural Science at Vervoe Orin Davis. Orin shares his thoughts on what it takes for organizations and startups to create a better, faster and happier organizational environment. We cover a wide range of topic from working smarter to psychological safety and authentic innovation.  Personally I learned a lot from Orin and hopefully, you will get value from this episode as well.  Find out more about Orin via his website...

Teaser

January 23, 2019 23:16

Subscribe now the better, faster and happier Podcast with Nancy Evbuomwan, which is all about bouncing ideas and exploring what founders, leaders, and business owners are doing to create an environment that is better, faster and happier within their organizations   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.