Onefish Culture & Comms: build a high trust, adult-to-adult, high performance workplace culture
17 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 5 years ago -At Onefish Twofish, we demonstrate and prototype things that help people experience transparency, trust, adult-to-adult relationships, resilience, radical honesty, creativity, responsibility and accountability. In short, we bring the future forward.
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Alan Wick: developing a culture of self responsibility - how the heck should organisations do that?!
July 14, 2019 23:00 - 43 minutes - 30.2 MBThe Friction Free podcast series is brought to you by Onefish Twofish. In this 45-minute conversation with Alan Wick, business coach and consultant - you will hear: The legacy of command and control, KPIs and the rigidity of 20th century management thinking Why we shouldn’t be seduced by the fashion for throwing around words like empowerment, freedom and self responsible What is a realistic goal for uber large or highly regulated organisations, in terms of self responsibility How to han...
John Bura: side hustling and what it means for your employees
June 30, 2019 23:00 - 31 minutes - 21.8 MBThe On The Horizon podcast series is brought to you by Onefish Twofish. Side hustling - the development of additional revenue streams alongside your full time career - is here and it’s here to stay so what should companies understand about this shift in their employees’ mindsets (and income streams). In this podcast, we talk to John Bura, CEO of Mammoth Interactive What companies can gain from fostering their employee’s desire to learn new things, take their own initiative and develop thei...
Roy Marriott: how to generate change without generating friction
June 16, 2019 23:00 - 38 minutes - 17.4 MBThe Friction Free podcast series is brought to you by Onefish Twofish. Roy Marriott has the deftest of touches when it comes to organisation change. Whatever challenges I’ve thrown at him over the last couple of years (and in this podcast), he seems to have the knack of reframing, rethinking and making oh so simple. Join Roy and I to explore: The two secrets Roy knows that no one else* knows (and by the way, there is a bonus Secret 2A!) Why the greatest impediment to organisational chan...
Alan Wick: what I've learnt from working with 1000 start ups
June 09, 2019 23:00 - 32 minutes - 14.9 MBThe On The Horizon podcast series is brought to you by Onefish Twofish. In this 45-minute conversation with Alan Wick, business coach and consultant - you will hear: About the relationship to money of the leaders of the organisation - how that transcends both start ups AND large organisations What big companies can learn from start ups about team size The power and curse of a start up style ‘force of nature’ personality in your leadership team - how to handle it, how to use it The conce...
Steve Stark: why teaching people to tame their email inbox is a route to transforming your culture
June 03, 2019 08:00 - 47 minutes - 21.6 MBThe Friction Free podcast series is brought to you by Onefish Twofish: www.onefishcomms.co.uk Steve Stark and his company, Then Somehow, make tools for making work better… and he also makes the most heavenly cider in Sussex slash the world. Email is not just ‘email’ but: a major part of our working life we’ve not been given skills to handle which is influenced by social norms and taps into our addictive desire for information and connection No wonder it remains a problem that resists s...
Martyn Evans: scaling up agile ways of working
May 26, 2019 23:00 - 47 minutes - 21.9 MBFirstly we apologies for the audio quality near the beginning of the podcast, the internet was failing us slightly but thankfully not for too long! The On The Horizon podcast series is brought to you by Onefish Twofish: www.onefishcomms.co.uk In this 45-minute conversation with Martyn Evans - Head of Product at Unboxed - you will hear: Learning from Government Digital Service - the surprise success story from the heart of UK central government The unintended consequences of trying to sca...
Kamala Katbamna: Should you be a vulnerable leader? And is that even a thing you should be trying to control...?
May 05, 2019 23:00 - 49 minutes - 22.8 MBThe On The Horizon podcast series is brought to you by business culture creators Onefish Twofish: www.onefishcomms.co.uk In this 50-minute conversation with Kamala Katbamna - coach, facilitator and consultant to senior leaders - you can find out more about… Where vulnerability has come from as a concept in business leadership and why you’re hearing so much about it at the moment What vulnerability is and isn’t and its role in leadership Whether you can have, or show, too much vulnerabili...
Alan Moore: why beauty might be the ultimate metric for cultural change
April 21, 2019 23:00 - 41 minutes - 19.2 MBThe On The Horizon podcast series is brought to you by Onefish Twofish: www.onefishcomms.co.uk In this 45-minute conversation with Alan Moore, speaker, author and creator of beauty in business, you can find out more about how… Beauty forms the building blocks for life and therefore a beautiful business in one that is there to add to the world, and the opposite of one that is designed to consume and amass profit at any cost We are not really allowed to talk about beauty at work - despite t...
Corrina Gordon-Barnes: how to reduce friction or frustration in ANY relationship at work (or home)
March 18, 2019 00:00 - 54 minutes - 25 MBThe Friction Free podcast series is brought to you by Onefish Twofish: www.onefishcomms.co.uk In this 45-minute conversation with Corrina Gordon-Barnes - founder, coach and practitioner in reducing relationship friction - you will hear: The mental soundtrack that causes all of the friction in our relationships and gets in the way of feeling connected and ‘being ok’ as a person How we give power to the other person, making them the reason why we don’t feel ok - and why we have to stop this...
Antony Quinn: how to intermingle people, ideas and technology to create innovation
March 11, 2019 00:00 - 44 minutes - 20.4 MBThe Friction Free podcast series is brought to you by Onefish Twofish: www.onefishcomms.co.uk In this 45-minute conversation with Antony Quinn - part of our extended Onefish team and founder of intermingled.org - you will hear: Why leadership is about creating the conditions for intermingling people and ideas A powerful description of the shift from linear, sequenced working practices to collaboration Discussion of the challenges of moving from a traditional structure to working in mixed...
Nick Himowicz: simple work hacks from creating flow, reducing distraction and improving meetings
March 04, 2019 00:00 - 36 minutes - 16.6 MBThe Friction Free podcast series is brought to you by Onefish Twofish: www.onefishcomms.co.uk In this 45-minute conversation with Nick Himowicz - part of our extended Onefish team and founder of Mind Apps - you will hear: Starting to make visible some of the invisible ways we have of working together (like how we use email) so that they can be designed and improved The difference between people who believe that their intelligence and capabilities are static and can’t be improved (fixed mi...
Dr Rachel Morris: minimise stress that is standing in the way of performance
February 25, 2019 00:00 - 45 minutes - 20.8 MBThe Friction Free podcast series is brought to you by Onefish Twofish: www.onefishcomms.co.uk In this 40-minute conversation with Dr Rachel Morris - founder of Wild Monday - packed with hugely helpful insights and practical advice, you will hear: Why our brains see danger all around us and respond in unhelpful ways How to let go of our own baggage around stress which holds us back from truly supporting our team Spotting the early signs of stress Facing up to stress in your team when yo...
Carrie Bedingfield: empowering teams without the wheels coming offCarrie Bedingfield
February 04, 2019 00:00 - 58 minutes - 27 MBCulture Change Paradoxes Podcast Series, Episode 5. With Onefish Twofish founder, Carrie Bedingfield. How can you dismantle command-and-control and stay safe as an organisation? To become faster, more agile and innovative (and many other words we through around in culture change) involves some dismantling of command and control. We’ve been talking about ’empowering teams for two decades. The reality of reducing hierarchy and releasing some control is easy to write in a powerpoint slide an...
Andrew Wood: how to manage yourself while you're managing change
January 31, 2019 00:00 - 59 minutes - 27.4 MBCulture Change Paradoxes Podcast Series Episode 4. With Onefish expert in engagement and communication driven change, Andrew Wood. How to drive change for others and set a challenging pace without leaving people behind. If you are thinking, planning and making change happen, you might find you are also the lightning rod for other people’s emotions. This can be a pretty tough, isolated road, and people travelling it need their own support! In this webinar Andrew Wood (Woody) reflects on s...
Rick Harris: the paradox of authenticity vs shared company values
January 28, 2019 00:00 - 58 minutes - 27 MBCulture Change Paraoxes Podcast Series, Episode 3. With Onefish expert on understanding and changing customer and employee experiences, Rick Harris. Should you encourange suthenticity or make everyone live the values? You want your people to be authentic. You want them to fully live out the values (and possibly measure and reward them on this). How can you enable people to be true to themselves and to the brand values? Is towing the company line authentic? Is it loyalty? Or faking it? How...
Tracee Finch: how to balance “driving” vs “allowing” engagement
January 24, 2019 00:00 - 51 minutes - 23.6 MBCulture Change Paradoxes Podcast Series, Episode 2. With Onefish expert on employee engagement and experience, Tracee Finch. What to do when you know that employees will see straight through being “engaged” by the business? You want to proactively find ways to engage people. Equally you want to allow employees to engage authentically for themselves. How do you navigate the path between driving an engagement agenda vs creating the conditions for engagement and allowing people to engage, sh...
Richard Atherton: the exciting/painful truth about how to change culture in a real business
January 16, 2019 00:00 - 52 minutes - 23.9 MBCulture Change Paradoxes Podcast Series Episode 1 With Onefish expert on agile culture change in the workplace, Richard Atherton. Richard Atherton is one of the most experienced culture change ‘do-ers’ and the host of the popular Being Human podcast on iTunes. A regular contributor to Onefish Twofish culture transformation projects, he talks candidly about his experiences of going deep with leaders, hacking small successes and a possibly a few trip ups along the way. Show notes: From g...