Employee engagement // The secret of 'story night'
Eat Sleep Work Repeat - better workplace culture
Bruce Daisley
4.7 • 989 Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2019
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Today we’re chatting to the MD of the innovations company IDEO, Sue Siddall to hear how they bring the power of telling stories to life in their organisation. In addition we’ve got a legend of workplace study today. William Kahn was responsible for creating two of the big concepts of positive workplaces. He coined the concepts of both psychological safety and employee engagement.
William Kahn is Professor of Organisational Behavior at Boston University’s Questrom School of Business. He received his BA in Psychology from Clark University and his doctorate in Psychology from Yale University.
Sue Siddall tells us about 'Story Night' at IDEO. Sue is the UK MD of IDEO - a company who often provide inspiration to other organisations when they are thinking of fixing their culture.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello there this is Eat Sleep Workopee I'm Bruce Dazley |
| 0:03.2 | it's a podcast about making work better. |
| 0:05.6 | Bécoupe, I hope you are well. I've been out and about the last few weeks. |
| 0:17.8 | Evenings taking me to Manchester. I've got events coming up over the next few weeks in Liverpool Manchester, Birmingham, |
| 0:26.3 | Newcastle and a few evening events in London too. |
| 0:31.2 | But the thing I've really enjoyed over all of that is people coming over and saying hello. |
| 0:35.9 | So I love people coming over and sharing the stories of what they've been doing in their work culture or the things that they're really inspired by. |
| 0:44.5 | So please do come over if you're able to join any of those events. |
| 0:49.2 | I'd love to see you there. |
| 0:51.1 | You can find all of the previous episodes on the website eat sleep work repeat |
| 0:54.6 | F.FM. A couple of things today. One of the things that's consistently popular |
| 0:58.6 | when we look at the rituals of different organizations are the things that |
| 1:02.3 | certain companies do to bring their culture to life. |
| 1:05.4 | So today we'll be chatting to the MD of Innovations Company, IDEO. |
| 1:10.4 | Sue Siddal, he's going to tell us how they bring the power of telling stories to life in their |
| 1:15.8 | organisation. |
| 1:17.2 | But before that, we've got a legend of workplace study today. |
| 1:21.2 | So William Khan was responsible for creating two of the big |
| 1:24.4 | concepts of positive workplaces. Anyone who studies these things will have used the |
| 1:29.9 | phrases, both psychological safety and employee engagement. |
| 1:34.6 | If you're interested in psychological safety, not only did I cover it at great length |
| 1:38.8 | in the joy of work, but this week's new work now mailout linked to a full study of Amy Edmondson's new book the Fearless Organization. |
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