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Should Activism Enter the Workplace? Insights from DeRay McKesson Apr 04, 2024

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DeRay McKesson is a civil rights activist, community organiser, and host of Pod Save the People. He started his career as an educator & human capital leader and is the co-founder of Campaign Zero. Many of the marches DeRay has helped organize contributed to the birth of the Black Lives Matter movement.

DeRay has become a key player in the workplace when it comes to confronting the systems and structures that have led to mass incarceration and police killings of black and other minority populations. He is a board member of Rock The Vote, was named one of the World’s Greatest Leaders by Fortune Magazine in 2015, and one of the 30 Most Influential People On The Internet by Time Magazine. You might also know DeRay for famously wearing a blue Patagonia vest.

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Damon's full interview with DeRay can be found here. In the full episode you’ll also hear from Culture Amp CEO Didier Elzinga and his thoughts on role of the organization in actively creating a better world and how leaders can best support their employees to be activists in their community.

Learn more about DeRay McKesson at www.deray.com

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Scott Shigeoka: Activating your curiosity will change the world around you Mar 27, 2024

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Do we lose access to curiosity as we age? Or is it like a muscle that's always there, but just needs to be activated and strengthened?

Scott Keoni Shigeoka is an internationally recognized curiosity expert, speaker and author and he's known for translating research into strategies that promote positive wellbeing and connected relationships around the globe including at UC Berkeley's Greater Good Science Center and through his popular courses at the University of Texas in Austin.

In this vibrant and very human conversation with Damon Klotz, Scott helps us remember that we have the capacity to explore and explains just how to use exploration to connect better with others. He tells us how curiosity can boost morale, increase collaboration, and how it can ease conflict and tension in the workplace and everywhere else.

Scott also encourages us all to start being an 'admitter', explaining how understanding the limits of your knowledge will always help people believe that you’re not completely out of touch.

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World renowned trust expert: How do we access confidence during uncertainty with Rachel Botsman Mar 20, 2024

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Do you feel like trust works both ways in your workplace?

With the sustained rise in remote or semi-remote roles, the importance of trust in the workplace is top of mind. But trust needs to work both ways, right? The question isn’t only "can employers trust their employees", it also needs to be "can employees trust their employers?"

Rachel Botsman is a trust expert, author and lecturer at Oxford University. She's passionate about challenging ideas around trust and humility and has been recognised as one of the world's 30 most influential management thinkers. Honoured as a young global leader by the World Economic Forum, Rachel’s TED Talks have garnered more than 5 million views.

Rachel defines trust as a confident relationship with the unknown and in this short snippet of a longer conversation she really helps us understand how we can cultivate it in our workplaces.

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This conversation is full of laughter and warmth. The full episode is the same and can be found here.

Learn more about Rachel Botsman by heading to www.rachelbotsman.com

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Viral Poet Cleo Wade: How to Foster Community in the Workplace Mar 13, 2024

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Cleo Wade describes herself as a friend and a community builder. She's the author of bestselling books - Heart Talk, poetic Wisdom for a Better Life and Where to Begin, a small book about your power to create big change. Cleo’s also got a new book coming out in May this year - pre-order it here!

From the data we collect here at Culture Amp, we know how important it is to give employees a chance to be heard, give feedback and share stories about their experience at work. Creating space for these conversations is important in the workplace and society at large. When we create space to come together and learn from each other, truly amazing things can happen. One of the 2024 workplace trends we identified in our first episode of the year is the idea of commute-worthy experiences. Basically, we're asking companies to truly think about what type of experience they want people to have in the office.

If we can hear what Cleo has to say, we’ve got a much better chance of creating workplaces that justify their employee’s commute.

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If this conversation has left you wanting more, the link to Damon's full conversation with Cleo is here.

Learn more about Cleo Wade by heading to www.cleowade.com

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Achieving Gender Equality: Insights from Future Women's Jamila Rizvi Mar 06, 2024

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We can't think of a better way to mark International Women's Day than with a crystal clear call to action to all employers, laying out exactly what is needed to improve the world of work for women.

Jamila is Deputy Managing Director of Future Women, where she supports governments and employer organisations working towards gender equality.

Listen to Jamila dictate the email that she would like us to send to CEO’s around the world who are ready to improve the world of work for women.

Jamila's email is not only a conversation starter, but a shareable resource brimful of practical advice on what we can all do to create real change.

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To hear Damon and Jamila's full conversation head here.

To read or copy Jamila's complete email head here.

Learn more about Jamila at jamilarizvi.com.au and Future Women at futurewomen.com

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The 7 trends that will define HR in 2024 Jan 24, 2024

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Join Damon at Culture First Virtual 2024 to hear from Esther Perel, Megan Rapinoe and Ben Crowe. Register here to get your free ticket & a thank you for being a Podcast listener. Register now.

How will the top 7 HR trends of 2024 impact your workplace?

Damon breaks down his top three employee experience predictions for 2024, along with key predictions from four experts around the globe.

In this new era of work, our technology, leadership, and communication are all hyper-focused on prioritizing ease and creating more cohesive workplaces.

It’s a new era born of an understanding that when both work and the world outside work feel hard, it can be overwhelming to be a working human.

So, listen in to see how 2024 promises to make it easier for people to do their best work, and to feel valued, purposeful, and confident that they have the tools and support to work well.

If you’re ready to level up as a new year begins, 2024 has the potential to drive essential progress in the workplace evolution – where we tune into the requirements of organizations and employees to create truly impactful and engaging employee experiences.

As we navigate generational workplace change, rethink the role of the office, and adapt to emerging technologies, the possibilities are endless. Here’s to a new year of making good things happen at work.

To read Damon’s article on this topic click here.

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Damon Klotz with the one thing we all need to hear right now… Dec 20, 2023

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We're signing off for the year with the one thing we all need to hear right now + some exciting news about 2024.

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Fresia Jackson shares the six behaviors that define a great manager Dec 06, 2023

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The research team at Culture Amp are on the cutting edge of everything people + data science, and in this episode you'll get access to the top findings from their latest publication: The State of the Manager Report.

The study looks at feedback from over 1 million employees, which analyzed 250,000 plus managers from 3,304 companies during the time period of July, 2022 to 2023. This makes it one of the largest and most comprehensive State of the Manager reports published.

Fresia is a Lead Research People Scientist at Culture Amp. She's bringing her I/O Psychology background (M.S.) to the Culture First podcast for the third time to dive deep into this report and talk about how she and the team identify research projects, determine hypotheses, oversee the data analysis, interpret results, and ensure those insights get into the hands of campers and the broader community.

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Sarah Walsh on creating the conditions for high performance at the Matildas Nov 22, 2023

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Sarah Walsh has been integral in making women’s football in Australia what it is today. Following a club career that saw her play in the NWSL in the United States and in the A-League Women in Australia, she won 70 caps for Australia’s national team the Matildas and has spent the second half of her career fighting for equity and equality for today’s athletes.

In the 2023 Women’s World Cup, the Matildas captured the hearts of Australia and the world with record breaking audiences glued to their screens to see the Matildas secure Australia’s highest-ever finish at a World Cup.

The timing of this episode was made even more special by the announcement that the 2023 Collective Bargaining Agreement from Football Australia has gone even further to create the right conditions for high performance.

For Sarah, the years and years of work leading up to this moment in time just keep paying off, and to hear her fully grasp the enormity of what she has achieved as she speaks with Damon in this episode is truly special.

Sarah and Damon recorded this conversation live at the inaugural SXSW Sydney in front of a standing room only audience. They discuss the conditions needed for high performance, the importance of culture on and off the pitch and the pivotal moments in Sarah’s life that saw her become the trailblazer she is today.

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This episode pairs well with Damon’s recent conversation with Jamila Rizvi, who detailed exactly what we need to do to make work and the workplace a better, safer and more equitable place for women.

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Susan David on why work feels harder than ever and how understanding emotional agility will help. Nov 08, 2023

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Are you stressed? Or could you get benefit from getting a little more specific and looking within to see if something else is happening? Maybe you identify disappointment, exhaustion or feeling unsupported?

Damon's guest today is Award-winning psychologist Susan David, and in this episode she'll break down why getting specific with our emotions activates our readiness potential, allowing us to move forward and have the necessary conversations about why work can sometimes feel really hard.

As one of the world’s leading management thinkers, Susan won the management idea of the year when she expertly defined emotional agility. Her book Emotional Agility went on to be a #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller and winner of an Amazon Best Books of the Year Award. With more than 11 million views, Susan’s TED Talk, The Gift and Power of Emotional Courage, was named one of the most popular talks of the year.

Right when the world needs it most, Susan and David discuss emotions, how we process them, how we handle them, how they show up in the workplace and then they narrow in on how to create space between ourselves and our emotions in order to take action and move forward.

At the heart of this conversation is a quest to figure out why we have normalised the idea that while emotions are foundational to our experience as a human, they are still misunderstood or sometimes even excluded from our experience at work.

This conversation will sharpen your emotional agility and help you learn how to see your emotions as helpful data points that signpost our deepest needs and values.

If you're craving a healthier relationship with your emotions and the emotions of others this episode will help!

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Susan has generously offered all Culture First listeners free access to theEmotional Agility Quiz: Join over 140,000 people who have taken the free Emotional Agility Quiz. The quiz takes just 5 minutes to complete. You'll receive a free 10-page personalized report offering specific strategies to help you become more Emotionally Agile.

She has also offered our listeners the Emotional Agility Pyramid and How to Get Unstuck resources.

Listen to Checking In with Susan David created in partnership with TED and which focuses on coping with our heightened emotions brought on by the pandemic and its aftermath.

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