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This episode is part of the Presence project: Presence: Fixing culture starts with your calendar, not your office
You might think an episode about improv comedy might be a stretch for a podcast about making work better. But in fact as Kelly Leonard explains today the skills of improv comedy are the most important ones that will determine our success at work. 
Kelly helps to run Second City, the world's famous famous improv comedy club - he believes that improv skills can teach us about what we need in work going forwards. 
** TRIGGER WARNING ** includes one brief mention of poetry
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Presence: 'Yes and...' - how the secrets of improv can teach us about work

This episode is part of the Presence project: Presence: Fixing culture starts with your calendar, not your office
In the 2000s a book called Fish! A remarkable way to boost morale and improve results became a bestseller. A small book, it was often used by companies accompanying a video of the same name. Together the two told a story of the culture of the fish market in Seattle, a noisy, bombastic place, but a place that was filled with joy. I first encountered Fish when a firm came to pitch to me when I was working in publishing. They told me that their culture was Fish.  There are a few things that stood out from it. The idea of intentionally designing culture isn’t new but this seemed to be explicitly linking culture, emotion and mood.  There were 4 principles of FishPlaybe theremake their daychoose your attitude Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/eatsleepworkrepeat.

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Presence: Fish! Time to revisit a culture classic?

This episode is part of the Presence project: Presence: Fixing culture starts with your calendar, not your office
This is the second episode about rituals - the first one is next to it in the podcast feed, it's an interview with Kursat Ozenc about how rituals can be used to create culture. This episode goes into real life examples.
Claudia Wallace talks about Crisp Thursday (Connection) Andy Puleston talks about Pizza Meetings (Connection) and Leaving Speeches (Change) Dan Pink talks about Friday Night Experiments (Creativity) Biz Stone talks about Hack Week at Twitter (Creativity) Dr Heidi Edmondson talks about Ten at Ten (Performance)
Heidi has a wonderful new book out - Darkness in the City of Light 
You can also hear the original episodes that each of these extracts came from by click the links above. I have to say that those whole episodes are worth revising. For example, Andy Puleston talks about how effective the culture was at Radio 1 when it was a series of affiliated tribes and he articulates the role that buildings play in shaping cultures. Each episode teaches something special.
 Andy Puleston is now Director of People & Culture at Circulor, an award winning technology business. Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/eatsleepworkrepeat.

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Presence: exploring real life culture rituals

This episode is part of the Presence project: Presence: Fixing culture starts with your calendar, not your office
Kursat Ozenc is a product designer who he teaches at Stanford university, He teaches on the subject that we can all learn from which is the idea that culture can be designed. The specific tool he uses to design culture is the creation of workplace rituals. 
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Kursat's first book is here and the second, on virtual meetings is here.
The reading list for Kursat's course is here
Kursat’s book includes the suggestions that: ‘The rituals in our life show what we care about’. Critically then creating rituals demonstrate what our culture values.
Kursat gives five use cases for rituals: For changeCreativityPerformanceConflictCommunity
 If you like this episode you'll also like the episode that accompanies it - which goes into depth about specific rituals that companies have used. Listen to that episode here.
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Presence: our rituals show what matters to us

Flow is the state of being in which people become so immersed in the joy of their work or activity “that nothing else seems to matter.” Presence is to be in a flow state of connection with others.
Here’s the last discussion about the Happiness Track Sign up for the newsletter Emma’s new book Sovereign HBR: The Best Leaders Have a Contagious Positive Energy HBR: Proof That Positive Work Cultures Are More Productive
Today is the first of series of podcasts about an idea that needs more consideration in our workplaces. The idea of presence.
Emma Seppala is a psychologist and lecturer at the Yale School of Management – she also runs the Women’s Leadership program there. I first spoke to Emma about 6 years ago when I came across her book the Happiness Track. The hypothesis of that book was in many ways the sweet spot of this podcast: the notion that if you make workers happy then they do their better work. Emma had a new book out this week called Sovereign and it felt like a great reason to have a new conversation.  The conversation leads into the next block of podcasts which are all about the idea of presence. Over the last 4 years we’ve seen discourse from CEOs about wanting workers back in the office but in many ways they’re putting things the wrong way wrong. A lot of us find ourselves making our way into work and sitting on video calls all day. Or having headphones on because its so noisy. We got home at the end of the day thinking ‘what was the point of that’. 
When bosses say they want us to be present in the office, what they actually describe is something different. They talk us about us interacting, having ideas, watercooler moments. Bosses say they want us to be present in the office, but what they really want is presence, for us to be in each others company. For me presence is related to flow Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/eatsleepworkrepeat.

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