Engaging People, Powering Companies - The Leadership Podcast

It's easy to confuse compassion and care, but being a caring leader, isn't the same as being a compassionate leader. What are the components of compassionate leadership? According to research, compassion has three facets: Noticing, Feeling and Responding. How well do organisations notice what people are experiencing? Do they work hard enough to fully understand what people feel? And then how can organisations respond accordingly? Join Amrit as he explores this topic in this week's podcast.

Quiet quitting - a phrase born from Tik Tok, used to describe individuals who are no longer prepared to do more than their job description. But is this a new concept or is it just a re-badging of disengagement? Have poor job descriptions and boring jobs finally led to this concept? Join Amrit as he explores Quiet quitting and considers what employers can do to minimise this.

Where were you when it happened? Will it be etched in your memory? The Lionesses brought football home with an amazing win over Germany to win the Euros 2022. Will this be the defining moment when we start to take women seriously in our society? Will we now open our leadership roles and boardrooms up to women? This has to be a watershed moment that we use to change this mans world that's been holding women back, to propel them to greatness. The topic of this week's podcast with Amrit Sandhar

How often do you create moments of joy at work? You might think this a strange question, after all, could anyone create moments of joy at work? There are times when we manage to immerse ourselves in great work, where we lose track of time, are absorbed in such pleasure, but these moments tend to happen by accident rather than by design. What would work look like if we were to design these moments into our working day? This is the topic of this week's podcast with Amrit Sandhar

Amrit has often spoken about employer engagement - at what point does the employer hold themselves to account for poor engagement rather than focusing on employees. But we cannot just come to work, expecting the employer to keep us engaged each day. What can we do to improve our world of work? The same is true of leadership development programmes - learning how we can improve the way we lead and manage is of no value if we choose not to make changes. Amrit shares an example of how someone decided to make a change with amazing results, which highlights how if we all choose to make changes, we could improve our own personal engagement at work.

This week the Conservative party begins the process of choosing their new leader. Many people will be sitting on the sidelines, thinking why can't we have a say, considering this person will become the next Prime Minister? Whilst this is the leader of the Conservative party, it does raise questions about how we recruit leaders for our organisations. Imagine a world where the employees - ordinary people, had a chance to choose their CEO. CEOs would have to pitch to ordinary employees, allowing them to choose the person they want at the helm of their organisation. Imagine what impact this would have on the culture and environment. The topic of this week's podcast - Time to choose your CEO!

The UK is about to embark upon an experiment to understand the impact of a four-day working week on business productivity, as well as on the wellbeing of employees. Why has the UK historically had such low productivity versus the rest of the G7 countries? Is there a risk that we are just really poor with time management, in which case could a four-day working week cause more damage than good? We complain about the number of meetings, but are these secretly serving a purpose of procrastination? This is the topic of this week's podcast with Amrit Sandhar

This week, Amrit shares insights following discussions that sparked him to think about values alignment and how when we live lives aligned to our values, it makes life easier rather than exhausting. We are all driven by our values, but how much time do we spend understanding what they are, and how to live a life more aligned to them? Are our workplaces aligned to our values? if not, what impact is that having on us? Join Amrit as he explores this topic this week.

There's a huge push for developing leaders and managers with the skills to undertake coaching conversations at work, but can they work in every environment? How can they help and when our biggest enemy is our experience, can we really expect leaders and managers to ignore what they know? Join Amrit as he explores Coaching Conversations in this week's podcast.