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Another very enjoyable conversation to share with you today! I was joined by Ella Overshott, Co-founder of Culture Change agency, Pecan Partnerships.

We got super nerdy about cultural evolution and explored what is required to create great workplaces where people love to work and customers love to do business.

Some of the conversational threads we pulled on:

• The Cultural "lifecycle" / scaling and evolving culture
• The impact of Leaders and Managers on Culture
• "Corporate Memory" / Memetics and Cultural Evolution
•  Pecan’s 5 Enablers Framework
• Culture vs "Cult Like" tendencies 
• Finding an authentic cultural tone of voice
• Getting values off the wall and into action

Ella also referenced a few resources towards the end of the conversation which are listed below 👇🏻

Find Pecan’s 5 Enablers Framework: https://pecanpartnership.co.uk/our-approach/

Download Pecan’s Culture Change that Works eBook: https://subscribepage.io/WqWVkY

Download Pecan’s Hybrid High-Performance eBook: https://subscribepage.io/EvaQjF

Download Pecan’s People Powered Purpose eBook: https://pecan-partnership-26145320.hubspotpagebuilder.eu/people-powered-purpose

Listen to Pecan’s Cracking Culture Change podcast: https://pecanpartnership.co.uk/cracking-culture-change-podcast/

Guest Bio:

Ella is co-founder and Director of Pecan Partnership whose purpose is to create cultures where people love to work and customers love to do business.

Ella has over 25 years’ experience in culture change, employee engagement and performance coaching. Her background leading sales and operations teams brings a practicality and commercial focus to the challenge of culture change and engagement. Her expertise in psychology and coaching give her insight into what it takes to create a sustainable change in behaviour that impacts all aspects of organisational life for colleagues, customers and stakeholders.

Ella’s experience spans a wide range of sectors including retail, financial services, higher education, utilities, hospitality and not-for-profit. Clients include scaleups, SMEs and large companies in the UK and internationally, including award winning success for her work in mergers and acquisitions.

Contact Ella:

Email: [email protected]
Ella (Woods) Overshott | LinkedIn

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Luke O'Mahoney | LinkedIn

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This was a really great conversation and one I had been looking forward to for a while. I have been following Figures and the work Virgile have been doing with Figures for the last year or so.

Not only is their work impactful and a much needed innovation to compensation benchmarking and transparency, but their internal culture also seems to be really solid and genuinely unique

I wanted to take a "look under the hood" in this conversation with Virgile and it was a lot of fun!

Some of the conversational threads we explored:

💡The Figures founding origin story
💡Creating a culture of entrepreneurship
💡Generational challenges to traditional working models
💡The value (and perils) of high work ethic
💡Accurate and ethical salary benchmarking
💡Running compensation reviews at scale
💡Building culture in an early stage start-up
💡4 day work week Vs 9 day fortnight 
💡Embedding meaningful and actionable cultural values and behaviours

...all in less than an hour 🤯😅

Guest Bio:

Virgile is the Founder  & CEO of Figures, a HR Saas platform to easily compare your employees' compensation and benefits to the market. Virgile is a former VP of People and has rich background in HR and People OPs within startups and scaleups which lead him to found Figures.

Contact Virgile:

Email: [email protected]
Virgile Raingeard | LinkedIn
Figures - Compensation Management | Compensation Benchmarking Tool | Salary Benchmarking

Contact Luke:

Email: [email protected]
Luke O'Mahoney | LinkedIn

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Guest Bio:

Jessica is the author of Amazon Best Selling, Built for People and founder of Being People consultancy.  A hands-on COO who finds joy in diverse, kind, and world-changing companies of excellent people, like Whereby, where the mission is to build a world where anywhere works.
Previously: VP People, Culture, an Talent for UK Tech Track #1 Wonderbly, Yieldify, Box

Contact Jessica:

Email:  [email protected]
Jessica Zwaan | LinkedIn
Being People | COO & People Ops | Startup Coaching (jessicamayzwaan.com)

Contact Luke:

Email: [email protected]
Luke O'Mahoney | LinkedIn

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Another AWESOME conversation, this week with pioneer of modern L&D and an inspirational solopreneur turned entrepreneur 🤘🏻

The main focus of our conversation was exploring "learning" as a concept and unpacking how to go about designing learning experiences which actually land and lead to meaningful change.

Some of the general themes we touched on include:

• Creating a culture of curiosity
• Following passions and life-long learning
• Embracing your inner "geek"
• The role of psychological safety in creating the conditions for learning
• Limitations of traditional education systems and approaches
• Self-awareness and providing others with the space to explore
• Focusing L&D on understanding how the brain works and how behaviour change happens

Lavinia also shares 3 brilliant tips on creating effective cohort learning experiences which are totally applicable to anyone looking to implement a learning programme.

As always, I really enjoyed this conversation and hope that you do too! ✌🏻

Guest Bio:

Lavinia Mehedintu has been designing learning experiences and career development programs for the last 10 years, both in the corporate world and in the academic environment. As a co-founder and learning architect at Offbeat, she applies adult learning principles so learning and development professionals can connect, collaborate and grow together.

Contact Lavinia:

Email:  [email protected]
Lavinia Mehedințu | LinkedIn
Newsletter (offbeat.works)

Contact Luke:

Email: [email protected]
Luke O'Mahoney | LinkedIn

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Guest Bio:

Colleen Saringer, PhD - Fractional Chief Wellbeing Officer - is an accomplished population health expert, published author and speaker. She has 25 years of experience helping  organisations nationwide (USA) solve for the transformation of workplace culture and climate through the lens of health, well-being, equity, inclusion, policy and cross-collaboration.

Contact Colleen:

Email:  [email protected]
Colleen Saringer, PhD | LinkedIn   

Contact Luke:

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Luke O'Mahoney | LinkedIn

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These conversations just keep flowing! I am so blessed!

This week I am joined by Ingeborg van Harten, Founder of 7people People & Culture consultancy. Inge is also a multiple time Head of People and Global HR Lead, having support more than 50 organizations in here career (including a few unicorns like Mollie 🦄) to grow successfully. 

INSANE amount of value in this conversation, I can't believe I get to call speaking to people like Inge, work! 😱🙏🏻

The main focus of our conversation was: How to create irresistible workplaces.

We covered a whole lot of ground, but if you listen to this conversation you will come out the otherside with a much clearer, no BS, view on what it takes to create truly incredible People Experience (PX) and genuinely irresistible workplaces 🤘🏻

Some of the things that came up:

• Transparency is key
• Utilise design principles
• Excite people! (focus on challenges not outputs)
• Put traditional performance reviews in the bin
• Invest in Managers and build strong teams
• Build culture before brand
• Leverage the employee voice
• Utilise skills from across the business to improve People Ops

Sooooo much great stuff in this 60 minute coffee chat!

 As always, I really enjoyed this conversation and I hope that you do too 🤘🏻🎙️

Links:

Your People and Culture Team | 7people
Resources | 7people
Creating Irresistible Organisations - learning and inspiration event Tickets

Guest Bio:

Ingeborg is the founder of 7people whose team of People & Culture experts help companies to become irresistible. This means attracting, retaining and engaging amazing talent. During her 20+ years in global HR roles, Inge has supported more than 50 organizations (including a few unicorns 🦄) to grow successfully. Ingeborg has now built a team which does only this: 'Enabling startups and scaleups to succeed, with the best people and culture'. Inge is an an optimist who loves to create and connect, positively impacting people’s lives, whilst enabling businesses to thrive.

Contact Ingeborg:

Email: [email protected]
Ingeborg van Harten | LinkedIn

Contact Luke:

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Luke O'Mahoney | LinkedIn

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Another incredible conversation with a passionate, inspiring, and hugely knowledgeable People pioneer 🚀 This week I am joined by Jill Felska, former Director of People and Culture, and Founder @ Want To Work There

We have a great conversation reflecting on our experience as People Managers, the good, the bad, and the ugly! Managing people is HARD and often managers are under supported and under trained for the enormity of the task.

If you are a Head of People / HR / People Ops Lead currently tasked with enabling People Managers and deveolping manager capability, this conversation is great place to start!

Jill walks us through her 4 stage framework to get the foundations in place for new and existing managers to be successful 🚀

As always, I really enjoyed this conversation and I hope that you do too 🤘🏻🎙️

Episode Links / References:

• PX Espresso Newsletter
• Training for the Modern Manager 
• Want To Work There Podcast
• Want To Work There Newsletter
• Management Expectations Matrix Spreadsheet (Free resource)
• Stop wasting your most precious resource: Middle managers 
• Google ReWork 10 Core Management Competencies
• Google ReWork Free Management Training Curriculum

Guest Bio:

Jill Felska is a pragmatic optimist who has spent the last 15 years finding meaningful ways to improve people’s experience at work. A former Director of People and Culture in the tech space, she is now the founder of Want To Work There - an online resource hub that provides practical, actionable advice and resources for building better workplaces. Most recently, she’s spent the last 18+ months building the company’s first digital product, Training for the Modern Manager - a comprehensive, interactive curriculum that organizations purchase once and then use to internally train all current and future managers.

Contact Jill:

Email: [email protected]
Jill Felska | LinkedIn

Contact Luke:

Email: [email protected]
Luke O'Mahoney | LinkedIn

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A slightly different format today, Vol. 1 of a new "solocast" series where I will share insights into the life of a People Ops Solopreneur...

I will use this short solo episodes to share my latest thinking around People Experience (PX) as a Product, the future of the People profession and the evolution of HR.

I will also share my learnings as I scale a business of one with value led content at it's core.

These episodes will be pretty rough around the edges, so don't expect a polished production and well scripted dialogue... these will be 20-40 minute "brain dumps" but I hope contained within them will be some useful practical takeaways.

Whether you are an operational People Ops professional or a budding solopreneur, there should be some value in these solocast episodes for you 🤘🏻

If ever you have any thoughts, questions, reflections whilst listening please do send them through on email or LinkedIn 👇🏻 would love to hear what works and doesn't work about this format so I can tweak it for maximum value.

🤘🏻🎙️

Contact Luke:

Email: [email protected]
Luke O'Mahoney | LinkedIn

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Another week, another really great conversation to share with you all🤘🏻This week I am joined by Matt McFarlane, Snr People Experience Director @ Oyster.

Oyster are one of the most unique (and cool) People team set ups I have come across. Matt talks through the structure a little in our chat, but the umbrella term for the People part of the business is "Workplace Team", under which there are functions you might expect, like:

✅ Workplace Design
✅ Talent Acquisition
✅ People Experience

And some you might not, like:

🤔 Programme Management
🤔 Internal Comms & Events
🤔 IT (yes, org wide IT!)

It's a really great set up which makes a ton of sense to me. I hope Matt will join me again to talk this through in detail as it wasn't the main focus of our chat.

We covered topics like:

• Psychology as a base for a career in People / HR
• The transition from HR to People Experience
• Moving away from the semantic connotations of “Human Resources”
• PX as an enabler of people and performance
• Remote and Hybrid workplace design
• Continuous Performance Management / open feedback loops

But the main practical takeaway, Matt walked me through the Oyster Band Index (OBI) -  Their approach to compensation levelling and creating a equitable, transparent, and consistent compensation philosophy for remote-first global hiring.

As always, I really enjoyed this conversation and I hope that you do too 🤘🏻🎙️

Guest Bio:

Matt McFarlane is the Senior Director of People Experience at Oyster, a global employment platform that makes it possible for companies everywhere to quickly and compliantly hire talent anywhere. Matt is experienced working across complex, globally distributed environments and is passionate about building commercially focused and people-centric workplaces.

Contact Matt:

Email:  [email protected]  
Matt McFarlane | LinkedIn  

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Luke O'Mahoney | LinkedIn

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Another awesome conversation to bring you today with one of the brightest minds in People & Culture today... The one and only, Olya Yakzhina 🤘🏻 Head of People @ remote-first tech startup, Switchee. Olya is also Co-Founder of the People Stories slack community 🙌🏻

The main practical takeaway in this episode, Olya walks me through the headlines of Switchee's employee engagement framework. In the process we touched on so many interesting and insightful areas:

⚡Remote-first "dos and don'ts"
⚡The isolation that often comes with being the People Lead
⚡The People Ops balance: People Needs & Business Needs
⚡Bringing the SLT and wider business with you
⚡The difference between satisfaction and pure joy in people experience
⚡How to interpret engagement data and what you should take action on

I can't wait to have Olya back in the virtual PX Espresso studio, so much more knowledge and experience to tap from one of the best in our profession.

As always, I really enjoyed this conversation and I hope that you do too 🤘🏻🎙️

Guest Bio:

Olya is a progressively-minded Head of People in a tech scaleup Switchee. She is a co-Founder of the People Stories slack community, which hosts over 1100 highly engaged People-people who are on the same mission - making every employee's experience awesome! To spread the word of positive people practices, she runs The Modern Employer podcast.

Contact Olya:

Email: [email protected]
Olya Yakzhina | LinkedIn

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