Your company is all about your people. But why don’t those people always do what you want from them? The Missing Manual for the Human Being lifts the lid on your employees, explains the roots of motivation and shows you how to get them working at their best. After you have listened to this, download The Managers Toolkit podcasts - these contain the practical tools you need to get the team properly motivated and engaged.

Learn how to establish a genuine no-blame culture in Managers Toolkit #3. This podcast shows you how to hold conversations that generate learning and change, not the resentment and opposition that come with blame. You’ll also get practical guidance on how to intervene when situations get out of hand and people become angry.

In Managers Toolkit #2 you can learn how to walk an idea into someone’s head so that it takes root using the RIGAAR model for sustainable change. This podcast also explains why communicating ideas is often difficult, and gives you four vital rules for improving communication so your people have the same pictures in their heads of what they are supposed to be doing.

In Managers Toolkit #1 you learn how to set up the culture and conditions at work so that tasks become self-motivating, and how to hold a conversation in the right order for learning to take place.

At WeThrive we spend our working lives talking to people whose lot is to create or maintain an engaged workforce. They don’t always put it like that – the expressed desire might be to have a happy staff, or to improve employee retention, but what they actually want in the end is a workforce that really wants to engage with the company and their work. That doesn’t just happen, of course; it’s a consequence of getting a lot of other things right, so since 2011 we have been working on a way to help HR and L&D people move employee engagement out of the realm of ‘good idea, but…’ and into the very heart of the people-management efforts.

Special Guests: Andy Heath, co-founder of WeThrive; Piers Bishop, co-founder of WeThrive and Janine Osmond, Head of L&D at Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust