Will they avoid a workplace nightmare and confront their career monsters head-on, or shy away from the truth? 👻👀

Sam and special guests dive into stories about first days at work, from bacon rolls and dungeons to playing "Two Truths and a Lie" and the misadventures of falling down the stairs.

Don't miss this entertaining and insightful second episode of our podcast, where we turn those awkward first-day moments into valuable lessons and laughs!

Join us for the debut episode of 'What can we learn' as we dive into the hilarious and enlightening world of Interviews!

Sam, Mia, and special guest Kath Saunders dissect tales of AI gone wild, distracting dogs, cringe-worthy handshakes, the surprises of big interview panels, and the art of strategic water breaks.

Don't miss this insightful and entertaining kickoff to our podcast journey, where we turn interview fiascos into valuable lessons!

The Festival of the Future is now less than 2 months away! To answer all your questions and get you up to speed we have had a conversation all about the event with the organisers, let us know what you think!

We have had a little break with podcasts but we are back!

As work starts to begin on this years festival of the future we thought it would be great to gather some people who helped shaped the Festival last year to talk about their experiences.

With guests:

We are kicking off Season 2 of the podcast with a really interesting and fun conversation about remote learning and the effect of lockdown on the future of education.

Join our host Sam McLaren as he talks about the lessons learnt in the last year and how it has affected education and the children themselves.

With guests

- Alex May (Service Designer) and his daughter Neve

- Sarah Dackham (Business Partner) and her son Tom

- Mark Blackman (Corporate director for education and learning)

The massive changes of the past few months can't be undone. Toast can't go back to being bread and Dorset can't return to what it was before the pandemic. This podcast discusses some of this change - such as how communities have used digital to come together to support us.

Join our guest host Aidan Dunn to talk about how Dorset has changed with guests David Larkins,Jon Sloper,Neil Lawrence, and Sam McLaren.

We had no idea how Dorset would change when we recorded this podcast. 

Digital skills have become more important than ever. We looked forward a decade and guessed how digital might change, without knowing how much it would develop in weeks. What can we learn from this pre-lockdown conversation to help us step back from the current situation and direct activity from this new, COVID-19 starting point? 

Our guests were linked by a passion for digital skills: Louise Stokes helps the nation improve its digital skills through the national organisation Digital Leaders, Richard Burn supports Dorset businesses develop their digital skills through the Dorset Growth Hub and Alan Frame helps Dorset pupils and teachers improve their digital skills with Dorset Council.  

Let us know what you think to how we thought then and what we must do now.

In our first volume we discuss the future of Dorset with help from pupils from The Prince of Wales School who came up with some imaginative and challenging ideas to kick off our conversation.

Host Penny Syddall (communications lead for Superfast Dorset) talks to businessman Gordon Fong from Kimcell which is based at the Dorset Innovation Park at Winfrith. Martin Sutcliffe, who works with Dorset Council’s Fisheries Local Action Group Animateur and we’re also joined by Dr Deborah Smart, Dorset Council’s corporate director for Digital and Change who has recently arrived in Dorset.

If you would like to send a message or question, please use the voice message facility on Anchor or email us at [email protected]. We’d love to feature you in the next volume so let us know if you have some thoughts or innovation you’d like to share with the network. Thank you for listening.