http://workingweek.thepodcastnetwork.com The Working Week is a weekly digest of news, blogs, and opinion from Management-Issues.com Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:40:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This week, Wayne is joined from London by Ruth Spellman, the new chief executive of the Chartered Management Institute, one of the UK's longest-standing professional bodies for management. They explore what can be done to help and support managers in the 21st century as well as how management development and training ... http://workingweek.thepodcastnetwork.com/2008/07/02/the-working-week-58-ruth-spellman/ How should organizations respond to the explosion in blogging and social networking which often sees them being talked about online – in sometimes unfaltering terms. As Wayne finds out this week, whatever else they do, the most fatal mistake an organization can make is simply to try to ignore what people ... http://workingweek.thepodcastnetwork.com/2008/06/24/the-working-week-57-john-havens-on-tactical-transparency/ This week, Wayne is joined by someone never afraid to speak his mind, Management-Issues contributor Max McKeown. Max works as a strategic adviser for four of the five most admired companies in the world and is a well-known speaker on subjects including innovation, engagement, human potential, customer experience, marketing, team building, ... http://workingweek.thepodcastnetwork.com/2008/06/18/the-working-week-56-max-mckeown-on-change-and-innovation/ This week, Wayne talks about management development with Bill Snaith, the Director of the Management Development Centre at Durham Business School in the UK. They discuss what management development is – or ought to be- and what role business schools can play in it. In particular, they explore the ... http://workingweek.thepodcastnetwork.com/2008/06/11/the-working-week-55-bill-snaith-on-management-development/ Whether you're aware of it or not, you have a personal brand. It's what people say about you behind your back and what they really think about you. And if you try to be someone you're not when you go to work, the chances are that what people say isn't ... http://workingweek.thepodcastnetwork.com/2008/06/02/the-working-week-54-lesley-everett-on-personal-branding/ On this week's Working Week, Wayne talks to Dr Judith Bardwick, author of One Foot Out the Door - How to Combat the Psychological Recession That's Alienating Employees and Hurting American Business. After years of downsizing, outsourcing and corporate greed gone wild, today's workers simply don't believe that their employers ... http://workingweek.thepodcastnetwork.com/2008/05/28/the-working-week-53-dr-judith-bardwick-on-the-psychological-recession/ Despite all the economic gloom out there, the fact remains that many economies in the developed world face increasing shortages of skilled workers as their demographic chickens come home to roost. But what does the situation look like from an Indian perspective? That's the theme for this week's Working Week Podcast, ... http://workingweek.thepodcastnetwork.com/2008/05/12/the-working-week-52-a-view-from-india-with-gautam-ghosh/ We all know that things are tough out there, but while the economy may be slowing, that doesn't mean the world is about to come to an end. In fact, as Dan Bobinski tells Wayne in the latest Working Week podcast, a downturn can actually be a great time to ... http://workingweek.thepodcastnetwork.com/2008/05/08/the-working-week-51-dan-bobinski/ This week, Wayne talks to Harvard University psychologist and Management-Issues columnist, Myra White, about what it is that makes some people exceptional while others achieve only moderate success. As Myra explains in her book Follow the Yellow Brick Road: A Harvard Psychologist's Guide to Becoming a Superstar, high-achievers have the same ... http://workingweek.thepodcastnetwork.com/2008/04/29/the-working-week-50-myra-white-on-exceptional-people/ If you manage someone who is abrasive, work with someone who is abrasive or – most likely – find yourself working for someone who is abrasive, this week's Working Week is a must-listen. Wayne is joined by The Boss Whisperer™" and author of Taming The Abrasive Manager: How To End Unnecessary ... http://workingweek.thepodcastnetwork.com/2008/04/22/the-working-week-48-the-boss-whisperer-laura-crawshaw/ Why is there such a widespread perception that Generation Y is dissatisfied and unmotivated? That's the starting point for this week's Working Week, where Wayne is joined by Penny de Valk, the CEO of the Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM), the largest management organisation in Europe. Born in New Zealand, ... http://workingweek.thepodcastnetwork.com/2008/04/15/the-working-week-48-penny-de-valk-on-generation-y/ This week, Wayne is joined from Dublin by Rowan Manahan, the creator of the Blog Fortify Your Oasis and author of the career management book, Where's My Oasis?.As a piece on Management Issues observed last week, it's normally assumed today that switching jobs is the best way to fast-track your ... http://workingweek.thepodcastnetwork.com/2008/04/10/the-working-week-47-rowan-manahan-on-job-hopping/ Why do so many of us feel that our job sucks? Why do we start a job full of optimism only to have our hopes and expectations shattered after only a few months. That's the staring point for Wayne's conversation this week with Judith E. Glaser, author of Creating We ... http://workingweek.thepodcastnetwork.com/2008/04/10/the-working-week-46-judith-glaser-on-why-jobs-suck/ This week, Wayne talks to author, consultant and business executive, Larraine Segil, about inspiring innovation through alliances and partnerships – both internal and external. Larraine is the cofounder of The Lared Group, an international management consulting firm specializing in business relationships. She also teaches executive education at The California Institute of ... http://workingweek.thepodcastnetwork.com/2008/03/12/the-working-week-45-larraine-segil/ If you are confused about "web 2.0" and its impact on business, then this week's Working Week will prove illuminating. Wayne is joined by Richard Buck, CEO of Eluma, a technology company which leverages the best aspects of social networking in order to provide users with the ability to collaborate with ... http://workingweek.thepodcastnetwork.com/2008/03/07/the-working-week-44-richard-buck-on-web-20/ Women make up half the workforce in the developed world and more than half of those with tertiary education. They dominate consumer spending decisions. Yet at senior levels, you would be forgiven for thinking that nothing has changed over the past fifty years. Women may hold the keys but men ... http://workingweek.thepodcastnetwork.com/2008/02/27/the-working-week-43-why-women-mean-business/ What is it about HR?. That's the question Wayne ponders this week as he talk to Chris Seabourne, a former HR director who is now a partner with CTPartners, an international executive search firm. As a former human resources director, Chris has some strong opinions about the bad press that HR ... http://workingweek.thepodcastnetwork.com/2008/02/19/the-working-week-42-chris-seabourne-on-the-role-of-hr/ This week, Wayne talks to Deepika Bajaj, the founder and president of Invincibelle.com, about the changing role of women in the workplace. Invincibelle is an organization that seeks to empower women to succeed in a multicultural world by creating a safe online community for women online and also organizing offline events. Prior ... http://workingweek.thepodcastnetwork.com/2008/02/16/the-working-week-41-deepika-bajaj-on-women-in-the-workplace/ In this week's podcast Wayne speaks to Jonathan Austin of Workplace Engagement Specialists, Best Companies, about how organisations can measure and improve their levels of workplace engagement. To help companies do just that, Best Companies (who also compile the Sunday Times "Best Companies to Work For" list) launched its own accreditation ... http://workingweek.thepodcastnetwork.com/2008/02/09/the-working-week-40-jonathan-austin-on-workplace-engagement/ What does the year ahead hold for managers? That's the question Wayne explores in the Working Week this week as he talks to Jo Causon from the UK-based Chartered Management Institute - the only chartered professional body in the country dedicated to management and leadership. Amid economic uncertainty and with fear ... http://workingweek.thepodcastnetwork.com/2008/01/30/the-working-week-39-jo-causon/ This week, Wayne talks to roving Australian author, coach and educator, Bob Selden, about employee engagement and why smart employers realise that loyalty is a two-way street. Bob is Bob Selden is head of the Australian National Learning Institute and author of a new book, What To Do When You Become ... http://workingweek.thepodcastnetwork.com/2008/01/24/the-working-week-38-bob-selden-on-employee-engagement/ Attracting and retaining good people is a perennial headache for employers, consuming time and resources as well as a considerable amount of emotional energy – particularly if a favoured candidate decides to reject your overtures and go elsewhere. On the Working Week this week, Wayne talks to Paolo Moscuzza, an ... http://workingweek.thepodcastnetwork.com/2008/01/17/the-working-week-37-paolo-moscuzza-on-recruitment-retention/ To kick of 2008, Wayne talks to Marshall Goldsmith, renowned executive coach and best-selling author whose most recent book, What Got You Here Won't Get You There, was ranked as America's #1 best-selling business book in both the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. Marshall's next book, Passing the ... http://workingweek.thepodcastnetwork.com/2008/01/11/the-working-week-36-marshall-goldsmith-on-succession-planning/ Wayne's guest on the Working Week is Christmas week is author Bob Burg, probably best-known for his bestselling book, Endless Referrals. Bob is also co-author, with John David Mann, of a new book, The Go-Giver, a modern-day parable underlining the fact that generosity of spirit and giving more than you get ... http://workingweek.thepodcastnetwork.com/2007/12/25/the-working-week-34/ Why so we let so many managers get away with violating the basics of human decency and still be in their jobs? If doctors, accounts or lawyers displayed the same wilful ignorance of the basics of their professions as many so-called business leaders, we'd be throwing the perpetrators in jail. ... http://workingweek.thepodcastnetwork.com/2007/12/18/the-working-week-33-jim-kouzes-on-leadership/ This week, Wayne is joined by Dr Myra White, who teaches organizational behavior and managing workplace performance at Harvard University as well as being a clinical instructor at Harvard Medical School. Myra is the author of Follow the Yellow Brick Road: A Harvard Psychologist's Guide to Becoming a Superstar, a book ... http://workingweek.thepodcastnetwork.com/2007/12/05/the-working-week-32-myra-white/ Management-Issues columnist Charles Helliwell joins Wayne on this week’s Working Week for a lively discussion about initiative overload and project paralysis. With research published earlier this month confirming that most managers are deeply sceptical about the constant stream of projects, ideas and initiatives coming down from on high – believing most ... http://workingweek.thepodcastnetwork.com/2007/11/28/the-working-week-31-charles-helliwell/ This week's Working Week focuses on the issue of staff retention as Wayne talks to leadership development expert, Kevin Eikenberry. Kevin is the author of Remarkable Leadership and Chief Potential Officer of The Kevin Eikenberry Group, a learning consulting company that provides a wide range of services, including training delivery ... http://workingweek.thepodcastnetwork.com/2007/11/20/the-working-week-30-kevin-eikenberry-on-retention/ As we all know, women think differently to men. And in the workplace, a quiet revolution is taking place as female thinking in the form of lateral and collaborative approaches to problem solving quietly start to replace traditional "male" work practices at all levels of corporate life. That's the starting point ... http://workingweek.thepodcastnetwork.com/2007/11/15/the-working-week-29-michelle-brailsford-on-corporate-women/ Is your inbox overwhelming you? Is it full of other peoples' problems? Are you drowning in urgent messages, all demanding to be answered yesterday? Do you sometimes wish that the whole email revolution had never happened? If the burden of electronic communication sometimes becomes just too much, you need to listen ... http://workingweek.thepodcastnetwork.com/2007/11/07/the-working-week-28-taming-the-email-monster/ This week Wayne talks to Dawna Jones, whose new Podcast series, the Evolutionary Provocateur, has just been launched on Management-Issues to take a provocative look at what is needed to achieve a new level of innovation in business. Dawna's mission in life is to help individuals and companies master the invisible ... http://workingweek.thepodcastnetwork.com/2007/10/31/the-working-week-27-dawna-jones-on-engagement-and-control/ This week, Wayne is joined by Geoff Moore, Professor of Business Ethics at Durham Business School in the UK, for a wide-ranging discussion about business sustainability, social responsibility and the role business schools are playing in these issues. Geoff’s research and scholarly activity is mostly in the areas of corporate social ... http://workingweek.thepodcastnetwork.com/2007/10/18/the-working-week-25-professor-geoff-moore/ This week, Wayne talks about the benefits of employee ownership with J. Robert Beyster, founder of one of the largest and most successful employee-owned companies in the world. In 1969, physicist Robert Beyster and a small group of colleagues founded Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), renting offices next to a ballet studio ... http://workingweek.thepodcastnetwork.com/2007/10/10/the-working-week-24-employee-ownership-with-robert-beyster/ Wayne's guest this week is workplace wellness and exercise guru, Jon Denoris. Jon is the founder of My Online Trainer and the Catalyst Health & Fitness system, which operates four fitness studios in central London. With more than 12 years experience in the exercise and sports science industry, Jon is adamant that ... http://workingweek.thepodcastnetwork.com/2007/10/03/the-working-week-23-workplace-wellbeing-with-jon-denoris/ This week, Wayne is joined by his old friend Vince Thompson, author of Ignited, to discuss the very real difference between leadership and management - and why the current fad for leadership training is selling managers short. Vince has plied his trade as a manger in restaurants, then in television stations ... http://workingweek.thepodcastnetwork.com/2007/09/25/the-working-week-22-vince-thompson-on-the-difference-between-leadership-and-management/ On the Working Week this week Wayne is joined by Steve Huxham, chairman of the Recruitment Society in the UK, to discuss how employers are losing the war for talent. Steve believes we are now in an environment where skilled workers are being inundated with offers as soon as they ... http://workingweek.thepodcastnetwork.com/2007/09/20/the-working-week-21-steve-huxham/ In this week’s Working Week, Wayne talks to Cali Williams Yost, founder of Work+Life Fit, Inc, a company dedicated to helping busy individuals manage the way work fits into their lives. A former New York City commercial banker, Cali believes that it is the fit - not balance – between work ... http://workingweek.thepodcastnetwork.com/2007/09/12/the-working-week-20-cali-williams-yost/ Wayne's guest on The Working Week this week is author, blogger and podcaster, Lisa Haneberg. Lisa has three blogs - Management Craft, 2 Weeks 2 a Breakthrough, and Chile Pepper High - and says that reading and writing blogs helps her stay fresh and current. She is also the author of five ... http://workingweek.thepodcastnetwork.com/2007/09/04/the-working-week-19-lisa-haneberg/ On this week's Working Week podcast, Wayne is joined by writer and management journalist, Phil Whiteley, who is co-author of a new book published next month, How to Manage in a Flat World. Wayne and Phil discuss how businesses today are often stretched across different locations and different time zones and ... http://workingweek.thepodcastnetwork.com/2007/08/29/the-working-week-18-phil-whiteley-on-how-to-manage-in-a-flat-world/ On The Working Week this week, Wayne is joined by author, screen writer and creativity guru Jurgen Wolff. Jurgen is the editor and publisher of the creativity e-bulletin, Brainstorm and writes a monthly column for Management-Issues. He teaches creativity workshops around the world as well as writing for television and ... http://workingweek.thepodcastnetwork.com/2007/08/21/the-working-week-17-jurgen-wolff-on-creativity/