Helping Organisations Thrive with Julian Roberts

#32 Jeff Harry | Creating a great place to work through play

Today I am interviewing Jeff Harry who is a Positive psychology play coach, who has been featured In NY Times, Mashable, Upworthy, and also an international speaker.
 
We explored how you can use play to create a great place to work, using play to help with those difficult conversations, dealing with toxic environments and making workplaces psychological safe. Jeff shares really valuable insights in how to focus on what makes employees happy in the workplace, looking to dial up areas of their work where they are in the 'flow', using Google as an example of the 20% program, where they allowed employees to use Friday to focus on what they loved at work - this created an abundance of innovations that came out like Google meet and Adsense.
 
Watch the full interview on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7V6OZqNkcfQ
 
Connect with Jeff:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffharryplays/
Website: https://www.rediscoveryourplay.com/
Email: jeffrey.harry@gmail.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/PlayWell_TEK
 
If you want support in helping your organisation thrive, do get in contact with me:
https://www.julianrobertsconsulting.com/

#31 Gauri Das | Why leadership is responsible for employee engagement not just HR!

Today I am interviewing Gauri Das who is a Vice President & Head HR of India Factoring and Finance Solutions Private Ltd, also a Speaker, Mentor and HR 100 under 40.
 
In our conversation we explored why leadership is responsible for employee engagement not just HR. Gauri shares valuable wisdom on creating engagement in an company, and this is the responsibility of the leadership not just HR. Her core aspects to creating this are 1. Showing empathy, 2. Communicating effectively and 3. Empowering your people. Gauri packs in this episode with so many strategies to help organisations, and has a core approach to engagement of Head - Heart - Hands. Head - develop strategies, Heart - connect with you people and Hands - execution on the plans.
 
Watch the full interview on YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4c1b9ktFkzA
 
Connect with Gauri:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gauridas/
Email: gauri_dwivedi@rediffmail.com
 
If you want support in helping your organisation thrive, do get in contact with me:
https://www.julianrobertsconsulting.com/
 
 

#30 Milan Mazic | How to keep your people motivated and loyal to your company

Today I am interviewing Milan Mazic who is the CEO of Zicam Integrated Security Ltd.
 
We will be exploring how to keep your people motivated and loyal to your vision and company. Milan is an entrepreneurial CEO who is passionate about providing high quality, state-of-the-art surveillance and detection security systems for use in commercial, industrial and domestic settings. However, he is also passionate about people and treating them well, which has lead him to create an extremely loyal workforce with his 25 year old company. Take a listen to learn some valuable lessons on on-boarding your staff, keeping them motivated and looking after them for the long term.
 
Full interview on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUakNULvGLk
 
Connect with Milan:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/milan-mazic/
Website: http://www.zicam-security.co.uk/
Email: mmazic@zicam-security.co.uk
 
If you want support in helping your organisation thrive, do get in contact with me:
https://www.julianrobertsconsulting.com/
 
 

#29 Jonathan Fields | Creating employee engagement that rocks!

Today I am interviewing Jonathan Fields who is the CEO & Co Founder of Assembly.
 
We explored how to create employee engagement that rocks. Firstly Jonathan shares his insightful view on the understanding of what true engagement is, this is the start place, making sure it is beyond just job satisfaction. Engagement is the intangibles, the culture , crating a place where the reason to wake up is to go to work and be able to make a difference. Jonathan also shares how technology can really help with company engagement, through his company Assembly, they have created a way to people to give recognition, redeem rewards and create culture insights.
 
Watch the full interview on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OM95LOWs1lk
 
Connect with Jonathan:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathan-fields-49784956/
Website: https://www.joinassembly.com/
Email:  jonathan@joinassembly.com
 
If you want support in helping your organisation thrive, do get in contact with me:
https://www.julianrobertsconsulting.com/
 

#28 Michael Glinter | Hiring strategies for 2021

Today I am interviewing Michael Glinter who is a Career coach and more, having spent 21 years with The Judge Group (staffing company) along with having placed over 3700 people around the world since 1999.
 
We know the pandemic has impacted many companies, some have grown and some have needed to downsize, wherever you are you still need to hire great talent to drive your business forward, remember our people are our greatest assets. We will be explore hiring strategies for 2021: Both hiring and growing leaders with Michael, where he shares aspects of going broad as well as very focused, the analogy of fishing - trawler vs line fishing. Also, recruiting on aptitude and not looking for the finished article, instead focusing on core skills to do the job as well as the mindset to learn and grow into the role, Michael shares many examples of how we can recruit better for the age we are in.
 
See the full interview on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBa-dQVRa3o
 
Connect with Michael:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelglinter/
Website: http://www.michaelglinter.com/
Email: michael@michaelglinter.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/MichaelAGlinter
 
If you want support in helping your organisation thrive, do get in contact with me:
https://www.julianrobertsconsulting.com/

#27 Ashirvad Lobo | How to create an engaging company culture

Today I am interviewing Ashirvad Lobo who is a Learning & Development specialist, coach, speaker and author.
 
We explored the whole area of how to create an engaging culture and look at whether engagement survey are useful tools to help inform leadership to what is really going on. Ashirvad explains some key best practice of engagement surveys, 1. Use a reputable company to help you (not survey monkey), 2. Bespoke the questions to the company and region, 3. Use it to engage your employees and get brand marketing behind the process. The key to them is the actions that come out of them, if they are just a tick box exercise then you won't make progress, use the insights to create working workshops to provide solutions - truly engage your teams the process.
 
YouTube link to the full interview:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSxcBr1u9R8
 
Connect with Ashirvad:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashirvadlobo/
Website: http://fulloflifebooks.com/
Email: ashirvad.lobo@gmail.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/AshirvadLobo
 
If you want support in helping your organisation thrive, do get in contact with me:
https://www.julianrobertsconsulting.com/

BOOST #10 | Are your big goals demotivating you? Here are some tips to create that motivation again

Welcome to this solo series called BOOST, the purpose is to give you little BOOST to your day, to further provide ways to create a thriving organisation.
 
Are your goals demotivating you?
 
Sometimes when we look out into the distanced at the goal we are trying to achieve, they can be overwhelming, and at times feel to big, and this can actually demotivate us.
Now I know it is important to set stretching goals, that will accomplish much, but what do we do when they demotivate us.
I was struck by this recently whilst running on the trails, and I looked ahead at a climb of about 250m, and suddenly felt exhausted and overwhelm by the sight of it trying to run up to the top. It was a route I had done many times and was part of the plan of the day.
 
Here are 4 ways to bring back the motivation:
 
1. Remember the experience and training that got you here right now
2. Breakdown the goal into bite size pieces, don't try and eat the whole elephant in one!
3. Visualise yourself completing the goal, what will you see, hear and feel?
4. Since you created the goal, then you can assure yourself that you will have all the resources within you to complete it
 
And finally give yourself some slack - It’s ok to slow the pace down, even if the timings slips, as long as you achieve the goal.
 
 
If you want support in helping your organisation thrive, do get in contact with me:
https://www.julianrobertsconsulting.com
 

#26 John Stapleton | How to turn uncertainty into a competitive advantage

Today I am interviewing John Stapleton who is a Entrepreneur, Speaker, Investor, Advisor and Mentor.
 
We drew upon John's 30+ years experience of being an entrepreneur to explore how we can turn the challenges we may face into our advantage. John knows we are in unprecedented times, and appreciates the magnitude we are all facing however he call us to use the uncertainty and adversity and to look for the opportunities, by having setbacks and challenges it cause you to be resourceful and creative than ever before.
 
Watch the full interview on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LY1qXidF5Vk
 
Connect with John:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-stapleton-8471a219/
Website: https://www.johnstapleton.eu/
Email: john@stapleton.eu
 
If you want support in helping your organisation thrive, do get in contact with me:
https://www.julianrobertsconsulting.com/