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Welcome to Work Better, the podcast where we think about work and ways to make it better.

A new set of priorities is gaining traction with business leaders around the world. When asked, what workspace issues will be more important in the next year, the answers revealed new perspectives are gaining momentum. Employee wellbeing tops the list and has been considered important for years. Now sustainability, followed closely by diversity, equity and inclusion, have emerged as top issues. These topics are hardly new. But they always lived further down the list of choices leaders need to make – things that were important, but not as urgent. Now that’s changed.

This season on Work Better, we hope to inspire you with new ways of thinking about how to design better futures for people and the planet. We fundamentally believe organizations can have a bigger impact if we collectively take action.

Work Better is brought to you by Steelcase, a global design and thought leader in the world of work. We help people do their best work by creating places that work better. Stay-up-to-date on design, insights and research to help people work better at steelcase.com/subscribe .

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Welcome to Work Better, the podcast where we think about work and ways to make it better.

A new set of priorities is gaining traction with business leaders around the world. When asked, what workspace issues will be more important in the next year, the answers revealed new perspectives are gaining momentum. Employee wellbeing tops the list and has been considered important for years. Now sustainability, followed closely by diversity, equity and inclusion, have emerged as top issues. These topics are hardly new. But they always lived further down the list of choices leaders need to make – things that were important, but not as urgent. Now that’s changed.

This season on Work Better, we hope to inspire you with new ways of thinking about how to design better futures for people and the planet. We fundamentally believe organizations can have a bigger impact if we collectively take action.

Work Better is brought to you by Steelcase, a global design and thought leader in the world of work. We help people do their best work by creating places that work better. Stay-up-to-date on design, insights and research to help people work better at steelcase.com/subscribe .

    Creating Joy at Work with Scott Sonenshein (S3:E9)

    Creating Joy at Work with Scott Sonenshein (S3:E9)

    Have you ever been in a job that just sucks the joy out of your work? On the flip side, have you had a job that leaves you feeling energized and full of life? Or more likely — it’s a mix. The concept of joy and work can feel like an oxymoron sometimes — but does it have to? Adding joy into work is more important than ever because research shows the lack of joy is literally making people sick.

    Scott Sonenshein co-wrote Joy at Work: Organizing Your Professional Life alongside organization queen Marie Kondo. You may remember her from her Netflix show Sparking Joy. Scott is a Professor of Management at Rice University. He also wrote Stretch: Unlock the Power of Less -and Achieve More Than You Ever Imagined.

    During our conversation, Scott helps us apply lessons around joy to our work such as how we need to purge things from our lives that don’t spark joy. He explains why we need to tap into intrinsic motivators instead of free snacks or ping-pong tables. And he shares why leaders play a critical role creating joy at work.

    Additional resources:
    Learn more about Scott’s research and books at https://www.scottsonenshein.com/
    Read insights about how to create spaces to build community at work www.steelcase.com/WBnew
    Get the latest workplace design, insights and research: www.steelcase.com/subscribe

    Work Better podcast is hosted by Chris Congdon. Produced by Rebecca Charbauski. Creative art direction by Erin Ellison and Emily Cowdrey. Technical support by Mark Caswell and Jose Jimenez. Digital publishing by Areli Arellano and Jordan Marks. Editing and sound mixing by SoundPost Studios.

    • 29 分鐘
    The Power of Civility + Community with Christine Porath (S3:E8)

    The Power of Civility + Community with Christine Porath (S3:E8)

    More than 65% of people feel no sense of community at work — and that was before the pandemic. Christine Porath studied data from 20,000 employees and after discovering the lack of community, she set out to change it.
    Christine wrote “Mastering Community: The Surprising ways coming together moves us from surviving to thriving.” She also wrote "Mastering Civility”. She’s a frequent contributor to the Harvard Business Review, and has written for New York Times, Wall Street Journal and McKinsey Quarterly. She’s worked with organizations like Google, the United Nations, Microsoft, and Ford. Right now, she is a visiting professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Business School.
    She makes a compelling argument with data and powerful stories for creating community in the workplace. She has connected the concept of community to engagement, retention and whether someone feels like they are thriving in their job. She also shares how her work on civility led to her most recent research on community. And she gives us a sneak peek into what she’s exploring now that might be a book someday down the road.
    Additional resources:
    Learn more about Christine’s research and her books at http://www.christineporath.com/
    Read insights about how to create spaces to build community at work www.steelcase.com/WBnew
    Get the latest workplace design, insights and research: www.steelcase.com/subscribe
    Work Better podcast is hosted by Chris Congdon. Produced by Rebecca Charbauski. Creative art direction by Erin Ellison and Emily Cowdrey. Technical support by Mark Caswell and Jose Jimenez. Digital publishing by Areli Arellano and Jordan Marks. Editing and sound mixing by SoundPost Studios.

    • 31 分鐘
    The New Inclusive Campus with Moira Fischbacher-Smith (S3:E7)

    The New Inclusive Campus with Moira Fischbacher-Smith (S3:E7)

    The University of Glasgow is the fourth oldest university in the English speaking world. It opened in 1451 and parts of campus might remind you of Hogwarts in the Harry Potter movies. Yet, in many ways, it is leading the way in higher education. In 2014, the university became the first academic institution in Europe to divest from the fossil fuel industry. And its strategy to create more accessible and inclusive education is changing lives. So how is this university that’s more than 500 years old leading the way in higher learning?

    Moira Fischbacher-Smith is Vice Principal of Learning and Teaching at the University of Glasgow. Her focus is on transforming how learning happens. She’s been at the university since 1995 and took the vice principal role in 2019. She is also an LGBTQ+ champion at the university and she thinks really deeply about the impact higher education can make in people’s lives and in our global community..

    She’s also pretty pragmatic and has some good advice for how to bring pedagogy, technology and the physical environment together to create really good learning experiences.

    Additional resources:
    Explore the University of Glasgow https://www.gla.ac.uk/
    Read insights about how to create more inclusive learning spaces www.steelcase.com/WBLearning
    Get the latest workplace design, insights and research: www.steelcase.com/subscribe

    Work Better podcast is hosted by Chris Congdon. Produced by Rebecca Charbauski. Creative art direction by Erin Ellison and Emily Cowdrey. Technical support by Mark Caswell and Jose Jimenez. Digital publishing by Areli Arellano and Jordan Marks. Editing and sound mixing by SoundPost Studios.

    • 32 分鐘
    How the Office Can Boost Energy with Benjamin Laker (S3:E6)

    How the Office Can Boost Energy with Benjamin Laker (S3:E6)

    Do you hate meetings? Those 30 or 60 minute blocks of time that chew up your day can be frustrating. Some companies have gone so far as to try eliminating meetings completely. But sometimes those meetings make a valuable impact on your work. So we’re asking: When do meetings do more harm than good?
    Benjamin Laker is a Professor of Leadership at Henley Business School and since the pandemic has led research around the effectiveness of meetings and meeting-free work days.
    Benjamin studies the societal impact of leadership and is the author of Too Proud to Lead and Closing the Service Gap. We talked to Benjamin about his research on meetings, the four-day work week and his ideas about how to reframe the way we think about the workplace when most meetings are now hybrid.

    Additional resources:
    Learn more about Benjamin Laker’s research at Henley Business School https://www.henley.ac.uk/people/professor-benjamin-laker
    Read Benjamin Laker’s articles in Forbes https://www.forbes.com/sites/benjaminlaker/?sh=69e287233352
    Get Benjamin Laker’s most recent book Closing the Service Gap https://www.amazon.com/Closing-Service-Gap-customers-organisations/dp/1292444355
    Read insights about how to create more inclusive workplaces www.steelcase.com/WBmagazine
    Get the latest workplace design, insights and research: www.steelcase.com/subscribe
    Work Better podcast is hosted by Chris Congdon. Produced by Rebecca Charbauski. Creative art direction by Erin Ellison and Emily Cowdrey. Technical support by Mark Caswell and Jose Jimenez. Digital publishing by Areli Arellano and Jordan Marks. Editing and sound mixing by SoundPost Studios.

    • 26 分鐘
    Busting Carbon Myths with Sheri Hickok (S3:E5)

    Busting Carbon Myths with Sheri Hickok (S3:E5)

    What does it mean when you buy a carbon neutral product? Sheri Hickok, CEO of Climate Impact Partners, helps us understand what makes something carbon neutral and, in the process, busts some myths about carbon offsets. She simplifies complicated concepts like how to measure carbon and why supporting projects that slow climate change is a necessary part of an organization’s overall carbon strategy.


    Sheri is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader and joined Climate Impact Partners from GE Renewable Energy, where she was VP and CEO of the international onshore wind business. She brings lessons from the automotive industry and energy sector to her team’s work helping organizations around the world slow climate change and deliver social impact.


    We asked Sheri questions a lot of people are asking: Does this work really make a difference? Why should organizations support projects like this instead of going all in on reducing their own carbon emissions? Sheri shares how her team’s work fits into bigger picture efforts to drive global transformation to a low-carbon economy and address climate change.

    Additional resources:
    Learn more about Climate Impact Partners https://www.climateimpact.com/
    Explore how Steelcase is supporting the wellbeing of people and the planet www.steelcase.com/people-planet
    Read insights about how to create more inclusive workplaces www.steelcase.com/WBmagazine

    Get the latest workplace design, insights and research: www.steelcase.com/subscribe

    Work Better podcast is hosted by Chris Congdon. Produced by Rebecca Charbauski. Creative art direction by Erin Ellison and Emily Cowdrey. Technical support by Mark Caswell and Jose Jimenez. Digital publishing by Areli Arellano and Jordan Marks. Editing and sound mixing by SoundPost Studios.

    • 25 分鐘
    Benefits of Foolishness at Work with Poonam Bir Kasturi (S3:E4)

    Benefits of Foolishness at Work with Poonam Bir Kasturi (S3:E4)

    Many MBA students are taught that businesses should be created to fill a market gap. Poonam Bir Kasturi, founder of the home composting company the Daily Dump, believes in the power of business as a force for good. And she says the MBA-way is not the only way. A diversity of business models is important. She even calls her own style a little foolish.

    The Daily Dump designs, makes and distributes beautiful home composting products in India. Daily Dump’s purpose is to reduce waste and reduce the pressure on public waste management systems. Poonam was a TED fellow at TED India. She received the Social Entrepreneur of the Year Award from the Schwab Foundation of the World Economic Forum and a Smart Cities India Award.

    Her outlook on business opens up a new way to think about work and the role our companies play in doing more for the wellbeing of people and our planet.

    Additional resources:
    Learn more about the Daily Dump at https://www.dailydump.org/
    Read insights about how to create more inclusive workplaces www.steelcase.com/WBmagazine
    Get the latest workplace design, insights and research: www.steelcase.com/subscribe

    Work Better podcast is hosted by Chris Congdon. Produced by Rebecca Charbauski. Creative art direction by Erin Ellison and Emily Cowdrey. Technical support by Mark Caswell and Jose Jimenez. Digital publishing by Areli Arellano and Jordan Marks. Editing and sound mixing by SoundPost Studios.

    • 27 分鐘

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