Onefish Culture & Comms: build a high trust, adult-to-adult, high performance workplace culture

Carrie Bedingfield

At Onefish Twofish, we demonstrate and prototype things that help people experience transparency, trust, adult-to-adult relationships, resilience, radical honesty, creativity, responsibility and accountability. In short, we bring the future forward.

  1. 06/03/2019

    Steve Stark: why teaching people to tame their email inbox is a route to transforming your culture

    The Friction Free podcast series is brought to you by Onefish Twofish: www.onefishcomms.co.uk Steve Stark and his company, Then Somehow, make tools for making work better… and he also makes the most heavenly cider in Sussex slash the world. Email is not just ‘email’ but: a major part of our working life we’ve not been given skills to handlewhich is influenced by social normsand taps into our addictive desire for information and connectionNo wonder it remains a problem that resists solution. Steve Stark’s workshop tackles the root cause of the email problem for each individual - and clears their inbox by the end of the day. Full of hidden gems, in this podcast you will find out: Why email is not just email but an activity that is influenced by and exerts invisible forces, unacknowledged beliefs and untested assumptions - and that uncovering these is the secret to unshackling ourselves from our emailHow our email problem is all our own fault… and why that’s BRILLIANT because it means we can do something about itThe mysterious outcomes that emerge when people tame their inbox: “I feel more engaged at work”How tackling email is a powerful and accessible lever to address bigger culture issues in a safe way and through experimenting.. including a blame culture or lack of clarity of ownership and decision makingAnd most importantly… what is the earliest socially acceptable time of day to drink cider We reference: Love Not Smoking: Do Something Different guide Find Steve and I on twitter: @thensomehow @stevesta @bignosebeardy (this is the cider) @cbedingfield @onefishcomms Websites: www.thensomehow.com www.onefishcomms.co.uk Book a FREE 25 minute call straight into Carrie’s diary.

    47 min
  2. 05/26/2019

    Martyn Evans: scaling up agile ways of working

    Firstly we apologies for the audio quality near the beginning of the podcast, the internet was failing us slightly but thankfully not for too long! The On The Horizon podcast series is brought to you by Onefish Twofish: www.onefishcomms.co.uk In this 45-minute conversation with Martyn Evans - Head of Product at Unboxed - you will hear: Learning from Government Digital Service - the surprise success story from the heart of UK central governmentThe unintended consequences of trying to scale something emergentWhy we should try to understand our stakeholders to the same depth as we understand the users of the serviceHow to find a way to open up the conversation from when a stakeholder says ‘we know what we want’Why when people who are used to rules start using Agile, weird things can happenWhether it’s worth the cost and blood/sweat/tears of trying to shift to a more agile way of workingThe credible alternative to systematically rolling out Agile (and it’s very cool)Why Martyn no longer tolerates people saying ‘digital is a way to save money’. It’s not - it’s a way to make things better. Before the phrase “digital transformation” disappears… find Martyn and Unboxed via Onefish Twofish and here: https://unboxed.co On Twitter: @martynrevans @ubxd You can find Onefish Twofish here: on Twitter @onefishcomms and @cbedingfield https://www.onefishcomms.co.uk Book a FREE 25 minute call straight into Carrie’s diary.

    48 min
  3. 04/21/2019

    Alan Moore: why beauty might be the ultimate metric for cultural change

    The On The Horizon podcast series is brought to you by Onefish Twofish: www.onefishcomms.co.uk In this 45-minute conversation with Alan Moore, speaker, author and creator of beauty in business, you can find out more about how… Beauty forms the building blocks for life and therefore a beautiful business in one that is there to add to the world, and the opposite of one that is designed to consume and amass profit at any costWe are not really allowed to talk about beauty at work - despite the fact that it’s one of the most powerful organising principles we have available to us as humans“Is this the most beautiful decision we can make” is the ultimate cut through. Everyone knows what this means. It speaks to a higher, deeper, more integratedIs beauty too high an aspiration for a regular business like yours and mine?What beautiful leadership, decision making, culture products and services really look like in practice - from zero hours contracts to fuel emissions.None of us want to make ugly decisions - and what beauty truly gives us.Our future values are shifting and we want the profitable decision AND the good decision (and millennials are willing to fight for it) We reference: Alan’s book Do Design: Why Beauty is Key to EverythingA Beautiful Question by Frank Wilczek - a Nobel Prize-winning physicist argues that beauty is the fundamental organizing principle for the entire universe Find Alan via Onefish Twofish and here: Beautiful.business On Twitter @alansmlxl You can find Onefish Twofish here: on Twitter @onefishcomms and @cbedingfield https://www.onefishcomms.co.uk Book a FREE 25 minute call straight into Carrie’s diary.

    42 min

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At Onefish Twofish, we demonstrate and prototype things that help people experience transparency, trust, adult-to-adult relationships, resilience, radical honesty, creativity, responsibility and accountability. In short, we bring the future forward.