Engage for Success

Engage for Success

We are a growing, dynamic, voluntary movement promoting employee engagement as a better way to work that benefits individual employees, teams and whole organisations.

  1. Radio Show #624 Why every company should be teaching people how to WTF

    5D AGO

    Radio Show #624 Why every company should be teaching people how to WTF

    Special Guest: Dave MacDonald, Better Together Group One short month after his twins were born, Dave MacDonald was unexpectedly fired and found himself urgently seeking income through side hustles and temp jobs, just to put food on the table. This struggle to provide for his own family ignites his passion to help essential blue-collar workers find enjoyable and dependable employment. Nearly 30 years later, Dave’s dream is fully realized: he serves as the Owner and President of Better Together Group, the parent company of three unique staffing agencies. Better Together Group was built on Zig Ziglar’s belief that if you help enough others get what they want, you will eventually receive what you want, too. Their mission is twofold: to help their clients boost productivity and profitability by hiring the right people, and to ensure that job candidates can feed their families and fulfill their ambitions. Dave studied Organizational Management at Concordia University of Chicago, but like a true bootstrapped business owner, credits his expertise to the school of hard knocks! He is active in several trucking associations across Canada, and his proudest achievement by far was welcoming his children into Better Together at their request! His daughter, Hannah, celebrates her dad by saying “he always has and always will put the people first”. Join us as we discuss why every company should be teaching people how to WTF – Work Hard, Tell the Truth, & Finish the Job. Host: Andy Goram

    31 min
  2. Radio Show #616 Designing and Establishing Global Talent Development Programmes

    11/26/2025

    Radio Show #616 Designing and Establishing Global Talent Development Programmes

    Guest: David Frost: Group People & Organisational Development Director at Dole Plc David’s career started in automotive component manufacturing after he graduated with a degree in manufacturing engineering. After a period specialising in quality management and continuous improvement he became a Chartered Engineer and then went on to complete a master’s degree at Loughborough University in quality and human resource management. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and a Member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology. He is passionate about building highly-engaged organisations and he decided to move his career into human resources, organisation development, people strategy and talent development. He has held executive and board-level HR roles in international businesses such as Carlsberg and Norbert Dentressangle (now XPO Logistics). David is currently People and Organisational Development Director at Dole plc, the world’s largest fresh produce supplier with 40,000 people operating out of 30 countries. He reports to the CEO and is responsible for group people strategy, organisation design, succession planning and talent development. Since joining the company in early 2017, David has been involved with several strategic initiatives including designing and implementing a group people strategy in addition to being part of the process of listing the company on the New York Stock Exchange. David has been designing and establishing global talent development programmes. At Dole, David has been fortunate in having the opportunity to lead the strategy to establish their global programme (called the Key Talent Programme or KTP). This has been running since 2018, with 7 cohorts and 120 participants taking part. Dole partners with Cranfield University and other providers and the KTP has now won 2 awards. David will talk about how these programmes add value to the organisation and how you gain buy-in. Join us as we discuss the design and implementation of global development programmes Host: Andy Goram

    34 min

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