Better At Work with Cathal Quinlan The Secrets of Better Workplace Cultures with Bruce Daisley
In episode 2 of Better at Work, the secrets of better workplace cultures - simple everyday practices to improve how we all work together, which will lead to greater team and individual happiness and performance.
In episode two of Better@Work, we welcome Bruce Daisley as our second guest for a super informative and wide-ranging chat. I am a big big fan of Bruce, and his podcast Eat Sleep Work Repeat.
Bruce is a best-selling author who spent 12 years running Twitter in Europe and was at YouTube before that. Bruce is a respected thought leader on what makes works good and what makes work matter, and his book The Joy of Work has been bible for me.
I chat with Bruce about how to keep our audiences engaged with crafting presentations that are attention grabbing, fresh, new, and current and realising that no-one cares anywhere as much of you, and how bringing entertainment to an audience is a must!!!
Bruce and I unpack his fascination with what makes work good, touching on anti-work movement sub-cultures.
Bruce shares the secrets of good workplace culture and how making many small shifts creates a momentum of change. He cautions not to presume that just because you can understand it, you can do it. And brings to life how he and his teams tackled burnout culture and weekend emails habits.
We laugh about the common act of ego when we know the science of the diminishing returns of long work hours, but delude ourselves that those rules don’t apply to us
We marvel at how only 13% of Australian workers are engaged with their jobs, while the US is at 30% and for French workers it’s only 3%! We then discuss the biggest determinant of being engaged at work is whether or not you have a friend at work, and how stress levels are lower in workplaces where a shared identity and a sense of belonging are strong. We cover research by Wharton’s Sigal Barsade, demonstrating “companionate love” in the workplace is vital to employee morale, teamwork and customer satisfaction, and is proven to make work better and also drive better results.
Bruce makes a best book recommendation, The Good Jobs Strategy by Zeynep Ton. We laugh about the “Mill owner” trap we can fall into and the illusion that high productivity correlates to big hours, when focus on outputs is what really matters. We also cover Bruce’s Framework: Recharge I Sync I Buzz
We wrap up on the power of humour to create togetherness, bonding and collective safety, “Crisp Thursday”, the Jewish concept of Simcha or Shared Joy. Also, that resilience is a toxic myth, Bruce’s new book Fortitude, Unlocking the Secrets of Inner Strength and Bruce’s best ever career advice on how not to overdo it.
Let’s Take This offline
In our “Let’s take this offline” segment I debrief on Bruce’s key insights with my friend Annette and answer a question from Sita about her demotivated team
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About Bruce Daisley:
Bruce Daisley is one of the world's leading experts on our evolving relationship with our jobs - published in the Washington Post, Harvard Business Review, The Guardian and the Wall Street Journal. His first book, The Joy of Work, was a Sunday Times bestseller and was translated into 15 different international editions. It was shortlisted for the CMI Business Book of the Year. Formerly Bruce was the European Vice-President for Twitter and is the host of the UK’s number one business podcast Eat Sleep Work Repeat.
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