Phoebe Benta 1:47

JCI? Well, Junior chamber International, we're a global nonprofit membership organisation for young people 18 to 40. And we have approximately around 200,000 members across the world. And in the UK, we have local organisations across the UK doing fantastic things. JCI mission is to provide development opportunities that empower young people to create positive change. And the vision for us is to be the leading global network for young active citizens. So in a nutshell, a little bit about GFCI. We have four key pillars or areas that we focus on. And the first one is personal development. And this is something that I'm really passionate about, because this is something that's really helped me along my journey. So that's training, mentoring, coaching, and a lot of academies and other leadership events. We also have the international side, which is one of my very sweet spots as well. We have European conferences across the world, world congresses, and also in different parts of the UK, different local organisations and EU and European events as well. The business side, we have a lot of young entrepreneurs in JCI, this is a great place to build a strong network and connecting again, support each other, especially if you're just beginning it's a great way to start. JCI is all about learning by doing. And that's something that really just jumped headfirst in and you know, do as much and learn as much and see how you could transfer that in other parts of your life. And the final part is the community. We do run quite a few local community projects working with charities, and it's a great way for our members when they join to be active, and to have things to do that will help them so in terms of being on a project team, time management, budgeting, public speaking, this is something I've been a lot more confident over the last few years. And again, it just has a few areas that you could pick and choose what you want to do what you want to get involved in. So just the overview.

Graham Allcott 1:35

So you're the CEO of Restless Development. Do you want to start just by explaining to people who have not come across restless development before, like, who they are, what they do?

Perry Maddox 1:46

Resteless Development, we are all about young leaders. And what we do is we work with young leaders from around the world to tackle the problems that they they think are most important, whether that's getting a job or kind of taking care of their families or playing a role in and how their countries and communities work. We work with young people to kind of make change happen. And most of that's volunteer power we work with about, you know, 1000 volunteers around the world and, you know, 1600 Youth organisations out there to help them do do that even better. So whether or not the individual young leader and volunteer, kind of a rural community, getting it done, or kind of young leaders coming together to shape change in the world, it's all about that kind of notion of tapping into youth to to make the world a bette

My guest today is Professor Cyril Bouquet. Cyril is one of the authors of Alien Thinking how to bring your breakthrough ideas to life and Professor of Strategy and Innovation at the IMD Business School in Lausanne, Switzerland. Cyril has spent many years advising some of Europe's leading companies on strategy, as you're going to hear talking about the French train operators and UAE for amongst others. And we talk about how to experiment how you can use your imagination to get stuff done, managing attention, and much more. This is Cyril Bouquet.

You talk, you type, you stare into space. You drink coffee and somehow end up on the Daily Mail website but keep it a secret. Maybe you do all of this in your pyjamas sometimes.

It can be fun and rewarding, and other times it's hard.

But it’s hardly the trenches, is it?

My guest today is Dr Robert Livingston. Robert is a social psychologist based at the Harvard Kennedy School, and is one of the world's leading experts on the science underlying bias and racism. He's also the author of the book The conversation, how talking honestly about racism can transform individuals and organisations. And in this episode, obviously, as you can imagine, with someone with such a long history, in this field, we talk about biases, we talk about what we can learn from black lives matter what you can do in your workplace, we share some of Roberts various different models. And I think you're gonna find this a really accessible, interesting, fascinating conversation. This is Dr Robert Livingston. I'm with Dr Robert Livingston. Firstly, just congratulations on the book, the first thing I wanted to ask you about, which I thought might be quite a nice frame for this whole discussion is your press model. So you want to explain the press model. And then we're actually just going to use that for just how we structure the rest of this.

My guest today is Lauren Currie. Lauren is a serial entrepreneur with a background in service design, and she's the CEO and founder of upfront, an organisation helping women to tackle issues around confidence. Lauren is one of the most interesting and articulate speakers on subjects of gender and race and diversity. And on this episode, we talk about the recent goings on at Basecamp empathy and curiosity and what it meant to her to be awarded an OBE. There's also some really interesting insights around what it means to be busy. The importance of kindness and leadership and Lauren share some of her productivity. This is Lauren Currie.

My guest today is Jon Smith. John is co-founder of pebble a tech startup helping children in schools to get more engaged in creative writing. And problem has grown massively during COVID as a tool to help with homeschooling. So in this episode, we talked about the growing pains of startups, productivity while managing a fully remote team, the work life balance benefits of being based in Cornwall and how that helps him to get beyond busy. And there are some brilliant perspectives on success, people management, and much more. This is Jon Smith.

So it's one of the rare occasions where we have two guests on Beyond Busy this week, and they are Panos Panay and Michael Hendricks. They're the co-authors of two beats ahead. What great musical minds teach us about creativity and innovation. They're both leading figures at the legendary Berklee College of Music. They're both entrepreneurs. They're both musicians and designers. And as a huge music geek myself, it's safe to say I really enjoyed this one. In this episode, we take inspiration from furrow Williams, Bjork, David Bowie, Justin Timberlake, and many more. And behind all these inspiration stories are little nuggets that I think will help you unlock creativity and innovation. wherever you happen to work on. This is Panos Panay and Michael Hendricks. So I'm here with Michael and painters, and we're with we're struggling three countries in three locations right now. So I'm in Brighton as ever, Panay here is in Cyprus.

My guest today is Seth Godin. Seth is the author of iconic bestsellers like Purple Cow, Linchpin, This is Marketing and Tribes. He's also the founder of Akimbo and the alt MBA, the host of the Akimbo podcast, and much more. He spent 30 years as one of the most in demand authors and speakers on marketing and creativity. In this episode, we talked about his latest book, The Practice, a surprising and multilayered book and what it means to put brave and interesting work out into the world. And I took away some brilliant lessons around kindness, willpower, and generosity. This is Seth Godin.

My guest today is Julie Nerney. Julie is the author of Own Your Day new light on the mastery of managing in the middle. She's worked at the heart of government and played a key leadership role in the London 2012 Olympics. And she's also a Sussex dwelling Aston Villa fan just like me, which is how we first met. In this episode, we talk about the unique pressures of middle management and Julie offers some great advice on how to do meetings, how to disagree productively, and how to build trust and influence as a manager. This is Julie Nerney.

My guest today is Hayley Watts, she is a Productivity Ninja at my company Think Productive and she's my co-author for the book, How to Fix Meetings. She's a mum, a coach, and also has a background as a leader in the charity sector, where she gained a lot of experience with meetings both good and bad. In this episode, we talk about productivity, obviously, and how she helps people to change their work habits for the better. And of course, we delve into what's broken with meetings and how you can fix them. This is Haley Watts

Meetings overload?

Tired of too much Zoom, Slack and Teams meetings? Here are my thoughts on how you can manage 'meetings overload'

I've been inspired this month by the community I've been building with my friend Christina Kisley around kindness. Last Thursday was the final week of four Zoom calls. To be honest, before I put it out there, I was a bit scared about it: I wondered if anyone would show up... If I'd have anything to say... If it was all a bit too vague... About 25 people showed up, each of them brilliant and wise, and I've thoroughly enjoyed it. We called it 'The Kindness Happening' as a way of saying "we're not really sure what this is going to be, but let's get together and talk about kindness". We didn't want to pitch it as a programme or a bunch of workshops or a focus group... turns out it's been all of these things and more.

Graham Allcott 0:04

You're listening to Beyond Busy, the show where we ask the bigger questions about work. My name is Graham Allcott. I'm your host for the show. And I have to say like, My throat is absolutely dying. Like I've just had this awful cold all week, I've had a really bad cough. And so what that means for you is there's going to be very little preamble this week, I'm just gonna go straight into the episode, I'm talking to Therese Huston, She is the author of this book, "Let's Talk! Make Effective Feedback your Superpower". And I think this is a really timely and useful book. And there's a couple of studies recently that one that found that 37% of managers dread giving feedback. And another one found that 65% of employees wish their managers gave more feedback. And I've been thinking about this a lot, because as part of The Kindness Happening, one of our challenges for the week was to give kind feedback. And I've realized that it's something that I need to do a lot more than I currently am doing with this whole kind of challenge around it encouraging us to try and give at least four pieces of feedback a day. And I thought that'd be easy, it was surprisingly hard. So I'm going to lay down that challenge for you. We called it the four quarters challenge, I'll put a link in the show notes here to the blog post that I've done about it. But basically get four coins, put them in your left hand pocket or on the left hand, left hand side of your desk. Every time we give feedback throughout the day, move one of those coins to the right hand side. And try and do that every day, give at least four bits of feedback a day and just make it just the norm make it the expectation that this is something that we always do, rather than a thing that we resort to when the work is bad or the work is amazing. But you're giving feedback across that full spectrum. So that's my little challenge to you. And let's get straight into the conversation. So really enjoyed this. Here's my conversation with Therese Huston. Cool, we are rolling. I'm with Therese Huston. How are you?

What's holding you back from doing what you need to be doing this week?

I'm really proud of my little podcast. From its' humble beginnings as a side project in 2016 to its current status as one of the UK's leading business podcasts, with a global audience and weekly marketing campaigns, it's been quite a ride. Here are 10 reflections from the first 100 episodes.

Graham Allcott 0:05

Welcome to Beyond busy, the show where we ask the bigger questions about work.

My name is Graham Allcott. I'm your host for the show. And on this episode, I'm talking to Tom Bergin. Tom is the author of a book called "Free Lunch Thinking". And we talk amongst other things about around cognitive biases, what you can do about them, why economics is broken. And what happens when you when you get screamed at by Donald Trump. So lots to come on this episode. Also, I really enjoyed Tom's book, the inside story of BP, which you talk about as well, which is all about some of the major decisions that BP made around the oil spill a few years ago, and just loads coming up. Tom was a journalist for Reuters and started his career as an energy broker. So loads of loads of interesting stuff on this episode, it was a really fascinating conversation. So I think you're gonna really enjoy it. Just quickly, before we get into the episode, just want to say thanks to everybody who has been messaging after beyond busy 100, our little series of three episodes, we were originally planning to just do one episode, which is like gonna be a compilation and we just had so many things I wanted to fit in, that we ended up doing it all in three parts. So there's a productivity one, there's a work life balance one, and then there's one about happiness and success, which are kind of like three of our sort of core themes really on this podcast. If you haven't checked them out, then there is everybody from you know, Cal Newport to Josie Long to Gerald Ratner. Everything in between just a really interesting array of guests. And it was a really interesting process may be really thankful for this podcast and for everybody who listens, and you know, makes it possible for me to sit in my shed, and just ramble on, I suppose I'd do it if no one listened, to be honest. But it's just really lovely to get that feedback. And also just to sort of spend a bit of time reflecting and looking back, which I know, I don't do enough. So let's talk about Tom Bergin. So he was a journalist at Reuters and before the market crash in 2006, he works as an energy broker, and a fund manager. And then when he moved to London, he started working in journalism, as you're going to hear, wrote this amazing book, the inside story of BP. And then this new book, Free Lunch Thinking where he basically just lifts the lid on economics, and talks about a lot of the kind of theories within economics that are known to be true or kind of, you know, everyone thinks they're true, and just maybe they're not. We talk about Donald Trump and his encounter with the now former US president, it feels very nice to say not to get too political, but it's a relief to not have to listen to Trump, isn't it? So really interesting conversation. And then we start and we finish it at the end, talking about productivity, and his thoughts on productivity as well. So absolutely loads to pack in.

So let's get straight into this Beyond busy 101 with Tom Bergin.

So we're halfway through January already? Time is a tricky master, eh. If you still feel like you haven't fully nailed that whole 'new year, new you' thing, don't worry. I'm here to help.

Because of 'Productivity Ninja', I'm asked a lot about New Years' Resolutions - the best way to think about them, how to make them stick, whether it's all just a nonsense, whether I have some secret 'hack' for them... and so on. The focus of these discussions or articles is almost always on the resolutions themselves, rather than on the implementation. I think this misses the most important bit. How we design and implement new habits is what matters. So, with a couple of ideas from Productivity Ninja and a couple from Charles Duhig's brilliant book, The Power of Habit, here's a few ways to design the habits and behaviours you need to make the changes you want:

People’s Faces — Kae Tempest

It’s coming to pass

My country’s coming apart

The whole thing’s becoming such a bumbling farce

Was that a pivotal historical moment we just went stumbling past?

Well here we are

Dancing in the rumbling dark

So come a little closer

Give me something to grasp

Give me your beautiful, crumbling heart

Graham Allcott 0:04

You're listening to beyond busy, the show where we talk, productivity, work-life balance, and how people define happiness and success. My name is Graham Allcott. I'm your host for the show.

And on this episode, I'm talking to Ben Williams. Ben is a former Royal Marine, served in Afghanistan. He's also a former bouncer. He's also a former drug addict. And we talk about a lot of those experiences in this book. Some of his battle stories from the frontline in Afghanistan in the book are just unreal. We talked about a couple of them, but yeah, really worth checking out it. I kind of read it with my jaw, just dropping it. Every time I turned the page it was, it was pretty amazing. So really interesting book, we had a real mission with this episode. Actually, we just had tech fails on multiple fronts. So I realize I'm using all these military analogies, like on multiple fronts and stuff, and missions. But yeah, we ended up recording the first half of this one day, and then we recorded the second half of it like a week later. And then even when we were in the second half, we recorded that into half. So yeah, thanks, Mark Stedman, my producer for piecing all of this together. And I think when you get into the episode, you might find that you just can't really tell where the joins are, because I think we did a pretty good job of just keeping the conversation going. And we both just listened to the first half before we started. The second bit just to sort of get back in the zone and all that. I think we did a pretty decent job of, of getting a full hour even though the tech was was very much against us. But yeah, so we talked about his time in Afghanistan, his take on commando values, and leadership and performance. We talked about his work with the England football team. We talked about planning, just really lots of good stuff, and also how to sleep at night, which I think if you're probably in war zones, and have experienced things that that must be a really big challenge as well. So lots of really valuable stuff.

In this episode, I think you're gonna really enjoy it. So let's get straight into it. Here's my episode with Ben Williams.