Reworked

In episode 7, Rachael breaks down the popular buzz phrase inclusive leadership in our new 'How to reWork' mini-series.In this episode, Rachael tackles 'inclusive leadership'. It's a popular buzz phrase just now, but what does it mean? Rachael answers all your key questions, including: • What do we mean by 'inclusive leadership'? • What would you seen an inclusive leader doing? • How do you know if you are an inclusive leader?Along with great examples of inclusive leadership, this episode covers all the important fundamentals you need to understand and develop inclusive leadership skills.Get in touch to learn more about EW Group's bespoke inclusive leadership training and  how we can support you organisation in becoming more inclusive.Connect with Rachael on LinkedIn or Twitter.You're listening to Reworked, the EW Group podcast on company culture.For more on EW Group and the work we do to create inclusive cultures, follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn or visit our website

In episode 6, Rachael talks to Gary Jackson, Group Director of Communications and Customer Success at Mears Group about the importance of diversity communications.Rachael and Gary discuss the importance of diversity communications in your organisation, from how critical is good comms on diversity and inclusion, to how getting it right can move you from an organisation that has diversity and inclusion initiatives to one that lives and breathes those values in a meaningful way. Today everything is value led and driven, so it’s important to let everyone know who you are as a business and what you stand for collectively, says Gary.From recognising a ‘one size fits all’ approach to internal communications doesn’t work, to identifying the importance of clear messages and creating a storytelling culture, Gary shares his insights and experiences in transforming how diversity is positioned at Mears.Connect with Gary on Twitter or LinkedIn.You’re listening to Reworked, the EW Group podcast on company culture.For more o

In episode 5, Rachael talks to Dominie Moss, founder of The Return Hub, a unique recruitment firm about what her company is doing to challenge the return to work status quo.People returning to work after a career break, having children, travelling – whatever the reason – can face an uphill struggle to be taken seriously in the job market. The transferable skills they possess can be a real asset to our organisations, but they are all too often overlooked. Dominie Moss is changing that with her organisation, The Return Hub, which places professionals who want to relaunch after a career break or transfer their careers into the financial services sector. Rachael and Dominie discuss the barriers candidates face, best practices companies can adopt in their recruitment processes, and whether the automation of recruitment will help overcome unconscious bias. Connect with Dominie on Twitter or LinkedIn.You’re listening to Reworked, the EW Group podcast on company culture.For more on EW Group and the work we do to crea

In this week's episode, we're changing things up. In our new "How to rework" guides, Rachael Wilson breaks down the big topics in diversity and inclusion, starting with unconscious bias.In this episode, Rachael is tackling unconscious bias. From answering 'what is unconscious bias?' to discussing 'how does it affect us at work?', 'what's the science behind it?' and 'what can we do to address unconscious bias?', all grounds are covered. Learn more about EW Group's bespoke unconscious bias training and how we can support your organisation in becoming more inclusive.Connect with Rachael on LinkedIn or Twitter.You're listening to Reworked, the EW Group podcast on company culture.For more on EW Group and the work we do to create inclusive cultures, follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn or visit our website.

In this week's episode, Rachael talks to Cherron Inko-Tariah MBE, former civil servant and founder of the Power of Staff Networks.Cherron Inko-Tariah is one of those inspiring people who has turned her passion for staff networks into her specialism. Cherron is the author of The Incredible Power of Staff Networks, which is a go-to guide for setting up, getting buy-in and making a success of staff networks. She now works across the UK and internationally to support the creation of staff networks. In 2011, Cherron received an MBE for her services to the UK government and her work in the faith community with young people. In this episode, Cherron shares her insights and tips on what makes a successful staff network (and what doesn't) and how you can start your own staff network within your organisation.Connect with Cherron on LinkedIn or Twitter.You're listening to Reworked, the EW Group podcast on company culture.For more on EW Group and the work we do to create inclusive cultures, follow us on Tw

In episode 2, Rachael talks to Salma El-Wardany, TEDx speaker, BBC Radio London host, business owner and poet, about her experiences as a Muslim woman in the 21st century both in wider society and in the workplace.Salma discusses her experiences growing up in Newcastle, fighting in the revolution during the Arab Spring in Cairo, working in the corporate world in London, and starting her own marketing business as a young Muslim woman. Salma stresses the importance of not just giving lip service to diversity, but the need to do something, to be constructive with our anger and challenge dominant narratives that normalise prejudice and discrimination.This related blog also provides useful tips on what we could each do to impact lasting change and create more inclusive cultures.Connect with Salma on LinkedIn and Twitter.You’re listening to Reworked, the EW Group podcast on workplace culture.For more on EW Group and the work we do to create inclusive cultures, follow us on Twitter or visit our website.

In our first episode back for 2019, Rachael talks to Victoria Hills, Chief Executive of the Royal Town Planning Institute, on her career journey and important lessons she’s learnt on the way.Until April 2018 Victoria Hills headed up the UK's largest re-generation project in West London. She’s now Chief Executive of the Royal Town Planning Institute, the largest planning institute in Europe. Touching upon on the importance of role models, networking and taking a risk to get the career you want, Victoria reflects on the milestones in her career so far and the challenges of getting to the top as a woman. Whilst the field of planning is still largely dominated by men, there’s phenomenal change underway with more and more women entering the industry. But what can be done to ensure that the industry is as representative and diverse as possible? Victoria shares her insights not only on the barriers to diversity, but her tips you can adopt now to get the career you want.Connect with Victoria on LinkedIn or Twitt

In this week’s episode, Rachael is talking to Karen Venn, Diversity and Inclusion Project Manager at Network Rail about a new project Karen’s spearheading with her colleagues, ‘Everyone’s Guide to Menopause.’Menopause is still a relatively taboo subject regarding women’s health. The average age menopause is reached is 50, affecting approximately 3.5 million women in the UK. Menopause affects women in different ways. And since we’re now living longer and retiring later, menopause will undoubtedly affect our working lives in some way.It’s not often spoken about even within personal circles, let alone openly discussing its impact on employees’ wellbeing within the workplace. Not often do we find employers who are proactive in supporting women during this time. Yet, Karen and her team at Network Rail are tackling the subject head on. Launching the ‘Everyone Matters Guide to Menopause’, along with a short film on the subject, helpful resources and a support group, Network Rail are light years ahead in their approa

This week, Rachael is talking to Pat Cox – reader in Social Work and Social Justice at University of Central Lancashire – about the diversity and inclusion issues surrounding migration.We effectively live in a world on the move. We are increasingly looking for meaningful work, opportunities, better standards of living and adventure. Migration is undoubtedly one of the overarching issues of the 21st century sparking political and moral debates about nationalism, patriotism and the rights of migrant peoples across the world.Yet, we still have limited knowledge about the experiences of migrants in the UK. And we know even less about the lived experiences of migrants escaping from torture, war and even the impact of climate change.Pat shares her insights into the matter, what it means to a reader and the importance of challenging people on their preconceptions and initiating new ways of thinking about migration.Follow Pat Cox on ResearchGate.You’re listening to Reworked, the EW Group podcast on workplace culture.

In this episode, Rachael talks to Caroline Arnold, an executive coach and one of EW Group’s team of diversity and inclusion specialists, about how coaching can help individuals and how it fits into the broader organisational picture.More organisations are recognising the importance of offering coaching and mentoring to its employees to help create progression pathways into senior positions which work for men and women equally.For example, PwC recently announced it will begin assigning mentors – usually partners – to help female and ethnic minorities employees access career-defining opportunities and help tackle its gender pay gap.Caroline’s interest in coaching, especially women, stems for her own personal experiences in forging her career path and background in HR which showed her that women compared to men didn’t always feel able to negotiate their own salary and benefit packages.Learn how you can power up your career with coaching.Connect with Caroline on LinkedIn.You’re listening to Reworked, the EW Group

 In Episode 17, Rachael is joined by a good friend of EW Group, Ruth Cooper-Dickson, to discuss how to remove the fear of saying no. Ruth also shares her practical tips on how to create more time for yourself despite having a hectic work schedule. Ruth is our partner for all Mental Health England accredited programmes and a well respected specialist in the field of mental health and wellbeing. She is also the founder of Champs Consultancy and a patron of the national anxiety charity, No Panic. We’re all creatures of (bad) habits. Hear more about our 5-point plan for wellbeing and making more time for you!1. Creating space for yourself through morning routines2. Establishing work boundaries3. Having ceremonies or routines4. Setting the pace of your day5. Building on your strengths For more on the Miracle Morning, click here.Connect with Ruth on Twitter or Instagram.You're listening to Reworked, the EW Group podcast on workplace culture. For more on EW Group and the work we do to build inclusive cultures,

In episode 16 of Reworked, Rachael Wilson talks to the Gilane Tawadros, Chief Executive at DACS, a not-for-profit visual artists’ rights management organisation.DACS was set up by artists for artists to help transform the financial landscape for visual artists, campaign for artists’ rights and champion their sustained and vital contribution to the creative economy.Yet, sometimes it is easy to lose sight of your organisation’s core purpose. Gilane talks about the importance of DACS rediscovering its purpose and reconnecting with the people it is meant to serve: to support artists’ work and their ability to produce their artwork sustainably. Without having this deep understanding of artists’ needs and what these needs will be in the future at the heart of the organisation, it becomes increasingly difficult to remain relevant. Cultural change does not happen overnight. Rachael and Gilane discuss the steps DACS took to implement a cultural change to help reconnect with artists and embed across all levels of the

In episode 15 of Reworked, Rachael Wilson talks to Rob Neil OBE, Head of Project Race at the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) and the former Chair of the Civil Service Race Forum. Rob provides a candid insight into his experience of being a black man in the Civil Service. With over three decades of lived experience, Rob offers a refreshingly honest analysis of the experience of minority groups in the workplace. He gives real examples of how he leads on diversity, how he is equipping his cohort of race ambassadors to do the same and talks about why he is calling on senior leaders to clear the runway so that progress on race equality can be made.Sponsored by the Permanent Secretary and Civil Service Race Champion, Richard Heaton, Project Race is a corporate initiative that supports the delivery of MoJ’s published objectives to deliver increased numbers of BAME staff at senior Civil Service level. The project facilitates honest conversations with the aim of becoming more comfortable and confident talking about race acr

For episode 14 of Reworked, Rachael catches up with Jim Gant and Keith Grafham, the team behind Feed Your Elephant, an exciting new start-up set to change the way people learn. Have you ever stayed up all night cramming for an exam, only to find yourself drawing blanks the next day? That’s because our brains aren’t built to work that way.Scientific evidence suggests that we learn much more effectively by absorbing small amounts of information over a sustained period. This is called spaced learning.Jim has employed this science to create Feed Your Elephant, a series of applications designed to help you integrate new knowledge into your long-term memory. You can currently download the free apps to learn anything from capital cities, to the names and characteristics of wines.However, the technology can also be used to supplement in-house training sessions. Spaced learning banishes the element of competition present in most other learning environments. It also uses the speed and accuracy at which you retain infor

For episode 13 of the Reworked podcast, Rachael talks to Lauren Quigley, Business Growth Lead at the Mayor of London’s official promotional agency, London and Partners. You may have heard the phrase ‘Behind every man is a great woman’. This year, London and Partners are turning that anachronism on its head. Women don’t stand behind great men; they power great cities, and the company’s #BehindEveryGreatCity campaign is setting out to prove it.#BehindEveryGreatCity was launched at the start of 2018. The campaign aims to support and raise the profile of the capital’s top women entrepreneurs and break down the still-significant obstacles they face on the road to success: only 8% of the UK’s women entrepreneurs secure venture capital funding, for example.Rachael talks to Lauren about hope for the future, and discusses how London and Partners are paving the way for women in business – delving into the importance of mentors, communities, and having the confidence to challenge investors.Connect with Lauren on Twitter

For episode 12 of the ReWorked podcast, Rachael is joined by Victor Olisa, former Head of Diversity and Chief Superintendent at the Metropolitan Police. Working for the Metropolitan Police is demanding. 12-hour shifts are becoming the norm, and a recent study revealed that 53% of officers are never or only rarely able to take their full rest break entitlement.As Head of Diversity and Inclusion, Victor was tasked with the challenge of convincing these time-pressed officers to make his cause a priority. He tells Rachael the tactics that he used to ‘sell’ diversity and inclusion to the officers, and reflects on the positive changes to working culture and community engagement that he enabled.Under Victor’s management, the Met saw a record level of BAME candidates join its ranks, with over 4,000 BAME officers recorded in 2016.Yet despite this success, Victor is the first to admit that there is still a long way to go. Systemic issues with stop and search, BME mentoring programmes, and stress management remain. The

In episode 11 of the Reworked podcast, Rachael talks to Vix Anderton, a wellbeing specialist and co-founder of The Practical Balance. The importance of wellbeing in the modern workplace cannot be underestimated. It has been estimated that 12.5 million working days were lost in 2016-17 due to work-related stress, depression or anxiety. But for many companies, approaches to dealing with the problem have only come in the form of short-sighted, box-ticking exercises.So how can businesses make the structural and cultural changes necessary to entrench wellbeing as a core company principle? What can be done to reduce the pressure and expectation on employees? And what are the obstacles getting in the way, and how can we best move past them?Vix answers these questions and many more as she talks to Rachael about the benefits that can follow when a company takes practical steps to incorporate wellbeing into its DNA. She also offers some invaluable tips on the steps we can all take to focus more on our own wellbeing in

For the tenth episode of Reworked we caught up with Gemma Lloyd, founder of the recruitment app Work180, which has recently landed in the UK. Equality, diversity and inclusion often appear in organisational values and strategy. Work180 helps job seekers know before they apply which organisations walk their talk.The Work180 app advertises the job roles of companies that have already been vetted on their equality-supporting practices. Businesses are assessed on their maternity/paternity leave and flexible working policies, their gender pay gap reporting, and a host of other key criteria. Job seekers can then be confident that the organisation they are applying to work with has an inclusive workplace culture.The app has already been a great success in Australia, where it receives 90,000 job searches a month, and it will reach New York and San Francisco very soon. Gemma draws interesting comparisons of attitudes towards diversity and inclusion between the UK and Australia. With gender equality and the gender pay

On 12th April 2018, two black men were arrested in a Starbucks branch in Philadelphia while waiting for a friend to join them.Mobile-phone video footage of the pair being put in handcuffs in front of disbelieving onlookers soon went viral. The arrests sparked demonstrations outside the branch and wider outrage across social media.As part of the company's response, Starbucks announced that it would close more than 8,000 of its US stores on 29th May to run unconscious bias training sessions for around 175,000 employees. It was an unprecedented move in high-street retail.Jane Farrell co-founded EW Group in 1992, and is one of the UK's leading experts on diversity and inclusion. Jane recently appeared on Radio 4's Today programme and Channel 5 News to talk about the Starbucks incident and the resulting spotlight on unconscious bias training.In this episode of Reworked, Jane speaks to Rachael Wilson about the rise and rise of the term 'unconscious bias' in public and professional discourse

As we journey across London, whether night or day but almost undoubtedly absorbed in our technology, how in tune are we with our physical personal safety in the moment? Rachael speaks with Jillian Kowalchuk the creator of Safe and The City, a free app which merges police crime data on sexual assault in London with the stories of users. With this information, people are empowered to make informed choices about their travel routes, and businesses and communities know where to direct their efforts to create an inclusive environment.From her experiences travelling, Jillian tells us she found knowing her surroundings allowed her to adapt her journey choices, which gave her the confidence to better manage her own safety. However, current technology tends to only provide information on the quickest routes to places, not necessarily the safest.Safe and The City aims to alert people before they walk into known hotspots, so they have the knowledge to make safer choices. Attracting 7000 users in just 6 weeks, people are