How to Empower Your People to Drive Innovation, with Dan Strode
10/21/22 • 36 min
In this episode of the HR Leaders podcast I'm joined by Dan Strode to discuss how to empower your people to drive innovation, alongside his new book: "The Culture Advantage: Empowering your People to Drive Innovation".
Daniel Strode is a culture evangelist and Global Director of Culture and Strategy at Banco Santander, based in Madrid, Spain. The custodian of a common culture, the Santander Way, which is disseminated across 32 countries and to more than 200,000 colleagues, he strengthens the group's innovation focus and cements its collaboration with new financial tech companies. An Adjunct Professor at the IE School of Human Science and Technology, amongst others, he is an in-demand speaker and industry commentator on Corporate Culture, Innovation, Web 3.0, Crypto and DeFi.
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Episode highlights
00:00 Intro
03:00 Why Dan wrote "The Culture Advantage"
04:37 What is company culture?
05:36 How to rethink your business model
09:06 How to create creativity with constraints
12:10 The steps you can take to shift your company’s culture
14:48 How to foster a growth mindset
22:26 How technology can shape a culture of innovation
26:05 Dan’s favourite story from "The Culture Advantage"
29:08 The most common mistakes companies make when shaping their culture
33:40 Does culture eat strategy for breakfast?
35:29 Outro
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In this episode of the HR Leaders podcast I'm joined by Dan Strode to discuss how to empower your people to drive innovation, alongside his new book: "The Culture Advantage: Empowering your People to Drive Innovation".
Daniel Strode is a culture evangelist and Global Director of Culture and Strategy at Banco Santander, based in Madrid, Spain. The custodian of a common culture, the Santander Way, which is disseminated across 32 countries and to more than 200,000 colleagues, he strengthens the group's innovation focus and cements its collaboration with new financial tech companies. An Adjunct Professor at the IE School of Human Science and Technology, amongst others, he is an in-demand speaker and industry commentator on Corporate Culture, Innovation, Web 3.0, Crypto and DeFi.
👉 Subscribe to HR Leaders: http://bit.ly/2wFkCEq
🎙️ Listen on your favourite platform: https://art19.com/shows/hr-leaders-podcast
👤 Follow Chris on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisraineyhr
Episode highlights
00:00 Intro
03:00 Why Dan wrote "The Culture Advantage"
04:37 What is company culture?
05:36 How to rethink your business model
09:06 How to create creativity with constraints
12:10 The steps you can take to shift your company’s culture
14:48 How to foster a growth mindset
22:26 How technology can shape a culture of innovation
26:05 Dan’s favourite story from "The Culture Advantage"
29:08 The most common mistakes companies make when shaping their culture
33:40 Does culture eat strategy for breakfast?
35:29 Outro
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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How Microsoft are Using People-Focused Tech for Business Acceleration, with Fiona Carney and Richard Gregory
In this episode of the HR Leaders podcast, I'm joined by Fiona Carney and Richard Gregory to discuss how Microsoft are using people-focused tech for business acceleration, as well as the steps you can take towards ending productivity paranoia, embracing the fact that people come in to the office for each other, and re-recruiting your employees.
Fiona Carney is the General Manager, Chief Marketing & Operations Officer Western Europe at Microsoft. Known as a highly motivated & energetic leader who thrives working with others, she has worked extensively leading large scale transformation programs, as well as running Operations for EMEA and Asia Pacific Microsoft business.
Richard Gregory is the Global Leader of Modern Workplace Practice at Avanade. He is the global leader of Avanade's Modern Workplace (Value Realisation) offering, helping clients to understand this changing world, how to successfully adapt, disrupt and digitally transform at pace. By transforming the digital, physical (IoT) & virtual (Metaverse) workplace, together with wider workforce transformation, Richard helps organisations adapt to the Future of Work and define a new “Workplace Experience” - reducing both Capex and Opex while increasing organisational productivity.
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Episode highlights
00:00 Intro
02:13 Fiona’s journey to Chief Marketing & Operations Officer Western Europe at Microsoft
03:05 Richard’s journey to Global Leader of Modern Workplace Practice at Avanade
04:20 What is Microsoft VIVA?
09:40 Does hybrid working increase or decrease productivity?
15:40 How Microsoft are redefining wellbeing in the workplace
23:50 How Microsoft is using technology to further their DE&I efforts
29:06 How you can help employees thrive in the new world of work
32:17 The one thing that makes employees want to return to the office
39:18 The role of HR in employee experience today
43:52 How Microsoft are embedding learning into the flow of work
49:43 Fiona and Richard’s parting piece of advice for the HR Leaders of tomorrow
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In this episode of the HR Leaders podcast I'm joined by Fredericka Butler to discuss how you can understand what your workforce really wants, as well as the changing role of leadership in HR, how employee expectations are changing and how Fredericka prepares her leaders for this important shift.
Fredericka Butler is the Head of HR, Mass Biologics at Takeda. She is an HR executive with diverse experiences across multiple industries and a proven track record of building strong relationships across senior leadership teams.
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Episode highlights
00:00 Intro
02:15 Fredericka’s journey to HR Site Leader at Takeda Pharmaceuticals
10:30 How employee expectations are changing
16:10 The changing role of leadership in HR
21:04 How Fredericka is preparing her leaders for the shift in employee expectations
24:10 How to nurture employee expectation in your company
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30:04 HR Leaders quick fire round
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