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Nick Peters

Shop Floor: School of Hard Knocks, Inclusive Leadership and HR

Nick Peters
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Shop Floor

Shop Floor: School of Hard Knocks, Inclusive Leadership and HR
On this week's Shop Floor, in partnership with the Inspirational Development Group, Ken Cowen, founder of the charity The School of Hard Knocks, explains how young men and women who have been neglected by society are given a chance to regain esteem and drive, to help them get a job. Nick Peters discusses the importance of Inclusive Leadership, a new Inspirational Development Group workshop, with Senior IDG Consultant, Johanne Malin. Paul Harris, Co-Founder of Bright HR, explains why many HR policies are not beneficial to employees; and Katie Jacobs, Editor of HR Magazine, looks back at the evolution of HR and the publication in the last 25 years.
Guests:

Ken Cowen, Johanne Malin, Paul Harris, Katie Jacobs


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Inspirational Development Group
Linda Lewis (1)

Company Casebook: Active Commuting

Linda Lewis (1)
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Company Casebook

Company Casebook: Active Commuting
Commuting to work is getting easier! Active Commuting manufacture purpose-built portable pods, which combine changing rooms, showers and bike storage. Linda Lewis speaks to founder Andrew Rechten about the company’s growth, how they started and how they encourage workers to maintain a healthy lifestyle by cycling or running to work.
Guest:

Andrew Rechten


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Nick Peters

Marketing Watch: Campaign Magazine and Engaging with Consumers

Nick Peters
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Marketing Watch

Marketing Watch: Campaign Magazine and Engaging with Consumers
How well are marketing and advertising companies responding to calls for them to become more engaged with consumers? Nick Peters discusses the 'age of the consumer' with Chris Daly, Chief Executive of the Chartered Institute of Marketing. He also looks at the merging of Marketing Magazine and Campaign under the one brand, 'Campaign', with Maisie McCabe and Gemma Charles, Joint Deputy Editors at Campaign.
Guests:

Chris Daly, Maisie McCabe, Gemma Charles


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Sue Dougan

Track Record: Paola Diana

Sue Dougan
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Track Record

Track Record: Paola Diana
Italian-born entrepreneur, Paola Diana, talks about her life in Italy before founding Nanny & Butler, Sigillus and A.M.O.R.E– a portfolio of companies that offers invaluable services, ranging from quality child care and household help to luxury experiences and curated matchmaking events. Paola also lists her favourite tracks and talks about her new book which was recently published in Italy.
Guest:

Paola Diana


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Sarah Pennells (1)

Ask Sarah: Automatic Enrollment Pensions

Sarah Pennells (1)
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Ask Sarah

Ask Sarah: Automatic Enrollment Pensions
This week Sarah Pennells explores the issues revolving automatic enrolment pensions, the government's programme to encourage more people to save for their retirement through a workplace pension. While millions of people are being placed into their workplace pension, new research from pensions provider Aviva shows that one and a half million don't know what their money is invested in. Sarah is joined by Chris Daems, from Cervello Financial Planning, Ranila Ravi Burslem, from NEST, and Malcolm Goodwin from Aviva to discuss the topic.
Guests:

Chris Daems, Ranila Ravi Burslem, Malcolm Goodwin


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Sarah Pennells (1)

Women and Money: Balancing Work and Life

Sarah Pennells (1)
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Women & Money

Women and Money: Balancing Work and Life
Sarah Pennells looks at how to create the perfect work/life balance with guests Neil Shah, Chief De-Stressing Officer at the Stress Management Society, and life coach Karen Perkins, who discuss other factors that can increase stress, and Sarah Evans, an Employment Lawyer with Slater and Gordon, who looks at whether people should have the right to work flexibility and what employers should take into account.
Guests:

Neil Shah, Karen Perkins, Sarah Evans


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Sue Dougan

Share Food with Sainsbury's Magazine: Episode Five

Sue Dougan
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Share Food with Sainsbury's Magazine

Share Food with Sainsbury's Magazine: Episode Five
Sue Dougan and Sarah Alcock, Digital Editor at Sainsbury's Magazine, meet Lisa Roukin who explains how she overcame her eating disorder and became a chef and teacher. Naved Nasir, Executive Chef Dishoom, and Sameer Taneja, Chef at Talli Joe, talk about the undiscovered dishes of the Indian cuisine, while food writer and journalist Xanthe Clay takes five ingredients and explores how they can be used in everyday meals. Lucy Bee, founder of Lucy Bee Coconut Oil, talks about her company and how they aim to make sustainable and healthy products based on coconut oil.
Guests:

Sarah Alcock, Lisa Roukin, Naved Nasir, Sameer Taneja, Xanthe Clay, Lucy Bee


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Nick Peters

Shop Floor: Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering, Unnecessary Admin and Working Environments

Nick Peters
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Shop Floor

Shop Floor: Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering, Unnecessary Admin and Working Environments
Shop Floor, in association with the Inspirational Development Group, opens with an insight into the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering. Lord John Browne, QE Prize Trustees and former Chief Executive of BP, explains what the award represents for the profession and why there needs to be a social change to encourage children to become engineers. Neil Pickering, Industry and Customer Insight Manager at Kronos, analyses how British businesses can avoid wasting over £60 billion a year on unnecessary admin, while Leeson Medhurst, Head of Workplace Consultancy at 360 Workplace, explains why office space can affect a company's productivity.
Guests:

Lord John Browne, Neil Pickering, Paul Jackson, Leeson Medhurst


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In partnership with

Inspirational Development Group
Linda Lewis (1)

Company Casebook: Stamptastic

Linda Lewis (1)
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Company Casebook

Company Casebook: Stamptastic
Emma Alleyne and Francesca Gubbay have come up with a labeling kit like no other. Stamptastic helps to stamp children's clothes, instead of ironing or sewing labels that would otherwise go missing. The two mums from south west London meet Linda Lewis explaining how their company has rapidly grown and why, after winning a series of local business awards, they are pitching their idea to Sir Richard Branson in the annual #PitchtoRich #Voom competition.
Guests:

Emma Alleyne, Francesca Gubbay


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Linda Lewis (1)

Company Casebook: Pavegen

Linda Lewis (1)
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Company Casebook

Company Casebook: Pavegen
Pavegen are a company who have come up with revolutionary technology that transforms the power of people's footsteps into energy. Linda Lewis meets the CEO Laurence Kemball Cook, who reveals how the company has teamed up with Tribal Planet in Silicon Valley to turn the data from footsteps into a 'digital currency' which people can spend using their mobile phone.
Guest:

Laurence Kemball Cook


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