Podcast Episode

Chapters

00:01:17

The lift pitch gone wrong

00:01:54

Getting people curious about our business

00:02:58

Simple tricks for networking events

00:03:43

How to stand out

00:04:13

Mistakes people make when pitching

00:05:32

Why the first 60 seconds is key

00:05:53

The worst pitch ever

00:06:19

Show you care what you're talking about

00:07:06

Think about your style and tone

00:07:48

Getting your nerves under control

00:08:47

Your first and last 90 seconds

00:09:31

Owning the pause

00:10:05

Being different gets you notitced

00:10:25

Channeling Don Draper from Mad Men

00:11:20

The importance of rehearsals

00:13:05

Three things you can do next week

00:13:26

Why should people listen to you?

00:14:16

Think about your "sexy secret"

00:15:59

Find out more about Peter

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Episode 7: The Future of Pitching for Success with Peter Hopwood

Aug 12, 2019 Season 1 Episode 7

Andrew Grill

Pitching Expert Peter Hopwood speaks with Practical Futurist Andrew Grill and answers the question “What’s the Future of … Pitching for Success?"

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Chapters

00:01:15

Why Ethan started an employee activation company

00:02:11

Who is your audience?

00:03:05

Internal vs External communications

00:03:50

Harnessing your external network

00:04:08

Employee Advocacy beyond: "Please retweet this"

00:04:33

How do you measure employee engagement?

00:05:42

Helping attract new talent to the firm

00:06:09

Using communication as a recruitment tool

00:07:43

How do you "activate" employees?

00:08:24

Stop "interruption messaging"

00:08:43

Active and passive listening

00:09:22

Digital transformation

00:10:31

Organisations people want to be part of

00:11:23

Culture and purpose

00:11:37

Social Media Guidelines in 2013

00:11:56

Do we need to update the guidelines?

00:15:26

Personal brand vs company brand

00:16:26

PVH Cares

00:17:03

#WeArePVH

00:18:00

The value exchange

00:18:23

Renting your brand to an organisation

00:19:35

Eminence vs advocacy

00:20:15

Eminence is the Gold standard

00:20:33

Showing up with your network

00:21:08

Network portability

00:23:51

Design your value proposition to be network permeable

00:25:24

Getting your digital tools ready

00:26:58

What 3 things can you do next week to start an employee engagement program?

00:27:06

1. Start talking with employees

00:27:43

2. Reinspect the measures of our work

00:28:50

3. Inspect your practice of iteration

00:29:56

The Agile Manifesto

00:30:25

How to find Ethan

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Episode 6: The Future of Employee Communication with Ethan McCarty

Jul 29, 2019 Season 1 Episode 6

Andrew Grill

Ethan McCarty, former IBM and Bloomberg Employee Communication Leader speaks with Practical Futurist Andrew Grill and answers the question “What’s the Future of … Employee Communication?"

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Chapters

00:00:30

Introducing Tiffany

00:01:41

Digital Transformation in the UK Government

00:03:10

What would you do differently?

00:03:54

Digital Transformation with people

00:05:46

How do you transform a large corporate?

00:06:11

Changing the physical interior of a business

00:06:57

Being "digitally curious"

00:08:11

Instilling play into corporate education

00:08:32

Developing your problem solving muscle

00:09:13

Using escape rooms to aid problem solving

00:09:24

"Corporate adventuring" to find out information

00:09:42

Running a "corporate fire drill"

00:10:23

Use Corporate Venturing to solve problems

00:11:17

The Two Tribes in every organisation

00:11:37

Organising a Hackathon

00:12:12

Be careful not to over-serve young leaders

00:12:40

What can the board teach young people?

00:13:36

Hackathons to create cultural change

00:14:00

Digital Diversity

00:15:10

Digital maturity

00:15:48

The digital talent crisis

00:16:48

Getting people studying the right subjects

00:17:50

Getting digital agencies involved

00:18:53

Get involved with local schools & unis

00:19:13

Studying a 2nd language - coding

00:19:45

Learning how to learn

00:21:13

Topping up your digital skills

00:22:54

What is Employee Experience (EX)?

00:25:30

Wellness in corporates - a fresh look

00:26:51

Quantified Workers

00:27:28

More productive employees take breaks together

00:29:19

Women in innovation

00:29:55

Diversity of Thought

00:30:43

Three things for next week

00:31:57

Find out more about Tiffany

00:32:01

Consultancy Club

00:32:13

Speaking

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Episode 5: The Future of Digital Transformation with Tiffany St James

Jul 15, 2019 Season 1 Episode 5

Andrew Grill

Tiffany St James, former UK Government Digital Strategist speaks with Practical Futurist Andrew Grill and answers the question “What’s the Future of … Digital Transformation?"

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Chapters

00:00:38

Episode summary

00:02:56

Dom’s story

00:03:50

Why Dom moved to Sydney

00:04:14

The last 6 years at Atlassian

00:04:43

Atlassian’s Values

00:05:18

The culture at Atlassian

00:06:30

Place, products, purpose, people

00:07:17

ANZ Bank’s transformation

00:08:09

When AI evolves, what will we be doing?

00:08:35

Unlearning old ways of working

00:08:45

Why Dom hates business cases

00:09:47

How can you “unlearn”?

00:10:17

The 4 “L’s”

00:10:29

1. Love

00:10:51

2. Longed for & 3. Loathed

00:11:29

4. Learn

00:11:52

Example of the 4L’s in practice

00:12:14

Declining every meeting

00:13:06

Staying up to date with latest trends

00:14:08

The Atlassian scale-up story

00:14:34

What would you do differently?

00:15:08

How do you hire people before you need them?

00:15:45

The best advice Dom received

00:16:31

Getting better not bigger

00:16:56

Creating our values

00:17:54

The values interview

00:18:25

Recognising excellence against values

00:18:58

What makes the Australian Tech market unique?

00:19:24

Learning a 2nd language - coding

00:20:14

The hiring challenge in Australia

00:20:32

Importing talent to amplify local talent

00:20:58

Success through diversity

00:21:31

What more can Governments do?

00:22:35

Organisations I admire

00:23:26

You’re not going to be the next Netflix of ...

00:24:00

Attracting talent beyond free lunches & ping-pong tables

00:24:22

Hiring for values

00:25:54

The secret sauce of Atlassian

00:26:38

Audience questions

00:26:53

Tips to “unlearn”

00:28:33

If you don’t change this quarter you don’t fail

00:29:56

How to win the global war on talent

00:30:26

Running a tech camp

00:32:27

Find out more about Futurist Keynote Speaker Andrew Grill

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Episode 4: The Future of Work with Dom Price from Atlassian

Jul 01, 2019 Season 1 Episode 4

Andrew Grill

Work Futurist Dom Price from Australian Tech unicorn Atlassian speaks with Practical Futurist Andrew Grill and answers the question "What is the future of ... Work?"

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Chapters

00:02:55

Podcasting since 2007

00:03:58

Pre-iPhone podcasting - biggest learnings

00:03:58

Your first experience with Alexa

00:05:35

How children interact with smart speakers

00:06:00

Smart speakers are driving the growth of voice services

00:07:07

Don’t just focus on the smart speaker

00:08:24

Voice+ is the future

00:08:56

What 3 words - great voice example

00:09:45

The “killer app” in Voice

00:10:30

What will Google Duplex do for voice?

00:13:35

Should we we saying please and thank you to voice assistants?

00:14:05

Will we have an emotionally intelligent bot in our lifetime?

00:17:25

The science of voice phrasing

00:18:05

The notion of voice brand guidelines

00:20:06

Brand tone of voice

00:20:33

Using the voice of the Master Distiller for a Whiskey brand

00:22:26

The notion of Voice user interface

00:23:38

Will we have dedicated voice departments?

00:24:24

The speed of adoption of voice in < 18 months 

00:25:49

Why we’re listening to more audio content

00:26:48

Audio - the screen rebellion

00:27:40

Voice beyond the home

00:28:01

Bose AR is a good view of the ambient voice experience

00:28:36

The rise of Voice + AR

00:29:34

Voice in the enterprise - eg meeting room bookings

00:30:25

Surfacing data using voice “Hey Salesforce …”

00:31:03

Ambient listening - the "always on" assistant

00:31:21

Is our phone listening to us? The privacy squeeze

00:33:36

Ambient listening use cases - mental health and ethics

00:34:58

Privacy vs utility - crossing the privacy cavern

00:35:29

The Voice 2 community - key learnings

00:36:29

Three things for next week

00:38:12

One listener gets a free Amazon Echo!

00:38:31

Where can you find out more about James?

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Episode 3: The Future of Voice with James Poulter

Jun 17, 2019 Season 1 Episode 3

Andrew Grill

Voice expert James Poulter speaks with Practical Futurist Andrew Grill and answers the question "What is the future of ... Voice?"

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Chapters

00:02:40

Heartificial empathy - an introduction

00:03:06

The need for empathy in business

00:04:36

Can we create empathy in a machine?

00:06:05

Feeling vs cognitive empathy

00:09:19

Ethics in AI

00:11:27

Avoiding conscious bias

00:13:25

How can we learn to be more empathetic?

00:14:29

The case for reading great novels

00:15:19

Empathy as a key competitive advantage

00:18:02

The rise of the "Empathy Index"

00:19:46

Key learnings from the book

00:20:59

3 Practical tips for next week

00:22:30

Where can people find out more about Minter?

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Episode 2: The Future of AI and Ethics with Minter Dial

Jun 03, 2019 Season 1 Episode 2

Andrew Grill

Best-selling Author of "Heartificial Empathy" Minter Dial speaks with Practical Futurist Andrew Grill and answers the question "What is the future of ... AI and Ethics?"

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Chapters

00:00:00

Introduction

00:00:47

Introducing Martin Brooks

00:01:26

Social serendipity

00:02:15

Who hires an "Impacttologist?

00:04:51

The performance levers

00:08:17

Adapting to new communications channels

00:11:24

Using new channels more effectively

00:14:12

A practical tip for public speaking

00:19:28

Learning from how pilots communicate

00:21:37

Using "rounds" on conference calls

00:25:20

The power of persuasion

00:31:47

Tips for being a great communicator

00:34:14

Three practical tips for next week

00:35:55

How has technology impacted your business?

00:38:25

How to find Martin online

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Episode 1: The Future of Communication with Martin Brooks

May 17, 2019 Season 1 Episode 1

Andrew Grill

Impacttologist Martin Brooks speaks with Practical Futurist Andrew Grill and answers the question "What is the future of ... Communication?"

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