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Work ReimaginedFewer Meetings, Bigger Impact: Why We’re Getting Collaboration All Wrong with Dr Carrie GoucherMeetings: we’re all in them, but are they really working? In this episode of Work Reimagined, I’m joined by Dr Carrie Goucher - a systems engineering expert and founder of Fewer, Faster, Bolder. With over 20 years of experience driving culture change at organisations like the NHS, BBC Worldwide, BP, and Pfizer, Carrie is on a mission to reimagine how we meet and collaborate.We explore why traditional meetings are stuck in the past, why agendas aren’t the silver bullet we’ve been led to believe, and how rethinking meetings could unlock a huge whi...2025-05-1326 min
The Grey Lit CaféPodcasting on grey literature: what have we done? whither will we go?"Three years have passed; five summers, with the length/ Of five long winters!" (as William Wordsworth wrote). This episode was recorded to mark the third anniversary of The Grey Lit Café's first episode ('Welcome to the Grey Lit Café') and the conclusion of our seventh season. We briefly review the season in the context of our developing conception of how best to discuss grey literature and we look ahead to the next season, which promises a novel focus.Further listeningWe hope you found this episode rewarding. If so, you...2025-03-0806 min
The Happiness Index - Data. Insight. Stories"Could've been an email" with Dr Carrie GoucherAbout this episodeMatt Phelan and Dr Carrie Goucher discuss the fascinating world of meeting culture, how it evolved, why it is a problem and how we can fix it. About Dr Carrie GoucherDr Carrie Goucher is a leading expert on fixing broken collaboration and helping organisations move faster by rethinking how they meet, decide and execute.With a PhD in Meeting Culture from Cambridge, she coined the term “Collabureaucracy" to describe the invisible friction slowing companies down. ...2025-02-2145 min
Joy At WorkUnderstanding the Work of Meetings with Dr. Carrie Goucher Assess how feeling career stuck is impacting you across ten areas of life - in 30 minutes. Then, decide what you want to do about it.-If you’re over 40 you have probably been in about 10,000 meetings by now - and according to Malcolm Gladwell - you should be an expert in them by now! But sadly we are not. According to Dr. Carrie Goucher, studies have shown that meetings have not improved in the last 50 years, despite everyone being aware of basic techniques of how to run an effective meeting....2025-01-0810 min
Live Into Your BrillianceThe Truth About Meetings That No One Talks About – With Dr. Carrie GoucherIn this episode, we’re joined by Dr. Carrie Goucher, founder of Fewer, Faster, Bolder, and a leading voice in transforming meetings and collaboration. Carrie’s work has been called game-changing for meeting science and has helped top organizations like BBC Worldwide, BP, and Pizza Express redesign how they meet for the collaborative era.Key Topics:The Balance of Action & Letting Go: Carrie delves into the dance between making things happen and allowing things to unfold naturally, and why this balance is essential in both work and life.Revolutionizing Meetings: Discover how most meetings get it wron...2024-10-081h 13
C Tolle Run394: Carrie Birth-Davis - Always Have to Have HopeCarrie chats with Carrie Birth-Davis, the Director of Sports Marketing at Procter & Gamble! They discuss Carrie's amazing work with P&G, from supporting athletes at the Olympics with initiatives like the Pampers nursery and the Olympic Village hair salon to providing essential products for competitors. Carrie also opens up about her journey chasing her Abbott Marathon Major star, her personal health challenges alongside her husband, and her passion for lifting up women in sports and beyond. Plus, hear about her experiences running into Noah Lyles, working with coach Adam Goucher, and her exciting plans for the future.2024-08-2944 min
Modern Renaissance Woman®️E7: Intense Experiences + The Paradoxical World of the MRW with Dr Carrie GoucherSend us a textSlow motion, high energy multitasking to systematise your life. How do you create new structures to get stuff done? Dr Carrie Goucher can tell you how.This week we discuss:- Growing up in a Vicarage - Checking one's privilege- The drive to generate and go faster*! - Dismantling flawed systems + rebuilding them for culture change- Slow motion, High Energy Multitasking- Paradoxes of life- Power of the MRW - how to move forward... and more!*n...2024-07-1551 min
Recruitment in the modern worldCoaching: an inside view, with Fiona WilsonAnthony Haynes writes: Though the majority of our episodes concern talent acquisition, we also cover wider aspects of human resources - notably talent development. That is our focus here. In particular, drawing on Fiona Wilson's experience of providing coaching services, we reflect on the nature of coaching.In particular, we explore:who benefits most from coaching - and howwhich contexts are most suitablehow to establish goals, scope, and expectationscharacteristics of getting started and early-stage coachingthe roles and responsibilities of the coach and coacheeLinkPilotlight: https://www.pilotlight.org.uk/2024-05-0722 min
Conservation Careers PodcastDr Carrie Goucher | How to stop wasting precious time in mediocre meetings!Meetings are a core part of our working lives, and yet studies have found that 50% of time spent in meetings is often wasted.When viewed as a whole that's often billions, if not trillions, of dollars wasted annually, which could be put to much better use.But why do we spend so much of our precious lives clogged up in a confetti of mediocre meetings?!With calendars full back-to-back often borne as a badge of importance, rather than being seen as a problem to tackle.Here to talk about meetings and...2024-04-1551 min
For The Long Run: Exploring the Why Behind RunningThe Business of Running with Oiselle CEO Arielle KnutsonThis episode with Oiselle CEO Arielle Knutson is the final in a Oiselle-sponsored series leading up to the 2024 Marathon Olympic Trials. A wife, dog mom, and friend, Arielle juggles her corporate responsibilities -first as the long-time marketing manager at Nuun and now as Oiselle CEO- with a life on the run. Arielle, ultrarunner and Ironman triathlete, loves taking on challenges and exploring her limits.
In this episode we talk about:
In this episode we talk about:
-mixing passion with profession
-the evolution of sports marketing and brand ambassadors
-life as...2024-02-021h 03
The Grey Lit CaféThe case of case studies, with Dr Farrah ArifAnthony Haynes writes: On The Grey Lit Café we frequently explore grey literature by genre. Here we extend our coverage to the genre of case studies.To guide us, we interview Dr Farrah Arif, Senior Lecturer at the University of Hull. Farrah takes us on an expert, and enthusiastic, tour of the genre, taking in:how case studies work and what they are used forthe attraction of case studies and their benefitswhat to do when writing cases - and what not to dohow to develop as an author of case studiesFurther li...2024-01-2225 min
For The Long Run: Exploring the Why Behind RunningUnderbirds Flying High: Elena Hayday on Overcoming Marathon Fears and Running for CommunityThis episode with Elena Hayday is the fourth in a Oiselle-sponsored series with the Underbirds: a team of 5 female athletes being supported by Oiselle in the lead up to the 2024 Marathon Olympic Trials. More than a runner, Elena is a full-time researcher in healthcare, cat mom, sister and daughter. From start to present, community has been at the heart of Elena’s running “why”, and she is a proud member of Georgetown Running Club.
In this episode we talk about:
-running for the community
-fearing the marathon and hitting the wall
-racing...2024-01-1845 min
For The Long Run: Exploring the Why Behind RunningUnderbirds Flying High: How To Build Resilience For The Long Run with Carrie VerdonThis episode with Carrie Verdon is the fourth in a Oiselle-sponsored series with the Underbirds: a team of 5 female athletes being supported by Oiselle in the lead up to the 2024 Marathon Olympic Trials. A proud Boulder-ite, Carrie is a sister, girlfriend, and outdoor enthusiast, who juggles a full-time job as a teacher with elite running.
In this episode we talk about:
-taking breaks from running
-balancing elite running with a full time job as a teacher
-unlocking performance breakthroughs:sleep and consistent habits vs marginal gains
...2024-01-0447 min
Digital Works PodcastEpisode 039 - Dr Carrie Goucher on meeting culture, the role of psychological safety, advice on how to improve the effectiveness of your meetings, and building trust in teamsA conversation with Dr Carrie Goucher. Carrie helps people transform meetings and meeting culture. She has redesigned how we meet for the collaborative era, crafting meetings that are honest, focused, supportive and energising. Carrie’s PhD created an evidence-based framework for what underpins meeting success (spoiler alert: it’s not having an agenda) and her research was described as 'game changing for meeting science’.Links:Article: three scaffolds to sharpen any meetingSign up to Carrie's newsletter and get a collaboration idea every Thursday: https://www.fewerfasterbolder.com/frictionfreeRecommended reading:Kim Sc...2023-12-0642 min
The Visible LeaderCarrie Goucher: Can you really fix modern-day meeting gridlock?Carrie helps people transform meetings and meeting culture. She has redesigned how we meet for the collaborative era, crafting meetings that are honest, focused, supportive and energising. Carrie’s PhD created an evidence-based framework for what underpins meeting success (spoiler alert: it’s not having an agenda) and her research was described as 'game-changing for meeting science'.Topics covered: Why it’s time for a new meeting philosophy Signs of a poor meeting culture that you might not spot ‘Best practice’ for meetings that’s just making things worse Carrie’s top tips you can action straightaway2023-11-0754 min
The Grey Lit CaféIf you love attending meetings at work, you don't need this episodeAnthony Haynes writes: We've recorded two episodes on the topic of meetings. Why, on a podcast devoted to grey literature?Well, our guest, meetings guru Dr Carrie Goucher, argues that understanding (and improving) meetings benefits a 'systems' approach, in which we consider how they interact with the culture of an organization and its other forms of communication (which will include grey literature forms such as newsletters, email, documents, and online copy).And, more simply, though we don't think of meetings as a form of grey literature, they fulfill (or are supposed to fulfill) comparable functions...2023-06-1317 min
Recruitment in the modern worldHow to improve your meetings: with Carrie GoucherAnthony Haynes writes: If you find that meetings don't make an undue demand on your time and that the meetings you attend are invariably engaging and productive, you don't need to listen to this episode.If, on the other hand, you live on planet earth, this episode might help to reduce your blood pressure.In this episode we're delighted to feature the meetings guru, Dr Carrie Goucher, (pictured), founder of FewerFasterBolder: https://www.fewerfasterbolder.com/.Carrie is motivated by a conviction that meetings can be improved. And she has the expertise...2023-05-0430 min
You Are Not A FrogHow to Fix Your Broken MeetingsWhether we like it or not, meetings are essential in running an organisation. But when was the last time you attended a meeting without feeling bored? Meetings are supposed to help us get work done more effectively. It's an opportunity for us to raise issues and make important decisions. But despite their importance, very few of them are done well. How, then, can we transform our meetings from bad and boring to helpful and interesting?Dr Carrie Goucher joins us in this episode to discuss the basics of a good meeting. She also explains how to disagree w...2023-02-0753 min
Get AmplifiedHow to Fix Meeting Gridlock - Dr Carrie GoucherSend us a textIf this title doesn’t appeal to you because you have meetings nailed - we want to talk to you! There isn’t a person or company we speak to that isn’t feeling the pain of meeting gridlock in this post pandemic hybrid working world. It is for this reason we were thrilled to have Dr Carrie Goucher join us and share what she has learnt during her PhD at Cambridge University on this juicy subject. Sam and I literally spent the time picking Carrie’s brain on all the things m...2022-12-0750 min
C Tolle Run115: Kara Goucher - My Cup Is So FullCarrie welcomes her friend and world-renowned runner Kara Goucher back to the show! They talk about her tackling her first trail marathon this summer, her new book and retreats, and the many memories the two have made together over the years. Show notes for this episode can be found at ctollerun.com.2019-03-2836 min
C Tolle Run75: Kara Goucher - Find Something PositiveCarrie goes for a run with Olympian Kara Goucher on the shores of Lake Superior in Duluth, Minnesota! Kara discusses staying injury-free, her new book, designing for Oiselle, and her family life. Show notes for this episode can be found at ctollerun.com. Kara Goucher Kara was a 3-time NCAA champion at the University of Colorado, where she graduated in 2001. She won a silver medal in the 10,000m at the 2007 World Championships in Osaka. She competed in the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics 10,000m final where she placed 10th, and the 5000m where she placed 9...2018-06-2143 min
Ali on the Run ShowGabe Grunewald, Professional Runner & 4-Time Cancer Survivor“It’s OK to struggle, but it’s not OK to give up.” —Gabe Grunewald Gabriele “Gabe” Grunewald is a professional middle-distance runner and four-time rare cancer survivor from Minneapolis, MN. Gabe was first diagnosed with Adenoid Cycstic Carcinoma when she was in college and undoubtedly in the best shape of her life. Instead of finishing her college running career on a high note — or, better yet, a podium — Gabe was faced with a difficult and scary diagnosis. She’s undergone several surgeries, including having more than half of her liver removed after the third time the cancer came back. But...2018-03-011h 01
C Tolle Run50: Adam Goucher - Passionate About RunningCarrie interviews Olympian and Run the Edge co-founder Adam Goucher! They chat about the Run the Year 2018 challenge, the possibility of Adam leading running retreats, stem cell treatment, and life at home with his wife Kara and son Colt. Show notes for this episode can be found at ctollerun.com. Adam Goucher Adam attended the University of Colorado where he was a 4-time NCAA champion and 11-time All American. Career highlights include 8-time USA Champion, 7-time World Champion Finalist, and 2000 Olympian. Adam is the co-author of Running The Edge with his best friend...2017-12-2835 min
C Tolle Run23: Adam Goucher - Making a DifferenceCarrie interviews Olympian Adam Goucher! They chat about his Run the Year program, battling injuries, and the controversial doping scandal. Recorded June 16, 2017 Show notes for this episode can be found at ctollerun.com. Adam Goucher Adam attended the University of Colorado where he was a 4-time NCAA champion and 11-time All American. Career highlights include 8-time USA Champion, 7-time World Champion Finalist, and 2000 Olympian. Adam is the co-author of Running The Edge with his best friend Tim Catalano. They also developed the Run The Year virtual fitness challenge. He currently resides i...2017-06-2242 min
C Tolle Run13: Kara Goucher - No Matter WhatCarrie interviews Olympian Kara Goucher! Kara discusses her recent World Championship medal upgrade and family life with Adam and Colt. Kara also shares her picks for the 2017 Boston Marathon! Show notes for this episode can be found at ctollerun.com. Kara Goucher Kara was a 3-time NCAA champion at the University of Colorado, where she graduated in 2001. She won a silver medal in the 10,000m at the 2007 World Championships in Osaka. She competed in the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics 10,000m final where she placed 10th, and the 5000m where she placed 9th. Kara made...2017-04-1439 min