A healthy workplace helps to create a healthy culture – and vice versa, according to our Culture Reset guest Jean-Jacques Sillito.

Jean-Jacques, or JJ as he’s known, is Health Intervention Officer at Liverpool City Council where he is part of the authority’s organisation development team, focussed on support for individuals while building a healthy culture.

The Council’s Chief Operator Officer Jacqui McKinlay, a previous guest on Culture Reset, adds her views on JJ’s pioneering approach and how it fits in with the bigger plan for the organisation.

Useful links:

Sickness absence and health in the workplace: understanding employer behaviour and practice

State of health in the city: Liverpool 2040

What is a Marmot place?

Sarah Clein helps knackered public sector women create enough midlife mojo to lead better - or leave well.

From 30 years in the thick of public sector life to becoming a coach who truly gets it, Sarah shares her raw and honest journey. If you're frantically juggling meetings, family life, and an ever-growing inbox while wondering what fresh menopausal surprise awaits - this one's for you.

We chat about:

• That moment when you realise you're properly knackered and something's got to give

• Navigating the perfect storm of peak career + menopause + life admin

• How to find your mojo when you're running on empty

• Making the leap from public sector to building her own consultancy

Sarah's story will resonate with anyone wondering if this is really 'it' for the next 15-20 years. Whether you're thinking about leading better or leaving well, this episode is packed with proper, practical wisdom from someone who's been there.

Find out more about Sarah Clein by visiting her website www.sarahclein.co.uk and Linktree https://linktr.ee/sarahclein

Resources:

Menopause

https://www.menopausematters.co.uk/

https://www.balance-menopause.com/balance-app/

Movement

Weights https://www.youtube.com/c/carolinegirvan

Yoga https://www.youtube.com/user/yogawithadriene

Qigong https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGAs_7W0Ka4

Mind

Mel Robbins – Let Them Theory https://www.melrobbins.com/podcasts/episode-70

Russell Kennedy - Anxiety - https://drchatterjee.com/a-new-model-for-solving-anxiety-with-dr-russell-kennedy-re-release/

Intentionology by Lauren Runion - Yoga Nidre for Deep Healing Rest

https://www.buzzsprout.com/1972081/episodes/16200670-30-minute-yoga-nidra-for-deep-healing-rest?t=0

Creativity

Elizabeth Gilbert – Big Magic

Julia Cameron – The Artists Way

Street Wisdom – unlock creative thinking (45 mins) (online, audio, walking)

https://www.streetwisdom.org/audio-walkshop-english

Evidence shows that where structural racism exists, there is a ripple effect of harm that spreads across social groups, patients, staff, communities, populations and organisations.

In the words of our Culture Reset guest Taira Shaffi, tackling racism should be managed in the same way we manage any clinical incident, zero event or harm in healthcare – with the same rigour, attention and momentum.

Taira is Associate Director of Organisational Design and Development for NHS Cheshire and Merseyside; she was in conversation with hosts Caroline Kenyon and Juliette Kumar.

Useful links:

BAME COVID-19 DEATHS – What do we know? Rapid Data & Evidence Review | The Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine

https://www.cheshireandmerseyside.nhs.uk/posts/all-together-fairer-our-health-and-care-partnership-plan-2024-2029/

Not-racist v anti-racist: what’s the difference? - BBC Bitesize

What is white privilege? - BBC Bitesize

Social Inequalities Explained in a $100 Race - Please Watch to the End. Thanks. (youtube.com)

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The danger of a single story | TED (youtube.com)

It’s no secret that Liverpool City Council has been through turbulent times in the last few years, with criminal investigations and poorly managed services leading to Government intervention.

Things are now on the up and the last report from the commissioners sent in to support the Council, showed significant improvement.

Our guest Jacqui McKinlay joined as Chief Operating Officer in January 2022; she describes the changes that have happened since then; the impact on the 5,000 staff; and the ambition to deliver the best services in the country to a population of a quarter of a million residents.

In conversation with Juliette Kumar and Caroline Kenyon.

Intervention at Liverpool City Council: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/inspection-into-the-governance-of-liverpool-city-council

When organisations are in the grip of budget pressures, good intentions can go out of the window.

In this first episode of Culture Reset podcast, we hear from award winning John Herring, Director of Organisational Development and Culture, NHS Greater Manchester Integrated Care

He shares his insights into how to create a healthy workplace culture within an organisation and across a multi-sector system. And he offers strategies on how to manage behaviours when the pressure is on – and the going gets tough.

John is in conversation with Juliette Kumar and Caroline Kenyon.

Podcast produced by Kenyons & Co.