Podcasts by The Swear Jar
No nonsense. Just the straight sh*t about the harsh realities and the wonderful opportunities that inspired employee communications can bring you and your organization.Whether your job title includes the words 'Communications', 'Human Resources', 'Project Management' or 'Executive', The Swear Jar is for you. The Swear Jar is irreverent, entertaining but, most of all, it's practical. This is where you will get advice that will transform your organization by truly tapping into the power of effective employee communications. Just don't expect us to 'pull any punches'. Is it 'safe for work'? Well, as the title suggests, we do indeed swear a little. But, chances are, when you're dealing with employee communications, you feel like swearing too. So, I think we're pretty much on the same page. Come and swear along with us.
Further podcasts by Andrew Brown and Elizabeth Williams
Podcast on the topic Management
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Stop Surveying Employees and Start Listening to Them from 2021-08-08T10:00
Every Fearless Communicator has a love-hate relationship with surveys. But, let's take a step back and remind ourselves why we survey employees in the first place. Ostensibly, we&a...
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Changing Roles: Can Employee Comms and O.D. Play Nice? from 2021-07-31T15:00
In your role as an employee communications professional, chances are you’re expected to ensure proposed changes --- like adoption of new policies, procedures, or technologies --- get effectively...
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Communications Ain't No F**N Soft Skill from 2021-06-15T17:00
The verdict is in: Every survey asking leaders which skills they consider essential to success and/or growth sees “communications skills” called out in the top five responses --- and of...
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All Aboard: A Technology Adoption Success Story from 2021-06-14T11:00
Let’s face it, it’s tough introducing a new technology or a new process, into your organization. And like it or not, as the professional communicator, you’re often “on the hook” for making sure ...
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Rolling Out a New SharePoint Intranet: A Success Story from 2021-05-26T21:00
"Intranets aren't sexy". That's the word according to Amanda Stephenson, RSA's Manager of Communications. (And, it couldn't be more true). Yet, Aman...
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The Hearts&Minds of Middle Managers from 2021-04-25T17:00
Employee engagement is creeping up, but guess who's not engaged? Middle managers. Those much-maligned and ignored folks are under more pressure than ever to get stuff done and keep their or...
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What's in Your Communications Stack? (Part 1) from 2021-04-03T15:00
We all know it: Marketing always gets all the fanfare when it comes to innovation. After all, stuff that contributes to bringing revenue to our corporate overlords is generally valued more th...
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Is the Light at the End of the Tunnel an Oncoming Train? from 2021-03-07T09:00
Robert Gold is well-known throughout the Canadian business community as a thought-leader, an early adopter of technology and a trusted advis...
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I Think We Have a Loose Connection from 2021-03-06T15:00
Here’s an annoyingly simple truth: If your employees don’t feel emotionally connected to your organization’s purpose, its cultural values, its tasks or its people, your organization will underpe...
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The D Word: How to Stop Worrying and Start Communicating About Inclusion, Diversity&Equity from 2021-02-27T12:00
Is 2021 the year we finally start getting inclusion, diversity and equity (ID&E) right? In a time of overt racism in the U.S. Capitol building and the firing of KPMG's U.K. leader for ...
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Communications Your Audience Can’t Resist (Part 1) from 2021-02-15T11:00
There isn’t a communication professional alive who hasn’t been confronted with resistance in some form or another.
In fact, comms pros are often called in to prevent or minimize resistan...
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Leadership skills for the sh*t show ahead. Also goats. from 2021-02-14T13:00
If you haven't had the pleasure of listening to the Goat Rodeo Sessions by Yo-Yo Ma, Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer and Chris Thile, you've been missing out one what on commenter called &q...
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(Unlearning) About the Great Undesked from 2021-02-06T13:00
The "Great Undesked" is a segment of the workforce that often gets forgotten, neglected, underserviced and sometimes even scapegoated by employers.
Just think about nurses, i...
Reviews Are a Fu*king Gift from 2021-02-02T13:00
Whether you like it or not, your current, past and potential employees are talking sh*t about you online. It might be nice sh*t or it might be nasty sh*t, but the truth is, if you're not pa...
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Hitting the Right Nerve from 2021-01-16T11:00
We’re going to be hearing a lot about trust in organizations this year. As we begin to figure out the new terms of engagement for the workplace in 2021, we’ll need to make sure that building and...
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Getting Remote Team Communications Right from 2020-12-07T20:00
We've been at this remote work thing for long enough that you'd think managers and executives would be pretty good at communicating with their teams. Wouldn't you? But that's...
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Carrots and Communications: A recipe for all employees from 2020-11-16T11:00
Reward and recognition programs are adopted by all types of organizations – across industries – to move or more needles on employee behaviours. But, despite the best of intentions, these program...
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Stuck in the Communications Drive-Thru Window from 2020-11-08T12:00
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This week Andrew and Elizabeth talk about a fate that befalls even the best organizational communicators: the dreaded Drive-Thru Window. We don’t mean a literal driv...
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The Swear Jar - Greatest Hits (Volume 1) from 2020-10-27T15:00
Well, it's been a wild ride so far!
In producing The Swear Jar podcast we've tackled the good, the bad and the truly ugly in employee communications/internal c...
Communicators are COVID-19 Superheroes from 2020-10-12T20:00
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Following on our earlier podcast, COVID-19: What the Hell? Andrew and Elizabeth take a few minutes to celebrate the extraordinary work of organizational com...
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Corporate Podcasts: Are they just the new corporate newsletter? from 2020-09-18T15:00
Employee Communications professionals beware....the next new(ish) thing is here! That's right, corporate podcasts have descended upon us. That means we've got to figure out:
COVID-19: What the Hell? from 2020-09-12T13:00
Elizabeth and Andrew reflect on the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic and the vital and shifting role organizational communicators played.
Starting in early March, many of us discovere...
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The Curtain Rises on Measurement Theatre from 2020-09-08T18:00
If you're an employee communications professional, you know that measuring isn't always what it seems to be. And, one of the reasons is that you may be a willing (or unwilling...
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The Swear Jar Podcast: Speaking Truth to Bullsh!t from 2020-09-01T18:00
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Author, consultant, speaker and CEO of the Pontefract Group, Dan Pontefract joins Andrew and Elizabeth to talk through t...
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The Swear Jar Podcast: Shut Up and Listen from 2020-08-11T14:00
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This week Andrew and Elizabeth talk about listening. Communicators and executives spend a lot of their time talking but many of us forget to listen or don’t do it as...
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When Leaders Suck at Communications from 2020-08-04T13:00
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In this episode, Andrew and Elizabeth riff on the sad fact that an awful lot of executives really don’t communicate well, and the profound implications that can have...
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Facilitation in the (New) Real World from 2020-07-22T18:00
Group Facilitation is a skill that is too often untapped by those who own employee communications within an organization.
The Academy of Business Communications' co-founders, Eliz...
When Employee Communications Has No Budget from 2020-07-16T13:00
Supervisor: “Congratulations on becoming our Senior Manager in charge of employee communications. We know communicating well with employees is vital to the continued success of our o...
Why Your Employee Town Halls Suck from 2020-06-27T17:00
In this edition, Elizabeth and Andrew chew on the very large topic of employee town halls – both physical and virtual – and discuss why they mostly suck.
From unreadable slides to bloated ...
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Once Upon A Time...A Podcast Episode About Corporate Storytelling from 2020-06-26T09:00
When we tell stories – whether its to our children, our work colleagues, or our neighbour’s cousin – we help others make sense of what is, and what is not, important. That means storytelling is ...
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The Culture-Communications Continuum from 2020-06-15T10:00
We welcome Vera Asanin, President and Editor-in-Chief at Your Workplace to the podcast to discuss the connection between organizational culture and co...
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Communications Can’t Solve Your Sh*t from 2020-05-01T12:00
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There’s a dangerous assumption about employee communications that runs rampant in far too many organizations. Specifically, that by focusing on employee co...
Over Communicating is Really Stupid from 2020-05-01T12:00
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Are you unintentionally barfing information at your employees? If you are, you’re not alone. You see, providing your employees with emails, posters, conference ca...
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Over Communicating is Really Stupid from 2020-05-01T12:00
Summary of Episode
Are you unintentionally barfing information at your employees? If you are, you’re not alone. You see, providing your employees with emails, posters, conference ca...
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Communications Can’t Solve Your Sh*t from 2020-05-01T12:00
Summary of Episode
There’s a dangerous assumption about employee communications that runs rampant in far too many organizations. Specifically, that by focusing on employee co...