The Power of Kindness at Work with Graham Allcott

Power Hour

Adrienne Herbert

Society & Culture

4.8 • 713 Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Graham Allcott is a thought-leader, entrepreneur, author, speaker and podcaster. He is the author of many brilliant books, including global bestseller How to be a Productivity Ninja, and host of the Beyond Busy podcast.

Graham Allcott is the founder of Think Productive (thinkproductive.co.uk), as well as a well-known author and speaker; his five books include the global bestseller, How to be a Productivity Ninja. He is also active on social media platforms and with his weekly email, Rev Up for the Week. How to be a Productivity Ninja has sold over 100,000 copies in the UK alone, and been translated into several languages.

Today he and Adrienne are chatting about his new book Kind: The quiet power of kindness at work. In the book Graham Aexplores how we can create work cultures that encourage kindness. He argues that, far from being a 'fluffy' or nebulous idea, kindness and empathy are 21st century superpowers, which can transform any organization into a dynamic environment where people want to work.

The book is out on October 10th, and is available in stores and online! You can follow Graham @grahamallcott

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Power Hour. I'm Adrienne Herbert, wellness coach, international speaker and author.
0:11.6	Each week I speak to a variety of guests from business founders to Olympic athletes, leading coaches,
0:17.9	change makers and innovators to find out their daily habits, their rules to live by
0:22.8	and what motivates them to get up out of bed each day. Personally, I am on a mission to encourage,
0:29.5	motivate and inspire, so I hope that The Power Hour will help you to achieve your personal
0:34.4	and professional goals.
0:40.2	Welcome back to The Power Hour podcast.
0:45.8	Today I'm joined by an international bestselling author, Graham Alcott, and we're going to be talking about the power of kindness as it relates to business, work, life and success.
0:52.3	Graham, welcome to the podcast.
0:53.9	Thanks for having me.
0:54.9	Lovely to be here.
0:56.2	Now, I've been looking forward to this.
0:57.4	I feel like when I first received,
0:58.9	I was lucky enough to receive a PDF early copy of your new book,
1:02.9	Kind, The Quiet Power of Kindness at Work.
1:06.1	And straight away, I thought, right, I'm going to want to read this because,
1:10.0	you know, I work in the
1:11.7	wellbeing industry, but I work across a lot of different organisations. I go into different
1:16.0	organisations from small startups to big corporate companies, technology companies, with teams
1:21.5	working in different time zones, different areas. And often when I'm there talking about
1:26.4	well-being, as you can imagine, there's a lot
1:28.9	of crossover into other things, whether it's communication, whether it's managing stress and
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