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ReThink Productivity Podcast — 318 episodes

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Productivity Pulse Future Ready Retail Benchmarking Report SPECIAL

2

Productivity Pulse 6

3

Basket & Barometer March 2026

4

Productivity Pulse Nov 2025 - Feb 2026 NotebookLM Summary

5

Productivity Pulse Episode 5

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Basket & Barometer Nov 2025 - Jan 2026 NotebookLM Summary

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Basket & Barometer February 2026

8

Productivity Pulse Episode 4

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Using MTM To Improve Methods, Not Just Set Time

10

Basket & Barometer January 2026

11

How MTM Really Works: From Motions To Time

12

Productivity Pulse Episode 3

13

What Is MTM And Why It Still Matters

14

Basket & Barometer December 2025

15

Productivity Pulse Episode 2

16

The What, When, Why & How Of A Time And Motion Study

17

Basket & Barometer November 2025

18

Productivity Pulse Episode 1

19

Productivity Podcast 2.0

20

AI Value Track Podcast - Episode 3

21

AI Made This Podcast - Notebook LM October 2025

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AI Value Track Podcast - Episode 2

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AI Value Track Podcast - Episode 1

24

The Evolution of Advanced Scheduling: How ModusForce Is Changing the WFM Game

25

Footfall Insights September 2025

26

Beyond the Yellow Label: Transforming Retail Operations with Smart Technology

27

Productivity Forum 2025: Key Takeaways

28

The Robot Won't Steal Your Job, But It Might Make It Awesome

29

Footfall Insights August 2025

30

ReThink Revealed - Ep.5. The Data Deep Dive: Productivity Lessons from the Numbers - James

31

Rethinking Retail: What If We Challenged Everything?

32

Schedule Smarter, Not Harder: How to Transform Your Workforce Management

33

Footfall Insights July 2025

34

The Productivity Puzzle: Navigating Retail's Toughest Challenges

35

The Power of Micro-Feedback: How HappyOrNot Transforms Customer Experience

36

ReThink Revealed - Ep4. Measure What Matters: The Techniques Powering ReThink’s Insights - Ed

37

Footfall Insights June 2025

38

Key Retail Trends 2025

39

ReThink Revealed - Ep3. Planning the Ultimate Work Study - Gail

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Footfall Insights May 2025

41

Insights from WH People: The Hidden Cost Of Labour Turnover

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ReThink Revealed - Ep2. Productivity Quick Wins - Simon

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Insights from WH People: Mastering Tech Project Success

44

Insights from WH People: Transforming Workplace Culture and Engagement with Technology

45

Footfall Insights April 2025

46

Retail Technology Show 2025 Review

47

ReThink Revealed - Ep1. Workload Labour Models - Karen

48

Chapter 11 - AI

49

Footfall Insights March 2025

50

Every Second Counts with Notebook LM

51

Footfall Insights February 2025

52

Chapter 10 - How can I budget better?

53

Footfall Insights January 2025

54

Harnessing AI and Computer Vision for Enhanced Efficiency with Simon Shankster

55

Footfall Insights December 2024

56

Chapter 9 - Is the projected saving real?

57

AI Made This Podcast 2

58

Footfall Insights November 2024

59

Chapter 8 - How do I find my next set of Productivity improvements?

60

The 2024 Budget Challenges

61

Transforming Workplaces: Embracing Neuro Leadership

62

Footfall Insights October 2024

63

An Interview With ChatGPT

64

Footfall Insights September 2024

65

AI Made This Podcast

66

ReThink Forum 2024 Review

67

The Perfect Fit with Bob Neville

68

Alex Rezvan on Retail trends across the world

69

Footfall Insights August 2024

70

AI: Insights from Ed Hogg

71

Footfall Insights July 2024

72

Chapter 7 - I've added new services, how can I make them more efficient?

73

Chapter 6 - What can we stop doing to free up our people?

74

Footfall Insights June 2024

75

Harnessing the Power of People in Workforce Management with Gary Makredes

76

Chapter 5 - Is my leadership structure right?

77

Footfall Insights May 2024

78

Mastering Workforce Management: Strategies for Change and Effective Implementation with Donna Stephenson

79

Chapter 4 - How do I balance investing in sales and controlling costs?

80

Best bits of business advice

81

Retail Technology Show 2024 Review

82

Footfall Insights April 2024

83

Retail Technology Show 2024 Preview

84

Chapter 3 - How can I make savings?

85

Footfall Insights March 2024

86

Empowering Teams, Inspiring Leadership with Trevor Hudson

87

Chapter 2 - How can I serve more customers at peak?

88

The ReThink Way

89

Cultivating a Data-Driven Culture with James Bolle

90

Unlocking the Potential of Open Banking with Gosia Furmanik

91

Footfall Insights February 2024

92

Chapter 1 - Where is your money really going?

93

Shaping Organizational Productivity through Strategic Workforce Planning

94

Every Second Counts

95

Footfall Insights January 2024

96

Productivity Insights - 2023 Reflections

97

The Changing Trends in Customer Experience Management

98

Footfall Insights December 2023

99

Christmas Eve Special: Reflecting on Milestones and Looking Ahead with New Insights on Productivity

100

Insights into the Evolving Retail Industry with Lisa Hooker

101

New Age Retail: Electronic Shelf Edge Label Insights from Michael Fletcher

102

Productivity insights with Simon & Sue - FAQ

103

Footfall Insights November 2023

104

Sustaining Process Improvement and Driving Positive Change

105

Footfall Insights October 2023

106

The Profound Impact of Employee Experience and Future Work Trends with Julie Develin

107

Exploring Last-Mile Delivery and Locker Systems

108

A Journey into Automation, Robotics, and E-commerce

109

Productivity Insights - Driving Constant Evolution and Progress in Business Operations

110

Decoding Pricing: Mark Peacock's Industry Insights

111

MRI Springboard Footfall Insights September 2023

112

Insights from the Productivity Forum 2023 and beyond

113

Food, Business,WorkJam and Music: Aramark and a Garth Brooks Concert

114

Secrets to Optimised Business Operations with David Rogers from WorkJam

115

Driving Digital Transformation with WorkJam

116

MRI Springboard Footfall Insights August 2023

117

Productivity Forum 2023

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Productivity Insights - The Power of Benchmarking

119

Productivity Insights - It's not just Retail

120

Is the tail wagging the dog?

121

Productivity Insights - New News

122

MRI Springboard Footfall Insights July 2023

123

Harness the Power of Retail Operations Metrics

124

Digital Twin

125

Top Right Thinking Episode 3

126

MRI Springboard Footfall Insights June 2023

127

Top Right Thinking Episode 2

128

Top Right Thinking Episode 1

129

Carbon Free Dining

130

Productivity Insights - Parkinson's Law

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MRI Springboard Footfall Insights May 2023

132

Fixed On The Vision, Flexible On The Journey

133

Retail Technology Show 2023 Reflections

134

Productivity Insights - MTM

135

MRI Springboard Footfall Insights April 2023

136

Is Your Marketing Productive?

137

The Future Of Customer Experience

138

Why is change so hard ?

139

2023 Digital Shopper Trends

140

MRI Springboard Footfall Insights March 2023

141

Euroshop Reflections

142

Productivity Insights - Activity Study

143

User Generated Content

144

Productivity Insights - Efficiency Study

145

What's contributing to the massive loss of productivity in the workforce?

146

Productivity Insights - Role Study

147

NRF 2023 Reflections

148

Why is customer feedback great for colleagues?

149

Retail Technology Trends

150

2022 Reflections. A year of two halves

151

Best Bits Of Business Advice Part 3

152

Best Bits Of Business Advice Part 2

153

Best Bits Of Business Advice Part 1

154

Using AI to manage retention

155

Pimloc - Video privacy and analytics

156

Retail Trajectories

157

The Price Is Right

158

Cerdian 3 - The Future of Talent

159

Ceridian 2 - The Future of WFM

160

🚨🚨Productivity Forum 2023🚨🚨

161

Ceridian 1 - The Future of Pay

162

Productivity & Transformation 2022 Reflections with Oliver Banks

163

Reimagining The Petrol Station

164

Move Faster With Clear Processes And Role Onboarding

165

Powerful AI Conversations

166

Productivity & Transformation 2022 Reflections

167

The Importance Of Practical Legal Advice

168

Productivity & Transformation 2022 - The 4 Pillars

169

Footfall Insights 2022

170

Personalised & Prioritised Actions

171

A Productive Nights Sleep

172

Productivity & Transformation 2022 - Retail Acronyms

173

Measurement USA V Europe

174

Supply Chain Challenges

175

Managing Task V Scheduling

176

How Do You Drive Accurate Forecasting & Analytics?

177

Productivity & Transformation 2022 - Retail Myths & Mottos

178

How to Attract and Retain Staff

179

Plan & Execute Work, Measure & Reward Teams

180

Productivity & Transformation 2022

181

Flow Insight

182

Management Structures Of The Future

183

Don't be a Duck

184

Why do we choose one retailer over another?

185

Customer Experience post Covid

186

Productivity Insights

187

Bricks & Mortar Retail is the future

188

What Makes You Different?

189

Ready to Fight Food Waste?

190

The Flexibility Debate

191

Retail - The Accidental Career

192

Retail Supply Chains & The Last Mile

193

Don’t miss the food waste revolution

194

Start Up Land

195

The Future Is Electronic Shelf Labels (ESL)

196

Ole & Steen - The Perfect Bake

197

Making Restaurants More Efficient With Bite Ninja

198

ExeQut Digital Transformation

199

The Perfect Design

200

Connecting Teams Through Voice

201

What tech will be in the retail store of the future?

202

The Reminder Episode

203

A Commitment To Doing The Right Thing

204

Worth A Gander To Reduce Food Waste

205

Do Less To Do More

206

Arco - Experts in Safety

207

SPF Productivity

208

Helping You To Manage Your Restaurant Easily

209

The Great Acceleration

210

The Macanta magic that helps you find process Nirvana

211

Checkout Free Retail

212

Convert software & data struggles into powerful results

213

Post Implementation Support

214

WFM Pilot & Rollout

215

You Have Chosen A WFM Solution So Now What?

216

The Rotageek journey

217

The benefits of automating your employee scheduling

218

Should retailers be automating employee scheduling?

219

Findr - The worlds first matching platform for businesses

220

Simplification Stories 4

221

Simplification Stories 3

222

Simplification Stories 2

223

Simplification Stories 1

224

Is working from home sustainable?

225

Did you follow the process, did it produce the intended result? Part 2

226

Pick to Perfection

227

Unleash your data to be more productive

228

Do you turn your data into insight?

229

Hyper Scheduling with Sorted³

230

Education in the Workplace

231

Do you have Give-up-itis?

232

Successful Field Leadership

233

Always there to serve you

234

The Perfect Storm for Innovation

235

WorkJam Operations

236

WorkJam Customer Experience

237

WorkJam Task Management

238

ReThink & REPL - How does WFM differ across the World?

239

ReThink & REPL - The future of WFM

240

ReThink & REPL - Mobile, Reporting & Analytics

241

ReThink & REPL - Time & Attendance (T&A)

242

ReThink & REPL - Scheduling

243

ReThink & REPL - Budgeting, Forecasting & Labour Demand

244

ReThink & REPL - Labour Standards

245

What does a Category Director do?

246

Purpose Reflections

247

The greatest consumer shock to our system we have ever had

248

Did you follow the process, did it produce the intended result?

249

Breathing life into your processes

250

Are you making the most of the tech you give your store teams?

251

Are you a revenge shopper?

252

What is the way to Covid safe premises?

253

Physical retail isn’t dead—but boring retail is!

254

What makes people happy & engaged at work?

255

Making a difference locally

256

Where is your Customer?

257

ReThink & InMoment - Inclusive Experiences

258

ReThink & InMoment - Self checkout and the move to self pay

259

ReThink & InMoment - Omnichannel

260

ReThink & InMoment - Customer Experience V Brand Promise

261

What does the future look like for hospitality?

262

Do you have to choose between Efficiency & good Customer Service?

263

The challenges of a small stores with high customer volume

264

The challenges of running a Pharmacy chain through a Pandemic

265

Retail USA V UK

266

Keeping the world connected

267

Grey Tuesday

268

Where will you visit on the Metro map?

269

How is automation impacting the Customer & Store?

270

Is WFM a Change or IT driven project?

271

Driving Store Performance through AI and Machine Learning

272

🎧Your data your way🎧

273

UKG: When two cloud software powerhouses become one

274

Re-imagine communication

275

Tech is important but people make the difference

276

Engagement Driven Workforce Management

277

Has your Scheduling kept up to speed?

278

Office productivity and the impact of working from home

279

Benefits of adopting Lean and Six Sigma principles

280

Can we keep up with the change?

281

Productivity in the music industry

282

How do you communicate with deskless workers?

283

Retail Technology- Back to the Future

284

What is Methods-Time Measurement (MTM)?

285

Rise of the Robots

286

How does the flexibility of colleagues increase productivity in a gig economy?

287

Is there a link between Employee Engagement & Productivity?

288

Wage Payment Innovation

289

Future Footfall trends 2020

290

How we buys cars is changing

291

Barriers to delivering productivity through people

292

How AI and automation can create high-value touchpoints across the customer journey

293

What makes a great Project Manager ?

294

How can improvisation help drive productivity?

295

Productivity in Darts

296

Are you going to sit and wait for normal to return?

297

The psychology of communication with Customers

298

ReThink team talk all things Workstudy

299

Business growth & productivity

300

Surviving Change

301

Demystifying Disinfection. What does clean really mean?

302

Productivity opportunities in retail store operations

303

When is Transformation not Transformation?

304

Not the 'New Normal'

305

Workforce Management is changing

306

Justin Edinburgh 3 Foundation Special

307

The importance of engaging people in productivity change initiatives

308

Impact of Social distancing in the 'new normal'

309

Adapting the retail operating model to the 'new normal'

310

Productive teams (lessons from football)

311

A Dragon's view of productivity

312

Why does Customer Experience matter and what are the links to productivity?

313

Does a challenge culture drive productivity?

314

Productivity Data Insights

315

Why should you have a business strategy?

316

Productivity in a professional football club

317

Purpose & Productivity Part 2

318

Purpose & Productivity Part 1