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ReThink Productivity Podcast — 322 episodes

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Basket & Barometer May 2026

2

Productivity Pulse: Retail Technology Show Live 2026

3

The ReThink Productivity Retail Report 2026 and NotebookLM

4

Basket & Barometer April 2026

5

Productivity Pulse Future Ready Retail Benchmarking Report SPECIAL

6

Productivity Pulse 6

7

Basket & Barometer March 2026

8

Productivity Pulse Nov 2025 - Feb 2026 NotebookLM Summary

9

Productivity Pulse Episode 5

10

Basket & Barometer Nov 2025 - Jan 2026 NotebookLM Summary

11

Basket & Barometer February 2026

12

Productivity Pulse Episode 4

13

Using MTM To Improve Methods, Not Just Set Time

14

Basket & Barometer January 2026

15

How MTM Really Works: From Motions To Time

16

Productivity Pulse Episode 3

17

What Is MTM And Why It Still Matters

18

Basket & Barometer December 2025

19

Productivity Pulse Episode 2

20

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

21

Basket & Barometer November 2025

22

Productivity Pulse Episode 1

23

Productivity Podcast 2.0

24

AI Value Track Podcast - Episode 3

25

AI Made This Podcast - Notebook LM October 2025

26

AI Value Track Podcast - Episode 2

27

AI Value Track Podcast - Episode 1

28

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

29

Footfall Insights September 2025

30

Beyond the Yellow Label: Transforming Retail Operations with Smart Technology

31

Productivity Forum 2025: Key Takeaways

32

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

33

Footfall Insights August 2025

34

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

35

Rethinking Retail: What If We Challenged Everything?

36

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

37

Footfall Insights July 2025

38

The Productivity Puzzle: Navigating Retail's Toughest Challenges

39

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

40

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

41

Footfall Insights June 2025

42

Key Retail Trends 2025

43

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

44

Footfall Insights May 2025

45

Insights from WH People: The Hidden Cost Of Labour Turnover

46

ReThink Revealed - Ep2. Productivity Quick Wins - Simon

47

Insights from WH People: Mastering Tech Project Success

48

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

49

Footfall Insights April 2025

50

Retail Technology Show 2025 Review

51

ReThink Revealed - Ep1. Workload Labour Models - Karen

52

Chapter 11 - AI

53

Footfall Insights March 2025

54

Every Second Counts with Notebook LM

55

Footfall Insights February 2025

56

Chapter 10 - How can I budget better?

57

Footfall Insights January 2025

58

Harnessing AI and Computer Vision for Enhanced Efficiency with Simon Shankster

59

Footfall Insights December 2024

60

Chapter 9 - Is the projected saving real?

61

AI Made This Podcast 2

62

Footfall Insights November 2024

63

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

64

The 2024 Budget Challenges

65

Transforming Workplaces: Embracing Neuro Leadership

66

Footfall Insights October 2024

67

An Interview With ChatGPT

68

Footfall Insights September 2024

69

AI Made This Podcast

70

ReThink Forum 2024 Review

71

The Perfect Fit with Bob Neville

72

Alex Rezvan on Retail trends across the world

73

Footfall Insights August 2024

74

AI: Insights from Ed Hogg

75

Footfall Insights July 2024

76

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

77

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

78

Footfall Insights June 2024

79

Harnessing the Power of People in Workforce Management with Gary Makredes

80

Chapter 5 - Is my leadership structure right?

81

Footfall Insights May 2024

82

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

83

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

84

Best bits of business advice

85

Retail Technology Show 2024 Review

86

Footfall Insights April 2024

87

Retail Technology Show 2024 Preview

88

Chapter 3 - How can I make savings?

89

Footfall Insights March 2024

90

Empowering Teams, Inspiring Leadership with Trevor Hudson

91

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

92

The ReThink Way

93

Cultivating a Data-Driven Culture with James Bolle

94

Unlocking the Potential of Open Banking with Gosia Furmanik

95

Footfall Insights February 2024

96

Chapter 1 - Where is your money really going?

97

Shaping Organizational Productivity through Strategic Workforce Planning

98

Every Second Counts

99

Footfall Insights January 2024

100

Productivity Insights - 2023 Reflections

101

The Changing Trends in Customer Experience Management

102

Footfall Insights December 2023

103

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

104

Insights into the Evolving Retail Industry with Lisa Hooker

105

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

106

Productivity insights with Simon & Sue - FAQ

107

Footfall Insights November 2023

108

Sustaining Process Improvement and Driving Positive Change

109

Footfall Insights October 2023

110

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

111

Exploring Last-Mile Delivery and Locker Systems

112

A Journey into Automation, Robotics, and E-commerce

113

Productivity Insights - Driving Constant Evolution and Progress in Business Operations

114

Decoding Pricing: Mark Peacock's Industry Insights

115

MRI Springboard Footfall Insights September 2023

116

Insights from the Productivity Forum 2023 and beyond

117

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

118

Secrets to Optimised Business Operations with David Rogers from WorkJam

119

Driving Digital Transformation with WorkJam

120

MRI Springboard Footfall Insights August 2023

121

Productivity Forum 2023

122

Productivity Insights - The Power of Benchmarking

123

Productivity Insights - It's not just Retail

124

Is the tail wagging the dog?

125

Productivity Insights - New News

126

MRI Springboard Footfall Insights July 2023

127

Harness the Power of Retail Operations Metrics

128

Digital Twin

129

Top Right Thinking Episode 3

130

MRI Springboard Footfall Insights June 2023

131

Top Right Thinking Episode 2

132

Top Right Thinking Episode 1

133

Carbon Free Dining

134

Productivity Insights - Parkinson's Law

135

MRI Springboard Footfall Insights May 2023

136

Fixed On The Vision, Flexible On The Journey

137

Retail Technology Show 2023 Reflections

138

Productivity Insights - MTM

139

MRI Springboard Footfall Insights April 2023

140

Is Your Marketing Productive?

141

The Future Of Customer Experience

142

Why is change so hard ?

143

2023 Digital Shopper Trends

144

MRI Springboard Footfall Insights March 2023

145

Euroshop Reflections

146

Productivity Insights - Activity Study

147

User Generated Content

148

Productivity Insights - Efficiency Study

149

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

150

Productivity Insights - Role Study

151

NRF 2023 Reflections

152

Why is customer feedback great for colleagues?

153

Retail Technology Trends

154

2022 Reflections. A year of two halves

155

Best Bits Of Business Advice Part 3

156

Best Bits Of Business Advice Part 2

157

Best Bits Of Business Advice Part 1

158

Using AI to manage retention

159

Pimloc - Video privacy and analytics

160

Retail Trajectories

161

The Price Is Right

162

Dayforce 3 - The Future of Talent

163

Dayforce 2 - The Future of WFM

164

🚨🚨Productivity Forum 2023🚨🚨

165

Dayforce 1 - The Future of Pay

166

Productivity & Transformation 2022 Reflections with Oliver Banks

167

Reimagining The Petrol Station

168

Move Faster With Clear Processes And Role Onboarding

169

Powerful AI Conversations

170

Productivity & Transformation 2022 Reflections

171

The Importance Of Practical Legal Advice

172

Productivity & Transformation 2022 - The 4 Pillars

173

Footfall Insights 2022

174

Personalised & Prioritised Actions

175

A Productive Nights Sleep

176

Productivity & Transformation 2022 - Retail Acronyms

177

Measurement USA V Europe

178

Supply Chain Challenges

179

Managing Task V Scheduling

180

How Do You Drive Accurate Forecasting & Analytics?

181

Productivity & Transformation 2022 - Retail Myths & Mottos

182

How to Attract and Retain Staff

183

Plan & Execute Work, Measure & Reward Teams

184

Productivity & Transformation 2022

185

Flow Insight

186

Management Structures Of The Future

187

Don't be a Duck

188

Why do we choose one retailer over another?

189

Customer Experience post Covid

190

Productivity Insights

191

Bricks & Mortar Retail is the future

192

What Makes You Different?

193

Ready to Fight Food Waste?

194

The Flexibility Debate

195

Retail - The Accidental Career

196

Retail Supply Chains & The Last Mile

197

Don’t miss the food waste revolution

198

Start Up Land

199

The Future Is Electronic Shelf Labels (ESL)

200

Ole & Steen - The Perfect Bake

201

Making Restaurants More Efficient With Bite Ninja

202

ExeQut Digital Transformation

203

The Perfect Design

204

Connecting Teams Through Voice

205

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

206

The Reminder Episode

207

A Commitment To Doing The Right Thing

208

Worth A Gander To Reduce Food Waste

209

Do Less To Do More

210

Arco - Experts in Safety

211

SPF Productivity

212

Helping You To Manage Your Restaurant Easily

213

The Great Acceleration

214

The Macanta magic that helps you find process Nirvana

215

Checkout Free Retail

216

Convert software & data struggles into powerful results

217

Post Implementation Support

218

WFM Pilot & Rollout

219

You Have Chosen A WFM Solution So Now What?

220

The Rotageek journey

221

The benefits of automating your employee scheduling

222

Should retailers be automating employee scheduling?

223

Findr - The worlds first matching platform for businesses

224

Simplification Stories 4

225

Simplification Stories 3

226

Simplification Stories 2

227

Simplification Stories 1

228

Is working from home sustainable?

229

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

230

Pick to Perfection

231

Unleash your data to be more productive

232

Do you turn your data into insight?

233

Hyper Scheduling with Sorted³

234

Education in the Workplace

235

Do you have Give-up-itis?

236

Successful Field Leadership

237

Always there to serve you

238

The Perfect Storm for Innovation

239

WorkJam Operations

240

WorkJam Customer Experience

241

WorkJam Task Management

242

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

243

ReThink & REPL - The future of WFM

244

ReThink & REPL - Mobile, Reporting & Analytics

245

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

246

ReThink & REPL - Scheduling

247

ReThink & REPL - Budgeting, Forecasting & Labour Demand

248

ReThink & REPL - Labour Standards

249

What does a Category Director do?

250

Purpose Reflections

251

The greatest consumer shock to our system we have ever had

252

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

253

Breathing life into your processes

254

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

255

Are you a revenge shopper?

256

What is the way to Covid safe premises?

257

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

258

What makes people happy & engaged at work?

259

Making a difference locally

260

Where is your Customer?

261

ReThink & InMoment - Inclusive Experiences

262

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

263

ReThink & InMoment - Omnichannel

264

ReThink & InMoment - Customer Experience V Brand Promise

265

What does the future look like for hospitality?

266

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

267

The challenges of a small stores with high customer volume

268

The challenges of running a Pharmacy chain through a Pandemic

269

Retail USA V UK

270

Keeping the world connected

271

Grey Tuesday

272

Where will you visit on the Metro map?

273

How is automation impacting the Customer & Store?

274

Is WFM a Change or IT driven project?

275

Driving Store Performance through AI and Machine Learning

276

🎧Your data your way🎧

277

UKG: When two cloud software powerhouses become one

278

Re-imagine communication

279

Tech is important but people make the difference

280

Engagement Driven Workforce Management

281

Has your Scheduling kept up to speed?

282

Office productivity and the impact of working from home

283

Benefits of adopting Lean and Six Sigma principles

284

Can we keep up with the change?

285

Productivity in the music industry

286

How do you communicate with deskless workers?

287

Retail Technology- Back to the Future

288

What is Methods-Time Measurement (MTM)?

289

Rise of the Robots

290

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

291

Is there a link between Employee Engagement & Productivity?

292

Wage Payment Innovation

293

Future Footfall trends 2020

294

How we buys cars is changing

295

Barriers to delivering productivity through people

296

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

297

What makes a great Project Manager ?

298

How can improvisation help drive productivity?

299

Productivity in Darts

300

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

301

The psychology of communication with Customers

302

ReThink team talk all things Workstudy

303

Business growth & productivity

304

Surviving Change

305

Demystifying Disinfection. What does clean really mean?

306

Productivity opportunities in retail store operations

307

When is Transformation not Transformation?

308

Not the 'New Normal'

309

Workforce Management is changing

310

Justin Edinburgh 3 Foundation Special

311

The importance of engaging people in productivity change initiatives

312

Impact of Social distancing in the 'new normal'

313

Adapting the retail operating model to the 'new normal'

314

Productive teams (lessons from football)

315

A Dragon's view of productivity

316

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

317

Does a challenge culture drive productivity?

318

Productivity Data Insights

319

Why should you have a business strategy?

320

Productivity in a professional football club

321

Purpose & Productivity Part 2

322

Purpose & Productivity Part 1