#20 - The Little VenueThat Refused to Be Beaten: Chippy Theatre's Remarkable Story

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Step off a pretty Cotswold lane and into a building that used to be a Salvation Army citadel - and now pulses with the kind of live theatre that makes a town rally around it. Nigel Ridpath sits down with John Terry, the long-time Artistic Director of Chipping Norton Theatre [https://www.chippingnortontheatre.com/] and untangles the unusual, heartwarming story of how a 200-seat venue turned eccentric vision, invention and a beloved pantomime into the lifeblood of its community. Through tales of gin palaces and hay-bale promenade performances, behind-the-scenes scrapes and touring triumphs, this episode traces how creative risk, local ownership and stubborn character keep a theatre thriving when others fold. If you believe live performance still has the power to unite and surprise, come and listen to a story about courage, craft and the clever ways a small theatre pays the bills - one panto, one community cast and one brave new show at a time. To buy The Time Traveller's Guide to Management, click here [https://www.sunbearconsulting.biz/my-book].

#23 - Corporate Values vs Company Culture: How to Make Values Real (and Hire for Them)

Most corporate values are written for outsiders: customers, candidates, procurement, the internet. But culture is what happens internally on a wet Tuesday when something goes wrong. In Episode 23 of Standing Apart [https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/standing-apart-podcast/https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/standing-apart-podcast/], Nigel Ridpath [https://www.linkedin.com/in/nigel-ridpath-072487/] gets practical about the gap between corporate values and company culture, why values statements so often become “values theatre” and how to build values that actually guide behaviour. You’ll get a simple framework you can apply immediately, plus a structured way to hire for values so your culture gets reinforced rather than quietly undermined. In this episode * The blunt distinction: values vs culture (culture is what you tolerate, reward and promote) * The credibility problem when values and culture don’t match * The “copy-paste test”: if your values could sit on a competitor’s website unchanged, they’re probably generic * The 5 elephant traps that kill values: 1. Values with no trade-offs 2. Values with no behavioural definition 3. No enforcement (the “brilliant jerk” problem) 4. Two-tier values (leaders play by different rules) 5. Drift (the business changes, the values don’t) * A 5-step framework to make values live: 1. Keep it small (4–5 values) 2. Write the trade-off: “We will do X even when it costs us Y.” 3. Define behaviours: 3 green flags and 3 red flags per value 4. Add a weekly ritual: “Where did we pay the price for our values this week?” 5. Decide consequences in advance (including for senior/high performers) * Hiring for values: three checks per value * Behavioural question (“Tell me about a time when…”) * Scenario question (with a real trade-off and time pressure) * Work sample (that forces the trade-off you care about) * Plus reference checks that ask what they did under stress * One Minute Rant: friction-by-QR-code and turning a flat white into a user journey * Superhero of the Week returns: what business can learn from clarity, speed and message discipline A simple starting point Pick four or five values. Write the trade-off for each. Define three green flags and three red flags. Add one weekly ritual. Decide what happens when someone violates them. If this episode helped, share it with someone who’s tired of values theatre. And if you want the show to grow: subscribe, leave a rating and hit like in your podcast app. Nigel’s book, The Time Traveller’s Guide to Management, is available here [https://www.sunbearconsulting.biz/my-book].

4 de may de 202614 min

#20 - The Little VenueThat Refused to Be Beaten: Chippy Theatre's Remarkable Story

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