Voice Notes while the Data Loads
Voice Notes while the Data Loads is the podcast for anyone who's ever felt like they're winging it. Host Timmy Cheung reveals what People Analytics work actually looks like: dashboards that panic you, leaders who want data to confirm their biases, and moments when imposter…
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Episode XX - Its not a gut feeling. Its a hypothesis (opens the original)
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Season 2 ends where Season 3 begins - with rationality. In this final episode, Timmy Cheung is joined by Ian Pinkett, Global People Analytics Director at Arcadis, for a conversation that will make you think differently about every senior stakeholder who's ever walked into your office with a hunch. Here's the thing about gut feel: it's not subjective noise. It's a hypothesis waiting to be tested. Ian shares why he actively encourages gut feel, how to build trust by serving the cheeseburger before
Episode XIX - Radiators, Drains and the art of Mattering (opens the original)
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What does it actually mean to matter? Not after retirement, not in theory, but right now, today, as a whole person? In this episode, Timmy Cheung is joined by his beloved friend and people leader Katherine Billingham-Mohamed, who introduces the concept of mattering from Jennifer Breheny Wallace's book (feeling valued plus adding value equals mattering) and unpacks its five core principles: recognition, reliance, importance, ego extension, and attunement. A warm, honest, and genuinely human conve
Episode XVIII - Measuring the mask, not the person (opens the original)
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A UFC fighter who lost his father and still stepped into the octagon. A god who lost everything and kept showing up. And a man on the underground to Canary Wharf, blasting hard rock into his ears, tearing up, feeling completely hollow - and then walking through the door and switching it all off. In this episode, Timmy Cheung asks the question most organisations are too focused on output to ever ask: what is actually happening behind the performance? Featuring Serghei Spivac, Thor, a dog named Sh
Episode XVII - I Ran Out Of Fuel And Didn't Notice (opens the original)
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What if the biggest threat to your career isn't burnout, redundancy, or a difficult manager... but the fact that you quietly turned off three of your four burners and didn't even notice until the gas ran out completely? In this episode, Timmy Cheung unpacks the Four Burners Theory by David Sedaris (family, friends, health, and work) and what happens when one consumes everything else. Featuring Peter Parker's guilt, Reed Richards' obliviousness, a manager who punished him for being with a friend
Episode XVI- Retirement nobody prepared you for (opens the original)
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What happens when the thing that defined you: the role, the purpose, the reason you got up every morning, quietly stops needing you back? In this episode, Timmy Cheung explores the retirement nobody talks about honestly. Not the pension pot. Not the gold watch. The grief. Drawing on the film Logan, a Wall Street Journal piece on the concept of a "mattering span," and a deeply personal reflection on watching his own parents figure out who they were once the family takeaway closed its doors. This
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