ReThink Productivity Podcast

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Join Simon Hedaux, founder of ReThink Productivity, as he and a focused network of industry leaders and clients share a new playbook for organizational excellence

This is the essential podcast for leaders looking to drive measurable, sustainable performance across corporate, operational, and customer-facing teams

With our new 2.0 approach, we’ve shifted to a highly focused rhythm, delivering two essential episodes per month—giving you less noise and more strategic intelligence


Inside Every Month, You’ll Discover:

1. The Productivity Pulse (Early Month)

  • Data-Driven Action: Hear directly from our internal experts—Sue, Simon, and James—who share real-world trends, new data findings, and actionable productivity insights emerging from live projects
  • Align & Engage Your Teams: Discover practical ways to connect head office goals with on-the-ground execution, ensuring everyone is pulling in the same direction
  • Learn from Real-World Wins: Get tactical advice and success stories from organisations that have achieved transformative productivity across the board

2. Basket & Barometer (Late Month)

  • Elevated Insights: In conversation with industry expert Diane Wehrle to move beyond surface-level metrics and tackle complex, data-driven metrics around customer shopping behaviour

For leaders in Operations, Strategy, and HR, this podcast provides the modern tools to build a smarter, more efficient, and ultimately more profitable business

Subscribe now and start truly rethinking your productivity


Episode Date
The What, When, Why & How Of A Time And Motion Study
Dec 07, 2025
Basket & Barometer November 2025
Nov 30, 2025
Productivity Pulse Episode 1
Nov 16, 2025
Productivity Podcast 2.0
Nov 09, 2025
AI Value Track Podcast - Episode 3
Nov 02, 2025
AI Made This Podcast - Notebook LM October 2025
Oct 28, 2025
AI Value Track Podcast - Episode 2
Oct 26, 2025
AI Value Track Podcast - Episode 1
Oct 19, 2025
The Evolution of Advanced Scheduling: How ModusForce Is Changing the WFM Game
Oct 12, 2025
Footfall Insights September 2025
Oct 03, 2025
Beyond the Yellow Label: Transforming Retail Operations with Smart Technology
Sep 21, 2025
Productivity Forum 2025: Key Takeaways
Sep 14, 2025
The Robot Won't Steal Your Job, But It Might Make It Awesome
Aug 31, 2025
Footfall Insights August 2025
Aug 24, 2025
ReThink Revealed - Ep.5. The Data Deep Dive: Productivity Lessons from the Numbers - James
Aug 17, 2025
Rethinking Retail: What If We Challenged Everything?
Aug 10, 2025
Schedule Smarter, Not Harder: How to Transform Your Workforce Management
Aug 03, 2025
Footfall Insights July 2025
Jul 25, 2025
The Productivity Puzzle: Navigating Retail's Toughest Challenges
Jul 19, 2025
The Power of Micro-Feedback: How HappyOrNot Transforms Customer Experience
Jul 13, 2025
ReThink Revealed - Ep4. Measure What Matters: The Techniques Powering ReThink’s Insights - Ed
Jul 06, 2025
Footfall Insights June 2025
Jun 29, 2025
Key Retail Trends 2025
Jun 15, 2025
ReThink Revealed - Ep3. Planning the Ultimate Work Study - Gail
Jun 08, 2025
Footfall Insights May 2025
Jun 01, 2025
Insights from WH People: The Hidden Cost Of Labour Turnover
May 18, 2025
ReThink Revealed - Ep2. Productivity Quick Wins - Simon
May 11, 2025
Insights from WH People: Mastering Tech Project Success
May 04, 2025
Insights from WH People: Transforming Workplace Culture and Engagement with Technology
Apr 27, 2025
Footfall Insights April 2025
Apr 24, 2025
Retail Technology Show 2025 Review
Apr 12, 2025
ReThink Revealed - Ep1. Workload Labour Models - Karen
Apr 06, 2025
Chapter 11 - AI
Mar 31, 2025
Footfall Insights March 2025
Mar 23, 2025
Every Second Counts with Notebook LM
Mar 10, 2025
Footfall Insights February 2025
Feb 22, 2025
Chapter 10 - How can I budget better?
Feb 09, 2025
Footfall Insights January 2025
Jan 26, 2025
Harnessing AI and Computer Vision for Enhanced Efficiency with Simon Shankster
Jan 12, 2025
Footfall Insights December 2024
Dec 28, 2024
Chapter 9 - Is the projected saving real?
Dec 15, 2024
AI Made This Podcast 2
Dec 08, 2024
Footfall Insights November 2024
Dec 01, 2024
Chapter 8 - How do I find my next set of Productivity improvements?
Nov 17, 2024
The 2024 Budget Challenges
Nov 11, 2024
Transforming Workplaces: Embracing Neuro Leadership
Nov 03, 2024
Footfall Insights October 2024
Oct 27, 2024
An Interview With ChatGPT
Oct 19, 2024
Footfall Insights September 2024
Oct 06, 2024
AI Made This Podcast
Sep 30, 2024
ReThink Forum 2024 Review
Sep 22, 2024
The Perfect Fit with Bob Neville
Sep 08, 2024
Alex Rezvan on Retail trends across the world
Aug 25, 2024
Footfall Insights August 2024
Aug 17, 2024
AI: Insights from Ed Hogg
Aug 11, 2024
Footfall Insights July 2024
Jul 26, 2024
Chapter 7 - I've added new services, how can I make them more efficient?
Jul 14, 2024
Chapter 6 - What can we stop doing to free up our people?
Jun 30, 2024
Footfall Insights June 2024
Jun 16, 2024
Harnessing the Power of People in Workforce Management with Gary Makredes
Jun 09, 2024
Chapter 5 - Is my leadership structure right?
Jun 02, 2024
Footfall Insights May 2024
May 26, 2024
Mastering Workforce Management: Strategies for Change and Effective Implementation with Donna Stephenson
May 19, 2024
Chapter 4 - How do I balance investing in sales and controlling costs?
May 12, 2024
Best bits of business advice
May 05, 2024
Retail Technology Show 2024 Review
Apr 30, 2024
Footfall Insights April 2024
Apr 21, 2024
Retail Technology Show 2024 Preview
Apr 14, 2024
Chapter 3 - How can I make savings?
Apr 07, 2024
Footfall Insights March 2024
Mar 31, 2024
Empowering Teams, Inspiring Leadership with Trevor Hudson
Mar 24, 2024
Chapter 2 - How can I serve more customers at peak?
Mar 17, 2024
The ReThink Way
Mar 10, 2024
Cultivating a Data-Driven Culture with James Bolle
Mar 03, 2024
Unlocking the Potential of Open Banking with Gosia Furmanik
Feb 25, 2024
Footfall Insights February 2024
Feb 18, 2024
Chapter 1 - Where is your money really going?
Feb 11, 2024
Shaping Organizational Productivity through Strategic Workforce Planning
Feb 04, 2024
Every Second Counts
Jan 28, 2024
Footfall Insights January 2024
Jan 21, 2024
Productivity Insights - 2023 Reflections
Jan 14, 2024
The Changing Trends in Customer Experience Management
Jan 07, 2024
Footfall Insights December 2023
Dec 31, 2023
Christmas Eve Special: Reflecting on Milestones and Looking Ahead with New Insights on Productivity
Dec 24, 2023
Insights into the Evolving Retail Industry with Lisa Hooker
Dec 17, 2023
New Age Retail: Electronic Shelf Edge Label Insights from Michael Fletcher
Dec 10, 2023
Productivity insights with Simon & Sue - FAQ
Dec 03, 2023
Footfall Insights November 2023
Nov 26, 2023
Sustaining Process Improvement and Driving Positive Change
Nov 19, 2023
Footfall Insights October 2023
Nov 12, 2023
The Profound Impact of Employee Experience and Future Work Trends with Julie Develin
Nov 05, 2023
Exploring Last-Mile Delivery and Locker Systems
Oct 29, 2023
A Journey into Automation, Robotics, and E-commerce
Oct 21, 2023
Productivity Insights - Driving Constant Evolution and Progress in Business Operations
Oct 15, 2023
Decoding Pricing: Mark Peacock's Industry Insights
Oct 08, 2023
MRI Springboard Footfall Insights September 2023
Oct 01, 2023
Insights from the Productivity Forum 2023 and beyond
Sep 24, 2023
Food, Business,WorkJam and Music: Aramark and a Garth Brooks Concert
Sep 17, 2023
Secrets to Optimised Business Operations with David Rogers from WorkJam
Sep 10, 2023
Driving Digital Transformation with WorkJam
Sep 03, 2023
MRI Springboard Footfall Insights August 2023
Aug 27, 2023
Productivity Forum 2023
Aug 19, 2023
Productivity Insights - The Power of Benchmarking
Aug 13, 2023
Productivity Insights - It's not just Retail
Aug 07, 2023
Is the tail wagging the dog?
Jul 30, 2023
Productivity Insights - New News
Jul 23, 2023
MRI Springboard Footfall Insights July 2023
Jul 16, 2023
Harness the Power of Retail Operations Metrics
Jul 09, 2023
Digital Twin
Jul 02, 2023
Top Right Thinking Episode 3
Jun 25, 2023
MRI Springboard Footfall Insights June 2023
Jun 18, 2023
Top Right Thinking Episode 2
Jun 11, 2023
Top Right Thinking Episode 1
Jun 04, 2023
Carbon Free Dining
May 29, 2023
Productivity Insights - Parkinson's Law
May 21, 2023
MRI Springboard Footfall Insights May 2023
May 14, 2023
Fixed On The Vision, Flexible On The Journey
May 08, 2023
Retail Technology Show 2023 Reflections
Apr 30, 2023
Productivity Insights - MTM
Apr 24, 2023
MRI Springboard Footfall Insights April 2023
Apr 16, 2023
Is Your Marketing Productive?
Apr 09, 2023
The Future Of Customer Experience
Apr 02, 2023
Why is change so hard ?
Mar 26, 2023
2023 Digital Shopper Trends
Mar 19, 2023
MRI Springboard Footfall Insights March 2023
Mar 12, 2023
Euroshop Reflections
Mar 06, 2023
Productivity Insights - Activity Study
Feb 26, 2023
User Generated Content
Feb 19, 2023
Productivity Insights - Efficiency Study
Feb 13, 2023
What's contributing to the massive loss of productivity in the workforce?
Feb 06, 2023
Productivity Insights - Role Study
Jan 29, 2023
NRF 2023 Reflections
Jan 22, 2023
Why is customer feedback great for colleagues?
Jan 15, 2023
Retail Technology Trends
Jan 08, 2023
2022 Reflections. A year of two halves
Dec 18, 2022
Best Bits Of Business Advice Part 3
Dec 12, 2022
Best Bits Of Business Advice Part 2
Dec 12, 2022
Best Bits Of Business Advice Part 1
Dec 12, 2022
Using AI to manage retention
Dec 04, 2022
Pimloc - Video privacy and analytics
Nov 27, 2022
Retail Trajectories
Nov 20, 2022
The Price Is Right
Nov 13, 2022
Cerdian 3 - The Future of Talent
Nov 10, 2022
Ceridian 2 - The Future of WFM
Oct 30, 2022
🚨🚨Productivity Forum 2023🚨🚨
Oct 28, 2022
Ceridian 1 - The Future of Pay
Oct 23, 2022
Productivity & Transformation 2022 Reflections with Oliver Banks
Oct 16, 2022
Reimagining The Petrol Station
Oct 09, 2022
Move Faster With Clear Processes And Role Onboarding
Oct 02, 2022
Powerful AI Conversations
Sep 25, 2022
Productivity & Transformation 2022 Reflections
Sep 20, 2022
The Importance Of Practical Legal Advice
Sep 04, 2022
Productivity & Transformation 2022 - The 4 Pillars
Aug 28, 2022
Footfall Insights 2022
Aug 21, 2022
Personalised & Prioritised Actions
Aug 14, 2022
A Productive Nights Sleep
Aug 07, 2022
Productivity & Transformation 2022 - Retail Acronyms
Jul 31, 2022
Measurement USA V Europe
Jul 24, 2022
Supply Chain Challenges
Jul 17, 2022
Managing Task V Scheduling
Jul 10, 2022
How Do You Drive Accurate Forecasting & Analytics?
Jul 03, 2022
Productivity & Transformation 2022 - Retail Myths & Mottos
Jun 26, 2022
How to Attract and Retain Staff
Jun 20, 2022
Plan & Execute Work, Measure & Reward Teams
Jun 12, 2022
Productivity & Transformation 2022
May 30, 2022
Flow Insight
May 22, 2022
Management Structures Of The Future
May 16, 2022
Don't be a Duck
May 08, 2022
Why do we choose one retailer over another?
May 01, 2022
Customer Experience post Covid
Apr 24, 2022
Productivity Insights
Apr 04, 2022
Bricks & Mortar Retail is the future
Mar 27, 2022
What Makes You Different?
Mar 20, 2022
Ready to Fight Food Waste?
Mar 13, 2022
The Flexibility Debate
Mar 06, 2022
Retail - The Accidental Career
Feb 20, 2022
Retail Supply Chains & The Last Mile
Jan 30, 2022
Don’t miss the food waste revolution
Jan 23, 2022
Start Up Land
Jan 16, 2022
The Future Is Electronic Shelf Labels (ESL)
Jan 09, 2022
Ole & Steen - The Perfect Bake
Jan 02, 2022
Making Restaurants More Efficient With Bite Ninja
Dec 19, 2021
ExeQut Digital Transformation
Dec 12, 2021
The Perfect Design
Dec 05, 2021
Connecting Teams Through Voice
Nov 21, 2021
What tech will be in the retail store of the future?
Nov 14, 2021
The Reminder Episode
Nov 07, 2021
A Commitment To Doing The Right Thing
Oct 31, 2021
Worth A Gander To Reduce Food Waste
Oct 24, 2021
Do Less To Do More
Oct 17, 2021
Arco - Experts in Safety
Oct 10, 2021
SPF Productivity
Oct 03, 2021
Helping You To Manage Your Restaurant Easily
Sep 26, 2021
The Great Acceleration
Sep 19, 2021
The Macanta magic that helps you find process Nirvana
Sep 12, 2021
Checkout Free Retail
Sep 05, 2021
Convert software & data struggles into powerful results
Aug 29, 2021
Post Implementation Support
Aug 22, 2021
WFM Pilot & Rollout
Aug 15, 2021
You Have Chosen A WFM Solution So Now What?
Aug 08, 2021
The Rotageek journey
Aug 01, 2021
The benefits of automating your employee scheduling
Jul 25, 2021
Should retailers be automating employee scheduling?
Jul 18, 2021
Findr - The worlds first matching platform for businesses
Jul 11, 2021
Simplification Stories 4
Jul 04, 2021
Simplification Stories 3
Jun 20, 2021
Simplification Stories 2
Jun 13, 2021
Simplification Stories 1
Jun 06, 2021
Is working from home sustainable?
May 30, 2021
Did you follow the process, did it produce the intended result? Part 2
May 23, 2021
Pick to Perfection
May 16, 2021
Unleash your data to be more productive
May 09, 2021
Do you turn your data into insight?
May 02, 2021
Hyper Scheduling with Sorted³
Apr 25, 2021
Education in the Workplace
Apr 18, 2021
Do you have Give-up-itis?
Apr 11, 2021
Successful Field Leadership
Apr 04, 2021
Always there to serve you
Mar 29, 2021
The Perfect Storm for Innovation
Mar 21, 2021
WorkJam Operations
Mar 14, 2021
WorkJam Customer Experience
Mar 07, 2021
WorkJam Task Management
Feb 28, 2021
ReThink & REPL - How does WFM differ across the World?
Feb 21, 2021
ReThink & REPL - The future of WFM
Feb 14, 2021
ReThink & REPL - Mobile, Reporting & Analytics
Feb 07, 2021
ReThink & REPL - Time & Attendance (T&A)
Jan 31, 2021
ReThink & REPL - Scheduling
Jan 24, 2021
ReThink & REPL - Budgeting, Forecasting & Labour Demand
Jan 17, 2021
ReThink & REPL - Labour Standards
Jan 10, 2021
What does a Category Director do?
Jan 06, 2021
Purpose Reflections
Jan 03, 2021
The greatest consumer shock to our system we have ever had
Dec 20, 2020
Did you follow the process, did it produce the intended result?
Dec 16, 2020
Breathing life into your processes
Dec 09, 2020
Are you making the most of the tech you give your store teams?
Dec 06, 2020
Are you a revenge shopper?
Dec 02, 2020
What is the way to Covid safe premises?
Nov 29, 2020
Physical retail isn’t dead—but boring retail is!
Nov 25, 2020
What makes people happy & engaged at work?
Nov 18, 2020
Making a difference locally
Nov 15, 2020
Where is your Customer?
Nov 04, 2020
ReThink & InMoment - Inclusive Experiences
Nov 02, 2020
ReThink & InMoment - Self checkout and the move to self pay
Nov 01, 2020
ReThink & InMoment - Omnichannel
Oct 28, 2020
ReThink & InMoment - Customer Experience V Brand Promise
Oct 25, 2020
What does the future look like for hospitality?
Oct 21, 2020
Do you have to choose between Efficiency & good Customer Service?
Oct 18, 2020
The challenges of a small stores with high customer volume
Oct 12, 2020
The challenges of running a Pharmacy chain through a Pandemic
Oct 07, 2020
Retail USA V UK
Oct 04, 2020
Keeping the world connected
Sep 27, 2020
Grey Tuesday
Sep 24, 2020
Where will you visit on the Metro map?
Sep 23, 2020
How is automation impacting the Customer & Store?
Sep 22, 2020
Is WFM a Change or IT driven project?
Sep 21, 2020
Driving Store Performance through AI and Machine Learning
Sep 19, 2020
🎧Your data your way🎧
Sep 18, 2020
UKG: When two cloud software powerhouses become one
Sep 17, 2020
Re-imagine communication
Sep 16, 2020
Tech is important but people make the difference
Sep 13, 2020
Engagement Driven Workforce Management
Sep 09, 2020
Has your Scheduling kept up to speed?
Sep 06, 2020
Office productivity and the impact of working from home
Sep 02, 2020
Benefits of adopting Lean and Six Sigma principles
Aug 26, 2020
Can we keep up with the change?
Aug 23, 2020
Productivity in the music industry
Aug 19, 2020
How do you communicate with deskless workers?
Aug 16, 2020
Retail Technology- Back to the Future
Aug 12, 2020
What is Methods-Time Measurement (MTM)?
Aug 09, 2020
Rise of the Robots
Aug 05, 2020
How does the flexibility of colleagues increase productivity in a gig economy?
Aug 02, 2020
Is there a link between Employee Engagement & Productivity?
Jul 29, 2020
Wage Payment Innovation
Jul 26, 2020
Future Footfall trends 2020
Jul 22, 2020
How we buys cars is changing
Jul 19, 2020
Barriers to delivering productivity through people
Jul 15, 2020
How AI and automation can create high-value touchpoints across the customer journey
Jul 12, 2020
What makes a great Project Manager ?
Jul 08, 2020
How can improvisation help drive productivity?
Jul 05, 2020
Productivity in Darts
Jul 03, 2020
Are you going to sit and wait for normal to return?
Jul 01, 2020
The psychology of communication with Customers
Jun 28, 2020
ReThink team talk all things Workstudy
Jun 26, 2020
Business growth & productivity
Jun 24, 2020
Surviving Change
Jun 21, 2020
Demystifying Disinfection. What does clean really mean?
Jun 19, 2020
Productivity opportunities in retail store operations
Jun 17, 2020
When is Transformation not Transformation?
Jun 14, 2020
Not the 'New Normal'
Jun 10, 2020
Workforce Management is changing
Jun 07, 2020
Justin Edinburgh 3 Foundation Special
Jun 05, 2020
The importance of engaging people in productivity change initiatives
Jun 03, 2020
Impact of Social distancing in the 'new normal'
May 31, 2020
Adapting the retail operating model to the 'new normal'
May 27, 2020
Productive teams (lessons from football)
May 24, 2020
A Dragon's view of productivity
May 20, 2020
Why does Customer Experience matter and what are the links to productivity?
May 17, 2020
Does a challenge culture drive productivity?
May 13, 2020
Productivity Data Insights
May 10, 2020
Why should you have a business strategy?
May 06, 2020
Productivity in a professional football club
May 04, 2020
Purpose & Productivity Part 2
Apr 28, 2020
Purpose & Productivity Part 1
Apr 21, 2020