Recorded live on stage at Unily’s Unite25 conference in Nashville — Frequency’s first ever live episode — Chuck Gose and Jenni Field share their keynote takeaways, react to new research on AI trust and courageous leadership, and take questions from the audience on AI-generated content and delivering bad news well.
Chuck Gose celebrates the UK’s first snowfall of the season and Jenni Field’s Business Book Awards shortlist certificate before the pair dig into new Gallup data on the purpose gap at work, Kate O’Neill’s argument that feedback needs shared context, Mita Mallick’s case against “firefighter” leadership, and unsettling new research on AI reading personality from LinkedIn photos.
Chuck Gose vents about the annual arrival of LinkedIn “2026 trends” posts before he and Jenni Field dig into new “culture rot” research showing only 14% of UK professionals feel aligned with their company’s values, data on gossip outpacing HR in layoff announcements, Jenni’s takeaways from the Gallagher Digital Experience Summit, and new research on America’s shifting relationship with work.
Jenni Field shares reflections from Chris Ducker’s Long Haul Leader Summit before she and Chuck Gose dig into a new “Meaningful Productivity” report on workplace exhaustion, MIT Sloan’s case that poor leadership — not hybrid work itself — is the real problem, data on manager engagement and recognition, and the risk of over-specializing in a comms career.
Jenni Field brings a new research report on the value of internal communication that she co-authored with Dr. Kevin Ruck, then she and Chuck Gose take on a Times piece asking what HR is actually for, The Economist’s look back at 1990s-style management “re-engineering” as a caution for today’s middle-management cuts, and a new report on the systemic barriers facing female entrepreneurs.
Chuck Gose and Jenni Field explore “microshifting” as the next stage in flexible work, dig into fresh data on how people actually use ChatGPT and where GenAI is already reshaping the comms function, and close with a simple two-word phrase for setting real boundaries at work.
Fresh off Frequency’s live episode at Unite in Nashville, Chuck Gose and Jenni Field dig into new Workvivo research showing 92% of internal comms professionals can’t prove ROI, Mike Klein’s case for shifting from “engaged” to “effective,” a Dewpoint Communications report on frontline worker communication gaps, and a LinkedIn challenge to the idea of “best places to work.”
Chuck Gose and Jenni Field open with the rise of going shoeless at the office before digging into “quiet promotions,” Culture Amp data on keeping teams on track after layoffs, UK job ad data showing hybrid expectations quietly tightening, and insights from a senior internal comms roundtable Jenni hosted in London.
Recording ahead of a packed October of conferences and speaking events, Chuck Gose and Jenni Field dig into Axios reporting on chief communications officers absorbing ever more corporate functions, LinkedIn data showing fewer workers want to become managers, Gen Z’s shrinking entry-level job market, and TIME’s case for teaching leaders real emotion regulation.
Chuck Gose and Jenni Field revisit the debate over merging CHRO and CIO roles five months after first raising it, weigh whether humor has a real place in internal comms, preview a December book challenging the future of the profession, and dig into new research from the Institute of Leadership on what’s actually on leaders’ minds.
Chuck Gose and Jenni Field open with the fat cat of Santorini and a new personality-type label before digging into data showing return-to-office mandates function as a “retention tax,” Gallup’s five dependable levers of employee engagement, research on post-pandemic personality shifts, the Netherlands’ near-standard four-day week, and the workplace trauma response known as “fawning.”
Chuck Gose and Jenni Field settle the “pod” debate once and for all before turning to a productive stretch of Jenni’s reading: Harvard Business Review pieces on achieving DEI goals without formal DEI programs and how the busiest people find joy, new research on “digital silence” and always-on culture, and a sneak preview of the UK’s 2025 IC Index from Ipsos Karian and Box.
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