by Amy Wilkinson and Lucy Wager | May 12, 2022 | Communication Skills, Podcast
Creating a compelling product story is an essential step in new product development because that story is what sells your product to other teams in your company, to retailers and also to your end customer. Today on the Oh For Food’s Sake Podcast, we’re exploring...
by Amy Wilkinson and Lucy Wager | May 5, 2022 | Careers, Podcast
Today we’re taking a step back from the daily grind of working in the food industry to ask a broader question: What is the purpose of your life? This line of thinking used to be reserved for philosophers and hippies but more people are coming to expect a sense of...
by Amy Wilkinson and Lucy Wager | Apr 28, 2022 | Podcast, Work Life Balance
This week’s episode of Oh For Food’s Sake features a very special guest, the mindfulness rebel Amy Polly. Amy joins us for a discussion on mindfulness, meditation, and taking a moment for yourself. Amy walks us through her journey from working as an accountant...
by Amy Wilkinson and Lucy Wager | Apr 21, 2022 | Careers, Podcast
Stress is a topic that comes up pretty often for people working in the food industry. If you work in food, you’re probably familiar with common stressors like high pressure jobs, tight deadlines and narrow profit margins. But how can we learn to cope with stress in a...
by Amy Wilkinson and Lucy Wager | Apr 14, 2022 | Guest Specialists, Podcast
Quality management is a really misunderstood area of the food industry and other departments can often be reluctant to engage with quality management procedures. We’re here to change your mind about quality management and to explain why quality management matters and...
by Amy Wilkinson and Lucy Wager | Apr 7, 2022 | Careers, Podcast
On this episode of Oh For Food’s Sake, we interview Kirsty Barden, a Business Development Manager at MDS, a scheme set up in 1986 to train the next generation of employees in the food industry. Kirsty starts out by explaining how she got into the MDS programme...