Psychology@Work

I want to talk about psychological safety – what it is, why it’s important and how you can develop greater psychological safety in your organisation and within your teams.

In this week's episode:

• What is Insights?
• What are the benefits of Insights?
• What about any downsides?
• Does Strengthscope and Insights work together?
• Transitioning the conversation from Insights types to unique strengths
• How to choose Strengthscope vs Insights or Strengthscope + Insights



This episode is all about getting the career you want, being prepared to make your move when the market conditions are right, or, quite frankly, when your conditions are right…that is, when you’ve decided that a career or role change is right for you. To help you navigate these decisions, I have some reflections about what not to do if you want to get the career you want, need and deserve. I then want to move on to describing the Japanese concept of ikigai to help you find your career sweet spot, and to finish, a reminder to bring your strengths into action to help you find the confidence to finally make your move.

Why is goal setting important?

It’s important because repeated research has shown that setting goals can make a difference to motivation and performance in many areas of life.

In this podcast, discover the 4 steps you'll need which will help you to goal set in the year ahead, or any time of year, the strengths way…

In this weeks episode, discover:

• The psychological contract
• The employee psychological contract
• How has the psychological contract time and again over the past 50 years?
• If the pandemic changed things again?
• And how how the employee psychological contract changed post-pandemic?

The Hogan suite of psychometrics is very widely used in organisations across the world. The best known tools in the Hogan portfolio are what Hogan call their ‘bright side’ profiler (Hogan Personality Indicator or HPI) and their ‘dark side’ profiler (Hogan Development Survey or HDS).

In this podcast, discover:

• What is Hogan & Why it's so popular?
• It's pros & cons
• Comparison of Hogan & Strengthscope

Myers Briggs or the Myers Briggs Type Indicator or MBTI, call it what you will, but the language and concepts of Myers Briggs are still the most widely recognised across the world when it comes to psychometric profiling and people getting a toehold in understanding their personality and preferences.

In this podcast, find out:

• What is Myers-Briggs good for? And what are its shortcomings?
• How can Strengthscope and Myers-Briggs work together?
• Top 3 tips for choosing Myers-Briggs, Strengthscope or a blended approach

In today’s podversation, I discuss with Sian Walters what challenges she’s facing as a people professional at Fleishman Hillard right now, and how the business is responding. Then get more into the meat of how Sian and the people team have set about deploying the strengths approach at Fleishman, how that’s helped in generally and how it’s helping right now, plus discussing more about the challenges in landing a positive psychology-based approach in a fast-paced business like Fleishman. Wrapping around that of course and as always, I’m going to ask some questions of Sian about her own journey, learnings and reflections on her career.

In this episode, I discuss:

• Positive psychology and its attraction of criticism
• Research findings
• Links to ‘happiness’ and ‘toxic positivity’
• The risks of Western-centrism
• Links to religion, ethics and evangelism
• The value of positive psychology?

In this podcast, I want to get into flow with you by diving deeper into this idea, how it relates to stress and stress management, how you can use that knowledge to get more from your daily work as well as giving give you my Top 3 tips for getting into a flow state.