Psychology@Work

There’s a lot of contrary advice out there on whether we’re better at making decisions with our ‘hearts’ (keying into our intuition, values and feelings) or with our ‘heads’ (referencing logic, facts and evidence), so I wanted to spend today’s podcast considering how you can get the best from both worlds, rather than ignoring, suppressing or overplaying one or the other.

How to make decisions

It is my complete and utter delight to be joined by a truly warm and wonderful human being, a living legend, a future visionary, thought leader and key influencer of today – yes, I welcome Dr Naeema Pasha, Director of Henley Careers at Henley Business School to the mic.

In this podversation, we talk about Generation Z – who are they, what they want with us, from us, and for us and the world, and how we might need to organise our organisations in a different way in order to create the best possible workplace future. And we’re going to place a particular focus on careers, because Naeema, as Director of Henley Careers, you direct careers.

In today’s podcast, I want to talk about a popular topic – how to own your own development, in a work context. In some organisations, there will be a formal process for putting together your personal development plan. In others, there will be less of a formal process and more of an informal ‘development by request’ process, where you’ll need to put together your reasoning behind requesting a particular piece of development. So how do you take control of your development? The strengths way?

When you watch people who lead and manage others well – people that you come into contact with at work, or that you hear about from others, they’ll all be very different people – different values, stories, experiences, attitudes – everyone’s unique, right? But in terms of some of the behaviours of the very best leaders and managers – there is some commonality. And one of the things that the best leaders and managers have in common is that they are able to identify areas of natural strength for people, hold them accountable in these areas and encourage them to stretch those areas out of their comfort zones so that their people can take their performance and contribution to the next level. Which would make those leaders strengths maximisers.

In today’s podcast, I want to talk about maximising the strengths of others as one of the central practices of great leadership and management – how to do it, and what to watch out for too.

What is strengths-based coaching and how does it differ from more traditional approaches? In today’s podcast, I’m going to give you some tips and some killer questions that will help you supercharge any coaching-type conversation that you may have – whether it’s with a colleague, a direct report or an actual coachee.

I’m excited today to be bringing you a podversation which follows my podcast on how to improve employee engagement. I thought it might be helpful to share our experience of employee engagement at Strengthscope…good, bad and indifferent.

We want to share what we do at different stages of the employee experience – what’s worked and what’s work in progress (although it’s all work in progress really, never really ends etc etc). I’m super excited to introduce you to our People and Community Lead at Strengthscope, Migle Sataite.

Today’s podcast has a clear work focus and is how to set expectations. Well I say it’s a clear work focus…actually, who’s to say that following some of these approaches wouldn’t be helpful outside of work too. But mainly I’m going to be talking about work as the focus.

Transcript: How to set expectations at work

To be successful with any task or activity, you need to be engaged with it, particularly at work. Increasing employee engagement at work has been shown to directly relate to organisational success – profitability, productivity, customer loyalty and reduced levels of absenteeism and turnover.

In today’s podcast, I am going to talk about what are some of the proven benefits of increased employee engagement are.

This week I talk about the challenges, both physically and mentally, that the change of the season brings.

Listen in to hear my tips on setting yourself up for a great winter and beat those winter blues.

What are management and leadership strengths and how can you get them?

One of the questions I am often asked in my work with leaders is ‘do I have the right strengths to be a leader?’.

In this podcast I talk about how it matters far less which strengths you have, but what matters more is how you use them. Listen in to hear my tips on getting know your strengths and using them effectively in any role.