Teams, Culture & You: The Psychology Behind Growth

Dr Josephine chats with Tony Sutherland who is an Executive Product Owner and Agile Coach on the way he has achieved extraordinary improvements in product delivery times in a culture that was not set up for speed. They discuss his leadership philosophy, agile practice and human centred design, all of which created the right environment to change ways of working at scale.

Tony referenced this book in this episode: Eric Ries: The Lean Startup http://theleanstartup.com/book

Tony’s Linked in Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/transformationlead/

As always, please send us your questions and stories: [email protected]

Rachael is a Community Lead at Servian, a tech consultancy throughout Aust, NZ, Singapore and India. Dr Josephine and Rachael discuss how to truly engage your employees.

For more information about Servian go to:

https://www.servian.com/

As always, please send us your questions and stories: [email protected] or contact me at https://gearedforgrowth.biz/contact/

Dr Josephine talks to Laura Mazin, CEO of AchieveAble, and a Customer Experience Guru, about how to deliver an impactful customer experience in your business.

Laura Mazin has over 30 years’ experience accelerating business growth through transformed customer experiences.

As always, please send us your questions and stories: [email protected]

Josephine and Dr Iain Butterworth, who are good friends and colleagues, discuss our human connection to spaces and what companies and governments need to know to rethink how we create different spaces for a post Covid world.

Dr Iain Butterworth, who is trained in Community Psychology, is passionate about healthy cities and communities. Iain has extensive experience across government, higher education, and the community sectors. What are the opportunities for re-conceptualising our connection to place in 2022 .

Some useful references mentioned in the episode:

https://iainbutterworth.com/blog/

" 20-minute neighbourhoods" -- https://www.planning.vic.gov.au/policy-and-strategy/planning-for-melbourne/plan-melbourne/20-minute-neighbourhoods

RMIT -- Healthy Liveable Communities Group -- a fantastic website full of useful information and resources. https://cur.org.au/research-programs/healthy-liveable-cities-group/

RMIT Australian Urban Observatory -- https://auo.org.au/

Cardinia Shire Council Liveability Plan - has significant relevance to the 'suburban economy' - https://www.cardinia.vic.gov.au/downloads/download/536/cardinia_shire_s_liveability_plan_2017-29_-_cardinia_shire_counci

As always, please send us your questions and stories: [email protected]

Read Iain’s blog page for his series of blogs on Sense of Place https://iainbutterworth.com/blog/

Contact Dr.Iain Butterworth at https://iainbutterworth.com/

Shu’s life changed dramatically about 12 months ago. Coming through all of that to the other side, Josephine speaks to Shu about her journey, the life lessons in resilience and courage, and what’s in store now.

Some trusted organisations for Breast Cancer information:

https://www.bcna.org.au/

https://www.pinkhope.org.au/

https://www.thinkpink.org.au/

https://www.cancer.org.au/cancer-information

As always, please send us your questions and stories: [email protected]

According to some studies, 10 per cent of the people we meet in our lives don’t actually like us so how do we get along with everyone in the workplace?

We often get stuck in relationship patterns with people, including our colleagues and bosses at work, and feel like that is never going to change. But it's Spring, and we're feeling inspired by the changes in nature all around us so we thought it was a good opportunity to talk about how to shift those tricky relationships and reset them for the better.

As always, please send us your questions and stories: [email protected]

Some interesting reads:

https://www.purewow.com/wellness/how-to-reboot-your-relationship

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/16/well/family/relationship-reset.html

https://www.psychologytoday.com/au/blog/fulfillment-any-age/201512/does-your-relationship-need-reset

This last week has been one of those weeks where my focus was definitely distracted….by news broadcasts on the pandemic, climate change, and Afghanistan; to mention a few. Interruptions, more news about lockdown extensions, home schooling…So Christy and Josephine discuss ways to create focus during this time of so many distractions.

Some interesting reads for more information:

Josephine’s Blog https://gearedforgrowth.biz/staying-focussed-in-a-sea-of-distraction/

https://www.nirandfar.com/internal-triggers/

https://www.psychologytoday.com/au/articles/200704/fix-your-focus

Josephine and Dr Iain Butterworth, who are good friends and colleagues, discuss how to deal with doubt and uncertainty of your people in your business.

They discuss why it’s important to check in with your team about their doubts and uncertainties, and importantly how to address these before they lead to poor productivity, absenteeism and bad business culture and outcomes.

Dr Iain Butterworth is a Community Psychologist who is passionate about healthy cities and communities. Iain has extensive experience across government, higher education, and the community sectors.

A Fulbright Scholar, Iain has expertise in the WHO Healthy Cities program and spends most of his time helping busy planners, councillors, and policy makers to develop useful, rigorous, and relevant information that is grounded in the contributions and expertise of communities and local partners. When he’s not working, Iain tends to his gorgeous heritage garden!

As always, please give us your questions and stories: [email protected]

Contact Dr.Iain Butterworth at https://iainbutterworth.com/

With many of us are still working from home, CEOs are beginning to wonder how will they get their staff back to the office. In this episode we discuss some alternatives to defaulting to ways of working before the pandemic.

This transition presents an opportunity to design the built environment around your staff in ways that build collaboration and the team culture you need to drive your business strategy. We discuss what are the elements that inspire true collaboration.

History of Coworking: https://cobaltworkspace.com/the-history-of-coworking/

If you'd like to ask questions about purpose please email [email protected]

In this episode Christy and Dr. Josephine revisit Purpose, what it means to both of them, and what their purpose actually is currently. We explore this in our work and home lives.

And importantly we bust some myths on what happens if you don’t have a purpose! We discuss how this can be so disconcerting when all the messages we get are around ‘you MUST have a purpose’. We know some of you don’t and that’s ok too!

If you'd like to ask questions about purpose please email [email protected]