Work, me and the baby!  Come and join this ground breaking podcast with Helen Sachdev and Alison Green and hosted by Karen Griffin where we talk about the work being done to raise awareness and support working parents and organisations.

Did you know:

Only 16% of executive positions are filled by women?

80% uk companies are still paying their women less than their men?

Employers are losing great women at the stage they become a parent

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Evidence is now showing key challenges associated with take up of male parental leave

 
These sand many other angles on this important topic are discussed. 

Join us for a wonderful chat about ‘leadership and love’ in the workplace.  Helena Clayton is a highly experienced leadership development consultant, writer and speaker.  She won the Roffey Park Research Prize for her research into leadership and love.  The report can be found at Here

Key conversation highlights for us were: 

• There were found to be 5 buckets of behaviours that demonstrate love at work 
• Top tips for managers and leaders
• A self reflection exercise
• What is love?… "When you see it - we know it” 
• “When there is love… healing takes place”
• “We are all hard wired for love… so where does it all go when we are at work?”
• “Workplaces can often be places of fear / stress / burnout…”

If you’d like to explore this topic further, Helena invites you to join her free events - found on Eventbrite: “Acts of Love for Tough Times”

It’s a pleasure to share our latest podcast episode featuring leadership veteran Andy Meehan talk with Karen Griffin about leading boards.  This X minute conversation traverses many topics including; Getting the best out of boards, board leadership qualities, likely challenges over the next 5 years, the Shamrock organisation, the difference between NEDs and Trustees, diversity and much more!

In this podcast Kathryn McEwen and Karen Griffin talk about Team Resilience, what it means, the practicalities of building it, the need for a systemic approach and its relationship to ‘high performing teams’.   A thought provoking discussion exploring challenging ideas such as; Is the idea of a ‘high performing team’ now dead?!  Are ‘high performing teams' a destination or a dynamic state?,  Given the complexity of teams today how useful really is ‘global benchmarking’, or should teams be just benchmarking against themselves?  

In this episode Andrew Wallas explains the difference between intention setting and goal setting and together we explore why intentions are key to delivering bigger outcomes. 

Tune in to hear Space2BE embracing the Christmas spirit with their take on ‘loose women’ from a people, performance, leadership and love perspective.  As promised, here is the link to the much appreciated article written by Naomi Holdt - Psychologist and Speaker and shared generously across social media in recent weeks: https://lnkd.in/e6nw22jn

A wonderful opportunity to hear from Sarah Smith who is fast becoming a leading expert on ‘wise leadership’.

In the context of massive world challenges that require new ‘wise’ responses, this episode provides a deep dive into what ‘wise’ leadership is, why it is important and how to do it. If you are a senior Leader, a senior Executive Coach or an OD practitioner, this podcast is a ‘must listen’ for 2022 and beyond.

And the link to the book chapter mentioned is:

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-79952-6_28

References:

Glück, J., Bluck, S., & Weststrate, N. M. (2019). More on the MORE life experience model: What we have learned (so far). The Journal of value inquiry, 53(3), 349-370.

Küpers, W. M. (2016). The art of practical wisdom: Phenomenology of an embodied, wise ‘inter-practice’in organization and leadership. In A handbook of practical wisdom (pp. 37-64). Routledge.

Vervaeke, J., & Ferraro, L. (2013). Relevance, meaning and the cognitive science of wisdom. In The scientific study of personal wisdom (pp. 21-51). Springer, Dordrecht.

Vervaeke, J. (2022). How a philosophy of meditation can explore the deep connections between mindfulness and contemplative wisdom. In Routledge Handbook on the Philosophy of Meditation (pp. 192-208). Routledge.