The People & Culture Podcast with James Judge

Tamerlaine Beasley is the Managing Director of Beasley Intercultural, a company that has provided cross-cultural training and advisory services for over 20 years. Tamerlaine has worked with business, government and international agencies and in this episode, I get her insights into how to navigate cross-cultural communication issues.

Today I’m talking to Amber Williams the Chief Executive Officer of the Resolution Institute. The institute is the largest dispute resolution membership organisation across Australia and New Zealand. In this discussion we cover what the Resolution Institute is and what's happening in the world of dispute resolution including developments in accreditation, restorative practice and where you can access training in the various dispute resolution disciplines.

In this episode I'm joined by Tim Rayner from ChapmanCG, a leading, global executive search firm dedicated solely to the Human Resource profession. Tim has been working in talent management and executive search for over 20 years. He is based in Europe where he specialises in senior HR search assignments. We talk about trends he’s seeing in the world of human resources, recruitment, and what he's hearing from the clients he works with at the most senior levels.

In this episode I’m talking to Jessica Hickman about her new book, the Upstander Leader, and her approach to help build capability in leaders and organisations to stop & prevent bullying.

Her focus is a proactive one to build an understanding of what contributes to bullying at work (and beyond) and she has some interesting models and approaches to help that happen.

Details on her website, book, information about her online academy and bullying resources can be found in the show notes and on my website.

In this month's episode I'm excited to be talking to Dr Kirsten Peterson about what she has learnt about high performance from coaching elite athletes. More specifically, we explore how this learning can be applied more broadly, including in the workplace. Dr Peterson is a performance psychologist with a deep background working with sports people at the elite level, having worked for many years with both the US Olympic Committee and the Australian Institute of Sport.

In this month's episode I'm talking to Rachael McMahon, Director and Principal Psychologist with the Australian Public Service (APS) Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Unit and Connie Galati, a Senior Clinical Psychologist with that same unit.

It's a deep dive into what the unit has achieved in developing a practical framework around mental health at work for one of Australia's largest employers. We also discuss the practice guides they have designed, their programs to build capability around suicide prevention and the role of corporate governance in building real and sustainable change.

A deep dive into what you should and shouldn't do as a manager or human resource professional when handling underperformance or allegations of misconduct in the workplace from the perspective of an employment lawyer, Gabrielle Sullivan.

Psychological Safety.

What is it? Why is it important? How do you create and maintain it in your workplace?

That's what I cover in this episode with three people who all have important insights on these issues. I'm joined by Rachael McMahon, Director and Principal Psychologist with the Australian Public Service Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Unit. Rachael has led major transformations of practice in suicide prevention, mental health capability, disaster recovery and crisis response. Tim Grenfell is Chief Psychologist with the Australian Federal Police and also has extensive experience working within other government agencies and in a variety of clinical roles. Leonie Graham is Director, People Support at IP Australia and has experience working with private and public sector workforces in a range of human resource and people related roles.

We also get to discuss a range of other issues including linkages with mental health in the workplace and what happens where psychological safety is absent in teams.

I hope you find the conversation informative. Let me know of other topics you'd like me to explore?

Thanks to IP Australia for whom I initially created this recording.

In this episode I explore what's been happening in the world of work in a particular industry, specifically, the business of architecture.

I'm joined by Chris Millman, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Cox Architecture as well as Margot McGinness, one of their HR Managers based in Canberra. Although both guests come from the same company, they have varied background and with Cox being a multidisciplinary practice with studios all around Australia, they offer some broader insights into this industry sector as a whole.

We talk about what systemic impacts there have been to the way they work as a result of the global pandemic, including flexible working arrangements and other changes to policies and practices.

We also discuss how this has affected different groups of employees and issues of fairness (and perceptions of fairness). The question of striking a balance between compulsion and choice in how and where people work comes up and we also discuss what implications this might have on staff attraction and retention as well as what it's meant in relation to working with clients..

I hope you find the conversation informative. Let me know of other topics you would like me to explore?

It's National Reconciliation week here in Australia so I am thrilled that the first episode of the second series of the People and Culture podcast is about practical reconciliation. I’m joined by Indigenous Elder, Aunty Munya Andrews and Educator, Carla Rogers, to discuss what reconciliation means and also explore the process they set out in their book 'Practical Reconciliation' on what steps organisations and individuals can take to embark on this process.

I also got to explore some issues I didn't fully understand (I should let everyone reading this know that I'm not Indigenous) including what is meant by the term 'Aboriginality' and what is behind the trend towards using traditional, non-colonial, names for places in Australia.

I hope you find the conversation informative and please let me know of any other topics you would like me to explore?