EPISODE 3

Leadership and Wellbeing: Lessons and Insights from a Policing Career

In this episode, Martin & Jonpaul are joined by Tim Jacques - former Deputy Assistant Commissioner at the UK’s Counterterrorism Policing HQ. They discuss health and wellbeing in high-stress positions and the role of senior leaders in optimising wellbeing and performance.

Guest, Cast & Crew

Tim Jacques retired in February 2024 after 37 years in policing. He completed his service as a Deputy Assistant Commissioner in UK Counter Terrorism's Policing Headquarters based in New Scotland Yard.  Counter Terrorism Policing is an 8,000 people strong collaboration of UK Police Forces who work with the United Kingdom's Intelligence Agencies, His Majesty's Government, the Ministry of Defence and other partners to counter the threat to UK interests from all forms of terrorism. Tim had strategic responsibility for all counterterrorism policing Prevent and Pursue activities.  

Hosted by Martin Jones & Jonpaul Nevin https://www.ophp.co.uk 

Edited by Bess Manley

Produced by Wavell Room https://wavellroom.com/

Resources

• Tim on Linkedin https://uk.linkedin.com/in/tim-jacques-50104423 
• The National Police Wellbeing Service https://www.oscarkilo.org.uk
• Viktor Frankl ‘Man’s Search for Meaning’
• Martin Seligman ‘Flourish’
• Alan Cohen ‘Radical Contentment: The Power of Enough’

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Chapters

00:42 Introducing Tim Jacques: A Policing Career in Review

01:09 The Importance of Well-being in High-Stress Roles

05:09 Understanding Human Performance in Policing

08:02 The Evolution of the Oscar Kilo Program

18:35 Strategies for Personal Well-being and Performance

29:58 Advice for Leaders on Fostering Wellbeing

32:25 Final Thoughts and How to Connect with Tim

Up Next

Look out for our next episode with Dr Thomas Curran, a world-leading expert on perfectionism. We challenge some of the myths that link perfectionism with high performance and discuss how we can prevent perfectionism from hindering our health, wellbeing, productivity and performance. 

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