Work Less, Produce More

Happiness. We will all take a little more of it, especially after the ups and downs of the last couple of years. Beyond the personal impact on mood and wellbeing, the data clearly indicates happy employees are high performers. In this episode, we speak with happiness researcher, Dr. Gillian Mandich, about what we can practice to improve not only our own happiness but the happiness of those around us.

We know mental health is important, and we care about our team but how can you be proactive to protect and enhance mental wellbeing as a leader? What influence do you have? Probably more than you think. In this episode, I, Dr. Lisa Belanger take you through tips and techniques you can start to implement immediately at NO COST to help yourself and your team boost mental wellbeing, engagement, productivity in our hybrid, remote or in office workplace.

Done well, science communication can help us to make informed decisions as individuals, businesses and policy makers. However, effective science communication is a rare skill set of interpreting complex research and communicating it to the audience in an understandable way for what they want and need to know. In this episode I speak with Jay Ingram, science communicator to children and across research disciplines and everyone in between.

Neurodiversity refers to variation in the human brain regarding sociability, learning, attention, mood and other mental functions. This can include people with autism spectrum disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), dyslexia to name a few. Covering a remarkable part of the population, in this episode we speak with Dr. Ty McKinney on how we can reimagine our hiring processes and how we support individuals at work to leverage the unique skills and talent of our diverse teams.

Resilience is a word that has been thrown around a lot during the past couple years, and with good reason. We have been surviving a global pandemic and our ability to be agile, deal with change, uncertainty, and stress have been challenged. What can we as individuals, teams and organizations do to increase our capacity to be resilient? In this episode we speak with world-renowned resilience expert, Dr. Robyne Hanley Dafoe on how we can build resilience and better tolerate stress every single day.

Conflict is simply a reality of humans working together, a necessity to innovate and tension that can help embrace the power of diverse minds and yet, we are rarely taught how to manage conflict. In this episode, I speak to Amy Gallo, an expert on workplace conflict on how to lean into, manage and have productive, meaningful conflict.

We all know physical activity is good for us, but the benefits specific to mental health and work performance are not always top of mind. As hybrid and work from home become the norm and physical activity and mental health deteriorate - should companies incentivize or pay for behaviours, such as physical activity to not only take care of their employees but also help boost their bottom line? In this episode we speak with Dr. Marc Mitchell about creative approaches to increase physical activity and all of its brain boosting benefits.

While we aim to make strategic decisions, this can be challenging if we are advancing into the unknown. In this episode, we speak with Dr. Paul Schoemaker, a world expert on strategy, decision science and leadership, about scenario planning and strategizing in periods of uncertainty.

We are working at a faster, more rigorous pace than ever before. That relentless push is not how humans were designed to perform. We, as humans, need adequate breaks and recovery. In this episode we speak with performance expert Dr. Greg Well, exploring the question how do we design our days to perform at our best? Learn how to slow down, to speed up.

As we reimagine work with some of, or all of our workforce remaining online - how has our approach to leadership changed? How do we connect with, engage, motivate and hire in a remote world? In this episode, we speak with Shelly Spiegel, who has been managing her fully remote team for over 20 years for her insight on how remote work world is different and how we can lead more effectively.