Working on Wellbeing

Providing the right environment for people to thrive is fundamental to wellbeing. After all, if we don’t feel comfortable – in our place of work, for example – it can be difficult to make tough decisions or call out bad behaviour that would otherwise have an adverse effect on the way we feel.

The concept of psychological safety is the belief that you can speak up with new ideas, ask questions, and relay concerns or point out mistakes. Amy Edmondson is the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at the Harvard Business School and quite possibly the world’s leading expert on psychological safety.

In this episode of Working on Wellbeing, she establishes the key elements required for creating a psychologically safe environment, tackles some of the biggest threats to true psychological safety, and takes a closer look at what a responsible leader really looks like.

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We are all Working on our Wellbeing daily, but not everyone has access to the latest cutting-edge research into the science of wellbeing … until now. From our home at the World Wellbeing Movement, within the University of Oxford, we have created the Working on Wellbeing podcast so that you can be a fly on the wall during our conversations with the world’s leading wellbeing experts.

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This week’s guest has a unique career path: from professional athlete, via chart-topping musician, to mental health advocate and now PhD student.

Niall Breslin – better known as ‘Bressie’ in his native Ireland – speaks openly to Sarah about his own struggles with anxiety, and the journey he has taken to harness the power of his own mind.

Plus, he explains the evidence-based interventions which his charity A Lust For Life is using to boost the wellbeing of children and young people in Ireland, and discusses the systemic changes required for society to truly put wellbeing at the heart of decision-making.

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We are all Working on our Wellbeing daily, but not everyone has access to the latest cutting-edge research into the science of wellbeing … until now. From our home at the World Wellbeing Movement, within the University of Oxford, we have created the Working on Wellbeing podcast so that you can be a fly on the wall during our conversations with the world’s leading wellbeing experts.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What can rabbits teach us about living longer, happier, and healthier lives? This week's guest is better qualified than most to offer an answer.

Dr Kelli Harding MD is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center and author of The Rabbit Effect. In this episode, she shares with Sarah the importance of kindness and social connections to our wellbeing, both at work and in general life, and how wellbeing is a proven indicator of present – and future – physical health.

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We are all Working on our Wellbeing daily, but not everyone has access to the latest cutting-edge research into the science of wellbeing … until now. From our home at the World Wellbeing Movement, within the University of Oxford, we have created the Working on Wellbeing podcast so that you can be a fly on the wall during our conversations with the world’s leading wellbeing experts.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It’s difficult to overstate the importance of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging to our wellbeing. In this episode, Sarah picks the brains of a global leader in this space, LaFawn Davis.

In addition to her role as Vice President, Environmental, Social & Governance at recruitment site Indeed, LaFawn has been named in Entrepreneur Magazine’s 100 Women of Impact, Fast Company’s Queer50, San Francisco Business Times’s Most Influential Women in Business and Fortune’s Most Powerful Women.

She talks to Sarah about what belonging actually means in a workplace context, the real-life impact of “you cannot be what you cannot see” and shares insights from the world’s largest study of employee wellbeing, undertaken in partnership with the University of Oxford’s Wellbeing Research Centre.

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We are all Working on our Wellbeing daily, but not everyone has access to the latest cutting-edge research into the science of wellbeing … until now. From our home at the World Wellbeing Movement, within the University of Oxford, we have created the Working on Wellbeing podcast so that you can be a fly on the wall during our conversations with the world’s leading wellbeing experts.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Having the skills to do a job is only of use if we’re equipped with the confidence and support systems in place to use them. Crucially, this authentic confidence can help us unlock our true potential and flourish at work.

In this episode, researcher and author Jacqueline Brassey talks to Sarah about her own crisis of confidence, and shares tips we can all use to improve our workplace wellbeing.

Plus, as co-leader of the McKinsey Health Institute, she shares some of the latest research on the challenges of the modern workplace.

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We are all Working on our Wellbeing daily, but not everyone has access to the latest cutting-edge research into the science of wellbeing … until now. From our home at the World Wellbeing Movement, within the University of Oxford, we have created the Working on Wellbeing podcast so that you can be a fly on the wall during our conversations with the world’s leading wellbeing experts.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The five-day work week hasn't changed since it was first brought to prominence by Henry Ford almost a century ago. But this set-up is increasingly at odds with our 21st Century lifestyles - and is having a real and measurable impact on our mental health and wellbeing.

In this episode, Sarah chats to Andrew Barnes and Charlotte Lockhart: co-founders of 4 Day Week Global, a not-for-profit community whose support for trials across the globe has shown the very real benefits - for employees and business alike - of reducing work time to the equivalent of four days a week.

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We are all Working on our Wellbeing daily, but not everyone has access to the latest cutting-edge research into the science of wellbeing … until now. From our home at the World Wellbeing Movement, within the University of Oxford, we have created the Working on Wellbeing podcast so that you can be a fly on the wall during our conversations with the world’s leading wellbeing experts.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Why wellbeing? And why should we put it at the heart of everything we do?

In this first episode of Working on Wellbeing, a podcast series from the World Wellbeing Movement, host Sarah Cunningham chats to two titans of the wellbeing world to get their take.

Karen Guggenheim, CEO and founder of the World Happiness Summit (WOHASU), shares her deeply personal story which set her on a path to 'choose happiness'. And Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, Professor of Behavioural Science and Economics and Director of the Wellbeing Research Centre at the University of Oxford, gives the lowdown on what the research tells us - and the work that is still to be done.

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We are all Working on our Wellbeing daily, but not everyone has access to the latest cutting-edge research into the science of wellbeing … until now. From our home at the World Wellbeing Movement, within the University of Oxford, we have created the Working on Wellbeing podcast so that you can be a fly on the wall during our conversations with the world’s leading wellbeing experts.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We are all Working on our Wellbeing daily, but not everyone has access to the latest cutting-edge research into the science of wellbeing … until now.

From our home at the World Wellbeing Movement, within the University of Oxford, we have created the Working on Wellbeing podcast so that you can be a fly on the wall during our conversations with the world’s leading wellbeing experts.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.