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Making Positive Psychology Work

If you believe as we do that by uncovering tested, practical ways to help people move from functioning to flourishing at work, we can better navigate the incredible challenges and opportunities our world faces, then this podcast is for you. Our goal each week is to give you access to the world’ leading positive psychology, positive organizational scholarship and neuroscience researchers and practitioners to explore their latest research findings on how you can improve wellbeing, develop strengths, nurture positive relationships, make work meaningful and cultivate the grit to accomplish what matters most. If you want evidence-based approaches to bringing out the best in yourself and others at work, then consider this podcast your step-by-step guide.
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Mar 25, 2021

Dr. Grace Lordan is the founding director of the Inclusion Initiative, director of the master’s in behavioral science, and an associate professor in behavioral science at the London School of Economics and political science. Grace’s research is focused on understanding why some individuals succeed in life and others don’t and she’s an expert on the effects of bias, discrimination, and technology and how these changes impact us. She’s also an expert advisor to the UK government sitting on their skills and productivity board and her academic writings have been published in top international journals and her new book Think Big: Take Small Steps and Build the Future You Want has just been released.

In this week’s podcast, we explore how to set and reach the future goals that matter most to us, even in the face of limited time, limiting stories, and our tendencies to self-sabotage.

Connect with Dr. Grace Lordan:

You’ll Learn:

  • [03:00] - Grace explains why our future selves are often underachievers when it comes to the goals that we set.
  • [05:13] - Grace offers some tips to help us think bigger when it comes to our five years goals.
  • [07:31] - Grace explains why learning goals and not just performance goals hold the keys to our success
  • [09:18] - Grace explains how we can reclaim the time – even in our very busy lives – to achieve the goals that matter most to our future selves.
  • [13:35] - Grace shares how carrots and sticks can be used to help us prioritize time for achieving our goals.
  • [16:17] - Grace cautions us on how our biases can cause us to self-sabotage when it comes to achieving our goals.
  • [20:22] - Grace offers some advice for navigating the limitations other people’s stories, beliefs and biases might place on us when it comes to achieving our goals.
  • [24:50] - Grace shares how we can fuel our resilience as we work towards achieving our goals.
  • [31:15] - Grace completes the lightning round!

Thanks for listening!

Thanks so much for joining me again this week.  If you enjoyed this episode, please share it using the social media buttons you see at the bottom of this post.

Please leave an honest review for the Making Positive Psychology Work Podcast on iTunes. Ratings and reviews are extremely helpful and greatly appreciated. They do matter in the rankings of the show, and I read each and every one of them.  And don’t forget to subscribe to the show on iTunes to get automatic updates. It’s free!

You can also listen to all the episodes of Making Positive Psychology Work streamed directly to your smartphone or iPad through stitcher. No need for downloading or syncing.

Until next time, take care!  Thank you, Grace!

Mar 18, 2021

Michael Bungay Stanier, who helps people be a force for change. Best known for his book, The Coaching Habit, Michael’s learning and development company, Box Of Crayons, trains hundreds of thousands of managers to be more coach-like, and their clients range from Microsoft right through to Gucci.

In this week’s podcast, we explore how to navigate hard changes more effectively by leveling up our individual and organizational curiosity.

Connect with Michael Bungay Stanier:

You’ll Learn:

  • [02:28] - Michael explains the difference between easy change and hard change.
  • [06:51] - Michael explores how our definitions for successful change may need to be updated.
  • [10:46] - Michael offers some tips to help us tell less and ask more in order to create the changes we want.
  • [14:22] - Michael shares some simple questions we can ask to help us stay curious and open as we create change.
  • [17:05] - Michael provides some simple prompts to help us tame our advice-giving monsters.
  • [20:47] - Michael explains why creating a habit of asking questions will probably take us longer than 21 days.
  • [23:27] - Michael shares why celebrating is an important part of helping us to persist with new behaviors.
  • [26:12] - Michael outlines what workplaces can do to encourage and support organizational curiosity.
  • [28:13] - Michael shares his one best question to ask in workplaces.
  • [30:30] - Michael completes the lightning round!

Thanks for listening!

Thanks so much for joining me again this week.  If you enjoyed this episode, please share it using the social media buttons you see at the bottom of this post.

Please leave an honest review for the Making Positive Psychology Work Podcast on iTunes. Ratings and reviews are extremely helpful and greatly appreciated. They do matter in the rankings of the show, and I read each and every one of them.  And don’t forget to subscribe to the show on iTunes to get automatic updates. It’s free!

You can also listen to all the episodes of Making Positive Psychology Work streamed directly to your smartphone or iPad through stitcher. No need for downloading or syncing.

Until next time, take care!  Thank you, Michael!

Mar 11, 2021

Manfred Kets de Vries is a distinguished clinical professor of leadership development and organizational change at INSEAD, whose work explores the interface between management science, psychoanalysis, development psychology, evolutionary psychology, neuroscience, psychotherapy, executive coaching, and consulting. Manfred is one of the pioneers in the field of global leadership. He has published more than 400 academic papers and is the author, co-author, or editor of 52 books, including his most recent publication, The CEO Whisperer: Meditations on Leadership, Life, and Change.

In this week’s episode, we explore what makes an organization authentizotic, and we uncover strategies leaders can use to help people feel engaged and wholly alive in the workplace.

Connect with Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries:

You’ll Learn:

  • [02:29] - Manfred shares what an 'authentizotic' organization is.
  • [03:08] - Manfred shares the factors leaders can focus on to help create authentizotic organizations.
  • [06:30] - Manfred shares how leader group coaching can help an organization become more authentizotic.
  • [08:14] - Manfred shares examples of team coaching activities.
  • [14:41] - Manfred shares a real-life example of the power of the self-portrait activity
  • [16:12] - Manfred shares how to begin becoming a more authentizotic leader.
  • [17:01] - Manfred shares some cautions and caveats of doing this work.
  • [18:34] - Manfred completes the lightning round!

Thanks for listening!

Thanks so much for joining me again this week.  If you enjoyed this episode, please share it using the social media buttons you see at the bottom of this post.

Please leave an honest review for the Making Positive Psychology Work Podcast on iTunes. Ratings and reviews are extremely helpful and greatly appreciated. They do matter in the rankings of the show, and I read each and every one of them.  And don’t forget to subscribe to the show on iTunes to get automatic updates. It’s free!

You can also listen to all the episodes of Making Positive Psychology Work streamed directly to your smartphone or iPad through stitcher. No need for downloading or syncing.

Until next time, take care!  Thank you, Manfred!

Mar 4, 2021

Eric Karpinski has been on the cutting edge of bringing positive psychology tools to workplaces for over 10 years with clients that include Intel, Facebook, IBM, T-Mobile, and many others where he has helped managers and executives lead with positive emotions to drive team productivity, engagement, and performance. He is a key member of Shawn Achor’s GoodThink team and Eric’s new book, Put Happiness to Work, has just been released and we highly recommend it.

In this week’s episode, we explore tiny evidence-based actions and habits you can take to improve levels of happiness and engagement for yourself and others as you work.

Connect with Eric Karpinski:

You’ll Learn:

  • [ 02:54] - Eric explains why employee engagement is generally done wrong in most workplaces.
  • [05:12] - Eric outlines the differences between happiness and wellbeing in workplaces.
  • [11:51] - Eric outlines the two different groups of employees who are likely to benefit most from happiness and wellbeing strategies in workplaces.
  • [14:51] - Eric shares how putting stress to work can help improve employee happiness.
  • [19:39] - Eric explains how embracing the negative can also help to make workers feel happier.
  • [23:18] - Eric provides some examples of team habits that can be used to improve happiness and engagement for workers.
  • [28:19] - Eric offers some tips on overcoming the challenges leaders and workplaces often face in implementing these happiness habits consistently.
  • [30:41] - Eric completes the lightning round!

Thanks for listening!

Thanks so much for joining me again this week.  If you enjoyed this episode, please share it using the social media buttons you see at the bottom of this post.

Please leave an honest review for the Making Positive Psychology Work Podcast on iTunes. Ratings and reviews are extremely helpful and greatly appreciated. They do matter in the rankings of the show, and I read each and every one of them.  And don’t forget to subscribe to the show on iTunes to get automatic updates. It’s free!

You can also listen to all the episodes of Making Positive Psychology Work streamed directly to your smartphone or iPad through stitcher. No need for downloading or syncing.

Until next time, take care!  Thank you, Eric!

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