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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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Jun 25, 2021

In this week's episode, we discover the five evidence-based approaches teams can playfully experiment with as they head back to the office to improve their resilience and wellbeing.

Connect with Nic Marks:

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You’ll Learn:

  • [02:47] - Nic explains how we can differentiate happiness and wellbeing in our workplaces
  • [03:58] - Nic outlines the business case for investing in employee wellbeing.
  • [06:45] - Nic outlines the five evidence-based ways we can improve the wellbeing and resilience of teams at work.
  • [08:35] - Nic provides an example of how we can make hybrid working arrangements fairer for teams.
  • [10:52] - Nic shares how leaders can help their teams strike the right balance of learning and challenge without burning people out.
  • [12:29] - Nic explains why encouraging teams to playfully experiment as they work can boost psychological safety, creativity, and innovation.
  • [15:17] - Nic shares how we can optimize meaning and purpose in our teams without creating passion fatigue for workers.
  • [17:25] - Nic shares some suggestions on how teams can set healthy boundaries as they work together.
  • [24:04] - Nic shares insights from the new World Happiness reports on the impact that COVID has had on worker wellbeing.
  • [27:33] - Nic enters 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, Nic!

Jun 18, 2021

Dr. Paige Williams is co-founder of The Leaders Lab and honorary fellow and researcher at the Centre for Wellbeing at the University of Melbourne. Paige creates practical evidence-based pathways to teach leaders how to leverage their energy attitudes and mindsets to benefit from the dynamic complex and uncertain environment in which most organizations now operate using the latest research in neuroscience, positive psychology, leadership, and systems thinking. And you can see how all of these ideas come together in her book, Becoming AntiFragile: Learning to Thrive through Disruption, Challenge, and Change.

In this week's episode, we explore new research that explains how some leaders are supercharging the well-being and performance of themselves and their teams as they try to shape the new normal of work.

Connect with Dr. Paige Williams:

You’ll Learn:

  • [02:45] - Paige explains why new data suggests that old leadership approaches are no longer working well in most workplaces.
  • [06:08] - Paige shares how leaders are doing right now when it comes to their ability to navigate the uncertainty ahead.
  • [07:23] - Paige explains why team members often have a different perspective on how their leaders are doing.
  • [09:56] - Paige shares the impact leader’s work location – at home, in the office, or a hybrid – is having on the outcomes they can achieve.
  • [11:42] - Paige helps us understand how leaders who are thriving in the midst of uncertainty do show up differently.
  • [12:56] - Paige outlines the beliefs of a THRIVE mindset.
  • [17:19] - Paige shares how leaders are creating cultures of care to support the wellbeing and performance of themselves and their teams.
  • [19:27] - Paige shares why the frequency of care that leaders express makes a significant difference in what teams can achieve.
  • [22:16] - Paige provides some practical tips for how leaders can create a care culture.
  • [24:52] - Paige enters 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, Paige!

Jun 11, 2021

In this week's episode, we bust the outdated myths about how our brains work and discover what the latest science really suggests about how we can work better with others.

Connect with Lisa Feldman Barrett:

You’ll Learn:

  • [03:29] - Lisa explains what the latest research suggests about how our brains really work and what they are best for?
  • [06:21] - Lisa shares how our brains are structured like a network, to share the information that makes up the experiences and actions of our lives.
  • [08:16] - Lisa shares why our brains are predicting organs and what this might mean practically for us as we go about our work.
  • [15:12] - Lisa explains how our brains are impacted by each other as we work together.
  • [20:16] - Lisa explains the 5Cs of the human brain and how these help us to create a social reality as we work together.
  • [33:14] - Lisa shares how we can use our brains to more intelligently navigate the socially constructed worlds in which we live.
  • [35:51] - Lisa enters 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, Lisa!

Jun 4, 2021

In this week’s episode, Dr. Paige Williams chats with Associate Professor Carol Kauffman, who shares her insights into how leaders can more effectively build bridges of connection with their people.

Connect with Carol Kauffman:

You’ll Learn:

  • [02:17] - Carol shares her favorite question to help build leadership capacity and impact
  • [05:48] - Carol explains how we can overcome ego through a shift in perspective
  • [09:14] - Carol suggests how we can shift to a more constructive leadership perspective
  • [10:37] - Carol shares how to build bridges with people who are reluctant for connection
  • [14:28] - Carol explains the risk of resilient leaders missing compassion
  • [17:18] - Carol explains a technique to build bridges in feedback conversations
  • [20:08] - Carol shares a guiding principle to use when ‘coaching up’
  • [28:35] - Carol enters 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, Carol!

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