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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 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.

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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.

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

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