Psychology@Work

In this podcast, we explore the journey of adopting a strengths-based approach in organizations. From defining the approach to understanding its impact, we delve into what it takes to make the strengths approach work. Discover the keys to success and the common pitfalls to avoid.

Stepping into a leadership position is one of the most challenging career transitions you can make, but, If becoming a leader can lead to a sense of loneliness, and continuing on your leadership journey can get more and more isolating, what are the risks of that, and what are the solutions that have worked for other leaders? Here is my four-step guide to dealing with leadership loneliness - hope y...

Neurodiversity is a super important topic for everyone in the workplace, not least for managers and for people professionals in HR, talent and learning and development teams. Neurodivergences need to be understood at work so that they can be accommodated, so that ND individuals can continue to feel included and valued.

In today’s podcast, you'll learn about six clear steps for upping your influence game using your own strengths. Enjoy!

How should your talent acquisition strategy be modified to accommodate the lockdown-affected generation? The strengths approach can help! Find out how in this episode - hope you enjoy.

Today’s episode is about the power of compassion and how you can bring more of it into your life, into the lives of the people you care about and into the lives of everyone you come into contact with, in practical ways. Enjoy!

Successful onboarding programmes play a pivotal role in retaining and engaging graduates and apprentices. Embracing a strengths-based approach to onboarding allows employers to bridge the gap between expectations and the realities of the workplace. That's the topic for today's podcast. Enjoy!

Whether you’re a graduate, an apprentice, or someone else early in your career, or whether you’re someone who works with those in early careers, today’s episode is for you.  I want to share how strengths can really help those coming into the workplace in various ways. Enjoy!

In today's podcast episode, Dr. Paul Brewerton provides a personal view of not just Gallup’s annual engagement survey findings but also some pointers on making sense of any research report – what to look out for from a positive point of view and from a contrary perspective, so that you can draw your own conclusions on what’s helpful and what’s not so helpful in research such as Gallup’s. Enjoy!

In today’s podcast, I want to offer some practical tips to managers for getting the best use of the strengths approach. I’m going to answer three questions: How can you bring your strengths into day-to-day management practice? How can you start a dialogue about strengths with your direct reports? What are some concrete actions you take immediately to get strengths talked about, lived and breathed?...

This podcast with Paul Brewerton and Andy Chandler (MD of Barefoot Coaching) explores using strengths in the context of coaching, and particularly, team coaching. Enjoy!

Today’s episode is about building a feedback culture by focusing on culture first. So here is my 8-step guide on how to get feedback flowing in your organisation.

Our study found that 1. Successful leaders have very different strengths that they draw on to achieve results, 2. That it matters more how you use your strengths and not whether you have specific strengths, 3. That to be rated as an effective leader, you need to show breadth of behaviour across 4 key areas and that 4. The highest predictor of leadership effectiveness as judged by feedback provider...

In today’s episode, I want to explore the evidence for 360-degree feedback and the evidence against. I want to give you some top tips on how to get the best from 360-degree feedback when you’re the feedback recipient and how to get the best from your feedback process as an organisation. Enjoy!

Today I want to throw the spotlight on the power of strengths-based feedback – when to do it, how to do it and what happens because of it. Hope you enjoy!

There isn’t a huge amount of high-quality peer-reviewed research out there on the benefits of using strengths in a team setting, which is why this new research paper I'm going to share is so exciting and why I’m keen to share it with you. Hope you enjoy!

In today's episode, Paul and Nyawera talk about leadership in times of change. A conversation about what leaders need to do more of, less of, to learn, to focus on during change… for the good of their people and for the good of their organisations. And the role of strengths in this.  Enjoy!

In today’s podcast, I want to smush together two tried and tested philosophies: the strengths approach and Tuckman’s model of team development, to give you some practical pointers on developing teams towards high performance using team members’ strengths. Enjoy!

In today’s show, I’m going to focus in on why Appreciative Inquiry is such a powerful tool for personal, team, organisational and even societal change. Enjoy!

Today’s podcast is how to use your strengths as foundations to support you when you decide that you need to make a career move. Or when your employer decides for you. I have 5 top tips for you. Enjoy!

Change can take so many forms. And for most of us, it is registered in the brain as a threat rather than an opportunity. But, if change is now so commonplace, maybe we can consider reframing it so that we’re less likely to deny or resist it and more likely to look for learning and growth opportunities for ourselves. Hope you enjoy!

Today, Dr Paul Brewerton talks to Shetel Khimashia as they share some tips on managing and strengthening your own career. While also diving into Shetel's own impressive professional experience as she explains how and why she has been through many different roles in the past 3 years, for various reasons. Tune in!

So today’s podcast is on a topic that I know will be of major interest to a lot of our audience, as it regularly comes up in conversation – strengths in education. Why do we need the strengths philosophy in education? How can we introduce more strengths thinking and practice into schools, colleges, universities, all places of education? And what needs to change to enable this?

Fast forward to today, and AI is powering the majority of customer service interactions for many businesses. In Strengthscope’s case, this runs at up to 85% for a typical month. In today’s episode, I would like to give you, fellow non-AI human, 6 tips for staying relevant as AI advances accelerate.

One of the top priorities for HR leaders in 2023? Organisational change. If change is everywhere, and we know it is everywhere, how can we keep our people insulated from change fatigue? That’s the topic of today’s episode on combatting change fatigue with strengths.