Making Positive Psychology Work

Paula Davis, an expert on burnout prevention and workplace resilience, discusses the difference between burnout and stress. She explains the importance of addressing burnout at a team level and shares simple steps teams can take to lower the risk. Paula also highlights the impact of leaders on team stress and burnout and emphasizes the significance of kindness and self-compassion in the workplace.

Jim Harter, chief scientist for Gallup's Workplace and Management and Well-Being Practices, shares his insights on creating a Net Thriving Culture at work. Topics discussed include defining thriving in 'Wellbeing at Work,' measuring thriving, the five factors to move from struggling to thriving, new findings on thriving and employee engagement, creating net thriving at the team level, and practical ways to create a net thriving culture.

Dr. Peggy Kern, associate professor at the Centre for Wellbeing Science at the University of Melbourne, discusses how people manage to thrive in challenging circumstances and the factors that support wellbeing. She also explores ways to boost thriving in communities and reduce struggles, emphasizing the importance of creating supportive environments. The podcast delves into the impact of recent events on wellbeing, the relationship between income and wellbeing, and the importance of community safety and inclusion.

Dr. Robin Stern, co-founder of the Yale Centre for Emotional Intelligence, discusses gaslighting in the workplace. She explains what gaslighting is, provides examples of its impact, and shares positive strategies to address it. Gaslighting chips away confidence, and she highlights signs to look out for and motivations behind gaslighting.

Scott Donaldson is a post-doctoral scholar in evaluation, statistics, and measurement at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine Moores Cancer Centre. Scott’s research focuses on the design, measurement, and evaluation of individual workplace and community-based well-being interventions and has been published in leading journals. In this week’s episode, we explore which positive psychology interventions have been found to be the most effective in workplaces, and why. Connect with Scott Donaldson: https://www.scottdonaldsonphd.com/ You’ll Learn: [03:15] Scott explains what Dr. Seligman’s PERMA theory of wellbeing suggests about caring for our wellbeing. [06:20] Scott shares some of the recent concerns about the PERMA wellbeing theory researchers have been discussing. [13:10] Scott shares the additional wellbeing factors his research has been uncovering. [15:39] Scott explains the impact studies are finding workplace wellbeing can have on workplace outcomes. [20:37] Scott shares how different modes of delivery positive psychology interventions have a different impact on outcomes. [22:58] Scott explains what his recent meta-analysis has found were the most effective positive psychology interventions for workplaces. [25:17] Scott shares what studies are finding about the impact of wellbeing on performance. Thanks for listening! MPPW Podcast on Facebook Good Business by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi 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, Scott!

Rasmus Hougaard, an influential business thinker, discusses the importance of wise-compassionate leadership. He explains how leaders can transition from empathy to compassion, highlighting the benefits of creating a culture of trust and high performance. Rasmus also explores the connection between being a good leader and being a good parent or friend. Additionally, he teases an upcoming book on gender differences in compassionate leadership and shares insights on the power of well-being practices and mindfulness.

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: https://www.lse.ac.uk/PBS/People/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! MPPW Podcast on Facebook Think Big: Take Small Steps and Build the Future You Want by Grace Lordan Solve for Happy by Mo Gawdat https://howtoacademy.com/ 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!

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: https://www.mbs.works/ 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! MPPW Podcast on Facebook https://boxofcrayons.com/ Reinventing Social Change by Nell Edgington Change: How to Make Big Things Happen by Damon Centola & James Fouhey 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!

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: https://www.kdvi.com/ 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! MPPW Podcast on Facebook http://www.ketsdevries.com/ 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!

Eric Karpinski, known for his work in bringing positive psychology tools to workplaces, discusses the misconceptions of employee engagement and emphasizes the importance of employee happiness and activated positive emotions. He explores the connection between happiness and well-being, ways to activate positive emotions in individuals experiencing negative states, and the potential of stress as a positive force. Additionally, they discuss strategies for challenging beliefs and assumptions to improve decision-making and prevent conflicts at work.