Psychology@Work

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 providers is when leaders are focused on creating a highly motivating work culture. Find out more in this episode.

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!

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 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.

Today I want to give you seven top tips for getting the best from feedback, particularly when giving it, but with a couple of references to receiving feedback too.

The question at Strengthscope that we pose ourselves regularly is, how can we support our clients to create strengths-based cultures? To truly breathe life into the strengths approach? That’s what I want to focus on today: can you create a strengths-based organisation? And if so, from a practical point of view, how? Enjoy!

Are strengths still relevant in our volatile, unpredictable world in 2023? That’s the question I’d like to address in today’s episode and next week in a two-parter, by putting the pros and the cons in this episode. And in my next episode, I want to cover some of the practicalities of introducing and embedding a strengths approach into organisations today.

I’m excited that today, we’ll have an opportunity to chat to Bec about her reflections on 2022 and what the year has taught leaders and HR (People and Culture) professionals, as well as looking ahead into 2023 with some tips for facing into next year with a clear plan for people priorities. Enjoy!

Today, we’re fast-forwarding 3 years, through the pandemic, out the other side, and now into one of the most turbulent and unpredictable periods I can remember in the world and in the world of work. What we’re going to be asking today is whether leaders are ready for the 4th industrial revolution? Wait what? 4th? When were the other 3? Oh yeah, the first one was looms smashing the machine and everything, but what about the other 2 then? And what’s this 4th one? You’ll be delighted to know that all these questions and more will be answered today.