Is Employee Engagement Dead?
In episode 2, Jenni, Trudy, and Advita dive further into this topic to understand the relevance of employee alignment in today’s organisations.
Building a Culture of Trust
Here we are, back again! We’re kicking off the season with episode 1 discussing trust. We discuss the importance of trust for yourself and within your organisation.
Where do leaders need to be in 2022?
For our final episode of this season’s podcast we look at leadership priorities for 2022 and beyond. The list of overarching themes is long and many of them are not new. Building psychologically safe environments, being inclusive, understanding your teams and looking after people, talent retention, creative and innovative approaches to business models, open to […]
The metaverse in the workplace
Does thinking about the vastness of the metaverse fill you with dread? Don’t panic: we’re here to help. Since Mark Zuckerberg bought it to the fore, Advita has been knee-deep in research to understand what this metaverse concept means and why organisations should start paying it more attention. Web3, virtual reality, augmented reality, artificial intelligence: […]
Why stakeholders make or break business change
Whether you love or hate the phrase, there’s no doubt that “Change is constant” We discussed The Challenge of Change in season three. This time we look at the critical roles stakeholders play in the success or failure of change, and the harm caused by segmenting change away from everyday business activities. This episode is […]
Fun and enjoyment and the scale of joy
A WhatsApp chat, inspired by a conversation between Jenni and her husband on whether running was enjoyable or fun, sees us discuss the crossroads between enjoyment, fun and joy. We look at the Scale of Joy and debate whether fear is truly the opposite of joy or if the relationship between the two is far […]
How to have courage and confidence
Do you need to be a bit more courageous? This episode discusses how to find your inner courage, the pitfalls of why we can lack courage, the role of fear, and how being courageous relates to being confident.
The difference between activism and opinion
Has activism become the accepted norm? What role has social media played in this? Should we have always practised activism but, instead, been blindly accepting when we should have been challenging? Does the forceful response of the few to someone’s views potentially lead to a cancel culture? It’s important that, when we think about the […]
How to create habits that help you thrive
Advita, Jenni and Trudy invite you to their therapy session! They talk about eating cheese, ‘doom scrolling’, being part of procrastination royalty, wedding weight-loss and bedtime rituals. But replacing bad habits with good ones takes discipline, focus and having a plan. This week’s episode looks at how habits form the way we live and work, why […]
How to have difficult conversations
Building on a previous episode that covered productive disagreement, here we look at how difficult conversations come about, especially for leadership. Although we tend to grapple with difficult conversations, we shouldn’t avoid them. We use real-life examples to illustrate there are ways to learn how to navigate and deal with such dialogue in a way […]
