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 […]
Out of sight, out of mind
How hybrid work can impact your personal profile, career progression and, in particular, women and underrepresented people. Prompted by a thought-provoking article entitled Could The New Hybrid Workplace Turn Some Women Into Second-Class Employees? we take a closer look at what’s behind the post-pandemic research and how to overcome potential pitfalls. COVID and careers collide […]
Expectations – how they link to our happiness
Welcome back to series 5 of our podcast! In this first episode, we discuss expectations and how they link to happiness and resilience. Expectations of ourselves, of other people, of work, of society, of events and how each of these can impact our own perceptions of happiness. We explore what happiness is and how finding […]
Introducing The Intensive Comms Retreat Day
Since we launched The Comms Retreat earlier this year we have been have conversations with everyone who has applied. We have found out a lot about the sort of help you’re looking for and as a result we have decided to move The Comms Retreat to later in the year and host an Intensive one […]
Leaders are responsible for psychological safety
We have our own announcement to make in this week’s news section. Tune in for the latest information about our Comms Retreats and find out what our brand new offer is. Our big topic centres on psychological safety and the extent to which it’s a leadership responsibility to foster a psychologically safe workplace. How much […]
How a ham and cheese baguette can help you listen
In this week’s news section, we discuss the issues that have surfaced around FaceBook in the past week and consider what that means for us, as social media users as well as professional communicators. Our big topic takes on the tricky subject of listening actively in an age of hybrid working. We compare experiences most […]
The positive practice of productive disagreement
We’ve all sat in meetings where nothing gets agreed and animosity abounds. Season 4 episode 2 of our podcast talks about the benefits disagreements bring.