This article includes short videos to help you interpret your strengths-profile results. The online strengths profile assessment takes about 20 minutes to complete and gives you feedback on your self-evaluation of 60 workplace-based strengths. The survey asks you to evaluate where your strengths lie, whether you get to use your strengths, and whether you feel engaged and energised when you
Positive leadership and overcoming cynicism With financial inequality ever widening, war, climate change, and alternative facts from people who are quick to “other” people who are different, it’s easy to become discouraged and cynical about human nature. But the bad news masks the billions of acts of human kindness day in and day out. Our workplaces mirror what’s going on in
Do you show compassion to yourself as much as you do to others? Dr. Kristen Neff’s research identifies that just 6% of us are as compassionate toward ourselves as we are to friends in need. Think about how you relate to a friend in need—with care, deep listening, nonjudgment, and kind support when asked for. Do you treat yourself as well?
Get better at listening to your colleagues In this three-minute article, we explore how to improve our listening to our colleagues. In section three below, we’ve included a checklist of things to look out for to help you understand more about the context of what your colleagues are saying and clues to their intentions. These clues help build a deeper
A few years back, I ran a program for college managers at a university. We picked the theme of wisdom at work. To start with, we workshopped what wisdom meant for the participants—what its components are, how wise practices add value at work, and whether the elements that makeup wisdom can be developed. To do this exercise, I asked the
In some of our psychosocial safety and leadership programs, we share Dr Timothy Clark’s model of psychosocial safety. His model contains the following key elements for creating safe spaces at work and driving performance: I’ve shared Timothy Clark’s 25-minute explanation of his model below. It’s rich and well worth reviewing. The video is from an APAC summit—there’s a two-minute introduction
How good are you at paying attention? Can you screen out distractions and stay focused? Or do your thoughts often flit from the task at hand? Recognising your own focus abilities is the first step towards taking control of your productivity. In this information workbook we explore: In a recent study, 25% of office workers found it hard to focus.
Self-talk and mindset at work and in your studies Purpose and learning goals of this module In the following 13-minute TED Talk, Mike Cannon-Brookes shares some valuable insights into what he learned from his feeling of leadership imposter syndrome. Watch the video, then reflect on some of the thinking traps, noted below, that we can fall into. These are not
Listening for strengths and values In this module, we bring together five critical concepts which will help you deepen your relationship with colleagues in any catch-up conversation – whether these be in-the-moment feedback conversations, project planning meetings, fortnightly check-ins, annual reviews or any of the other important conversations we have with teammates: Which of your colleagues will you practise these techniques with?
