The Strengths Guy

In this episode, Dr. Paul Brewerton discusses the importance of mental health awareness in organisations, emphasising the need for supportive workplace cultures. He highlights the alarming statistics regarding mental health issues among workers and the challenges in discussing these topics openly. Dr. Brewerton advocates for a strengths-based approach to enhance employee wellbeing and create a more positive work environment, suggesting that organisations can significantly improve mental health outcomes by valuing employees as individuals and fostering open communication. 00:00 Enhancing Mental Health Awareness in Organisations02:55 The Role of Organisational Culture in Mental Health05:48 Implementing a Strengths-Based Approach to Wellbeing Follow Dr Paul Brewerton on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-brewerton-0719461/ ​ Follow Strengthscope

Psychology@Work with The Strengths Guy! How can strengths be used to recruit and onboard early-career employees? The main difference when recruiting early-career professionals is their lack of direct work experience, but this is when strengths come in. Tune into this episode to learn about Dr. Paul Brewerton's 8 steps to have a successful recruitment and onboarding experience. https://www.strengthscope.com/resources

If you're not familiar with Patrick Lencioni's model, it describes where leadership teams can go wrong. In this episode, Dr. Paul Brewerton breaks down the five dysfunctions and introduces the StrengthscopeTeam model, which offers practical tips to turn dysfunction into high performance. Hope you enjoy!

In this podcast episode, Dr Paul Brewerton and Nik Govier (Founder and CEO of Blurred) discuss why BCorp matters, neurodiversity, and how organisations can better help people with different neurodivergences thrive at work.  Hope you enjoy!

For all of us in HR, L&D, OD, and all the subsets of the people professions, it's difficult to measure the impact of our work in a credible, business-friendly, and commercially relevant way. So today, Dr Paul Brewerton invites Josh Allan Dykstra, CEO of #Love Work, to talk about all of this and more to provoke some thinking and discussion around the return on investment measurement in the people professions. Hope you enjoy!

An insightful conversation between Strengthcope Founder, Paul Brewerton, and CEO of Koru Kids, Rachel Carrell, as they dive into the strengths within leadership and entrepreneurship. Hope you enjoy!

Are strengths or skills going to be more important when we think about the future world of work and the future workforce? And quite frankly, right now? What are strengths, and how are they different from skills? Can you have one without the other? Find out in this episode with Dr Paul Brewerton - Founder & Chair of Strengthscope, and Scott Christie - Head of Training & Integration at Strengthscope.

Listen in as Dr Paul Brewerton dives into the 5-step model to maximise the chances of achieving positive outcomes from the application of strengths at work. All research-backed, of course. Hope you enjoy!

Dive into this jam-packed episode with Dr Paul Brewerton and Dr Peter Thomond as they discuss the dynamic topic of change and transformation and how you can bring your people to the centre of it all. Enjoy!

Do you work in recruitment, talent acquisition, or in a broader HR role responsible for recruitment?  Have you ever applied for a job or participated in an assessment centre or development centre, or you may do so in the future? Are you interested in the strengths approach and how it can create a fairer, less biased, more open and relaxed recruitment process? If any of the above, then this episode is for you. Hope you enjoy!

Recruitment today is no longer a ‘two-way' process. It's more ‘candidate way' than ever, irrespective of the ebbs and flows of the recruitment market. Recruitment today needs to allow a candidate-centric, candidate-led approach in order to win the war for talent and to keep people engaged and retained for as long as it makes sense for both parties. In this episode, find out how the strengths approach plays a crucial part in candidate-led recruitment. Hope you enjoy.

Tune into this insightful conversation between Paul Brewerton, Founder and Chair of Strengthscope, and Kent Frazier, CEO of ParadoxEdge, on a strengths-based approach to becoming more fully human. Hope you enjoy!

Research tells us that people who use their strengths every day see many positive outcomes: less stress, better relationships, greater job satisfaction, higher levels of well-being and improved problem-solving. So how can you be part of that group? Today I want to share my top 5 tips for making strengths part of your daily practice and bringing them into your day to day work flow. Enjoy!

The Future of Work: What role for humans? An episode with Ollie Pickup. Listen as Ollie Pickup and Paul Brewerton dive into the future of work, touching on topics such as AI in recruitment. Hope you enjoy. Ollie is a London-based technology and business journalist. He has been labelled a "future-of-work influencer" and writes and talks about all of the subjects covered by the future of work – including employee experience, cybersecurity, workforce trends and artificial intelligence.

How do you implement a strengths-based approach that sticks in the long term? In this episode, you'll uncover eight key principles to help you sustainably achieve an organisation with strengths embedded in its culture.

Where does culture come from, and what influences it? Why is culture so hard to change? We delve into these questions and explore 5 simple steps to change a culture. This is the final part of our culture trilogy. Check Season 12, Episodes 7 and 11 for the first 2 parts.

In this episode, we explore how individuals adopt different identities based on their social groups and why they do this. The social identity theory is relevant in various life contexts, particularly work environments. From the impact on teams and organizations to the critical aspect of leadership, you will gain valuable insights into harnessing the power of social identity theory for positive outcomes. Join us as we navigate the complexities of human behaviour and discover how it can shape history and the workplace.

In this episode, we delve into the enduring question posed by professors Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones: "Why should anyone be led by you?" We explore the challenges of authentic leadership, reflecting on how this concept has evolved over the years, and discuss the struggle of aligning academic research, business demands, and popular opinion in the realm of leadership.

In this episode, we delve into the enduring question posed by professors Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones: "Why should anyone be led by you?" We explore the challenges of authentic leadership, reflecting on how this concept has evolved over the years, and discuss the struggle of aligning academic research, business demands, and popular opinion in the realm of leadership.

In this podcast, we explore the journey of adopting a strengths-based approach in organizations. From defining the approach to understanding its impact, we delve into what it takes to make the strengths approach work. Discover the keys to success and the common pitfalls to avoid.

Stepping into a leadership position is one of the most challenging career transitions you can make, but, If becoming a leader can lead to a sense of loneliness, and continuing on your leadership journey can get more and more isolating, what are the risks of that, and what are the solutions that have worked for other leaders? Here is my four-step guide to dealing with leadership loneliness - hope you enjoy!

Neurodiversity is a super important topic for everyone in the workplace, not least for managers and for people professionals in HR, talent and learning and development teams. Neurodivergences need to be understood at work so that they can be accommodated, so that ND individuals can continue to feel included and valued.

In today's podcast, you'll learn about six clear steps for upping your influence game using your own strengths. Enjoy!

How should your talent acquisition strategy be modified to accommodate the lockdown-affected generation? The strengths approach can help! Find out how in this episode - hope you enjoy.

Today's episode is about the power of compassion and how you can bring more of it into your life, into the lives of the people you care about and into the lives of everyone you come into contact with, in practical ways. Enjoy!

Successful onboarding programmes play a pivotal role in retaining and engaging graduates and apprentices. Embracing a strengths-based approach to onboarding allows employers to bridge the gap between expectations and the realities of the workplace. That's the topic for today's podcast. Enjoy!

Whether you're a graduate, an apprentice, or someone else early in your career, or whether you're someone who works with those in early careers, today's episode is for you.  I want to share how strengths can really help those coming into the workplace in various ways. Enjoy!

In today's podcast episode, Dr. Paul Brewerton provides a personal view of not just Gallup's annual engagement survey findings but also some pointers on making sense of any research report – what to look out for from a positive point of view and from a contrary perspective, so that you can draw your own conclusions on what's helpful and what's not so helpful in research such as Gallup's. Enjoy!

In today's podcast, I want to offer some practical tips to managers for getting the best use of the strengths approach. I'm going to answer three questions: How can you bring your strengths into day-to-day management practice?How can you start a dialogue about strengths with your direct reports?What are some concrete actions you take immediately to get strengths talked about, lived and breathed? Enjoy!

This podcast with Paul Brewerton and Andy Chandler (MD of Barefoot Coaching) explores using strengths in the context of coaching, and particularly, team coaching. Enjoy!

Today's episode is about building a feedback culture by focusing on culture first. So here is my 8-step guide on how to get feedback flowing in your organisation.

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!

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 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.

Privilege is getting quite a bit of airtime right now. So as a white, straight, cis, non-disabled, middle-class male, I'd like to spend today's podcast introducing the idea of privilege, talking a little about the journey I've been on with it, and to talk about its importance and relevance to work and to life today. I appreciate that talking about privilege at all can raise questions. Like ‘Who is this guy to be talking about privilege anyway?', ‘Why should I listen to this? I come from an underprivileged background and I've worked hard to get where I am, so this doesn't apply to me' or even ‘I'm done with all this woke nonsense, can't we just move on?'. I appreciate it all that so all I ask is that you spare me 10 minutes to see if you get any value in what I'm going to share. 

In today's podcast, I want to give you some reflections and practical tips on how you can apply positive psychology during change, in VUCA environments. This is relevant both if you're a manager or leader, or if you're not. Enjoy!