Making Positive Psychology Work

Dr. Wayne Baker is a professor of business administration and professor of management and organizations at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business, and faculty director of the Centre for Positive Organizations. The author of the forthcoming book, 'All You Have to Do Is Ask', as well as five other books and many scholarly articles. Wayne's research focuses on social capital, social networks, generosity, and positive organizations. He's also the co-founder and board member of Give and Take, Inc. who are developers of collaboration technologies based on the principles in All You Have to Do Is Ask. In this week's podcast, we learn why being able to ask to help is one of the keys to workplace success, and the simple steps you can take to ask in ways that make it easy for people to say yes! Connect with Wayne Baker: https://allyouhavetodoisask.com/ You'll Learn: [03:15] - Wayne explains why being a good giver-requester at work shapes our success and wellbeing in workplaces. [04:29] - Wayne outlines how his research on giver-requesters intersects with the research of Professor Adam Grant on being successful self-protective givers. [06:07] - Wayne shares what the research is finding on how gender influences our ability to ask for help at work. [06:57] - Wayne offers insights on how age and power influence our ability to ask for help at work. [08:39] - Wayne outlines how psychological safety in our workplaces influences our ability to ask for help at work and what we can do to improve this [10:34] - Wayne outlines the SMART criteria to make it easier to ask for help at work and for people to say yes. [13:12] - Wayne shares his free assessment tool to measure your ability to ask for help and shares the findings surfacing from this new research. [14:54] - Wayne shares the barriers that make it difficult for most people to ask for help at work and how we can overcome these. [18:01] - Wayne shares why researchers are finding that you should ask people more than once for help. [19:06] - Wayne provides some plug and play routines that workplaces can use to help make asking for help easier. [20:34] - Wayne shares how we can map the energy for asking and giving within our teams to measure what is unfolding. [21:23] - Wayne explains how mini-games can be used to playfully incentivize a group to ask for help to solve a problem together. [23:22] - Wayne offers some tips to help recruit and rewards leaders who are chief help seekers. [24:50] - Wayne offers two cautions about asking for help at work. [26:28] - Wayne completes the Lightning Round. Your Resources: MPPW Podcast on Facebook The Economics of Higher Purpose by Robert Quinn Thanks for listening! Thanks so much for joining me again this week. If you enjoyed this episode, please share it using the social media buttons you see at the bottom of this post. Please leave an honest review of the Making Positive Psychology Work Podcast on iTunes. Ratings and reviews are extremely helpful and greatly appreciated. They do matter in the rankings of the show, and I read each and every one of them. And don't forget to subscribe to the show on iTunes to get automatic updates. It's free! You can also listen to all the episodes of Making Positive Psychology Work streamed directly to your smartphone or iPad through stitcher. No need for downloading or syncing. Until next time, take care! Thank you Wayne!

Stephen Carter is the founder of one of Australia's fastest-growing, privately-owned recruitment firms, Sharp and Carter, who have five offices and more than 120 staff around the country. In this week's podcast, we explore how putting people first by using positive leadership approaches has helped one workplace grow their revenue by 55% per annum for the last five years. Connect with Stephen Carter: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephencarter1/ You'll Learn: [02:13] - Carts explains how putting people first has helped his organization grow 55% per annum for the past five years. [04:35] - Carts shares why their leadership team felt confident to put people before profit. [07:03] - Carts outlines how the shift to putting people first was explained to employees and what they did to overcome people's cynicism about this approach. [09:30] - Carts share the cultural pillars that emerged as a result of putting people first and how these are used to guide people's day to day behaviors in the business. [13:24] - Carts outlines how positive leadership practices have been scaled and embedded across their organization – even when trust gets broken. [18:15] - Carts explains how they try to support people who are really struggling when it comes to their wellbeing at work. [21:07] - Carts offers some tips for how leaders can look after their own wellbeing as they try to put people first in their organization. [24:31] - Carts completes the Lightning Round. Your Resources: MPPW Podcast on Facebook Simon Sinek on Amazon Thanks for listening! Thanks so much for joining me again this week. If you enjoyed this episode, please share it using the social media buttons you see at the bottom of this post. Please leave an honest review of the Making Positive Psychology Work Podcast on iTunes. Ratings and reviews are extremely helpful and greatly appreciated. They do matter in the rankings of the show, and I read each and every one of them. And don't forget to subscribe to the show on iTunes to get automatic updates. It's free! You can also listen to all the episodes of Making Positive Psychology Work streamed directly to your smartphone or iPad through stitcher. No need for downloading or syncing. Until next time, take care! Thank you Stephen!

Dr. BJ Fogg teaches good people how behavior works, so they can create products and services that benefit everyday people around the world. A behavioral scientist with deep experience in innovation and teaching, BJ runs a research lab at Stanford University, and trains innovators to use his work, so they can create solutions that influence behavior in health, financial well-being, learning, productivity, and more. He's personally coached over 40,000 people informing new habits using his breakthrough method called Tiny Habits. And, his forthcoming book Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything is scheduled for publication in early 2020. In this week's episode, we learn the simple recipe for creating tiny habits and how to deal with our motivation monkeys and surface the golden behaviors that improve our wellbeing. Connect with BJ Fogg: https://www.bjfogg.com/ You'll Learn: [02:39] - BJ explains why most of us find changing our behaviors challenging because we approach change in the wrong way. [04:16] - BJ outlines the three variables his research has found that can make changing our behavior easier. [08:17] - BJ explains why our motivations for changing our behavior is often unreliable and how we can tame our motivation monkeys. [09:49] - BJ shares some tips on managing motivation conflicts and motivation waves when it comes to changing our behaviors. [13:12] - BJ shares his tips for how we can surface golden behaviors to create more of the changes we're wanting. [15:43] - BJ helps us understand the important difference between our aspirations, our goals, and our behaviors when it comes to surfacing our golden behaviors. [17:32] - BJ shares the recipe for turning golden behaviors into tiny habits. [20:22] - BJ explains why we need to celebrate the completion of our habits and the role mood plays in helping us to create behavior changes. [25:46] - BJ outlines how an ability chain model can help us troubleshoot our tiny habits when the changes we want to create become stuck. [27:41] - BJ completes the Lightning Round. Your Resources: MPPW Podcast on Facebook The Code of the Extraordinary Mind by Vishen Lakhiani Thanks for listening! Thanks so much for joining me again this week. If you enjoyed this episode, please share it using the social media buttons you see at the bottom of this post. Please leave an honest review of the Making Positive Psychology Work Podcast on iTunes. Ratings and reviews are extremely helpful and greatly appreciated. They do matter in the rankings of the show, and I read each and every one of them. And don't forget to subscribe to the show on iTunes to get automatic updates. It's free! You can also listen to all the episodes of Making Positive Psychology Work streamed directly to your smartphone or iPad through stitcher. No need for downloading or syncing. Until next time, take care! Thank you BJ!

Dr. Timothy R. Clark is the founder and managing partner at LeadFactor and a highly sought after advisor, coach, and facilitator to CEOs and senior leadership teams around the world. He's the author of four books with his newest, The Four Stages of Psychological Safety due out in early 2020, and he's written more than 150 articles on leadership, change, strategy, human capital, culture, and employee engagement. In this week's podcast, we explore the four stages of psychological safety and how we can shape our wellbeing and performance at work. Connect with Dr. Timothy R. Clark: http://leaderfactor.com/ You'll Learn: [02:19] - Tim explains what psychological safety is and why it recently became a hot topic of conversations in many workplaces when it comes to helping people thrive at work. [03:44] - Tim shares some of the research-based findings on the potential benefits for leaders who invest in psychological safety. [07:16] - Tim explains why improving diversity and inclusion successfully depends on also heightening psychological safety. [09:39] - Tim explains what studies are finding out about the link between psychological safety and people's levels of wellbeing at work. [11:31] - Tim offers two practical recommendations based on what researchers are finding right now can help to improve psychological safety in workplaces. [15:30] - Tim outlines the four stages of psychological safety that can help organizations understand where they're people are at practically and how it can be heightened. [21:24] -Tim challenges us to think about when leaders push the fear buttons in workplaces and what impact does this have on psychological safety for ourselves and others. [24:56] - Tim completes the Lightning Round. Your Resources: MPPW Podcast on Facebook Oscar Munoz - 'Learn to Listen' Podcast Episode Thanks for listening! Thanks so much for joining me again this week. If you enjoyed this episode, please share it using the social media buttons you see at the bottom of this post. Please leave an honest review of the Making Positive Psychology Work Podcast on iTunes. Ratings and reviews are extremely helpful and greatly appreciated. They do matter in the rankings of the show, and I read each and every one of them. And don't forget to subscribe to the show on iTunes to get automatic updates. It's free! You can also listen to all the episodes of Making Positive Psychology Work streamed directly to your smartphone or iPad through stitcher. No need for downloading or syncing. Until next time, take care! Thank you Tim!

Tom Rath is an author and researcher who has spent the past two decades studying how work can improve human health and wellbeing. His ten books including, "Strengths Finder 2.0", "Wellbeing", and "Eat Move Sleep", have sold more than ten million copies, and made hundreds of appearances on global bestseller lists. During his 13 years at Gallup, Tom was the Program Leader for the development of Clifton Strengths Finder, which has helped over 20 million people to uncover their talents, and went on to lead the organization's employee engagement, wellbeing, and leadership practices worldwide. He has served for the past five years as a Gallup Senior Scientist. And he's also an advisor, investor, and partner in several start-ups. In this podcast, we explore how small changes in the way you eat, move and sleep can improve your wellbeing and performance at work. Connect with Tom Rath: http://www.tomrath.org You'll Learn: [04:29] - Tom explains how the small choices around how we eat, move and sleep each day can have a big impact on our wellbeing and performance at work. [08:16] - Tom outlines why tackling the way we eat, move, and sleep simultaneously is a better way to improve our energy levels. [11:38] - Tom offers some small choices that can improve the way we're eating each day. [15:44] - Tom provides some tips to help leaders improve the way people eat at work together. [18:18] - Tom explains why sitting is our biggest health challenge at work and the easy ways we can get people moving more at work. [21:35] - Tom explains why lack of sleep is the most underestimated threat to our wellbeing and performance at work. [25:17] - Tom completes the Lightning Round. Your Resources: MPPW Podcast on Facebook Range by David Epstein Loonshots by Safi Bahcall Thanks for listening! Thanks so much for joining me again this week. If you enjoyed this episode, please share it using the social media buttons you see at the bottom of this post. Please leave an honest review of the Making Positive Psychology Work Podcast on iTunes. Ratings and reviews are extremely helpful and greatly appreciated. They do matter in the rankings of the show, and I read each and every one of them. And don't forget to subscribe to the show on iTunes to get automatic updates. It's free! You can also listen to all the episodes of Making Positive Psychology Work streamed directly to your smartphone or iPad through stitcher. No need for downloading or syncing. Until next time, take care! Thank you Tom!

Jane Dutton is a Professor Emerita of Business Administration and Psychology at the University of Michigan. Jane's research focuses on how organizational conditions enable human thriving, and in particular, how the quality of connection between people at work affects individual and organizational flourishing. Her research explores compassion in organizations, resilience in organizations, as well as energy in organizations, and she's published over 100 articles and book chapters, edited 12 books, and written a book for managers called Energise Your Workplace: How To Build And Sustain High-Quality Connections At Work. In 2012, Jane was awarded the Scholarly Contributions in Management Award for the Academy of Management, which is a lifetime achievement award. In this week's podcast, we explore the value of creating high-quality connections with people at work and the simple steps you can take to authentically connect with anyone – even your most challenging colleagues. Connect with Jane Dutton: https://positiveorgs.bus.umich.edu/ You'll Learn: [02:23] - Jane defines what creates a high-quality connection for us at work. [04:43] - Jane explains the difference between high-quality connections and Professor Barbara Fredrickson's micro-moments of connections. [06:37] - Jane outlines the benefits of prioritizing high-quality connections when it comes to our wellbeing and performance at work. [10:11] - Jane shares what her latest research is finding out about the ability of high-quality connections to improve psychological safety in teams. [11:58] - Jane offers some tips on how high-quality connections can help ease the rising rates of loneliness in workplaces. [14:33] - Jane explains how leaders can create cultures that prioritize high-quality connections among their workers. [17:33] - Jane offers some simple suggestions for convincing leaders of the need to prioritize high-quality connections in our workplaces. [21:32] - Jane offers some practical suggestions for us to create more high-quality connections in our relationships at work. [25:11] - Jane shares what her research is finding can help us manage our corrosive connections and more challenging relationships at work. [30:04] - Jane completes the Lightning Round. Your Resources: MPPW Podcast on Facebook Books by Jody Hoffer Gittell Relational Coordination Research Collaborative Thanks for listening! Thanks so much for joining me again this week. If you enjoyed this episode, please share it using the social media buttons you see at the bottom of this post. Please leave an honest review of the Making Positive Psychology Work Podcast on iTunes. Ratings and reviews are extremely helpful and greatly appreciated. They do matter in the rankings of the show, and I read each and every one of them. And don't forget to subscribe to the show on iTunes to get automatic updates. It's free! You can also listen to all the episodes of Making Positive Psychology Work streamed directly to your smartphone or iPad through stitcher. No need for downloading or syncing. Until next time, take care! Thank you Jane!

Dr. Steven Rogelberg is an organizational psychologist who holds the title of Chancellor's Professor at UNC Charlotte for distinguished national, international and interdisciplinary contributions. He's an award-winning teacher and recipient of the very prestigious Humboldt Award for his research with over 100 publications, addressing issues such as team effectiveness, leadership, engagement, health and employee wellbeing, meetings at work and organizational research methods. His latest book, The Surprising Science of Meetings: How You Can Lead Your Team to Peak Performance, was recognized by the Washington Post as the number one leadership book to watch for in 2019 and has been featured in media outlets around the world In this week's podcast, we explore the simple steps you can take to run more positive and productive meetings at work. Connect with Steven Rogelberg: https://www.stevenrogelberg.com/ You'll Learn: [02:27] - Steven explains how workplace meetings offer opportunities to improve our individual and collective wellbeing. [03:22] - Steven outlines what his research is finding out about the best meetings in workplaces. [05:13] - Steven outlines why so many workplaces meetings struggle to bring out the best in people. [06:44] - Steven explains how we can design meetings in ways that allow us and others to be more effective givers at work. [08:57] - Steven outlines why planning your meetings to create a little stress can be beneficial for all participants. [10:22] - Steven shares what his research has found about the ideal length of our meetings. [11:31] - Steven offers some practical tips on how many people to invite to a meeting. [14:14] - Steven explains why meetings leaders need to be mindful of the mood of their meetings and how can they shape this practically. [17:44] - Steven explains how silence can be used to improve our meetings. [19:21] - Steven offers some tips for team members to improve meetings. [20:42] - Steven explains how we can make virtual meetings more productive and supportive of our wellbeing. [23:36] - Steven completes the Lightning Round. Your Resources: MPPW Podcast on Facebook Stop Worrying & Start Living by Dale Carnegie Thanks for listening! Thanks so much for joining me again this week. If you enjoyed this episode, please share it using the social media buttons you see at the bottom of this post. Please leave an honest review of the Making Positive Psychology Work Podcast on iTunes. Ratings and reviews are extremely helpful and greatly appreciated. They do matter in the rankings of the show, and I read each and every one of them. And don't forget to subscribe to the show on iTunes to get automatic updates. It's free! You can also listen to all the episodes of Making Positive Psychology Work streamed directly to your smartphone or iPad through stitcher. No need for downloading or syncing. Until next time, take care! Thank you Steven!

Alissa Daire Nelson is a certified strength strategy coach who gives people the tools and guidance to put their strengths to work. She's the host of the Maximize Your Strengths podcast, and author of From Frustrated To Frickin' Awesome: 4 Steps to Achieve the Success You're Wired For. Alissa's work has been featured in media outlets all over the world. In this week's episode, we explore the practical steps we can take to spot and develop people's strengths – the things we're good at and enjoy doing – using tools like Clifton Strengths in workplaces. Connect with Alissa Nelson: https://www.daire2succeed.com/ You'll Learn: [02:13] - Alissa explains why people's strengths can help us quickly strengthen our relationship at work. [04:49] - Alissa explains how tools like Clifton Strengths can give us a language to spot and understand the strengths in each other. [08:04] - Alissa explains how we can use the talents that tools like Clifton Strengths surface for us as we go about our jobs to improve our performance and wellbeing at work. [11:06] - Alissa explains why it's helpful to understand the contributions our strengths can make and the needs we each have to support our strengths at work. [14:11] - Alissa explains how we can become aware and manage the triggers that occur when our strengths are overlooked or undervalued by others we work with. [19:37] - Alissa offers some tips to help us get better at noticing how we can develop our strengths more effectively at work. [22:36] - Alissa offers tips for leaders to help develop their people's strengths more at work. [26:37] - Alissa completes the Lightning Round. Your Resources: MPPW Podcast on Facebook Brene Brown Talks Dare to Lead by Brene Brown Leadership & Self-Deception by The Arbinger Group Thanks for listening! Thanks so much for joining me again this week. If you enjoyed this episode, please share it using the social media buttons you see at the bottom of this post. Please leave an honest review of the Making Positive Psychology Work Podcast on iTunes. Ratings and reviews are extremely helpful and greatly appreciated. They do matter in the rankings of the show, and I read each and every one of them. And don't forget to subscribe to the show on iTunes to get automatic updates. It's free! You can also listen to all the episodes of Making Positive Psychology Work streamed directly to your smartphone or iPad through stitcher. No need for downloading or syncing. Until next time, take care! Thank you Alissa!

Wendy Wood is a professor at the University of Southern California and visiting faculty at Insead Business school in France. Wendy has spent the last 30 years studying people's habits and understanding how to change them, and her research has been featured in media publications all over the world and is the focus of her forthcoming book Good Habits, Bad Habits. In this week's episode, we explore what the latest research is finding out about how we can create and sustain good habits to support our wellbeing. Connect with Wendy Wood: http://goodhabitsbadhabits.org/ You'll Learn: [02:38] - Wendy explains why creating good habits can be challenging for many of us. [04:27] - Wendy shares what her research is finding about how we can develop good habits. [06:22] - Wendy shares why her research has found that it doesn't take 21 days to build a habit. [08:40] - Wendy explains why thinking about the context for the habits we want to create is so important and offers some tips to make it easier to activate the habits we want to build. [11:24] - Wendy explains the power of repetition when it comes to building the habits we most want. [13:09] - Wendy outlines the role rewards play in creating our habits and what kind of rewards work best. [16:13] - Wendy offers some tips for aligning our goals and our habits to make them easier to sustain. [17:28] - Wendy explains the surprising finding in her research on the impact our habits have on our levels of self-control. [19:47] - Wendy helps us understand how stacking or swapping habits can make it easier to create changes in our behavior. [22:26] - Wendy offers some cautions and caveats for building good habits in ways that are good for you and others. [24:29] - Wendy offers tips for breaking bad habits like constantly checking our mobile phones. [27:20] - Wendy shares why she believes friction is important for our habits. [28:24] - Wendy completes the Lightning Round. Your Resources: MPPW Podcast on Facebook Nudge by Richard Thaler & Cass Sunstein Atomic Habits by James Clear Thanks for listening! Thanks so much for joining me again this week. If you enjoyed this episode, please share it using the social media buttons you see at the bottom of this post. Please leave an honest review of the Making Positive Psychology Work Podcast on iTunes. Ratings and reviews are extremely helpful and greatly appreciated. They do matter in the rankings of the show, and I read each and every one of them. And don't forget to subscribe to the show on iTunes to get automatic updates. It's free! You can also listen to all the episodes of Making Positive Psychology Work streamed directly to your smartphone or iPad through stitcher. No need for downloading or syncing. Until next time, take care! Thank you Wendy!

Cy Wakeman is a drama researcher, global thought leader, and New York Times bestselling author, recognized for cultivating a counter-intuitive, reality-based approach to leadership. Cy has helped companies such as Google, Facebook, NASA, and many others to navigate our rapidly changing world, using good mental processes to harness energy wasted in workplace drama, and reinvest that effort into achieving profound business results. Her work has been featured in several media outlets around the world. The author of several books, her latest is No Ego: How to Cut the Cost of Drama and Entitlement, and Drive Big Results. In this week's episode, we explore at why most of us waste 2.5 hours a day on average in emotional workplaces dramas and the simple steps we can take to ditch the drama, improve our wellbeing and save ourselves time, energy, and money. Connect with Cy Wakeman: https://www.realitybasedleadership.com/ You'll Learn: [02:36] - Cy explains why workplaces lose billions of dollars every year due to the emotional waste of employees. [03:29] - Cy outlines what her research has found drives drama in workplaces. [05:23] - Cy shares why most of us lose 2.5 hours a day in unnecessary dramas at work. [08:07] - Cy provides some questions leaders can use to help their people ditch the drama. [14:23] - Cy shares why leaders can find it hard to ditch the drama in workplaces. [15:54] - Cy outlines why a lack of accountability drives drama in many workplaces and how this can be addressed. [20:24] - Cy shares why fostering engagement without accountability often leads to entitlement in workplaces. [24:29] - Cy shares her insights on why change management should die as an organizational practice in order to minimize drama in workplaces. [27:27] - Cy explores how managing our emotional waste better can improve psychological safety in workplaces. [29:52] - Cy explains why it's not enough for employees to just manage their own emotional waste, but why leaders and organizations need to support these behaviours. [31:26] - Cy completes the Lightning Round. Your Resources: MPPW Podcast on Facebook No Ego by Cy Wakeman Melody Beattie Books Loving What Is by Byron Katie Thanks for listening! Thanks so much for joining me again this week. If you enjoyed this episode, please share it using the social media buttons you see at the bottom of this post. Please leave an honest review of the Making Positive Psychology Work Podcast on iTunes. Ratings and reviews are extremely helpful and greatly appreciated. They do matter in the rankings of the show, and I read each and every one of them. And don't forget to subscribe to the show on iTunes to get automatic updates. It's free! You can also listen to all the episodes of Making Positive Psychology Work streamed directly to your smartphone or iPad through stitcher. No need for downloading or syncing. Until next time, take care! Thank you Cy!