Suzie Parkus on work/life balance and mental health
For this chapter, we focus on work/life balance and mental health with business mentor Suzie Parkus. Find out more about her here: https://suzieparkus.com/

For this chapter, we focus on work/life balance and mental health with business mentor Suzie Parkus. Find out more about her here: https://suzieparkus.com/
Today we talk to Suzie about life audits (what are they? Listen to find out) and confidence. Find out more about the great work Suzie does here => https://suzieparkus.com/
Jon talks to business mentor Suzie Parkus about how challenging situations can sometimes be the making of you. Find out more about Suzie and her work here: https://suzieparkus.com/
Jon sets the scene for a fascinating five-part conversation with business mentor and entrepreneur Suzie Parkus. Get more info about Suzie here https://suzieparkus.com/
We talk to Paul Mumma, CEO of software company Cerego about that hottest of topics - digital transformation. Find out more about Cerego here -> https://www.cerego.com/
Jon talks to author and sales trainer Vinit Shah about his new book Slice. They cover motivation, diversity and a whole lot more. Find our more about Vinit's new book here https://www.panomapress.com/9781784521653/slice/
Host with the very most Jo Cook talks to speaker Donald H Taylor ahead of our #TJtalks webinar at 1230pm on Tuesday 23 July. Signed up? Spread the word, your co-workers can sign up free here => https://events-emea1.adobeconnect.com/content/connect/c1/2070145799/en/events/event/shared/default_template/event_registration.html?sco-id=3762647083
Jon and Kate come to you live (ish) from this year's Learning Technologies Summer Forum, then Jo joins to discuss the monthly theme of managing and developing teams and some #TJtalks chat too, and Kate comes back for a chat about her new LinkedIn group and initiative, Women in Learning. And breathe. Find out more about the summer forum here https://www.learningtechnologies.co.uk/learning-tech-summer-forum and Women in Learning here https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12210548/
We talk to TJ podcast news section co-host, LTSF backchannel contributor and Fosway Group's head of content Kate Graham about her new initiative, Women in Learning. It's important. Join the LinkedIn group here -> https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12210548/
Jon collars friend of the podcast Paul Matthews to discuss the summer forum, OD challenges, the progress of his new book and also his imminent appearance on our new webinar series, #TJtalks. Find out more about Paul's writing work here https://www.peoplealchemy.co.uk/paul-matthews/author/
Recently Jon journeyed to Henley Business School for a panel discussion about the four-day working week, the subject of Henley's latest white paper. There he met Green and Blacks co-founder and discussion panellist Jo Fairley to get her thoughts on the idea. Find out more about Jo here https://www.josephinefairley.com/ And get more info on 'Four Better or Four Worse?', Henley's latest white paper, here: https://www.henley.ac.uk/fourdayweek
Jon chats to Jesse Hallock about engaging young people in the workplace. Maybe it's not as easy as we all think? Listen in to find out. Find out more about Jesse and his business here. https://www.arabonact.com/
It's a new chapter. Jo and Jon talk about the evolution of TJ's webinars, giving us some detail about the exciting plans for our Insight and Practice video discussions. Not signed up the first event on 25 June? You can remedy this right here. https://events-emea1.adobeconnect.com/content/connect/c1/2070145799/en/events/event/shared/default_template/event_registration.html?sco-id=3762629229
Jon and Jo discuss the recent CIPD event Festival of Work, the acquisition of HT2 Labs, the exciting new webinar programme we've developed called #TJtalks, and Pam August dials in to discuss people-focused business strategy. Sign up to our new webinar programme here https://www.trainingjournal.com/webinars
We talk to Westjetter Pam August (she'll explain that) about people, strategy, culture and more. Find out about Pam here https://www.linkedin.com/in/pam-august-3b39802a/
Jon, Jo and Kate talk news, webinars and magazines and Jo catches up with Paul Morgan, consultant for Diageo, in advance of our webinar on 28 May. Sign up for that here: https://events-emea1.adobeconnect.com/content/connect/c1/2070145799/en/events/event/shared/default_template/event_registration.html?sco-id=3704947285
To tie in with Learning at Work Week we talk to Alison Watson of Arden University. Find out more about Arden here. https://arden.ac.uk/
Intrepid dep-ed Jo Cook talks to webinar speaker Paul Morgan, HR consultant for Diageo, about all thing people related in advance of our 28 May webinar. Not booked on? Do it free, here: https://www.trainingjournal.com/event/tjwow-may-webinar-understanding-your-organisation-and-its-people
Deputy editor Jo Cook talks to the great Krystyna Gadd about her new book, How Not to Waste Your Money on Training. Pre-order your copy here: https://www.howtoacceleratelearning.co.uk/book/
Jon and Kate talk apprenticeships and acquisitions, then Jon and Jo discuss the April magazine, a great webinar on diversity and an upcoming one about sales and customer service, and then Jo collars a couple of guests to talk mental health. Want to subscribe on iTunes? Here's your link. https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-tj-podcast/id1287155759
Jon talks to Stephen Broadley of Woodrow Mercer about recruitment in L&D, what the future looks like for L&D candidates and much more. It's a great chat about a subject not often covered - have a listen today! Find out more about Woodrow Mercer here. https://www.woodrowmercer.com/
Intrepid dep-ed Jo Cook talks to Sarah Rudder, founder of Ginger Dog Development, and Emily Cosgrove, co-founder of The Conversation Space, about mental health and how businesses can provide a safe environment for employees to start the conversation around an important subject. Here's some more info on our speakers: https://www.gingerdogdevelopment.com/ https://www.theconversationspace.com/
Jon, Jo and Kate look at the biggest news story of the last month (Laura Overton stepping down from the helm at Towards Maturity), as well as discussing our upcoming webinar on diversity and inclusion, this month's magazine, and there's also a guest interview with Gavi's Jonathan Siener and Clare Hoang to talk about harassment training. Want three months' free TJ mag? here we go: https://www.dodsshop.co.uk/store/products,training-journal_22.htm?promo=tjtrial
We talk to Sean Norton from apprenticeship and training provider SCL about HITZ, Rugby and how he thinks apprenticeships are better than ever. Read more about the award-wining HITZ programme here. https://www.premiershiprugby.com/in-the-community/breakthru/hitz/
We talk to Jade Whale about her experiencecs of apprenticeships with the HITZ scheme and Bath Rugby. Read more about the award-wining HITZ programme here. https://www.premiershiprugby.com/in-the-community/breakthru/hitz/
For National Apprenticeship Week, Jon talks to ticketing apprentice Melissa Halling and senior L&D lead Claire Hawker from NEC Group. Get more info about NEC Group http://www.necgroup.co.uk/
Jon talks to Gavi's Claire Hoang and Jonathan Siener about harassment training and how to create a safe environment for people to speak up. Find out more about Gavi here https://www.gavi.org/
Intrepid dep-ed Jo Cook talks to Ohio's Cara North about instructional design, change and online course development. Have a read of her blog here https://caranorth.blog/
We talk to Patrick Brigger, co-founder of getAbstract, about what the changes in the most popular L&D book downloads can tell us about the evolving workplace. Get more info on getAbstract here: https://www.getabstract.com/en/
Jon wraps things up to talk corporate versus consumer tech and the future of work with Kineo's Jez Anderson. See you next year! For more info about LT: https://www.learningtechnologies.co.uk/