Karen Robinson Founding Director of The Flockist sits down with Matt Phelan the Co-CEO and Co-Founder of The Happiness Index to discuss Karen's mission to rebrand leadership. Karen will help you find your voice in the workplace and make a difference without compromising your values or falling over with stress. In this episode of Happiness and Humans Matt asks Karen the following questions; What makes you happy? Why does leadership need a rebrand? Who do you work with? Why is feedback important? ...
Feb 07, 2022•38 min•Transcript available on Metacast Leadership expert Steve Rush and Co-Founder of The Happiness Index Matt Phelan sit down to discuss Leadership. Steve helps people and teams explore new ways of working, new behaviours and processes through learning by unlocking their AH-HA moments. Matt asks Steve the following questions What makes you happy? Do the fiance sector care about their employees? How did your Leadership podcast go so crazy? What is the The Leadership Cake? What is leadership? Is leadership nature or nurture?
Jan 31, 2022•21 min•Transcript available on Metacast Kate Druhan head of community and environment at the Green School Bali joins Matthew Phelan Co-Founder and Co-CEO The Happiness Index to discuss What is a Green School? Does the school consider the happiness of students important? Do you think nature has a role to play in happiness? What can the world of work learn from what you have learnt at the Green School so far? Green School's mission is a 'Community of learners making our world sustainable' and is so much more than a school - it is a com...
Jan 28, 2022•44 min•Transcript available on Metacast The Co-Founders of The Happiness Index Tony Latter, Chris Hyland and Matt Phelan sit down to review the year and discuss what could have gone better, what went well and their ambitions for 2022.
Dec 17, 2021•40 min•Transcript available on Metacast Adam Shaikh helps us unbox mental health and ethnicity. Adam helps draw the line between mental health and ethnicity and shows us why that is important from personal experience but also my macro data. Studies show Black, Asian and other ethnic minorities reported a 14% deterioration in their mental health from April 2017 to April 2020; for whites it was 6.5% The numbers are even more harrowing when you look deeper. A study from Mind shows that for every white person with schizophrenia, the...
Nov 19, 2021•35 min•Transcript available on Metacast Andrew discusses his mission to End Career Based Misery. Andrew a career experts talks openly about getting fired and how it was the best thing that happened to him. Matt and Andrew discuss tips for your career and how you can become happy in your career and life. Andrew describes himself as a Father, Career Coach, Guinness lover, Business Advisor, Speaker, Author, Founder, Positivity Dispenser and Official LinkedIn Changemaker for Careers and Unemployment.
Oct 21, 2021•34 min•Transcript available on Metacast Matt Phelan and Fiona McDonnel l sit down to discuss Fiona's new book ' Two Mirrors and a Cheetah : Think Differently, Own Your Career & Succeed by Being Yourself'. Two Mirrors and a Cheetah will help you to challenge the assumptions and choices that hold you back, and inspire you to find real career fulfilment just by being yourself . Providing insights, examples and simple exercises, this book will equip you to: Understand and showcase your unique capabilities Identify the contexts that he...
Oct 20, 2021•37 min•Transcript available on Metacast Matt Phelan from The Happiness Index and Emily Cummin from Untangle ( https://l.linklyhq.com/l/d6Z9 ) discuss how to support employees through times of bereavement. This discussion covers What typically happens after a loss? How can employers help? How to support managers who have some in their team who has a bereavement ? What can managers and leaders do to support people? What to do and say? Returning to work after a bereavement, incongruous feelings when a loved one dies and the importance of...
Oct 15, 2021•33 min•Transcript available on Metacast Chief People officer Steven Bianchi and Matt Phelan discuss the concept of HR Debt in high growth businesses. Steven explains the difference between scaling and growing. Steven also answers; Does money change culture? Can you build culture in a fast growth environment, how to deal with with Hyper growth, how to deal with resource dis-economies of scale as your team expands and how to deal with the challenges that hyper growth & funding can bring to the people team.
Aug 13, 2021•47 min•Transcript available on Metacast Matt and Sope discuss the power of learning and the importance of the people you consciously surround yourself with.
Aug 06, 2021•49 min•Transcript available on Metacast Entrepreneur Dominic McGregor at 21 co-founded the Manchester-based social media marketing agency Social Chain and helped grow it to a $200m turnover business with 750 staff in offices all around the world. Dom was one of the first people to hire a happiness manager to help support his growing business. Having floated Social Chain Dom has now exited the business to start the next stage of his career and he sits down with Matt Phelan to answer the following questions. What makes you happy Dom? Ho...
Jun 21, 2021•27 min•Transcript available on Metacast Matt Phelan and Gabe Barrett sit down during Pride month to discuss Gabe's unique perspective on the world of work. Having transitioned Gender Gabe offers us all a unique perspective on subjects ranging from belonging to building teams. Gabe is a data expert and now works to help companies build teams in a Hybrid work world. Matt asks Gabe the following questions Tell us your story? How do you support someone transitioning? Is data scary? How do you build a team? What's next for Gabe Barrett?...
Jun 16, 2021•44 min•Transcript available on Metacast Femi started his business journey as an 11 year old with the support of his amazing Mum Grace. Now at 15 Femi is a veteran of the tech world and we discuss everything from their mother and son partnership to building an inclusive culture. We talk about dealing with Tourettes Syndrome to training school children to code. I ask Femi and Grace the following questions What makes you happy? How do you work as a double team? What can employers do to attract talent like Femi? ...
Jun 14, 2021•52 min•Transcript available on Metacast Matt Phelan and Emily Franklin discuss Employee Voice and the importance of listening to your people. Matt asks Emily the following questions What makes you happy? Why did you get involved in the people space? Why do you share stories on your blog? What is employee voice Not? What is Employee voice? Why employee voice important?
May 18, 2021•22 min•Transcript available on Metacast This episode discusses emotions at work and why they are so important. What are emotions? Why is being emotional associated with being unprofessional? How do you engage with emotions effectively? Should we talk about emotions at work?
May 15, 2021•24 min•Transcript available on Metacast Matt Phelan interviews UX expert Leslie Fountain on everything from design, leadership,UX, motivation and designing for human life.
May 13, 2021•38 min•Transcript available on Metacast Guest host Susan Furber interviews Clive Hyland on his new book The Quantum Way. Clive's book explores the Science Behind Happiness and Workplace Engagement. What makes you happy? How does this book link to Freedom To Be Happy Why did you write The Quantum Way? What is in The Quantum Way? What are your influences? If someone has your read book and become inspired what is the next step? Susan asks Clive the following questions What makes you happy? How does this book link to Freedom To Be Happy W...
Apr 18, 2021•30 min•Transcript available on Metacast Editor of Freedom to Be Happy Susan Furber guest hosts this podcast to interview Matt Phelan on his best selling debut book Freedom to Be Happy: The Business Case for Happiness. Questions include What makes you happy? Talk to me about the process of writing a book? Why did you write Freedom to be Happy? What is in Freedom to Be Happy? What are your influences? What does the future look like?
Apr 17, 2021•33 min•Transcript available on Metacast Product manager Dylan Sellberg discusses the Human side of building tech. I invited Dylan on after reading his tweet "My favorite part about building product is that I can be told my work is "unstoppably great" and "the 667th layer of hell" in the same day". I ask Dylan what makes you happy? what is a product manager? take us through the humans side if building great product?
Apr 12, 2021•22 min•Transcript available on Metacast Sope Agbelusi and Matt Phelan discuss the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities report. Matt asks Sope the following questions. What is the report? What are your views on the report? Why has it been so widely criticised? Was there anything useful in the report? How can we learn from this?
Apr 07, 2021•33 min•Transcript available on Metacast I ask Gethin Nadin the following questions about the recent COVID-19 Recovery & Employee Mental Health by Engage For Success Who are Engage for Success? Why is this COVID-19 Recovery & Employee Mental Health report important and why now? What's in it? What most surprised you in the report? What are you key take away? Where can we find the report ? “As we enter the second year of the pandemic, we should be thinking about how we can support employees in the long term. We are no longer reacting to ...
Mar 31, 2021•19 min•Transcript available on Metacast CEO of Longhurst group discusses the key role carers play on the world of work. How we need to support them and Harry’s pledge. This deeply personal episode has been recorded to help change the way employers think about their employees potential caring commitments. 1 in 7 of us will need to balance caring for a family member and work throughout our careers. I ask Julie What makes you happy? Tell us about your career path to becoming a CEO? What does "Improving lives mean" on a day to day?" What ...
Mar 26, 2021•30 min•Transcript available on Metacast I ask employer brand expert Alex Ayin the following questions. What makes you happy ? What is employer branding? Why is employer brand important? Is personal branding important for your career?
Mar 23, 2021•24 min•Transcript available on Metacast We discuss the concept of followership and how it is important understand it in the modern world. This episode gives practical advice on how to escape toxic relationships at home and at work. Carolyn offers advice to those working as HR professionals.
Mar 19, 2021•42 min•Transcript available on Metacast Charisse Fontes is a visionary, founder, author, educator, and speaker that brings the message of high-vibration and humanity to the work she does. Her work has been focused on creating healthy and inclusive workplace cultures by bringing humanity in the workplace. Humanity Power™ was birthed out of a much-needed workshop called 'How To Become A Racist', where Charisse took attendees on a journey from Birth-to-Racism while debunking common myths about racism. Charisse answers the following que...
Mar 15, 2021•25 min•Transcript available on Metacast Following William's 1990 paper "Psychological conditions of personal engagement and disengagement at work" an entire industry was created called Employee Engagement. William discussed how he believes his version of personal engagement is violently different to employee engagement and has been co-opted by the corproate world. I ask Bill the following quesitons 1) WHat makes you happy? 2) Did you invent Employee engagement? 3) Can you talk to us about your work on psychological safety? 4) WHat adv...
Mar 05, 2021•23 min•Transcript available on Metacast Gemma Shambler and Jackie Dyal discuss the Quantum Way. A new way of working that replaces the old command and control structures that are failing in the modern world of business. I ask Gemma and Jackie answer the following questions. What is the Quantum WAY? Why the Quantum Way? What are the Quantum 9? What have been the biggest challenges? What is a Quantum board? What advice do you have for others trying to implement the quantum way?
Feb 26, 2021•35 min•Transcript available on Metacast Head Coach of England U17s Football team Justin Cochrane shares stories from his coaching career. Justin answers the following questions; What makes you happy? Are the next generation of footballers really different or do we just forget what it's like to be a teenager? What have you learnt from coaching human beings? What is flat pack coaching? What has been the biggest challenge in your career? How do you keep evolving and learning yourself?
Feb 23, 2021•36 min•Transcript available on Metacast Hayley discussed the surprising links between Happiness and Movement. I ask Hayley the following questions; Please tell us about your career? Why do you believe movement is important for happiness? If everyone is busy all the time how can they make time for movement? What's the ROI of movement? What's the opportunity cost of not moving?
Feb 19, 2021•37 min•Transcript available on Metacast I discuss HR, Employee Experience, Quantum Computing, Happiness, Faith, AI & Terminator 2 with Andi Britt of IBM. Is it possible to have a thriving culture in a large company? What does good employee exp feel like? How can AI and Humans work together? how are HR leaders writing the rules of work in a pandemic? WHat will work look like after the pandemic?
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