Seeing our personal development and career development journeys translate into new job responsibilities is a great source of sustainable motivation. It provides the emotional reward that validates our efforts and keeps us on track. Taking ownership of increased or different responsibilities is a meaningful challenge that supports our sense of moving forward. Ben RainforthGott Director of People & Organisational Development discusses the association between career and personal progression with em...
May 24, 2023•38 min•Transcript available on Metacast To maintain a sense of momentum we need to feel appropriately challenged in our roles. The key is achieving the right balance. Feeling a little outside of our personal comfort zone is a good place for personal growth as we have to engage our wider potential to succeed. If this goes too far, we will retreat into survival mode, where we resist change and new demands. CHRO of the year and board advisor Njabulo Mashigo discusses the association between challenge and employee happiness.
May 24, 2023•35 min•Transcript available on Metacast We are designed to evolve and grow, whilst standing still results in stagnation and inflexibility. People therefore need opportunities to expand their experience and expose themselves to new learning. This helps us feel engaged. Experiencing novelty is an important element of keeping the brain alert. Andrew MacAskill CCO at Fraser Dove International and LinkedIn change maker shares his expertise on personal Growth and Person development.
May 24, 2023•34 min•Transcript available on Metacast The Happiness Index internal culture team of HR pro Laura Page, Co-Founder and technologist Tony Latter and Head of Neuroscience Clive discuss the impact of energetic on our working relationships. Feeling energetically connected to our colleagues is that sense of just understanding each other. We are on the same wavelength and naturally click. In the calmer state this is empathy, and when we are energised this can become a team that would describe themselves with terms such as buzzing or alive, ...
May 17, 2023•28 min•Transcript available on Metacast The Happiness Index internal culture team of HR pro Laura Page, Co-Founder and technologist Tony Latter and Head of Neuroscience Clive discuss the impact of work life balance This is another area that has hugely been impacted by the pandemic and the digital revolution. With everyone carrying a phone with more computing power than the first spaceship that carried humanity to the moon it can be hard to balance our work and our private lives. Work life harmony covers whether or not people feel that...
May 17, 2023•32 min•Transcript available on Metacast HR expert Phil Burgess sits down with Matt Phelan to discuss how Trust and Safety are key drivers of Employee Happiness People need to feel trust to be able to commit themselves emotionally to an organisation. They need to feel trusted and be able to trust those they work with. Our sensory intelligence system constantly surveys our environment and is very sensitive to factors such as tension, suppression, dishonesty, and insincerity, all of which are inhibitors to human expression and contributi...
Apr 28, 2023•36 min•Transcript available on Metacast HR expert, entrepreneur and author Natasha Wallace sits down with our host Matt Phelan to discuss how to create a work environment that drives employee happiness. People need to feel that their physical working environment is safe, that it poses no danger either in terms of conditions or access. It also includes emotional safety, such as freedom from bullying, prejudice or psychological abuse.
Apr 28, 2023•28 min•Transcript available on Metacast Head of People Nadia Vatalidis sits down to share her wisdom with our host Matthew Phelan who is co-founder of The Happiness Index. Nadia discusses her career in working in the fast pace tech world. Nadia shares insight from her career and her thoughts on building in public. This episode is wide ranging and covers a wide spectrum from inclusion through to advice on how best to support your people. This episode is packed with new ideas and practical advice on how to build a thriving workplace cul...
Apr 14, 2023•37 min•Transcript available on Metacast Matt Phelan author of Freedom to be Happy the Business case for Happiness and Karen Robinson sit down to discuss the importance of feedback on employee happiness. Karen is a senior business leader with 15 years exp. Karen is a mentor, coach and trainer. Karen gives her expert view on how to give and receive feedback. Regular feedback is a vital component of emotional sustainability and growth. Getting timely and relevant levels of feedback, delivered with appropriate skill and care, can be a cri...
Mar 20, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Transcript available on Metacast Happiness and Humans Host Matt Phelan Interviews Global head of Diversity and Inclusion and Belonging at ISS on the importance of employees feeling listened to. When we express a thought or feeling it is important to us that our views are heard. This is a subtle, yet critical, experience that helps us understand our impact on the world. Not being listened to is a form of sensory deprivation that is emotionally destabilising and can make us feel unsure about who we are and whether we are importan...
Mar 20, 2023•21 min•Transcript available on Metacast Our host and entrepreneur Matthew Phelan interview's employee recognition expert Simon Berry. Simon is one of the world's most respected and knowledgeable experts in both employee recognition and reward. Simon also helped design the Employee recognition impact Index that sits within The Happiness Index's Employee Engagement platform. Recognition informs us that we are doing things right, which in turn gives us a sense of emotional validation. This is not limited to more formalised recognition sc...
Mar 20, 2023•37 min•Transcript available on Metacast Tech founders Matthew Phelan of The Happiness Index and Sultan Murad Saidov of Beamery sit down to discuss Sultan's journey from childhood to founding the UK's latest tech unicorn. Sultan Murad Saidov is Co-Founder and President of Beamery, the leading Talent Lifecycle Management Platform. Prior to Beamery, Sultan worked at Goldman Sachs. He studied Politics, Philosophy and Economics at the University of Oxford. Sultan is a frequent speaker on AI, the Future of Work, and Talent Transformation Be...
Mar 14, 2023•49 min•Transcript available on Metacast With layoffs being announced across the globe Walter Peterscheck felt compelled to share his story of being let go twice in his career. This episode is designed to help both the individual being let go and the company in how to do this in a supportive way. Walter is motivated to help people being made redundant continue with their career and prosper. The last 3 years have been a tough struggle for many individuals and organisations alike. The financial strain has resulted in many layoffs being m...
Mar 14, 2023•34 min•Transcript available on Metacast Tim Lomas is a Research Affiliate at the Human Flourishing Program at Harvard University and the author of Translating Happiness- A Cross-Cultural Lexicon of Well-Being. His work has been featured in Time, the New Yorker, Vox, Scientific American, and the Atlantic. Tim discusses his new paper The Architecture of Happiness. Happiness is an increasingly prominent topic of interest across academia. However, relatively little attention has been paid to how it is created, especially not in a multidim...
Jan 06, 2023•41 min•Transcript available on Metacast Dr Hayley Lewis is on the HR Most Influential 2022. Hayley is a chartered psychologist, coach, University lecturer & Sketchnote doodler. Hayley describes herself as a pracademic making psychology accessible. Matt and Hayley discuss Happiness, HR and modern Psychology in the word of work
Nov 03, 2022•55 min•Transcript available on Metacast Matt Phelan and guest Laura Campbell discuss health, neuroscience, gut microbiota, food & nutrition, mental health, alcohol, mood & sleep. Laura discusses her own health journey that covers serious subjects such as anorexia, diet and the importance of getting the right information and advice on subjects related to your own health. This is a wide ranging conversation covering many areas related to our wellbeing and happiness. The conversation also focuses on how companies can help their employees...
Nov 02, 2022•37 min•Transcript available on Metacast Kashi Chellen takes over as Happiness and Humans host to interview Matt Phelan on his TedX Brighton talk. The talk is titled 12 Million Lessons in Happiness. Matt uses a concept called The Super Happiness Suit with in built emotional deflector field to discuss what has been learnt from data collected by The Happiness Index via their Employee Engagement and Happiness Platform. The talk covers learning from 1 million human beings from over 100 countries.
Sep 26, 2022•34 min•Transcript available on Metacast Matt Phelan and Amanda Henwood discuss Amanda's research into subjective Well-being Amanda's research focuses on exploring the links between well-being, cognition and behaviour. Amanda uses a mixed methodological approach, combining field and lab experiments, to investigate potential well-being related mechanisms underpinning people’s responses to online cognitive and behavioural interventions, with a focus on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. To do this, Amanda draws upon insights from different d...
Sep 07, 2022•26 min•Transcript available on Metacast Matt Phelan from the Happiness Index an employee engagement and happiness platform sits down with Tracey Smith-Atkins, Robert Black & Alex Rowlands to discuss what it is like to work in a job where death is a daily part of the employee experience. We discover we can learn from this sector from the perspective of a CEO, HR professional and a Technology evangelist.
Sep 01, 2022•47 min•Transcript available on Metacast Bianca Cefalo of Space DOTS sits down with Matthew Phelan to discuss entrepreneurship, happiness and new space. Bianca discusses her career, organisational culture, her co-founders and what it is like to be an entrepreneur in the space industry. BIO Space Scientist & Engineer Developing the next generation of telecommunications in space, and advocate for girls in STEM.
Jul 12, 2022•43 min•Transcript available on Metacast Melissa Thorpe is the inspirational Head of Spaceport Cornwall and sits down with the Co-Founder of the Happiness Index Matt Phelan. Melissa discusses her career, her leadership tips, how kindness is an important part of success and also gives insight on how to start a career in the Space industry. Melissa discusses her twin passions of nature and space and how they plan to run a UK space port that supports the local Cornish community by being considerate to their neighbours in Cornwall and the ...
Jun 20, 2022•32 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode guest host Patrick Phelan who is a Happiness Index founding employee interviews Co-founder Matt Phelan on The Happiness Index's crowdfunding campaign on Seedrs. Pat asks Matt the following questions. What makes you happy? Why Seedrs? Why fundraising? What is crowdfunding? How does it work? Can people still get involved? What does the future of THI look like? This episode is perfect for anyone looking to become an investor or for people trying to understand how crowdfunding ...
Jun 09, 2022•26 min•Transcript available on Metacast Njabulo Mashigo Executive Director | International HR Executive | Non Executive Director of Vodacom part of the Vodafone family sits down with Matt Phelan to discuss everything from employee happiness through to how to build a successful career in HR. Matt Phelan the Co-Founder of The Happiness Index and host of the Happiness and Humans podcast asks Njabulo the following questions. What makes you happy? What is your number one career learning? What’s been your biggest mistake in your career? Wha...
May 13, 2022•33 min•Transcript available on Metacast Dan Sodergren shares his views on the future of work and his positive outlook on how we can all move towards a world where we love the work we do.
Apr 29, 2022•24 min•Transcript available on Metacast Lewis Wedlock is an Activist, academic & Social Psychologist. As one of the UK's youngest lecturers, Lewis' work centers around exploring and challenging structures that limit expression. We discuss Lewis’s views on Toxic masculinity.
Apr 22, 2022•9 min•Transcript available on Metacast Creative Jason Lancaster discusses how reading the book Blink by Malcolm Gladwel changed the way he looked at the world forever. Following a chance visit to a remote Scottish Island Jason uprooted his London life and now lives full time among the sheep and crystal clean blue ocean. We discuss the impact of this move on his career, happiness and performance. This episode will make you stop and listen to your emotions. This is a story about the Isle of Tiree, this is a story about career happiness...
Apr 12, 2022•45 min•Transcript available on Metacast Matt Phelan Co-Founder and Co-CEO of the Happiness Index sits down with Ben RainforthGott Ben is a Strategic Group HR Director. He has extensive international HR & business transformation through optimisation of agile, commercial, and adaptive HR functions, A strategic thinker & agile operator with substantial experience in all facets of Human Resource management and proven expertise in business change and transformation. Ben is also hilarious and shares his wonderful story and life lessons with...
Feb 11, 2022•31 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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...
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