The Workplace Podcast in association with Dynamic Partners

Globally recognized leadership educator, John Baldoni joins host William Corless for this episode about creating a community in your team and organisation. John is a certified Master Corporate Executive Coach, LinkedIn Live host, and author of 15 books that have been translated into ten languages.

 

In 2022, the International Federation of Learning and Development named John a World-Class Mentor and named him to its Hall of Fame in 2021. In 2022, Global Gurus ranked John a Top 20 global leadership expert, a list he has been on since 2007. In 2018 Inc.com named John a Top 100 speaker and Trust Across America honoured John with its Lifetime Achievement Award for Trust. In 2014 Inc.com listed John as a Top 50 leadership expert.

 

John is also the host of LinkedIn Live’s GRACE Under Pressure interview series, a platform that has enabled him to interview more than a hundred global business, academic and thought leaders and doers.

 

John is also a member of the renowned Marshall Goldsmith 100 coaches, a group of executive coaches and thought leaders from the worlds of business, academia and social service.

 

There are so many valuable insights to be gleaned from this episode as William and John put the importance of community under a microscope and discuss:

 

• How leaders and managers can create a true sense of community in the workplace

• Connecting with your organisation and colleagues

• How to connect with the purpose of your organisation

 

John’s leadership resource website is www.johnbaldoni.com

A lecturer in the management discipline for over 20 years, Dr. Deirdre Curran joins host William Corless in this episode to discuss the role of an apology in mediation. Together with her colleague Alec Coakley, Deirdre has recently published on this topic with the Journal of Mediation & Applied Conflict Analysis.

Deirdre is actively involved in researching the lived experience of hospitality workers in Ireland with a view to highlighting issues and promoting positive change. She also maintains a scholarly interest in workplace mediation as a dispute resolution process. She leads a national level workplace mediation research group, housed within the Kennedy Institute of Conflict Intervention at Maynooth University. She also represents the College of Business, Public Policy and Law as a steering committee member of the University of Sanctuary initiative, aimed at making NUIG a welcoming place for refugees, asylum seekers and members of the Travelling Community. 

Listeners will gain valuable insights from this episode as Deirdre and William delve deeper into this topic, asking what it truly means to apologise and discussing the crucial role this plays in mediation.

You can read Deirdre’s paper here: https://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/15192/

In this episode, host William Corless talks to Dr. Michael Gervais, Sport and Performance Psychologist. Together they tackle the all important question ‘How to Stop Worrying About What Other People Think of You’.

 

Drawing on his experience over a 20-year career working with world class performers and organizations, Dr. Gervais delves into topics around, managing the fear of other people’s opinions, how to create a team philosophy and how to build your own personal philosophy statement.

 

There are valuable insights and learnings to be gained from this episode as William and Michael explore these issues.

 

Find out more about the work that Michael does here: FindingMastery: High Performance Psychology with Michael Gervais

 

A globally recognised authority on Diversity and Inclusion, Dr. Jonathan Ashong - Lamptey joins host William Corless in this episode to discuss Diversity and Inclusion in the workplace. Currently on his mission to help 1 million people around the world make the workplace more inclusive, Jonathan offers his insights on important questions such as: how to create a sense of belonging in the workplace, understanding and navigating microaggressions and the importance of integrating with new people in the workplace. There are valuable insights to be gained from this episode as William and Jonathan explore the topics of culture and procedural justice together.

For more info you can contact Jonathan through his website.

https://elementofinclusion.com

 

Future of Work Strategist and Professor of Leadership, Marianne Roux joins the Workplace podcast to discuss Leadership Development through the lens of "Future of Work".

 

Marianne joins our host William Corless to discuss:

• Best practice approaches to designing a leadership development framework -focusing on mindsets versus competencies
• Understanding contextual intelligence through six dimensions: environmental, developmental, relational, methodological, temporal & technological
• Providing examples of her work with clients in designing the learning journey in a curated and oft times emergent way to meets the complex and changing needs of a large organisation through co-creation and integration
• How to measure impact of leadership development while solving complex challenges through a strategic lens
• The role of personal agility for leadership in the future of work context.

 

Marianne has 28 years’ global experience as an HR Executive, Future of Work Strategist and Professor of Leadership. She holds a Masters degree in HR and Organisational Psychology and is completing her PHD in Leadership in the Future of Work context

 

This episode was brought to you by WorkMatters Consulting.

People, Culture and Leadership solutions for the changing world of work.

https://workmatters.ie

 

Cinnie Noble is a pioneer of conflict management coaching. In this episode, Cinnie and our host William Corless discuss the cross over between coaching and mediation. They share their insights and experience, our listeners will discover:

• Why people elect to choose conflict coaching over mediation
• The benefits of conflict coaching
• The framework using the CINERGY model 
• Internal reaction to conflict vs the external reaction
• Advice for coaches when it comes to venting
• How to analyse and have a productive coaching session
• Types of Questions
• Examples of where conflict coaching has worked 

A former lawyer with a Masters of Law in Dispute Resolution. Cinnie Noble is a Chartered Mediator and Professional Certified Coach. Cinnie mediates workplace and other interpersonal disputes and also,  coaches individual clients worldwide to strengthen their conflict competence and more effectively engage in their interpersonal disputes. She and her international team of trainers conduct workshops for mediators, coaches and others in her unique CINERGY® Model. Cinnie is the author of two coaching books  Conflict Mastery: Questions to Guide You and Conflict Management Coaching: The CINERGY™ Model  www.cinergycoaching.com

 

To download your Chapter two of her book, use the password : GetFreeChapter

Denise White-Hughes, head of employee relations with LIDL Ireland and Northern Ireland joins our host William Corless to discuss mediation in relation to employee relations. 

In this episode Denise highlights

• the benefits and cost savings the mediation has brought Lidl.
• Lidl's learnings about implementing mediation in a large organisation
• Examples where mediation has worked with a real life scenario and the positive outcomes from a complaint on banter was made.
• Her experience of mediation
• Where conflict is inevitable and how to best manager conflict.

This episode was sponsored by the Mediation Foundation of Ireland. Europes premier provider of mediation training.

www.mfi.ie

 

Our host William Corless is joined by Dr Rasphal K Dhensa-Kahlon, an organisational psychologist with Birkbeck, University of London.

In this episode we discuss trauma of the pandemic, terrors attacks and the impact on leaders in the workplace. Of interest to people will be how compassion and self care are crucial, along with sense making as people return to the workplace.

Rashpal conducts research into how individuals manage challenging issues that can have a major impact on their lives both at work, and outside it. This includes studies of individuals who have been mistreated at work, those who are faced with inequality and individuals who are witness to traumatic societal events (such as terror attacks). She has a particular interest in individual adjustment in the face of adversity, include processes around healing, care and growth.

 

Cali Yost (Futurist, Strategist, Author, Speaker) joins our host William Corless to discuss returning to the workplace. With the recent relaxation of restrictions Cali offers insights and guidance for employers and employees on best practice. Cali has over 27 years of experience in flexible and remote workplace and is globally recognised as an expert in the future of work.

In this episode Cali provides insights on:

• Reimagining work which is a deliberate process which has fundamentally changed
• Pitfalls to avoid and a call to urgent action, much like the initial response to the pandemic
• Global CEO's and investment communities prioritising the new way of working. The old way of working is gone.
• Focus on supporting people and equipping people with skills
• Creating a flexible dynamic for an intergenerational workforce
• Designing a culture of shared leadership with trust and accountability
• Employers not to be afraid of asking people what they want
• Having guard rails to reset the new reality of work

Naomi Shragai, Author of The 'Man Who Mistook his Job for His Life' Executive Coach, Business Psychotherapist and Journalist; joins our host William Corless to discuss her book.

A quote from the book provides a glimpse of what to expect from this podcast.

"The workplace is a theatre where everyone is acting out their own unique family drama while simultaneously attempting to co-operate and deliver results."

In this podcast we cover topics such as:

• Workaholics
• Understanding emotions and behaviours in the workplace
• Being responsible for your behaviours in the workplace
• Enhance emotional intelligence by framing emotions as part of a continuum
• Dealing with a micro-manager
• Self defeating behaviours such as people pleasing

Naomi Shragai graduated from the University of Southern California and completed her training as a systemic psychotherapist at the Tavistock Clinic, London. She has more than 30 years’ experience as a psychotherapist and family therapist in private practice, as well as working in the NHS and private hospitals. She now specialises in helping businesses and individuals resolve psychological obstacles that cause work-related problems.

She practices from her consulting room in North West London, and is also available for consultations on video or at your place of work.

As a freelance journalist she has written for The Times and The Guardian and since 2008 has been a regular contributor to the Financial Times, where she writes predominantly about the psychological aspects of working life. Her first book, The Man Who Mistook his Job for his Life, is published in August 2021.