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Date: 10/05/22 | Duration: 00:26:49
Dealing with stress can place immense demands on employees’ physical and mental health. Our Health and Wellbeing at Work 2022 report emphasises the negative impact stress can have on productivity, with 79% of organisations reporting some stress-related absence over the last year. So, the idea that organisations could purposely generate or allow pressure and stress to raise employee performance sounds counterintuitive, right? Well, not necessarily.
Join Nigel Cassidy and this month’s guests – Alexandra Lichtenfeld, Business Mentor at Client Matters, Dr Serra Pitts, Clinical Director at 87% Limited, and Alan Lambert, International Strategic HR Change Leader at TotalEnergies – as we explore the benefits of positive stress and why generating healthy levels of pressure can drive higher individual, team and organisation performance.
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Alex is a business mentor specialising in business relationships and mental health & wellbeing in the workplace. She has gained a wealth of experience working with major corporates and agencies across a variety of business sectors over the last 30 years, which has given her a unique insight into both client and internal relationships. Improving business culture is at the heart of what she does as a mentor; from supporting business owners by improving professional relationships through open and honest conversation, understanding mental health and wellbeing to helping everyone communicate more effectively with one another.
Since February 2020, she has hosted her own chat show, Business Culture, on Men's Radio Station, where she chats with guests from all areas of the business world extensively about mental health and well-being in the workplace.
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Dr Serra Pitts is a Chartered Psychologist and the Clinical Director for 87%, a workplace wellbeing data and insights firm in London. She began her career working with high-risk roles, in high-profile companies in the Americas and across EMEA. For the last 15 years she has consulted for a range of global organisations, delivering evidence-based mental health and wellbeing programmes for people and culture teams.
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CIPD Podcast 178 - Evidence-based L&D: the rise of virtual learning
CIPD Podcast 177 - Motivation: sustaining the energy in your workforce
CIPD Podcast 176 - Recruitment in the social media age
CIPD Podcast 175 - Evidence-based L&D - learning theories
CIPD Podcast 174 - The business case for environmental sustainability
CIPD Podcast 173 - Embracing and leading organisational change
CIPD Podcast 172 - Evidence-based L&D: business-not-as-usual
CIPD Podcast 171 - Pulling the plug on digital fatigue
CIPD Podcast 170 - Building back better post-pandemic
CIPD Podcast 169 - Evidence based L&D - why does evidence matter?
CIPD Podcast 168 - 'Nothing venture nothing gained' - is the profession too risk-averse?
CIPD Podcast 167 - From surviving to thriving: key changes facing people practice in 2021
CIPD Podcast 166 - Leading from the heart: making an impact through soft skills
CIPD Podcast 165 - Evidence-based L&D: learning cultures
CIPD podcast 164 - The true cost of post-Brexit recruitment
CIPD podcast 163 - Managing alcohol and drug misuse - a wellbeing or discipline issue?
CIPD podcast 162 - Workforce monitoring - how far is too far?
CIPD podcast 161 - Challenging systemic racism in the workplace
CIPD podcast 160 - Shifting the perception of workplace conflict
CIPD podcast 159 - Managing the well-being of remote workers
CIPD podcast 158 - Business survival in the age of COVID-19
CIPD podcast 157 - Handling organisation development effectively
CIPD podcast 156 - Hiding in plain sight: carers in the workplace
CIPD Podcast 154 - Critical thinking
CIPD Podcast 153 - Learning in-the-flow of work
CIPD Podcast 152 - Neurodiversity: a vital aspect of workplace inclusion
CIPD Podcast 151 - Executive pay and the psychology of motivation
CIPD Podcast 150 - The many merits of workforce planning
CIPD Podcast 149 - Creating ethical workplaces
CIPD Podcast 148 - Evidence-based practice for HR
CIPD Podcast 147 - Menopause: the ultimate taboo
CIPD Podcast 146 - Future of flexible working
CIPD Podcast 145 - Handling harassment: are you getting it right?
CIPD Podcast 143 - Adopting agility: is it for everyone?
CIPD Podcast 142 - Are robots stealing our jobs?
CIPD Podcast 141 - Integrating HR and L&D
CIPD Podcast 140 - Driving performance with L&D
CIPD Podcast 139 - Self-directed learning: anarchy or opportunity?
CIPD Podcast 138 - A new dawn for OD
CIPD Podcast 137 - Why is it so hard to talk about BAME?
CIPD Podcast 136 - How biased are you? How unconscious bias plays into recruitment
CIPD Podcast 135 - The engagement myth
CIPD Podcast 134 - Does corporate governance need fresh thinking?
CIPD Podcast 131 - Cyber Security - is it a people issue?
CIPD Podcast 130 - Strength in numbers: what's new in performance management
CIPD Podcast 129 - Ethics: a leadership imperative
CIPD Podcast 128 - Coaching: it's a culture thing
CIPD Podcast 127 - Loving the Levy: can apprenticeships solve the skills shortage?
CIPD Podcast 126 - Learning to learn: a look at today's learning organisations
CIPD Podcast 125 - HR Tech Revolution: Friend or Foe?
CIPD Podcast 124 - Gender Pay Gap Reporting
CIPD Podcast 123 - Social Collaborative Learning
CIPD Podcast 119 - Trade Unions
CIPD Podcast 118 - Future of Talent in Singapore
CIPD Podcast 116 - Shared parental leave
CIPD Podcast 115 - Narrative reporting
CIPD Podcast 114 - Training line managers
CIPD Podcast 113 - Wearable technology
CIPD Podcast 112 - LGBT+ at work
CIPD Podcast 108 - HR and Business Ethics
CIPD Podcast 107 - Landing transformational change
CIPD Podcast 106 - Promoting and supporting good mental health
CIPD Podcast 105 - The changing landscape of reward
CIPD Podcast 104 - Boardroom diversity
CIPD Podcast 103 - Aligning L&D with business objectives and emerging practices
CIPD Podcast 102 - Recruitment in SMEs
CIPD Podcast 101 - CPD for HR+
CIPD Podcast 100 - Words of wisdom for HR
CIPD Podcast 99 - The future of family friendly working
CIPD Podcast 98 - HR's role in business partnerships - Part 2
CIPD Podcast 96 - HR's role in business partnerships - Part 1
CIPD Podcast 95 - Building the best team
CIPD Podcast 94 - The impact of immigration on the UK workforce
CIPD Podcast 92 - What we're all about - keeping true to your business's founding principles
CIPD Podcast 91 - The current and future pensions landscape
CIPD Podcast 90 - What neuroscience tells us about insight, intuition and creativity
CIPD Podcast 89 - Rethinking staff inductions
CIPD Podcast 88 - Thinking strategically about age diversity
CIPD Podcast - Dreams: creating the best workplace on earth
CIPD Podcast 85 - Social media: what's the point?
CIPD Podcast - Dan Pink on leadership - ACE special
CIPD Podcast 84 - OD: taking the business with you?
CIPD Podcast 83 - Pension auto-enrolment: the lessons for SMES
CIPD Podcast - Neuroscience and its impact on people development
CIPD Podcast 82 - Inspiring the future
CIPD Podcast 81 - Changing values and culture in the City
CIPD Podcast 80 - Is coaching actually solving problems for organisations?
CIPD Podcast 79 - Female entrepreneurs
CIPD Podcast 78 - Have employers got the skills to employ young people?
CIPD Podcast 77 - Analytics: how HR can influence strategy through data
CIPD Podcast 76 - Maintaining employee engagement through SME growth
CIPD Podcast 75 - The right to request flexible working
CIPD Podcast 74 - Interview with Peter Cheese and look ahead to 2013
CIPD Podcast 73 - Think, Act, Report
CIPD Podcast 72 - Implementing effective performance management
CIPD Podcast 71 - Career profile: Stephen Dando
CIPD Podcast 70 - Pension auto-enrolment: the practicalities
CIPD Podcast 69 - Dispute resolution
CIPD Podcast 67 - Innovation and HR
CIPD Podcast 66 - Learning and development: science or strategic business discipline?
CIPD Podcast 65 - Corporate responsibility and HR
CIPD Podcast 64 - Pathways back to work: HR's role
CIPD Podcast 61 - Is there truly a trust crisis or is it all just rhetoric?
CIPD Podcast 60 - Social media: no longer a risk to be managed?
CIPD Podcast 58 - The business case for employing young people
CIPD Podcast 57 - Agility through abundance and austerity
CIPD Podcast 55 - Maximising the value of reward: thinking global, acting local
CIPD Podcast 54 - Learning and development in a socially networked age
CIPD Podcast 53 - Fairness at work
CIPD Podcast 52 - Attracting the brightest and the best
CIPD Podcast 51 - Using metrics to drive value through people
For episodes 1 - 49 please access the Soundcloud website.
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