40 Podcasts

One in two people will experience cancer at some point in their lives. We may find ourselves working alongside someone who is undergoing cancer treatment, or indeed be facing this ourselves. How do we cope with work during these times? How do we help colleagues when they have cancer? How do we combine cancer treatment with ‘normal’ work?

Nurturing your support network and boosting your physical wellbeing are vital aspects of maintaining your resilience. In this short 10-minute podcast, Sue Duraikan explains what to do to proactively promote both.

Your outlook influences how you steer a path through life. In this short 9-minute podcast, Sue Duraikan shares three roots of resilience to strengthen your mindset during challenging times.

Change often evokes feelings of uncertainty, fear and resistance. A negative personal response to change leads to increased stress, decreased productivity and strained relationships. In this 8-minute podcast, Change Management Consultant Jooli Atkins describes how to develop an open mindset for revealing opportunities for growth and innovation when managing the personal impact of change.

We all sometimes suffer from periods of poor sleep - it’s something we all relate to. When we’ve had a bad night’s sleep it’s difficult to concentrate well and our work performance is sub-optimal. Practising stress-reducing techniques and improving our ‘sleep hygiene’ is good for our physical health and for our wellbeing at work. There are simple steps we can take to enable us to sleep well and to resume sleep if we wake in the night.

The goal of inclusion moments is to improve team performance and trust by encouraging curiosity, learning and understanding about each other. Everyone’s experiences - not only the ones most often associated with ‘inclusion’ - are valid. In this 8-minute podcast, inclusion expert Jo Stansfield, explains what ‘inclusion moments’ are and how to incorporate them into the start of every team meeting.

Have you ever thought about what your meetings tell you about the culture of your organisation? Meetings are a good ‘pulse point’, revealing a lot about the psychological health of an organisation. How comfortable do participants feel about making contributions, and suggesting alternative viewpoints? Who speaks too little or too much? In this 8-minute podcast, Chloe Shaw explores practical tips for influencing cultural change in your own meetings. She helps you to establish (or build on) an innovative, open meetings culture in both virtual and face-to-face meetings, so that everyone is given a voice, whatever their personal preferences.

The quality of the questions we use to interrogate AI is fundamental to the answers we get. The key to getting an accurate and relevant result lies in constructing the best prompts we can. In this easy-to-understand introduction to asking AI for help, Sue Stockdale sets out three practical strategies for experimenting with AI. This 8-minute podcast, gives you what you need to get started with exploring the benefits of crafting powerful AI prompts, and explains why there’s nothing to be afraid of if you apply some critical thinking of your own.

Asking questions is a great way to learn new things and to find out more about the people around you. Demonstrating a desire to learn and showing a genuine interest in others enables you to gain new knowledge and build rapport with the people you ask. In this 8-minute podcast, Doug Miller explores how to develop your sense of curiosity and the types of questions you can use to encourage conversation and learning. Doug Miller is an author, trainer and consultant and has recorded our other Sound Advice podcasts on the topics of Collaboration at Work and Virtual Meetings.

To get the best from our working relationships, we need to be self-aware and understand how our words, actions and feelings impact those around us. Listening skills and empathy play a vital role in understanding other people’s perspectives, which in turn provides the bedrock for successful networking and collaboration. In this 7-minute podcast, Sukh Pabial suggests questions to ask ourselves as well as practical approaches for developing stronger working relationships. Sukh Pabial is an occupational psychologist by training and a practitioner in positive psychology and emotional intelligence. He is Senior Learning Strategist at the consultancy Challenging Frontiers.

Is your work-life balance becoming blurred? Are longer working hours seeping into your personal time, making it difficult for you to ‘switch off’? In this short 8-minute podcast, Alice Hubbard gives you clear boundary definitions - so you work more effectively and make the best of personal time, too.

Your state of mind provides the foundation to your success. So understanding how your thoughts and feelings directly impact your performance and wellbeing is the key to revealing your ‘best self’. In this 9-minute podcast, state-of-mind expert Karen Auld explains how the single factor that determines outstanding performance is overlooked by most people, although it’s simple to use and easy to access.