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Our Psychological Safety Lunch and Learn is tomorrow! Join us using the registration link below.

Join us on Tuesday 23rd July at 1:00 pm BST for an exclusive Lunch and Learn with Dr Amanda Potter and Rev Mike Wright from Network Rail. Discover the transformative power of psychological safety in boosting team engagement and accountability. Psychological safety is when people feel secure to learn, contribute, take risks, and challenge norms without fear of embarrassment or punishment. This principle is crucial for Network Rail, which oversees 20,000 miles of track, 30,000 bridges, tunnels, and viaducts, and employs 36,000 dedicated staff responsible for keeping Britain on track. Gain practical insights into creating a psychologically safe environment and ask your burning questions in this free 1-hr session. Register today! ➡️ https://lnkd.in/ebpx_Rie #Leadership #PsychologicalSafety #Engagement #LunchAndLearn #BeTalent #NetworkRail

Join us next week! Tuesday 23rd July at 1:00 pm BST for an exclusive Lunch and Learn with Dr Amanda Potter and Rev Mike Wright from Network Rail. Discover the transformative power of psychological safety in boosting team engagement and accountability. Psychological safety is when people feel secure to learn, contribute, take risks, and challenge norms without fear of embarrassment or punishment. This principle is crucial for Network Rail, which oversees 20,000 miles of track, 30,000 bridges, tunnels, and viaducts with 36,000 dedicated staff responsible for keeping Britain on track. Gain practical insights into creating a psychologically safe environment and ask your burning questions. Register today! ➡️ https://lnkd.in/ebpx_Rie #Leadership #PsychologicalSafety #Engagement #LunchAndLearn #BeTalent #NetworkRail

We're on a mission to empower agents of behavioural change around the world! And it has taken us so many places! These days we’re mostly doing our globe-trotting online through virtual workshops. But we’re always happy to travel to wherever our clients need us. Kristian Lees Bell recently delivered a workshop in Saudi Arabia on Leading with Influence for a client in the engineering sector. From the feedback, it's clear that the participants learned a lot! They especially liked learning how to improve their storytelling and use body language and a 'hook' to draw listeners in and keep them engaged. By working with people across cultures and borders, we hope to play a part in improving the world of work worldwide. #worldwide #businesspsychology #leadership #highperformingteams #SaudiArabia

How impactful was 'work experience' when you did it? If you focus on creating a great (repeatable) experience it can be powerful for all parties with too much effort. It's all about building muscle memory. Well done Emily Willis for your work on this for us. I have been so impressed with the output of our recent students. Well done Sophia Lees.

It’s World Youth Skills Day, a day for promoting young people as agents of peace who have much to contribute to the working world. Zircon’s own work experience student Sophia Lees has some ideas for organisations wanting to offer more opportunities to young people.   According to McCrindle, Gen Z will make up 22% of the global population and 27% of the global workforce by next year. That’s quite a lot of potential agents of peace!   Society, education systems, and the working world will need to make space for this increasing demographic. Good-quality work experience and apprenticeships, well-designed internships, and volunteering initiatives can provide entry points into the labour market for first-time jobseekers and young graduates. Gen Z is seen overall as a positive addition to the workplace, improving professionalism and productivity with their ambition, creativity, innovation and social responsibility (Racolţa-Paina and Irini, 2021). So, the development of young people is not only important, but could be key to further growth and positive culture in organisations.   The CIPD found that young people with work experience before graduation are more likely to receive work opportunities – but of those in planned placements, only 39% rated the quality of their work experience placement highly.   So, what makes the ideal high-quality work experience? Read on to see what Sophia suggests.   Join us in our commitment to providing young people with skills and opportunities to address challenges and contribute to a peaceful, prosperous and sustainable future. If you are interested in enhancing your organisation’s work experience offering and want to learn how others are doing it, connect with Angela Malik, our Early Careers Practice Lead. #workexperience #earlycareers #worldyouthskillsday

If you are interested in exploring how your workplace culture and wellbeing are linked and how employee wellbeing can be enhanced, reach out to our Wellbeing Practice Lead, Kristian Lees Bell for a free, no-obligation discovery call.

On holiday at the moment, lying in a hammock overlooking the sea and watching eagles flying overhead, and have just finished listening back to my conversation with Dr Amanda Potter CPsychol. What FUN. I always learn something new and end up seeing the world slightly differently when we speak - and this was no different. Thank you so much for having me. ✨

Join us for inspiring Lunch and Learn! On Tuesday, 23rd June at 1:00 pm BST Dr Amanda Potter and Rev Mike Wright, Programme Management and People Director at Network Rail will discuss the practicalities of implementing a psychological safety strategy. Did you know? Google's Aristotle Project found that psychological safety is the number one predictor of high-performing teams. This comprehensive study, which analysed over 180 teams across the company, revealed that teams with high psychological safety are more likely to take risks, admit mistakes, and collaborate effectively. Learn how Zircon's unique approach leverages this principle to encourage cognitive diversity and natural accountability within your team. Save the date and RSVP today ➡️ https://ow.ly/6YIO50SvoFB #Leadership #PsychologicalSafety #Engagement #CognitiveDiversity #LunchAndLearn!

At the 2024 The Association for Business Psychology Conference this year, we asked the brilliant attendees to suggest a new topic for us to research and record for the podcast. It was difficult to choose but in the end, we selected the title offered by Simon Gander: What is the strength of introversion and why is it misunderstood and underappreciated? We’re looking forward to researching this one and especially getting stuck into the neuroscience of introversion. Thank you to everyone who made such excellent suggestions. #personality #introversion #introvert #neurodiversity