Really Useful Conversations
Managers and leaders need to be able to confidently have 7 Significant Conversations if they are to achieve the desired business outcomes WITH an engaged and motivated team. What are those conversations? How do we have difficult conversations? What about conversations that are challenging, crucial, critical ...
Conversations can change organisations. They can develop relationships, improve standards, increase results - conversations can even save lives.
After 21 years as a freelance Consultant, Andrea Newton shares practical, down to earth advice, learning, tips and techniques to enable you to get comfortable with the uncomfortable and have conversations that matter.
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- Update frequency
- every 8 days
- Average duration
- 27 minutes
- Episodes
- 101
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
Putting your Managers in the Driving Seat
If you have been rewriting policies, updating procedures, rolling out communications but STILL not getting the conversations happening that NEED to be happening in your business, this week's podcast …
00:17:25 |
Mon 20 Mar 2023
Celebrating Neurodiversity
Neurodiversity Celebration Week is a worldwide initiative that challenges stereotypes and misconceptions about neurological differences, aiming to transform how neurodivergent individuals are perceiv…
00:44:26 |
Mon 13 Mar 2023
International Women's Day - Embrace Equity
For International Women's Day THIS YEAR and beyond, we are being encouraged to #EmbraceEquity and in this week's podcast I take a quick look at equity versus equality and why this matters, as well as…
00:20:48 |
Tue 28 Feb 2023
PSYCHOLOGICAL SAFETY - what does a leader need to do?
For the last three decades I have had the opportunity to work across a vast range of industry sectors, from television through to the NHS, from the Fire Service to High Street Retailers and my experi…
00:19:13 |
Mon 20 Feb 2023
Psychological Safety in the workplace
Following the report of McDonald's signing up to a commitment to deal with claims of sexual harassment in the workplace, this week we take a look at what needs to be present for people to feel safe t…
00:23:13 |
Tue 14 Feb 2023
How to be amazing with tough to hear stuff
I am a BIG fan of open, honest, frank dialogue and so initiatives such as Time to Talk Day - which is the nation’s biggest mental health conversation run by Mind and Rethink Mental Illness – is somet…
00:25:00 |
Mon 06 Feb 2023
Neurodiversity with Charlotte Valeur
For the last 23 years my purpose has been to help people have conversations in the workplace that matter. Whether dealing with a performance issue or supporting a colleague in distress, conversations…
00:42:31 |
Mon 30 Jan 2023
Tiny Little Things that Matter
Often when we want to make things better, be that our mental health, our physical health or even our financial health, we look for big shiny, sexy, hairy audacious goals to aim for. In this week's ep…
00:27:22 |
Mon 23 Jan 2023
Blue Monday Conversation with David Muir
TRIGGER WARNING: This episode contains discussion around the subject of suicide and suicidal thoughts, please skip this episode if this topic is likely to cause uncomfortable emotions for you. Please…
00:41:24 |
Mon 16 Jan 2023
Words have the power to harm or to heal
In this week's Really Useful Conversations podcast, my own experiences over the Christmas break remind me of a very important part of conversations - the language that we choose and use and the way i…
00:26:04 |
Mon 09 Jan 2023
'Tis the season to be jolly - oh no it's not!
It's the most wonderful time of the year, according to the song that keeps getting played - but actually what if, for you, it really is not? Lots of people are telling me that the Christmas spirit ha…
00:16:58 |
Tue 20 Dec 2022
Confident Conversations - handling potentially difficult workplace conversations
In this episode we recognise the importance of having conversations that matter, whether with colleagues, clients, suppliers or the boss. So often we are our own worst enemy and fail to speak up and …
00:20:37 |
Mon 12 Dec 2022
Flexible working for career mums - why so hard?
Join me for a Really Useful Conversation this week with Anna Meller, who, following an early corporate career in HR Anna has spent the past 25 years working as a consultant, researcher and writer. He…
00:42:14 |
Tue 06 Dec 2022
When the penny finally drops!
I make no secret of my journey to and from the bottom of the narrow, dark tunnel and have never hidden the work I tried to do around that time to keep myself safe, or forgotten the people that kept m…
00:19:14 |
Fri 25 Nov 2022
Menopause and Mental Health
Menopause isn’t just hot flushes and night sweats - in fact the majority of women report that the cognitive, emotional and psychological symptoms are often far more debilitating. Anxiety, depression,…
00:25:07 |
Mon 31 Oct 2022
Companies Who Care
In a world where everything moves at pace and where twists and turns are around each corner, organisations who take care of their people and truly value and invest in wellbeing will triumph in this c…
00:16:38 |
Tue 25 Oct 2022
Menopause, marathons & mountains - life after 50
Pam Brown works in the very male dominated financial services industry and when menopausal symptoms began she started avoiding meetings, questioning her confidence, declining invitations and felt lik…
00:31:13 |
Mon 17 Oct 2022
October is Awareness Month!
This month is a busy month for me and my business. World Mental Health Day and Menopause Awareness Month are two initiatives designed to keep the conversations going about these two very important to…
00:14:56 |
Wed 05 Oct 2022
Nobody is immune - the increase in young female suicide
So often people are familiar with the issue of the number of men who take their own lives - particularly middle aged men and the fact that 75% of deaths by suicide in the UK are male. However, not ev…
00:24:07 |
Thu 22 Sep 2022
World Suicide Prevention Day 2022 - why would someone choose suicide?
One of the common myths around the sensitive subject of suicide is that people who attempt suicide or die by suicide are all mentally ill. Now mental illness can indeed play a part, it can be a risk …
00:28:03 |
Fri 09 Sep 2022
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