In this episode, Sukh shares some thinking on how we're getting praise and appreciation wrong. We are conditioned to think that we don't deserve to hear praise and appreciation regularly, and it's only meant to be given infrequently. There's a lot of misconception about praise and appreciation, as well as little development in how to give praise and appreciation in good regular ways.

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In this episode, Sukh explores his thinking and writing on positive thinking, and what he's called the positive continuum. One end of the continuum is what he calls "Helpful Reframing", the middle is where we have "Toxic Positivity", and at the other end "Relentless Positivity".

He mentions work from the following sources:

https://positivepsychology.com/toxic-positivity-in-psychology/

https://www.managers.org.uk/knowledge-and-insights/article/toxic-positivity-its-on-the-rise-and-its-dangerous/

https://www.hrmagazine.co.uk/content/news/susan-david-beware-toxic-positivity

You can connect with Sukh on Twitter @sukhpabial.

In this short episode, Sukh discusses how we're allowed to give ourselves permission to plan for good things that are healthy and fulfilling for us. We might normally call this self-care, and it's a good antidote for all the regular hard stuff we hear in the news, and through social media.

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In this episode, Sukh talks about apologies, shame and guilt. He explores how we have many missed opportunities to be empathetic, and as a result we can't share our vulnerabilities with others. He discusses the impact of social media on our ability to be empathetic, and instead we have to be right. As a result of being right, when something is sharing something we often have to balance a sense of being right vs valuing the other person for who they are and what they're saying. He ends by discussing how apologising should be about expressing shame and guilt, but shouldn't be laden with self-loathing language or about blaming others.

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In this episode, Sukh reflects on shares his experience of completing a Coursera MOOC on Resilience. It was with Dr Karen Reivich from the University of Pennsylvania.

Key things that are talked about in this episode are:

• definition of resilience
• variables of resilience
• thinking traps
• real time resilience
• building positive emotion
• strengthening relationships

You can complete the strengths survey here "VIA Survey of Character Strengths" https://www.authentichappiness.sas.upenn.edu/testcenter

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In this episode, Sukh reviews the best-selling book Sapiens by author and historian Yuval Noah Harari.

The book is a dispassionate and relentless look at human history through the lens of three significant events for the development of Homo Sapiens as a species - 1. The Cognitive Revolution 2. The Agricultural Revolution and 3. The Scientific Revolution.

It's not an easy book to consume, because it is challenging to what we think we know of human history, and forces you to examine your own insights.

You can buy the book from Amazon here.

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In this episode, Sukh welcomes back guest Gemma Dale. They discuss the problem of calling this working from home, when the reality is we wouldn't choose to work from home under these circumstances - no social connections, no meetings in-person, having to homeschool if you're a parent or care for those in need.

They talk about the challenges of exiting lockdown without a clear plan of what a new working model will look like, and how there's opportunity to really seek out and explore what the workforce needs and wants, and balancing that with the needs of the organisation.

They also talk about the impact of lockdown on mental health and how we won't really know the impact for months (or maybe longer) due to lockdown causing people to experience trauma.

You can connect with Gemma on Twitter @hr_gem.

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References in the episode.

Flexible working post Covid-19: Myth busting https://hrgemblog.com/2021/02/02/flexible-working-post-covid-19-myth-busting/

It's not about working from home https://hrgemblog.com/2021/03/07/its-not-about-working-from-home/

World Economic Forum article - 6 charts that show what employers and employees really think about remote working https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/06/coronavirus-covid19-remote-working-office-employees-employers

BBC article - Goldman Sachs: Bank boss rejects work from home as the 'new normal' https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-56192048

Spotify HR Blog - Introducing working from anywhere https://hrblog.spotify.com/2021/02/12/introducing-working-from-anywhere/

In this episode, Sukh takes a look at boundaries and the importance of boundaries on personal effectiveness. He discusses the impact of Covid on blurring our normal and regular boundaries. He also discusses how personal effectiveness can be impacted negatively by not establishing clear boundaries. And Sukh also discusses how a lack of boundaries can affect personal relationships.

You can connect with Sukh on Twitter @sukhpabial.