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46:53The 10 Behavioral Preferences in practiceAl Elliott: Well, Bernadette, before you do, can I just ask you something quickly, Polly? You mentioned there the cost of not doing it, the risk of not doing it. Is that something, if someone was interested in sort of geEP LIVE-2026-06-19 · 19 Jun 2026·interview· 46:53–58:1620:40Psychological safety: using assessments for development, not judgementJuliette Alban-Metcalfe: It wouldn't necessarily be a comfortable experience for a lot of people. I think people, what we find, we've been doing this for 25 years in all different countries, all around the world, in all EP 279 · 26 Feb 2026·interview· 20:40–25:3135:36Cultural diagnostics — where to startDanny Wareham: Great question. First would be cultural diagnostic. So cultural diagnosticians that are worth their salt will always start with, what are we here to achieve? What is that North Star? Personally, I can't woEP 243 · 23 Oct 2025·interview· 35:36–37:5234:09How to measure alignment in your organisationAl Elliott: You're saying they've got 65% alignment. How do you actually measure that? What are you doing to get to that number? Ina Purvanova: So, that's a great question. We actually have developed a scale, a survey thEP 237 · 2 Oct 2025·panel interview· 34:09–36:5835:08Creating artificial conflict in interviewsSteve Roest: So you can create instances in interviews where you sort of artificially create some conflict. And you can do it openly by saying things like, well, what would you do if this thing sort of happened? How woulEP 213 · 10 Jul 2025·interview· 35:08–39:1226:46A New Way to Assess Workplace Mental HealthAl Elliott: In fact, and you can properly see the natural ADHD entrepreneur coming out through here in Jodie. Jodie's developed an entirely new income stream from this, and that should be an inspiration to you too, becauEP 73 · 11 Jan 2024·interview· 26:46–28:1438:16How do you know if you have a DEI problem?Al Elliott: I think this, this is all lovely and good. But what I really wanted to find out from Mandy was what I mean with, with the economy, with everything that's tightening at the moment, business is becoming tough. EP 53 · 24 Aug 2023·interview· 38:16–46:2130:00Personality and behaviour — the juicy bitLeanne Elliott: Yeah Al Elliott: They forget that in many cases, these are team events and that you have to get along with your team to be successful. And so, yeah, that is a sort of a little separate category where you EP 31 · 22 Mar 2023·other· 30:00–32:4111:57Choosing a tool: the objective-first ruleLeanne Elliott: No, it's not. But I think what it has just demonstrated is that you have to be really, really careful when selecting a psychometric tool, and particularly if you're going to make big business decisions onEP 06 · 2 Aug 2022·other· 11:57–15:44

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