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4:05What is emotion, actually?Leanne Elliott: So with that in mind, I really want to start at the beginning, in the most simple place, emotion. What is emotion? How do psychologists define emotion? Ryan Martin: This is actually a super complicated quEP 247 · 6 Nov 2025·interview· 4:05–8:104:32What is workplace alignment?Ina Purvanova: Probably the easiest way to think about the word alignment is to think about the word fit, how big of a fit you are to your company and vice versa, how well the company fits its employees. So it goes both EP 237 · 2 Oct 2025·panel interview· 4:32–6:1720:52What is improv, really?Al Elliott: You've mentioned the word improv. So first of all, if someone's not heard of improv, tell us briefly what it is, and then I really want to find out how that seems to form the basis of a lot of stuff you do JoEP 225 · 21 Aug 2025·interview· 20:52–26:290:33Defining resilience: a state, not a traitAl Elliott: Nice Leanne Elliott: Hello and welcome to Truth, Lies and Work, the award-winning psychology podcast Brought to you by the HubSpot Podcast Network, the audio destination for business professionals. My name isEP 171 · 13 Feb 2025·interview· 0:33–5:375:56What leadership actually isAl Elliott: I tend to think that leadership is is a couple of things. It's about having the perspective, qualities, and will to create an environment where lots of people can operate effectively together and in service oEP 158 · 31 Dec 2024·other· 5:56–7:430:33What is psychopathy (and what it isn't)Al Elliott: Nice. Check out hopspot.com, the agentic customer platform for growing businesses Abigail Marsh: I think a lot of people conflate psychopathy with serial killers. You know, people think of characters like HanEP 131 · 26 Sept 2024·interview· 0:33–9:1438:29What is emotional labour? (Leanne explains)Al Elliott: Leah, tell me, what other kinds of companies might need to consider this emotional labour? Leanne Elliott: Well, let's just remind ourselves what emotional labour is. So emotional labour is when employees manEP 129 · 19 Sept 2024·interview· 38:29–40:080:33What is an employer brand?David Thompson: Nice Al Elliott: Check out hopspot.com, the agentic customer platform for growing businesses Leanne Elliott: Hello and welcome to Truth, Lies and Work, the award-winning psychology podcast Brought to you EP 115 · 15 Jul 2024·interview· 0:33–4:3710:15What human-centric leadership actually meansAl Elliott: So let's talk about the term human-centric. I suspect there's a number of people, probably my age, who will sit there and roll their eyes and go, this is hippie bullshit. What's— what— why are you calling it EP 113 · 9 Jul 2024·interview· 10:15–14:185:27What is an occupational psychologist?Al Elliott: We will be coming back to Paula later in the episode as she shares a case study for culture change. But for now, let's start at the beginning. We asked Hayley, what is a business psychologist? And how is it dEP 110 · 27 Jun 2024·panel interview· 5:27–7:586:22Defining leadership: perspective, qualities, and willJohn Amaechi OBE: I tend to think that leadership is, is a couple of things. It's about Having the perspective, qualities, and will to create an environment where lots of people can operate effectively together and in seEP 82 · 14 Mar 2024·interview· 6:22–7:596:32What anger actually isRyan Martin: I'm Dr. Ryan Martin. I am the dean at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. I'm dean of the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences. Uh, I've been a psychologist for a very long time, and I researcEP 81 · 8 Mar 2024·interview· 6:32–11:0715:06What exactly are employee insights?Leanne Elliott: So, today we are delving into the world of employee insights, something very close to my heart. Now, what exactly sets them apart from your everyday feedback? And how can insights shape the modern workplaEP 57 · 21 Sept 2023·other· 15:06–20:290:33What is neurodiversity, actually?Jan: Nice Al Elliott: Check out hopspot.com, the agentic customer platform for growing businesses Nancy: There is no point hiring people until you've got your shipshape. Otherwise, you're going to hire them and they're gEP 41 · 31 May 2023·panel interview· 0:33–6:4215:19What is a toxic workplace culture?Leanne Elliott: I thought we decided that snowflake was no longer allowed Al Elliott: And I was being a character. I was playing a character Leanne Elliott: OkayEP 34 · 12 Apr 2023·other· 15:19–19:2925:23Defining well-being from the dictionary upAl Elliott: So essentially, um, we, uh, took it back to the dictionary definition, which is the state of being happy, healthy, or comfortable. So, whilst I don't know what's going to sort your wellbeing out individually,EP 33 · 5 Apr 2023·other· 25:23–26:5814:49What exactly is the superstar effect?Leanne Elliott: Yes, lots of interesting questions today, and some answers that may seem a little counterintuitive. So let's dive in with the superstar effect. It seems reasonable to think that recruiting superstars, or EP 31 · 22 Mar 2023·other· 14:49–17:395:00What intelligence really meansLeanne Elliott: It does. And, and before we kind of dive into that period of your life, you, you said there that you were, you were not good looking, you're not particularly intelligent, you weren't popular. Where does tEP 16 · 13 Dec 2022·other· 5:00–11:4910:40The clinical definition of psychological safety (from Amy Edmondson)Leanne Elliott: So, as I mentioned earlier, psychological safety is a belief held by employees in engaging and supportive workplace culture. But what is it exactly? And Stephan's actually got a really good clinical definEP 15 · 6 Dec 2022·interview· 10:40–14:182:08What is the cost of living crisis?Al Elliott: No. Okay. So today we are talking about the cost of living crisis, and I'll go into what that is in a second and how it might, or how Leanne thinks it might affect people working from home. So first of all, iEP 11 · 8 Nov 2022·other· 2:08–5:0216:22Hybrid models explainedLeanne Elliott: So a hybrid work model is when employees will spend some of their time in the office and some of their time working from home. The frequency of that will vary from business to business, from individual toEP 11 · 8 Nov 2022·other· 16:22–17:380:33What is culture, really?Al Elliott: Check out hopspot.com, the agentic customer platform for growing businesses. Okay, so if someone's listening to this and thinking, shit, this is the way that I recruit at the moment based on culture fit, thenEP 04 · 19 Jul 2022·other· 0:33–1:582:47What employee engagement actually meansLeanne Elliott: Yes, it does. As a business psychologist, I'm sure any, any technical person out there that has a real passion can, can fall down a rabbit hole of explaining things that really don't matter. It's the nutsEP 01 · 6 Jul 2022·other· 2:47–5:10
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