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9:07How today's weirdest jobs game worksLeanne Elliott: We are gonna talk about the world's weirdest jobs. So each of us have gone and done some research, and we've brought 3 completely genuine jobs that either sound too brilliant or ridiculous to be real. We'EP 322 · 28 Jul 2026·interview· 9:07–10:1212:33The Cambridge study: money habits formed by age 7Louise Hill (split): There is lots of research around it. There is a very well-cited Cambridge University study that showed that financial habits are formed, not start to be formed, are formed by the age of 7. And when yEP 272 · 3 Feb 2026·panel interview· 12:33–13:2861:2650 conversations: the research phaseLeanne Elliott: Yeah Jeremy Cline: do a lot more sort of research on figuring out what you are going to offer. So, yeah. So did you want to talk a little bit more about, you know, we'd had this conversation about, okay, EP 259 · 18 Dec 2025·interview· 61:26–80:537:55The pandemic moment that sparked the researchLeanne Elliott: Your book is exactly what I wanna start talking about today. So, it's called Constellation: Leadership Reimagined for a Connected Age. I wanna just start right at the beginning. You literally start the fiEP 243 · 23 Oct 2025·interview· 7:55–11:590:00How John's research on coworker socializing beganAl Elliott: Picture this for a moment. You're at the kettle making a coffee when Dave from accounts walks up and says, so how's your love life going? Or maybe Kendra, the new intern, suddenly blurts out, you look like yoEP 223 · 14 Aug 2025·interview· 0:00–5:1418:43The surprise finding that started it allJohn Michel: Well, I think the first surprise was just, so my student was Emily Pink. She was an undergrad student at the time, now working on her PhD in IO psychology, but she stumbled on it. And I just was shocked at, EP 223 · 14 Aug 2025·interview· 18:43–24:0216:44Story 3: The small-world illusion: why watercooler moments don't matter as much as you thinkLeanne Elliott: Well, I saw a new bit of research. So you know how a lot of these return to office mandates are based on the fact that we need those watercooler moments, and that's what we're missing Al Elliott: Just defEP 202 · 3 Jun 2025·news roundup· 16:44–23:1230:08The Oxford University wellbeing researchLeanne Elliott: Do you worry that, that some business leaders might just read the headlines or skip through the stories quoting that research and make assumptions? Sarah Hughes: Yes, I do, sadly. And I think that's the pEP 195 · 8 May 2025·interview· 30:08–32:1014:37Story 3: What great teams actually do differentlyLeanne Elliott: I saw a study this week. It's a study from 20— is it '22 or '24? Maybe 2022. But it was new to me and I was very, very excited by the results. A study of 1 million employees found that one thing that greaEP 190 · 22 Apr 2025·news roundup· 14:37–22:4016:11Most surprising thing in ADHD research and addressing skepticismLeanne Elliott: What's the most surprising thing that you learned diving into the research? Skye Waterson: I think one of the most surprising things I learned was that the way that ADHD is defined feels so specific when EP 173 · 20 Feb 2025·interview· 16:11–19:4914:27Story 3: Short breaks boost learningAl Elliott: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah Leanne Elliott: And clearly it worked out quite well for David, but equally, this might not have been the best approach, Mr. Beckham Senior. So researchers have basically found that real iEP 172 · 18 Feb 2025·news roundup· 14:27–19:2518:11The research behind the bookAl Elliott: What I really enjoyed about Fortitude is that it's written in such an engaging and easy-to-read way, yet it is packed with research. I mean, the amount of research that you've done, is there anything that youEP 162 · 14 Jan 2025·interview· 18:11–22:4711:50High-stress jobs and heart health: new researchLeanne Elliott: I do. Well, I think it— I mean, I guess the, the idea of, of, of, you know, hustling to, to win, um, leads us nicely into a new study that's recent— recently been published looking at the links between stEP 124 · 3 Sept 2024·news roundup· 11:50–17:489:59What the research says about expat challengesLeanne Elliott: What does the research tell us about the challenges that expats experience in terms of their psychology, their mental health, and how do people best, I guess, prepare for and then manage those if they areEP 118 · 25 Jul 2024·interview· 9:59–14:3013:22Humour and mental health researchLeanne Elliott: what else have you been looking at this Yeah, I wanted to stay on the theme of, of joy, um, after my first, um, article on Pride. Um, and, and I saw an article in the— it's a British Psychological SocietyEP 103 · 4 Jun 2024·news roundup· 13:22–17:3715:25Tip 3: Personalisation Improves Outcomes (Christian Van Stolk)Leanne Elliott: If you are interested in reading the full research report, it is available on RAND Europe's website, and I will leave a link in the show notes. It is definitely worth a read. So you might have noticed a tEP 102 · 30 May 2024·other· 15:25–16:051:36Walmart's RTO mandate and the research against itLeanne Elliott: Well, last week, Al, you might remember that we chatted about a survey that found that flexible and hybrid working is now the number one work perk that employees are looking for Al Elliott: I do Leanne ElEP 101 · 28 May 2024·news roundup· 1:36–6:4827:59What research and real conversations revealDanielle Wood: One of the things that we've been coming across time and time again through research and actually speaking to members of Generation Z, Gen Z, is that their views and their values are very different in whatEP 77 · 8 Feb 2024·panel interview· 27:59–31:0127:46Can we increase happiness? Research, money & the £20k vs £80k divideAl Elliott: So can we increase— so if we, if we assume that we've nailed the wellbeing and everyone's happy— sorry, that was a bad, bad choice of words. If we assume that we've nailed the wellbeing, then can we actually EP 51 · 10 Aug 2023·other· 27:46–32:246:20News roundup: LinkedIn finds on remote workAl Elliott: What else you got, Leah? Leanne Elliott: Well, something that I thought was quite interesting actually. I was on, I was on the old LinkedIn. as I've mentioned, I like to dip my toe in from time to time. Me toEP 49 · 27 Jul 2023·news roundup· 6:20–9:5150:41What Claire's research reveals about Gen-XAl Elliott: I think that you're able to closely connect with people even if they're very far away Leanne Elliott: Absolutely. Claire, coming, coming to you, and I'm intrigued to ask about some of the— you do lots of reseEP 35 · 19 Apr 2023·other· 50:41–53:3812:10The Harvard Study of Adult DevelopmentLeanne Elliott: I have some research for you. The Harvard Study of Adult Development is an 85-year and running longitudinal study, 724 participants. Um, and now also their spouses and children have been brought into the EP 29 · 8 Mar 2023·panel interview· 12:10–14:5432:57What the research really says about younger workersLeanne Elliott: Hear, hear. That was brilliant. And quite some, some sobering thoughts there as well, aren't there? Yeah, I think it's also really important if we're talking about shifts, we need to talk about burnout asEP 20 · 10 Jan 2023·other· 32:57–35:56
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