Your Small-But-Mighty Lumina Update for March
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This month, we're learning and sharing on psychological safety across your first Global Practitioner Call and workshop template. Plus your first community exploration of the Challenges of Change series is here...
...Yes, it's that increasingly age old debate on hybrid working that never settles. But we think there's a big reason. Beyond the sweeping hybrid policies, where is the behavioural strategy to empower performance, collaboration and culture?
Practitioner Spotlight: Global Practitioner Call
Building the bridge to psychological safety for teams
Global Practitioner Call?
08:00 & 16:00 UTC+0, 10 March, on Zoom
Your Challenges of Change series is here.?
Making sense of the big behavioural trends redefining workplaces.
What can working from home and the office learn from one another?
The investigation into helping teams adapt their behaviour to make the most of both.
11:00 UTC, 20 March, on Zoom.
Rumours of “return to the office” memos. Whispers of the “Great Resignation 2.0”. There’s a lot of tension around right now about being fully remote, hybrid, or fully in person. Teams are feeling the friction.? So we're investigating the shared potential for both worlds to work better together beyond the tug of war. Join Dr Stewart Desson , Jonathan Cannon , Penny Strutton and Dan McNicholas in exploring the effective behaviours that can help us all to figure out:
We'll spend the hour on a guards-down reset to have an open conversation about the merits of both worlds of work and how they can blend when self-awareness is present. Could there be a smarter approach we might all be missing among the tension to bring people together?
What else are we exploring through Challenges of Change?
Reflecting on the behavioural pressures of winter in the NHS - Practitioner Exclusive
11:00 UTC+1, 10 April, on Zoom
The winter intensity on NHS teams can feel overwhelming. Tensions high means overextensions are high. High pressure and workloads require a response that has immediate, actionable plans for talent and development.?
So we've put something together that we hope can help. Are you looking for some fresh perspectives on your challenges and strategies with other talent and development professionals working in the healthcare space?
Your session will focus on the pressure on healthcare workers compared to other industries, using our own Lumina Spark research data led by our Business Psychologist, Anne-Marie Dancy . Leadership Development Manager for East of England Ambulance Service, Esther C. , will also be sharing experiences and guidance across the session too.?
Together we'll reflect on:
We would love to see you! Feel free to share the event with colleagues who might want to come along too.
What happens when leaders feel open to embrace their weaknesses?
CEO & Founder, Dr Stewart Desson on Vietcetera Podcast
Leaders often feel asked to choose head or heart. But CEO Dr Stewart Desson has been making the call for balance. To enable leaders to embrace the full range of talent within them, beyond the black and white that can limit people's full potential.?
While visiting Vietnam to co-host a lead seminar in collaboration with Pfizer, Nestle and Cushman & Wakefield, he met up with long-time coaching collaborator, Cat-Thao Nguyen. Together, they shared why organisations need to assess talent more accurately and humanistically to ensure behavioural solutions match the deeper challenges leaders often face.?
Last month's community resource favourites
Top Tips Guide -?Women Leading the Way
It's no secret that women's leadership often goes undervalued. Our research found a lot of data to back that up too, with an additional interesting nugget. That People Focused behaviour could be one of the biggest leadership performance drivers out there, not being acted on. Fancy creating positive change?
Feedback Planner - Your Difficult Conversation Toolkit
Difficult conversations at work don’t feel good for most of us. So, how can we build people’s confidence, skills and the psychological safety to talk it out so teammates grow closer? Let’s unpack and dive into what prevents?effective teamwork?and causes workplace conflict. Ready to take control of your communication?
Psychological Safety workshop solution?- Practitioner Exclusive
Giving people the confidence to be authentic and connect with each other on a genuine level is key for performance, relationships and outcomes. But creating an open culture takes everyone to be on board.
Resources Lead, Mireille Watanabe Handover , has also created this workshop to help teams navigate and build psychological safety together, so everyone can feel more able to bring all their talent to the table.?
That's all for now.
We'd love to see you at one of the upcoming sessions.
See you soon, lovely people of LinkedIn!
The Lumina Learning Team
Grab your seat for our first #ChallengesOfChange exploration on 20 March, 11am UTC where panellists will discuss what working from home and the office can learn from one another: https://luminalearning.com/working-from-home-vs-office-challenges/