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The Chief Psychology Officer
Exploring the topics of workplace psychology and conscious leadership. Amanda is an award-winning Chartered Psychologist, with vast amounts of experience in talent strategy, resilience, facilitation, development and executive coaching. A Fellow of the Association for Business Psychology and an Associate Fellow of the Division of Occupational Psychology within the British Psychological Society (BPS), Amanda is also a Chartered Scientist. Amanda is a founder CEO of Zircon and is an expert in leadership in crisis, resilience and has led a number of research papers on the subject; most recently Psychological Safety in 2022 and Resilience and Decision-making in 2020. With over 20 years’ experience on aligning businesses’ talent strategy with their organizational strategy and objectives, Amanda has had a significant impact on the talent and HR strategies of many global organizations, and on the lives of many significant and prominent leaders in industry. Dr Amanda Potter can be contacted on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/amandapotterzircon www.theCPO.co.uk
The Chief Psychology Officer
Ep36 Finding Happiness
Happiness - We are all trying to find it or work for it, yet it is something quite intangible and difficult to define, and it can mean something completely different for two different people. In this episode of the Chief Psychology Officer. Amanda is being interviewed by our new podcast host Kristian and we explore the topic of Happiness: what it is, what does science say about it, and what can we do to be closer to feeling happy?
The Chief Psychology Officer episodes are available here https://www.thecpo.co.uk/
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To access the research white papers mentioned in this and other podcasts, please go to: https://zircon-mc.co.uk/zircon-white-papers.php
For more information about the BeTalent Winning Attitude questionnaires mentioned in this podcast please go to: https://www.betalent.com
Timestamps
Finding Happiness
· 00:00 – Finding Happiness
· 00:43 – Welcome aboard Kristian
· 01:28 – The Pursuit of Happiness
· 03:06 – Retrospectively… Happiness was a lucky chance
· 04:14 – What is my purpose?
· 05:41 – Don’t try too hard
Red skies are gonna clear up, put on a happy face!
· 07:14 – I can’t help but think that there’s a connection here
· 08:00 – Strengths & Values revisited
· 09:10 – You must believe!
· 09:45 – Well, the UN’s gotta do something…
· 10:53 – You’re beginning to arouse my, curiosity.
· 11:39 – You’re the best, around!
· 12:32 – You gotta be better
· 13:04 – Hyper & Hypoarousal
· 15:17 – He’s a changed man
· 16:36 – Neuroscience!
· 17:35 – You a lorry driver or something?
A State of Mind
· 18:18 – Happiness States
· 19:53 – Satisfiers & Maximisers
· 21:52 – Deeper, Deeper… Way Down.
· 22:18 – Too much of a good thing in bad times
· 24:36 – Not all sunshine and smiles
· 26:08 – Rage Applying
· 27:15 – From Rage Applying, to applying the breaks
· 28:34 – We’re all on the same page
· 30:22 – What do YOU want?
· 31:23 – The missing link
I’m happy I’m home.
· 32:23 – Finding your happy place
· 33:47 – The light; it burns!
· 34:29 – Every night I’ve been huggin’ my pillow
· 35:35 – Social Connection
· 36:42 – You have a choice…
· 37:53 – Recap
· 38:43 – Just a couple more…
· 39:39 – Distractions; they are all around me!
· 41:11 – In Summary
· 41:33 – The end.
Episodes are available here https://www.thecpo.co.uk/
To follow Zircon on LinkedIn and to be first to hear about podcasts, publications and news, please like and follow us: https://www.linkedin.com/company/zircon-consulting-ltd/
To access the research white papers mentioned in this and other podcasts, please go to: https://zircon-mc.co.uk/zircon-white-papers.php
For more information about the BeTalent suite of tools and platform please contact: TheCPO@zircon-mc.co.uk
