Making Work Better
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Making Work Better
‘It’s time to stop fracking human resources’, said a frustrated Dr Denise Quinlan in late 2023. Tired of the burnout and lack of hope all around, she set out to find the workplaces #makingworkbetter for their people AND succeeding in business. This podcast shares the stories of these organisations,...
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Making Work Better - 09 - Making work better: Tikanga in action
In this episode of Making Work Better, Denise Quinlan speaks with Dan Te Whenua Walker, Māori tech leader and Global Co-Chair of Microsoft’s Indigenou...
Making Work Better - 08 - Beca: Simplification and sustainability
In this episode of Making Work Better, Denise Quinlan talks with Kristy Matthews, Group Head of Talent and Inclusion, and Chloe Stewart-Tyson, Group M...
Making Work Better - Replay - Kiwibank: Performance through purpose and belonging
Enjoy this replay of Making Work Better - Host Dr. Denise Quinlan sits down with Charlotte Ward, Kiwibank’s Chief People Officer, to explore how clear...
Making Work Better - 07 - Rāroa: Systems that support people
In this episode of Making Work Better, Denise Quinlan speaks with Stephen Eames Tumuaki/Principal and Matt Boucher Tumuaki Tuarua/Deputy Principal fro...
Making Work Better - 06 - Spark: Weaving wellbeing into culture
In this episode of Making Work Better, Denise Quinlan is joined by Sarah Stack, People & Culture Lead at Spark, NZ’s largest telco and digital service...
Making Work Better - 05 - Scafit: The power of people first
What does it take to build a business for good?
Denise sits down with Nicki and David Crowley, the passionate leaders behind Scafit, a...
Making Work Better - 04 - Mercury: Work empowered through listening, purpose, autonomy
Join Denise in conversation with Brooke Stringer, People Development Manager from Mercury, an organisation proving that purpose, autonomy, and trust a...
Making Work Better - 03 - Paperkite: transparency, trust, and team - Rob Holmes
Join Denise in conversation with another organisation that is making work better for people and performance.
Today, it’s Rob Holmes, Di...
Making Work Better - 02 - Kiwibank: performance through purpose and belonging
In this episode, host Dr. Denise Quinlan sits down with Charlotte Ward, Kiwibank’s Chief People Officer, to explore how clear purpose, trust, and cont...
Making Work Better - 01 - The organisations that are Making Work Better
In this Making Work Better series overview, Denise Quinlan, interviewed by Ruth Christie, Leadership and Personal Development Coach, shares why we nee...
Bringing Wellbeing to Life - Collective Resilience - S4-E8 - Collective resilience and culturally competent flourishing
In this episode Dr Lucy Hone and Dr Denise Quinlan discuss collective resilience, building wellbeing and resilience in diverse populations, and how to...
Bringing Wellbeing to Life - Collective Resilience - S4-E7- Making space for gender identity and ethnicity at school
S4-E7- Lex Davis, educator and LGBTQIA+ advocate, explains why feeling invisible in your own school makes belonging impossible, why silence is inheren...
Bringing Wellbeing to Life - Collective Resilience - S4-E6 - Decolonising gender identity: Reclaiming Takatāpui for Māori LGBTQIA+ youth - Lex Davis
Working out who you are and where you belong is challenging for many young people. For youth from marginalised ethnic groups with diverse gender ident...
Bringing Wellbeing to Life - Collective Resilience - S4-E5 - Your role in changing the impact of poverty and homelessness on wellbeing Part 2
Even though we live in a country of abundance, many of our people go hungry and lack shelter. Helen Robinson explains how poverty drives social exclus...
Bringing Wellbeing to Life - Collective Resilience - S4-E4- Your role in changing the impact of poverty and homelessness on wellbeing - Part 1
Even though we live in a country of abundance, many of our people go hungry and lack shelter. Helen Robinson explains how poverty drives social exclus...
Bringing Wellbeing to Life - Collective Resilience - S4-E3 - The blind ref sending ableism to the sin bin - Julie Woods
The blind ref sending ableism to the sin bin - Julie Woods, disability advocate, has taken on the role of ‘blind ref’, calling out ableist behaviour w...
Bringing Wellbeing to Life - Collective Resilience - S4-E2 - The school culture building collective resilience - Matt Bateman
Denise describes school principal Matt Bateman’s leadership as building a culture of caring, connection, collaboration, and celebration. Learn how Mat...
Bringing Wellbeing to Life - Collective Resilience - S4 - E1 - Collective resilience: Resilience grown between us as well as within us
Resilience is not a solo game and the environments we live and work in matter for our resilience. We are each other’s environment. Learn how the large...
Bringing Wellbeing to Life - 13 - How we can all jobcraft for wellbeing and resilience
Join Denise as she talks with Rob Baker about job crafting – a way to adapt our jobs to better fit our strengths and skills. Rob shares how even 15 mi...
Bringing Wellbeing to Life - Coping with Loss - 12 - Forgiveness and other strengths in coping with loss
‘Forgiveness can be important in order to re-build our sense of who we are after a significant loss.’
Tayyab explains that loss is un...
Bringing Wellbeing to Life - Coping with Loss - 11 - How gratitude can help grieving and living
‘The ultimate act of gratitude is to live the wisdom they have given us from that moment forward.’
Dr Kerry Howells explains gratitude...
Bringing Wellbeing to Life - Coping with Loss - 10 - Grief on the Run – a story of active grieving to cope with loss
“I wasn’t running away from grief, I was running with my grief”.
Denise talks to Julie Zarifeh, clinical psychologist about life after...
Bringing Wellbeing to Life - Coping with Loss - 09 - An appreciative inquiry approach to loss
‘Surrender is not giving up, rather it is opening up to the emergent to what is unfolding’.
Denise talks to Dr Neena Verma about the le...
Bringing Wellbeing to Life - Coping with Loss - 08 - When loss is not acknowledged - disenfranchised grief
Denise talks to Mairie Cregan, co-founder of the Feileacain, the Stillbirth and Neonatal Death Association of Ireland about the silence around the los...
Bringing Wellbeing to Life - Coping with Loss - 07 - Growth Through Loss and Adversity - Helping through ‘Connect, Care, and Challenge’
Denise talks to Rob Fazio, founder of Hold the Door, a not-for-profit that helps people coping with significant loss or adversity. Learn how Hold the...
Bringing Wellbeing to Life - Coping with Loss - 06 - Strategies to support the grieving - acknowledging and supporting individual experiences
Denise shares part 2 of her discussion with renowned grief expert Dr Bob Neimeyer. Bob explains why grief is so personal and why we each need to find...
Bringing Wellbeing to Life - Coping with Loss - 05 - Meaning making and grief: making sense of a changed world
After great loss, the grieving have to re-define who they are, make sense of what’s happened, and find meaning and connection in a world that is signi...
Bringing Wellbeing to Life - Coping with Loss - 04 - How positive emotions help us cope in life’s most stressful times
How do positive emotions help us cope with our most challenging moments including caregiving for people facing life-threatening illness or bereavement...
Bringing Wellbeing to Life - Coping with Loss - 03 - Learning to live with grief: How love, hope, and those around us can help
Denise shares part 2 of Dr Lucy Hone’s conversation with renowned grief expert Dr Tom Attig. Tom offers advice on what to say to the bereaved, the va...
Bringing Wellbeing to Life - Coping with Loss - 02 - Grieving as re-learning how to live in the world
Denise shares Part 1 of a conversation between Dr Lucy Hone and renowned grief expert, Dr Tom Attig, who explains the flaws in the stages model of gri...
Bringing Wellbeing to Life - Coping with Loss - 01 - A resilient approach to living while grieving
‘Choose life – don’t lose what you have to what you’ve lost’ – Dr Lucy Hone
Denise talks with Dr Lucy Hone on how she chose life and re...
Bringing Wellbeing to Life - Working well for Maori students - Melinda Webber
Denise talks to Dr Melinda Webber who believes that a lot of cultural responsiveness comes down to manaakitanga – kindness and caring for people as th...
Bringing Wellbeing to Life - Real Time Resilience - 09 - Staying Strong On The Frontline
09 - Staying Strong On The Frontline
Broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin oar.org.nz
Bringing Wellbeing to Life - Real Time Resilience - 23-04-2020 - 08 - Resilience for athletes during lockdown with Rach McCann of the Happy Athlete
Broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin oar.org.nz
Bringing Wellbeing to Life - Real Time Resilience - 07 - The Seesaw of life in lockdown - from superproductive to sloth
Broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin oar.org.nz
Bringing Wellbeing to Life - Real Time Resilience - 16-04-2020 - 06 - Schools back - online - how to avoid the overwhelm
Show 06 - Schools back - This week was a start back to online school for students around the country. We know teachers will have been feeling more ner...
Bringing Wellbeing to Life - Real Time Resilience - 13-04-2020 - 05 - Sparklers at Home - supporting parents of young people with Anna Mowat
Show 05 - Sparklers at Home - This week, Denise spoke with Anna Mowat, content creator for Sparklers and they discussed strategies for people looking...
Bringing Wellbeing to Life - Real Time Resilience - 09-04-2020 - 04 - Cut Me Some Slack
04 - Cut Me Some Slack - Dr Denise Quinlan talks with Dr Emma Woodward (NZ Child Psychology Service) about helping parents cope with this strange new...
Bringing Wellbeing to Life - Real Time Resilience - 08-04-2020 - 03 - WFH in Challenging Times
03 - WFH in Challenging Times - Any person “conducting a business or undertaking” has a duty to manage the health and safety of workers performing rem...
Bringing Wellbeing to Life - Real Time Resilience - 02-04-2020 - 02 - Not Killing Nigel
02 - Not Killing Nigel - Denise talks with Lucy about the strategies she is using to avoid losing the plot with the people in her bubble. Not Killing...