Using the Strength-based Approach, An Interview with Emily Hutchinson 

Bring in the positive vibes, never the negative vibes. 

In this episode of The HR Uprising Podcast, Lucinda talks to Emily Hutchinson, the Director of EJH Consulting and a Chartered Occupational Psychologist, about the benefits of strengths-based organisations. When the HR management practice to prioritise every individual’s fulfillment at the workplace, then high performance from everyone is ensured. So as the business grows, they also achieve personal development. Organisations and companies benefit more when everyone enjoys. It’s time to let go of the old ways (e.g. competency-based). Discover more about this approach when you tune in. 

KEY TAKEAWAYS 
Traditional psychology tend to focus more on what’s wrong with people rather than what’s right. 
Strengths-based approach focuses on how the individuals should feel their best. You can be great at something but don’t really enjoy doing it. 
For HR people, it’s easier to manage the team when you see that people love what they’re doing. No need for incentives or any kind of strategy to fuel dedication in their work. For the organisation, results are far better since everything’s more efficient. 
It’s best to get a team that almost complement each other with regards to their strengths. That’s how you leverage the benefit of having a team. 

BEST MOMENTS 
“If we are able to help people in our business play or develop their strengths, it’s actually more powerful than working on weaknesses.” 
“The value comes if we can actually make a difference to the individuals who make the difference in the organisation and to the organisation themself.” 
“Tap into people who’s intrinsic motivation is of just what they love to do rather than what they’re just good at.” 

VALUABLE RESOURCES 
The HR Uprising Podcast: Conversation with Rob Briener | Apple | Spotify | Omny 

ABOUT THE GUEST  

Emily Hutchinson is a Chartered Occupational Psychologist and the Director of EJH Consulting. For more than 20 years in her professional career, she’s had experience working with organisations and individuals to improve their performance. 
emily@ejhconsulting.co.uk 
 

ABOUT THE HOST 

Lucinda Carney is a Business Psychologist with 15 years in Senior Corporate L&D roles and a further 10 as CEO of Actus Software where she worked closely with HR colleagues helping them to solve the same challenges across a huge range of industries. It was this breadth of experience that inspired Lucinda to set up the HR Uprising community to facilitate greater collaboration across HR professionals in different sectors, helping them to ‘rise up’ together. 

“If you look up, you rise up” 

CONTACT METHOD 
Join the LinkedIn community - https://www.linkedin.com/groups/13714397/  
Email: Lucinda@advancechange.co.uk  
Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucindacarney/  
Twitter: @lucindacarney 
Instagram: @hruprising 
Facebook: @hruprising 

Using the Strength-based Approach, An Interview with Emily Hutchinson&nbsp;
Bring in the positive vibes, never the negative vibes.&nbsp;
In this episode of The HR Uprising Podcast, Lucinda talks to Emily Hutchinson, the Director of EJH Consulting and a Chartered Occupational Psychologist, about the benefits of strengths-based organisations. When the HR management practice to prioritise every individual&rsquo;s fulfillment at the workplace, then high performance from everyone&nbsp;is ensured.&nbsp;So as the business grows, they also achieve personal development. Organisations and companies benefit more when everyone enjoys. It&rsquo;s time to let go of the old ways (e.g. competency-based). Discover more about this approach when you tune in.&nbsp;
KEY TAKEAWAYS&nbsp;
<ul>
<li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1">Traditional psychology&nbsp;tend to focus more on what&rsquo;s wrong with people rather than what&rsquo;s right.&nbsp;</li>
<li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-posinset="2" data-aria-level="1">Strengths-based approach focuses on how the individuals should feel their best. You can&nbsp;be great&nbsp;at something but don&rsquo;t&nbsp;really enjoy doing it.&nbsp;</li>
<li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-posinset="3" data-aria-level="1">For HR people, it&rsquo;s easier to manage the team when you see that people love what they&rsquo;re doing. No need for incentives or any kind of strategy to&nbsp;fuel dedication in their work.&nbsp;For the organisation, results are far better since everything&rsquo;s more efficient.&nbsp;</li>
<li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-posinset="4" data-aria-level="1">It&rsquo;s best to get a team that almost complement each other&nbsp;with regards to&nbsp;their strengths. That&rsquo;s how you leverage the benefit of having a team.&nbsp;</li>
</ul>
BEST MOMENTS&nbsp;
<ul>
<li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="2" aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1">&ldquo;If we&nbsp;are able to&nbsp;help people in our business play or develop their strengths, it&rsquo;s&nbsp;actually more powerful than working on weaknesses.&rdquo;&nbsp;</li>
<li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="2" aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-posinset="2" data-aria-level="1">&ldquo;The value comes if we can&nbsp;actually make a difference&nbsp;to the individuals who make the difference in the organisation and to the organisation themself.&rdquo;&nbsp;</li>
<li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="2" aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-posinset="3" data-aria-level="1">&ldquo;Tap into people who&rsquo;s intrinsic motivation is of just what they love to do rather than what they&rsquo;re just good at.&rdquo;&nbsp;</li>
</ul>
VALUABLE RESOURCES&nbsp;
<ul>
<li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="7" aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-posinset="4" data-aria-level="1">The HR Uprising Podcast: Conversation with Rob Briener |&nbsp;<a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/conversation-with-prof-rob-briner/id1465080766?i=1000441014757">Apple</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/2uz2lOt5fXjTofFNVfQt90">Spotify</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="https://omny.fm/shows/the-hr-uprising/conversation-with-prof-rob-briner?in_playlist=the-hr-uprising!podcast">Omny</a>&nbsp;</li>
</ul>
ABOUT THE GUEST&nbsp;&nbsp;
Emily Hutchinson&nbsp;is&nbsp;a&nbsp;Chartered&nbsp;Occupational Psychologist&nbsp;and the Director of EJH Consulting. For&nbsp;more than&nbsp;20 years in her professional career, she&rsquo;s had experience&nbsp;working with organisations and&nbsp;individuals to improve their performance.&nbsp;
<ul>
<li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="6" aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1"><a href="mailto:emily@ejhconsulting.co.uk">emily@ejhconsulting.co.uk</a>&nbsp;</li>
<li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="6" aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-posinset="2" data-aria-level="1">&nbsp;</li>
</ul>
ABOUT THE HOST&nbsp;
Lucinda Carney&nbsp;is a Business Psychologist with 15 years in Senior Corporate L&amp;D roles and a further 10 as CEO of Actus Software where she worked&nbsp;closely with HR colleagues helping them to solve the same challenges across a huge range of industries. It was this breadth of experience that inspired Lucinda to set up the HR Uprising community to facilitate greater collaboration across HR professionals in different sectors, helping them to &lsquo;rise&nbsp;up&rsquo;&nbsp;together.&nbsp;
&ldquo;If you look up, you rise&nbsp;up&rdquo;&nbsp;
CONTACT METHOD&nbsp;
<ul>
<li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="4" aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1">Join the LinkedIn community -&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/groups/13714397/">https://www.linkedin.com/groups/13714397/</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;</li>
<li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="4" aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-posinset="2" data-aria-level="1">Email:&nbsp;<a href="mailto:Lucinda@advancechange.co.uk">Lucinda@advancechange.co.uk</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="4" aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1">Linked In:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucindacarney/">https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucindacarney/</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;</li>
<li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="4" aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-posinset="2" data-aria-level="1">Twitter: @lucindacarney&nbsp;</li>
<li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="4" aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-posinset="3" data-aria-level="1">Instagram: @hruprising&nbsp;</li>
<li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="4" aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-posinset="4" data-aria-level="1">Facebook: @hruprising&nbsp;</li>
</ul>

Welcome to the HR Uprising Podcast.

This engaging podcast explores HR ‘hot’ topics and challenges through conversations with relevant experts and real-life HR; O.D. or L&D professionals. HR Uprising is about creating an inclusive forum that enables us to share and learn from experts and everyday professionals. Hosted by Actus CEO Lucinda Carney a Business Psychologist; Chartered Psychologist; Experienced HR Change Agent; Entrepreneur; Speaker and Coach. There are two types of show format the ‘In focus’ episodes where Lucinda delves into a specialist topic in some depth and the ‘Conversations with’ series where we interview experts and people like you. Our hope is that our shows are both informative and fun.
The HR Uprising Podcast is all about learning through collaboration; taking evidence-based action and helping colleagues to have the confidence and skills to rise-up through their organisations by delivering real, lasting business value. You can access more information on each Podcast including resources or links mentioned in the show at our website www.hruprising.com. If you are a forward-thinking HR; L&D or O.D. professional who has a success story or challenge that others can learn from and you would like to be featured in future podcasts you can get in touch through one of the routes below.

Connect with us here:                                                                                                                                      Join the LinkedIn community: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/13714397/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucindacarney/
Instagram: @hruprising Facebook: @hruprising  X (Twitter): @hruprising YouTube: @ActusSoftware   

Lucinda is the founder and CEO of Actus Software, which offers a fully integrated HR solution designed to simplify performance management. Our comprehensive Performance, Learning, and Talent Suite enhances employee development and engagement. For more information, please visit our website at www.actus.co.uk and request a free demo from one of our HR experts. Our products include: Performance Management, Learning Management (LMS), Talent Management, 360 Feedback and Survey, Onboarding, HRIS and HR Compliance. 

Connect with Actus here:LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/2400060/admin/dashboard/
Instagram: @actussoftware Facebook: @actussoftware YouTube: @ActusSoftware X (Twitter): @ActusSoftware
Lucinda also offers bespoke, high quality HR training through Actus’ learning solutions. Topics include: Dealing with Underperformance, Managing for High Performance, Change Superhero Training and Bite Size Training. For more information see the Training section on the Actus website.

Welcome to the HR Uprising Podcast.
This engaging podcast explores HR ‘hot’ topics and challenges through conversations with relevant experts and real-life HR; O.D. or L&amp;D professionals. HR Uprising is about creating an inclusive forum that enables us to share and learn from experts and everyday professionals. Hosted by Actus CEO Lucinda Carney a Business Psychologist; Chartered Psychologist; Experienced HR Change Agent; Entrepreneur; Speaker and Coach. There are two types of show format the ‘In focus’ episodes where Lucinda delves into a specialist topic in some depth and the ‘Conversations with’ series where we interview experts and people like you. Our hope is that our shows are both informative and fun. The HR Uprising Podcast is all about learning through collaboration; taking evidence-based action and helping colleagues to have the confidence and skills to rise-up through their organisations by delivering real, lasting business value. You can access more information on each Podcast including resources or links mentioned in the show at our website <a href="http://www.hruprising.com">www.hruprising.com</a>. If you are a forward-thinking HR; L&amp;D or O.D. professional who has a success story or challenge that others can learn from and you would like to be featured in future podcasts you can get in touch through one of the routes below.
Connect with us here:                                                                                                                                      Join the LinkedIn community: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/groups/13714397/">https://www.linkedin.com/groups/13714397/</a> LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucindacarney/ Instagram: @hruprising Facebook: @hruprising  X (Twitter): @hruprising YouTube: @ActusSoftware   
Lucinda is the founder and CEO of Actus Software, which offers a fully integrated HR solution designed to simplify performance management. Our comprehensive Performance, Learning, and Talent Suite enhances employee development and engagement. For more information, please visit our website at www.actus.co.uk and request a free demo from one of our HR experts. Our products include: Performance Management, Learning Management (LMS), Talent Management, 360 Feedback and Survey, Onboarding, HRIS and HR Compliance. 
Connect with Actus here:                                                                                                                                  LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/2400060/admin/dashboard/ Instagram: @actussoftware Facebook: @actussoftware YouTube: @ActusSoftware X (Twitter): @ActusSoftware Lucinda also offers bespoke, high quality HR training through Actus’ learning solutions. Topics include: Dealing with Underperformance, Managing for High Performance, Change Superhero Training and Bite Size Training. For more information see the Training section on the Actus website.

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