Announcing Capp’s 2011 Guest Speaker Series!
Encouraged by the appetite for learning that has come from Capp’s Strengths Practitioner Community we are pleased to announce the launch of the 2011 Guest Speaker Series.
Keeping you up to date with the latest thinking in Strengths and their application, these free webinars will bring you up to the minute expertise to enhance your own practice. Below are the speakers and their selection of topics for 2011.
A Strengths Education: Using Realise2 to Enhance Graduate Employability Anne Wilson, Head of Careers at Warwick University | 29 September 2011, 15:30 (BST) Watch the recording here
The graduate market place has never been tougher, with increasing numbers of graduates chasing fewer jobs. Hear a rich case study of how Warwick university have given their students the competitive edge through Realise2 and a Strengths development approach. Students have much to offer potential recruiters but aren’t always able to describe and articulate their achievements and skills effectively. With financial support from graduate recruiter Ernst and Young, we have been able to trial Realise 2, to see whether it can contribute to the employability of our graduates.
Anne Wilson is Head of Careers at Warwick University. She has led the universities innovative Strengths Development programme with students in collaboration with Capp.
The Dynamic Nature of Strengths Alex Linley, Founding Director of Capp | 21 July 2011, 15:30 BST (GMT+1) Watch the Recording Here Are you limiting potential in yourself and others by having a “fixed” view of strengths?
The received wisdom is that we’re born with our strengths, that they’re fixed and unchanging. The problem is that this is simply wrong. There is no evidence to show it – and we have looked! Strengths are defined by situations: quite simply, if you’re not using a strength, you will not see its benefits as a strength. As situations change, so the strengths change that we need for those situations. As different situations require, strengths can advance into the foreground, or recede into the background. In this webinar, Alex will reveal some staggering new insights from the Realise2 model as it relates to the dynamic nature of strengths, as well as sharing Capp’s latest thinking on dynamic strengths development.
Alex Linley is Capp’s Founding Director. Alex’s unique combination of scientific rigour and inspirational vision are rare and materialise themselves in the ground breaking strengths assessment and development tool Realise2 and recent popular bestseller The Strengths Book: Be Confident, Be Successful, and Enjoy Better Relationships by Realising the Best of You (2010).
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Talent Through Thick and Thin Nicky Garcea, Consulting Director | 21 January 2011, 15:30 (GMT) Watch the recording here
Like 2010, we expect 2011 to be a year of talent management. Retaining top performers, maintaining employee motivation and job satisfaction will be the focus of many organisations whilst recruitment remains second stage. When organisational systems and processes work towards individual employees using their strengths to the full at work the results can be startling. Nicky Garcea, Consulting Director at Capp, a chartered Occupational Psychologist, provides a fresh perspective on the strategies organisations can take to embed a simple and robust strengths focus at the individual and organisational level... not the mention the common pitfalls and learning that they so frequently experience along the way.
Nicky Garcea is the Consulting Director at Capp and editor of the Oxford Handbook of Positive Psychology at Work. She leads Capp’s Consultancy business and specialises in the areas of Strengths based Recruitment, Performance Management and Development.
Courage, Creativity and Curiosity: 3 Strengths that Pay Performance Dividends Robert Biswas Diener, Director of Positive Psychology Services LLC | 15 April 2011, 15:30 BST (GMT+1) Watch the recording here What would happen if you lived life with twice as much Courage, Creativity and Curiosity?
The "3 Cs"-Courage, Creativity and Curiosity are psychological resources of particular value in organizations as they heavily impact engagement and productivity. This webinar will present the latest science on these three topics. More importantly, each of these is a skill that can be easily coached, and you will learn how. In this webinar Dr. Robert Biswas-Diener will demonstrate how easy it is to activate curiosity as well as explore the potential downsides. Participants will have an opportunity to push their own thinking about the limits of their creativity and courage as well. Finally, we will discuss the relation of these three virtues to one another.
Robert Biswas Diener is a Coach, author and renowned international speaker on the subject of positive psychology and strengths. He is known for his many publications and, recently the long awaited Practicing Positive Psychology and Coaching: Assessment, Activities and Strategies for Success (2010).
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