John Eatwell - Creating healthier and more productive work environments through change and having courageous conversations
Hosts: Southern Government Women's Network
Venue: Spark Place - Tūranga Library
Presenter: John Eatwelll
Facilitator(s): Kirsty Paterson and Megan van den Honsel
Date: 10th July 2025
SGWN John Eatwell PowerPoint Slides
John focused on creating healthier and more productive work environments through change and having courageous conversations.
The Southern Government Women's Network held an event with speaker HR Specialist and Chartered Organisational Psychologist John Eatwell.
Key Takeaways
- People will work better and become better if they work on strengthening their strengths not their weaknesses
- How to be courageous and have courageous conversations - Recollecting adversity– we have already done lots of hard things over our years – draw on these experiences to help with confidence in these situations
- We need overwhelming positives to negatives to feel a sense of belonging and positive connection
- How do we help people feel that their diversity is a strength? Sometimes when we have very diverse teams – communication can be less due to a number of factors, language, culture, confidence, but when we start being inquisitive and using appreciative inquiry we can find the differences between each other, which creates an interest in each other and a sense of belonging and better understanding
- Leaders need to look after themselves as positive energy helps others to become better energised , we need good sleep, eat well, exercise so we are positively charged
- It starts with our new team members, making sure they understand our core values and why they are important to us as a business
