Adversity is inherent within most – if not all – occupational contexts in which the performance of individuals and teams is crucial for organisational effectiveness.

With its central focus on what enables people to resist, bounce back, or recover from adverse events that threaten their functioning, viability, or development, it is unsurprising that the concept of resilience has attracted a significant focus over the past 40 years. However, the majority of this past work has focused on resilience among individuals despite the fact that in in most contexts, whether work, sport or education, people typically complete tasks within teams that work interdependently for a specified timeframe to achieve a common and valued outcome or objective.

In order to better understand the nature of team resilience, a recent paper co-authored by our guest today – Professor Daniel Gucciardi - seeks to address this gap in the literature.

About our guest…

Daniel Gucciardi is a Professor in the Curtin School of Allied Health at Curtin University in Western Australia.

Daniel’s research portfolio sits at the interface of the psychological and behavioural sciences, and utilises basic and applied research paradigms to advance knowledge and practice on the complexities of human performance and health. Daniel’s work and interests focus on human performance and health primarily within the context of stress, where he examines concepts like resilience, team dynamics, self-regulation, and behaviour change.

You can find out more about Daniel’s work via his Google Scholar page: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ovDUT-EAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

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Humor is a phenomenon experienced by most, if not all, human beings. Throughout human history humor has played a role in communication and interactions between people, yet how often do we actually take the time to consider what is humor, and more to the point, what is humorous?

To discuss this, I am delighted to be joined on the Brain for Business podcast by Matt Nadel.

About our guest...

Matt Nadel is a doctoral candidate and adjunct professor at St. John's University in New York studying communication in organizations. Prior to joining St John’s University, Matt worked as a CPA and auditor at a Big 4, and ran a phenomenally successful baseball blog.

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Creativity is – for a very good reason – often seen as something positive and even joyful. Yet like many things in life there is also a flipside to creativity – a dark side, if you will. To explore the concept of dark creativity I am delighted to be joined today by Dr Hansika Kapoor.

About our guest…

Hansika Kapoor is a Research Author at the Department of Psychology, Monk Prayogshala, a not-for-profit research organisation in Mumbai. Hansika’s work has been published in leading journals including Creativity Research Journal, Thinking Skills and Creativity, and Personality and Individual Differences and she regularly contributes to popular media publications, including Psychology Today, Mint, and The Wire.

You can find out more about Hansika’s research, including on the topics of creativity and dark creativity, on her website: https://www.hansikakapoor.in/

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