Videos

For webinars, interviews and conversations about ways to bolster wellbeing, adopting a personalised approach to work and driving engagement and performance.

Podcasts

We’ve been fortunate enough to engage in some really interesting and insightful discussions with leaders, experts and creatives about how to encourage thriving in the workplace.

Media

Articles we have featured in and written as a guest contributor on ways of making work better and making better work.

Make Better Work - Our Services

We’ve produced this short guide to give you an overview of who Tailored Thinking are, the type of work we excel at, our motivations, and how we create value with, and for, our clients and partners.

Job Crafting Guide

A guide on how to bring purpose, engagement and wellbeing to your work through job crafting.

Five Ways to Wellbeing Guide

In collaboration with Everyday Juice Ltd, we’ve put together a handy guide of five evidence-based techniques to boost your physical and mental wellbeing.

Buoyant Wellbeing Guide

Buoyant wellbeing is the idea of maintaining stability when encountering challenging situations or circumstances. We have produced a guide focused on wellbeing in the workplace, and how to apply wellbeing activities to encourage buoyancy in your everyday.

Daan Van Rossum is the Chief Experience Officer at Dreamplex in Vietnam and CEO at FlexOS.

Dreamplex are a network of flexible offices in Vietnam that are offered out and created for companies to improve their employee experience.

Find out why Daan uses job crafting in his everyday life at work and why he believes personalisation is key to employee engagement and experience.

In this episode of Crafting Conversations, Rob speaks to HR business partner at Virgin Australia, Megan Chalmers. Megan is very enthusiastic about job crafting and believes in taking a strengths-based approach to work.

Find out how Megan has brung job crafting to life and what inspired her to take a strengths-based approach.

Rob chats to Angela Scott - Founder of the Culture Principle and Business Psychologist about all things job crafting.

Find out about the connection between the hot topic hybrid working and job crafting.

Purpose Crafting

As part of our Bringing Job Crafting to Life series, Jules Smith, Founder and Director of People Science, discusses how job crafting can create meaning and purpose for employees, and highlights some real-life examples and stories showcasing the impact job crafting can have.

What is Job Crafting?

We're living in a time where we can personalise and customise nearly everything in our lives - yet we are not often encouraged to personalise our work.

With the majority of our time being spent at work, we know that how we carry out our roles can have a huge impact on our everyday lives. Bringing a personal touch to work has been shown to impact our health, happiness and productivity.

This video introduces the concept of job crafting as a driving force to building better work.

Crafting Better Careers

Dr Vicki Elsey, Principal Lecturer of the MSc in Occupational Psychology programme at Northumbria University, offers an insight into how graduates can apply job crafting in their early careers, as part of Tailored Thinking's Bringing Job Crafting to Life series.

Buoyant Wellbeing

What's wrong with resilience? Rob encourages organisations to approach resilience differently, and instead explores a more buoyant approach to health and wellbeing. We've created a short video about the concept of buoyant wellbeing and the benefits of changing our mindsets and conversations about resilience.

Job Crafting - 2019 World Positive Psychology Congress

During the World Congress of Positive Psychology held in Melbourne in July 2017, Rob had the pleasure of being interviewed by G. Suardhika, a Senior Trainer at Value Consult, on job crafting and applying positive psychology to the workplace.

Five Ideas to Bolster Buoyancy, Wellbeing and Resilience

Amid the unprecedented time brought about by Covid-19, we made a video with Michelle Minnikin, Managing Director of Insights Business Psychology Ltd, to share five ways of protecting and boosting your mental health and wellbeing.

Disrupt HR Talk on - Getting Personal about Work

A DisruptHR talk by Rob on getting the best out of yourself and your colleagues by tailoring work to suit the individual, and some examples of how you can encourage and do this.

A podcast with Phil Willcox from Emotion at Work, exploring the role of job crafting in workplace emotions.

We were lucky enough to join Kingfisher Coaching as part of their Empowering True Strength podcast which explores how people succeed. During this podcast, Rob shares some insight into his journey so far, discusses how to apply strengths in the workplace and touches on how to initiate job crafting.

During this podcast with Inspiration North, Rob reveals how he found his passion for helping people and organisations flourish. He talks about his experiences of crafting his own jobs and the benefit of focusing on doing fun things when you don’t know what the outcome will be.

This is the third in a series of blogs by Rob Baker and Julia Smith in theHRDirector.

The article is themed around the need to bring a personal touch to our work to lift wellbeing, performance and engagement.

What is the future for job crafting?

“We need to recognise that jobs will have to be more agile and changeable”.

An in-depth Q&A with our very own Rob Baker. Rob discusses the importance of job crafting and why and how workplaces can encourage this in order to achieve maximum potential.

An excellent write up from Mandy Garner in Working Wise.

How can employees find their purpose during the pandemic?

For many of us, our relationship with work has changed as a consequence of Covid-19. Whilst this creates challenges, it also presents opportunities for people to reconnect with the value and importance of the work they do.

Rob and Jules Smith, Founder and Director of People Science, wrote an article for People Management about how leaders and HR professionals can enable people to craft purpose into their work.

For the majority of us, the perfect job doesn’t exist. However, that doesn’t mean that we should give up trying to find jobs that fulfil and stimulate us - but rather than waiting for this role to come along, why not create or craft it ourselves?

Rob wrote an article for Procurious for their Career Bootcamp sponsored by IBM, about taking positive control over your job to cultivate the career you want.