Rehumanising WorkÂ
Hi, Jeremy here! Welcome to another edition of my monthly digest. This goes out to over 40,000 leaders worldwide, connected by our shared passion for creating more emotionally aware leaders and teams.
This month, you'll discover:
- 1 ECD Activity:Â Best vs Worst Onboarding Experiences
- 2 pieces of content to inspire: Emotions Aren’t the Enemy of Good Decision-Making & Feeling Disconnected? Your room setup might be at fault.
- 1 Tool/Activity Worth Testing: The Live Your Values Deck by Lisa Congdon and Andreea Niculescu
- ECDTV Episode: Harnessing Emotional Values in Stakeholder Engagement & PartnershipsÂ
Scroll down to discover more about rehumanising the places we work and live...
Latest From R&EÂ
1 ECD Activity: To ExperimentÂ
Have a play with this activity to explore and compare your best and worst onboarding experiences using The Emotional Culture Deck. This sanely simple activity will help you reflect on the emotions involved and identify areas for improvement in onboarding processes.
Think about the best and worst onboarding experiences you've had:
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Select Cards for Best Experience: Choose three black (desired Feeling) cards that best describe how you felt during your best onboarding experience.
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Select Cards for Worst Experience: Choose three white (undesired Feeling) cards that best describe how you felt during your worst onboarding experience.
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Share Reasons and Reflect:
- Explain why you selected each of those cards, highlighting the specific aspects of the experiences that led to those feelings.
- If you were the manager or leader responsible for the onboarding experience, what would you have done differently to improve it? Share your thoughts.
ECD Employee Experience Canvas + Workshop
The Employee Experience Canvas and Great Place to Work Workshop together help organisations map out and enhance the emotional journey of their employees, while engaging teams in designing their ideal work environment.
2Â Pieces of Content:
To Inspire
Here are two pieces of content that I hope will help you see the world slightly differently and provoke you to do the work that matters to humanise the workplace.Â
by Cheryl Strauss Einhorn
"Too often, when we need to make a difficult decision, we rush through it to avoid sitting with uncomfortable emotions. But channelling those emotions — a process the author calls “emotional bookending” — can help us ensure that we’ve correctly identified the decision we have to make and set us up to move forward with clarity and confidence. The process is as simple as taking the time to identify 1) the emotions you feel as you face your decision, and 2) the emotions you want to feel as you’re looking at your decision in the rearview mirror. What do you see? How is your life better for a satisfying decision outcome?"
Facilitation
2. Feeling Disconnected? Your room setup might be at fault.
by Priya Parker
In her latest article, Priya Parker underscores the critical role of physical setup in creating meaningful gatherings. Through the story of her mother-in-law Nandini's retirement speech, Parker illustrates how rearranging the audience can enhance engagement. She offers practical tips: removing physical barriers, drawing a perimeter, filling gaps to build energy, and focusing the spotlight, highlighting the importance of intentional room arrangement for effective gatherings.
1 Tool:Â To PlayÂ
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The Live Your Values Deck
Vibrantly illustrated by Lisa, co-written by brand strategist Andreea Niculescu—this deck will help you live in accordance to what matters most to you.
Living your values increases your compassion, reduces your stress, enhances your confidence, and allows you to experience more intimacy in your relationships. These 78 cards offer you a practical set of tools for determining your core values and practicing them in your daily life.
Check it out here >
Something I've been pondering...
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"Emotional Performance is Peak Performance. Organisations and individuals who effectively harness, shape, and manage their emotion strategies at four levels achieve a significant advantage. When emotional culture is intentionally managed, it drives satisfaction, motivation, connection, and teamwork. Leaders who grasp the essence of emotional leadership can positively influence emotional support, foster constructive dialogue, and enhance engagement. Organisations that are deliberate in defining their emotional change strategies see improvements in emotional support and well-being throughout periods of change. And those that create an emotional stakeholder strategy develop emotional connections with the people they serve. Emotional performance is about mastering these four domains and leveraging them to lift performance at individual, team, and organisational levels. It recognises that emotions are both personal and collective, influencing and being influenced by the group. Ultimately, those who reach peak performance harness emotions as a key driver of success at every level."
ECDTV.
New ways. New ideas. New answers. New perspectives. Watch the latest ECDTV videos here...
Imagine bringing in the conversation about what we want our stakeholders to feel and not feel. The incredible work, like the BurgerFuel case study in our community, shows how combining customer and employee emotions creates a unified culture. Our upcoming Emotional Stakeholder Engagement Course will dive into stakeholder relationships and partnership building (or rebuilding), like the 10-year dysfunctional relationship between an Iwi and a Government Agency. By creating an environment where both parties share their emotional values and needs, we foster profound, human-centred partnerships. This method, and our other ECD Partnership & Stakeholder tools, are designed to help any two parties come together in pursuit of a shared goal; it is about shared vulnerability and emotional understanding.
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