R&E Monthly 1:2:1 Newsletter
Welcome to another edition of our monthly 1:2:1 broadcast by Jeremy Dean founder of R&E. Your ultimate monthly guide to more human & successful workplaces.
This broadcast goes out to you and over 22,000 other leaders like you around the world who are interested in simple ways to humanise the workplace.
In your June 1:2:1:
- 1 ECD Prototype: New ECD Check-in Activity – ECD Wild Card
- 2 pieces of content to inspire: How Your Life Is Shaped by the Emotions You Want to Feel & Managing your ECD Fears.
- 1 tool worth testing: The Strengths Deck
- ECDTV: F-word Conversation with a Chief Digital Officer
R&E News
The Wellbeing Deck – Available now
We have more Wellbeing Decks in stock! This is another limited release and we have 280 still available.
ECD Have a Play Workshop – Sold out
Click here to learn more about this new half-day public, in-person ECD workshop aimed at leaders who care about humanising the workplace and are keen to explore beautiful leadership questions and embrace f-word conversations.
Congrats to Kayleigh Woodings & Denise Hartley-Wilkins
Kayleigh Woodings and Denise Hartley-Wilkins are the latest Elephant Riders to graduate from the Pro Elephant Rider Programme and become the latest ECD Certified Consultants in the world.
ECDTV: F-Word Conversation with James Roberts, Chief Digital Officer, Wellington Cty Council.
Our first episode is with James Roberts. This was an amazing conversation where we learned about how he's used The ECD to set the culture of a new team as they've navigated the delivery of a digital transformation programme. "It's incredibly effective and powerful in the change it can influence and it's so easy to use and so accessible and because of that kind of a little bit of gamification around the card deck."
Online Masterclass Waitlist
Our ECD Online Masterclass March Cohort is well underway. If you'd like to join the September Cohort – join the waitlist now so you don't miss out on a spot and our early bird offer when registrations open.
1 ECD Prototype
Activity
Have a play with this new ECD check-in activity in your next team meeting or 1:1. It goes a little something like this…
1. Take the black and white ECD feelings cards and flip them over so you can't see the words.
2. Randomly select two cards (one black & one white)
3. Flip them over to reveal the feelings and share a story about the last time you experienced them at work and what you learned from those experiences.
We call this activity – ECD Wild Card.
2 Pieces of Content To Inspire
Here are two bits of content that I hope will help you see the world in a slightly different way. To provoke you to do the work that matters to humanise the workplace. Hope you enjoy.
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The emotions we want to feel don’t just shape our everyday lives and choices; they also shape us as a society and how we think about mental health in our different cultures. The way we diagnose and treat people—how problematic we view their anger or sadness, how we design programs or therapy to help them feel “good”—are all based on assumptions about which feelings are good and which are bad, and how much of any of them is normal...
Listen
2. Managing your ECD fears and how to overcome them – Steve Hargreaves & Lotty Roberts
Lotty and Steve discuss the things they feel fearful about when introducing and using the ECD in workshops and how can we manage these fears and regulate our responses to them.
They acknowledged that fears are normal, natural, powerful and a basic human emotion. Fear alerts us to the presence of danger or the threat of harm, whether that danger is physical or psychological and whilst fear can stem from real threats, it.. can also originate from imagined dangers that never come to pass.
1 Tool Worth Testing
The Strengths Deck by Daria Williamson
The Strengths Deck is a set of cards and a matrix, and includes guidelines, ideas, and activities to help you get the most out of your time using The Strengths Deck. Use The Strengths Deck Cards and Matrix on your own, or with your work team, family, or community group. Each set of cards contains basic instructions for using the Cards and Matrix to discover and apply your strengths. You can download free resources from this website to complement your work with the cards.
Check it out here >Community Blogs
Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast
– Denise Hartley-Wilkins
At a time of the ‘Great Resignation’ or ‘Great Reset’, people are thinking about what matters most to them in their work and life. Organisations are experiencing people churn. Key talent is being lured away by soaring salaries. The trouble is people are only motivated by pay at the attraction stage. What keeps people in their organisations is the quality of their experience. Bottom line, what it’s like to work there. Culture is more than just values...
The last 2 years have taught me... Everyone is out for the same thing
– Kayleigh Woodings
Everyone wants to be 'Appreciated' and 'Supported'. But no one has ever taken the time to think about what that means to them, define it, flesh it out, put some meat on their 'appreciated' and 'supported' bones...
Why emotions matter in the workplace
– Anna Clayton
If you feel sad how do you behave? Maybe you are unusually quiet, maybe you remove yourself from others to be alone, maybe you cry. What if you are happy, how would you behave? Maybe you laugh, maybe you become animated, maybe you feel comfortable to express yourself to others. Feelings like 'happy' or 'sad' are the primary colours of emotion. What if you felt appreciated, or courageous, or insecure, or inferior? How would you behave then? And what if you felt these feelings at work, would you behave differently?
Something I've been pondering...
Be cautious of the person who makes more statements than they ask questions.
Upcoming Events
Global Elephant Rider Meetup – July 19, 2022
Relationship Conflict & ECD – with Denise Hartley-Wilkins.
Come along and hear ECD Bright Spot Stories from Denise and how she used The ECD with people in conflict.
Elephant Rider Meetups are 60-minute virtual events where we get to meet each other and learn from each other. So you're always meeting new Elephant Riders.
ECD Online Masterclass – September, 2022
We only open the Online Masterclass Course twice a year – March & September.
Join the Waitlist to get our early bird special when we open registrations. This September we're doing something we've never done before!
ECDTV.
New ways. New ideas. New answers. New perspectives.
Watch the latest ECD TV videos here...
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