R&E Monthly 1:2:1 Newsletter
Welcome to another edition of our monthly 1:2:1 newsletter by Jeremy Dean, Founder of riders&elephants. Your ultimate monthly guide to more human & successful workplaces.
This broadcast goes out to you and over 37,000 other leaders worldwide interested in simple ways to humanise the workplace.
In your March 1:2:1 you'll discover:
- 1 ECD Activity: Onboarding Success
- 2 pieces of content to inspire: How ‘Strategic Silence’ Helps Employees, How Leaders Can Get the Feedback They Need to Grow
- 1 Tool/Activity Worth Testing: Provocation Cards by Meld Studios
- Plus ECDTV Episode: Sir John Kirwan Foundation Success Story
Scroll down to discover more about humanising the workplace...
1 ECD
Activity
Here's an activity for exploring the emotions that might hold your people and teams back.
Use the ECD to answer this question: How do you want people to feel and not feel when they join your organisation.
Step 1: Select the three black and three white ECD cards you want your people to feel and not feel when they join your team or organisation.
Step 2: Ask each person to describe why they selected those six cards.
Step 3: List three-five actions you can take to help your people experience the desired emotions and manage the undesired emotions when they join your team.
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.
Listen
Discover the power of "strategic silence" and how it can positively impact your career! Contrary to popular belief, silence in the workplace isn't always detrimental. Top-performing employees often hold back information, ideas, or concerns, choosing the perfect moment to speak up. By considering issue relevance, readiness, and target responsiveness, strategic silence can lead to highly valued input, better performance evaluations, and favourable ratings from managers. Embrace this approach and unlock your full potential!
Read
2. How Leaders Can Get the Feedback They Need to Grow
by Kim Scott, Liz Fosslien, and Mollie West Duffy
Navigate uncertain times by mastering the art of soliciting honest feedback to elevate your performance. Learn to overcome challenges with six essential tips, including embracing emotions, conquering discomfort, and fostering a feedback culture. Unlock your potential and become an exceptional leader by fine-tuning your approach to communication, change implementation, and teamwork.
1 Tool/Activity Worth Testing
Provocation Cards by Meld Studio
Unlock new perspectives for decision-making and problem-solving.
Diverse 'what if...?' questions bring new perspectives, aiding better decision-making and innovative problem-solving. These cards can be used in workshops, projects and internal strategy discussions to explore new perspectives and consider missing perspectives.
Check it out here >
Something I've been pondering...
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You might have been brought up to suppress emotion.
But you can’t not feel.
You might have been taught to not feel.
But to be human is to feel.
ECDTV.
New ways. New ideas. New answers. New perspectives. Watch the latest ECD TV videos here...
In this episode above learn from Tim Corbett, former CEO of Sir John Kirwan Foundation, about how he's used The ECD (plus Customer Experience Deck and Wellbeing Decks) as part of their journey to uncover what makes their organisation and people thrive, from the ‘inside, out’ and then used that to shape the wairua and ‘glue’ of their team.
What you might have missed...
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