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 20,000 other leaders like you around the world who are interested in simple ways to humanise the workplace.
In your May 1:2:1:
- 1 ECD Prototype: New ECD Check-in Activity
- 2 pieces of content to inspire: Repercussions of Suppressing Emotions & Attention is the Currency Performance
- 1 tool worth testing: Daily Stoic Journal
- ECDTV: Latest ECD Community Questions
R&E News
The Wellbeing Deck – June Release
We have more Wellbeing Decks coming in June! This is another limited release of only 400 Wellbeing Decks. So click the button below to join the waitlist and be the first to get the chance to secure more decks in June.
ECD Have a Play Workshop
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 Emma-Kate Woodham
Emma-Kate Woodham officially graduated from the Pro Elephant Rider Programme and became an official ECD Certified Consultant!
The work Emma-Kate has done with The ECD with families and with schools is some of the most inspiring work we've seen with The ECD. We can't wait to see Emma's future work with the game in schools around New Zealand.
ECDTV: ECD Community Questions
Master Elephant Rider, Lotty Roberts and Pro Elephant Rider, Lorissa Garcia explore 12 questions about The ECD covering leadership coaching, building trust, tourism, pitching the ECD to teams, different types of ECD workshops, and using The ECD post a values project.
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…
When you think about your upcoming week, what do you feel?
Pick any two cards (black or white) that best describe how you feel and share a story about why you picked those two cards.
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
How do the doubts of Rafael Nadal help other Olympians manage their anxiety? How can watching the Olympics help spectators conquer their fear of the unknown? What lessons did Team USA's psychologists learn from Tokyo 2020?
In this episode, Peter Haberl joins Liz Solomon to discuss how US Olympic athletes, coaches and staff unlock achievement within the system of their teams.
Read
2. The masculine ideal of suppressing one's feelings has all kinds of awful repercussions by Christopher Kilmartin, Ronald F. Levant
Healthy, supportive environments that foster belonging, competitiveness and continuous learning but not at the expense of someone’s social status - create higher-performing teams.
It’s also clear that suppressing one’s emotion has all kids of awful repercussions. Especially for men, who when they become used to suppressing all emotion will eventually lose the ability to feel joy.
As a leader of any team, and especially male sports teams, we have a duty of care to our people and players to help them express themselves. So we can better deal with the complexities of life.
The masculine model of “suck it up” and “move on” is outdated and causes harm.
We can change this for the better. We just need to find the courage (and the tools) to say We can do better. I want to do better.
1 Tool Worth Testing
The Daily Stoic Journal: 366 Days of Writing and Reflecting on the Art of Living by Ryan Holiday
This journal is a powerful tool to help you with bad habits like complaining, procrastination, or a hot temper, or are looking to get stronger, wiser and braver, this journal is a tool to get you there.
What’s in the Journal? Fifty-two new Stoic disciplines or practices, one for each week of the year, along with a special introduction about the art of journaling. Each weekly practice is presented with advice and direction, along with a few quotes from the great Stoics to help focus your attention on the practice for the week. Each day presents a question to focus on in your morning preparations or evening review.
Community Blogs
Something I've been pondering...
The best leaders I ever worked for or played for constantly strived to put their ‘tribes’ interests before their own.
Upcoming Events
Well-being Deck Meetup – June 1, 2022
Meetups are 60-minute virtual events where we get to meet each other and learn from each other. So you're always meeting new people who adopt and use The Wellbeing Deck.
We invite a Wellbeing specialist along as a guest to share their wellbeing story, insights and lessons with us all. Plus we play with the game together. So bring your cards!
Elephant Rider Meetup – July 19, 2022
Elephant Rider Meetups are 90-minute virtual events where we get to meet each other and learn from each other. So you're always meeting new Elephant Riders.
We invite two leaders (usually Elephant Riders) to share their Emotional Culture Deck experiences and bright spots stories. These leaders each have an inspiring story to tell about how they have used the deck with different groups of people of different sizes.
ECD Online Masterclass – September, 2022
People working with the deck are always asking how they can deliver the most possible value to their clients and teams. How they can stand out from the crowd. So we put Jeremy’s knowledge to work - several years and thousands of hours’ worth of development and practice, built off hundreds of workshops - and created this online masterclass.
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.
ECDTV.
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Watch the latest ECD TV videos here...
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