Rehumanising WorkÂ
Welcome to another edition of our monthly newsletter by Jeremy Dean, Founder of riders&elephants. This goes out to over 50,000 leaders worldwide, connected by our shared passion for crafting emotional culture and creating more emotionally aware leaders and teams.
In your 1:2:1 this month, you'll discover:
- 1 ECD Activity: Preparing for Difficult Conversations
- 2 pieces of content to inspire:Â Leaders, Make Curiosity the Core of Your Organisational Culture + So Many Feelings. Too Many?
- 1 Tool/Activity Worth Testing:Â Workshop Tactics by Pip Decks
- ECDTV Episode:Â Master Emotional Culture: Inside the ECD Online Masterclass Experience
Scroll down to discover more about rehumanising the workplace...
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1 ECDÂ
Activity
This activity is designed to help you prepare for a difficult conversation. It nudges emotional intelligence and self-awareness in challenging situations. Your challenge is to think about a difficult conversation you're about to have or need to have with someone...then:
Step 1: Pick Your Feelings
Choose the top five emotion cards that best describe how you want to feel during the talk.
Step 2: Think About Them
Pick the top five emotion cards you think the other person might feel during the talk.
Step 3: What's the Story?
Think about what you believe about the other person in this situation. What could be true? What might you be wrong about?
Step 4: Manage your feelings
If you start to feel any undesired emotions (white cards), what can you do to control how they show up?
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2 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.
How to share with purpose, recover from an outburst, set boundaries, and provide solace. Amy Gallo and Amy Bernstein discuss emotional expression in the workplace, referencing Liz Fosslien and Mollie West Duffy's insights. They highlight the importance of balancing sharing feelings with maintaining professionalism. The conversation explores the idea that sharing emotions, particularly for women, can be complex and context-dependent. It stresses the value of selective vulnerability, where sharing emotions serves a purpose and is done thoughtfully. They note the evolving nature of emotional expression at work, emphasising the need for empathy and understanding individual differences in how people process and share emotions.
Culture
2. Make Curiosity the Core of Your Organisational Culture
Exploring the pivotal role of curiosity in fostering exceptional corporate cultures, this blog delves into how it enhances employee engagement, meaning, and organizational purpose. Discover the four critical areas where leaders' curiosity can transform corporate culture, including understanding employee values, customer insights, self-reflection, and adapting to evolving business landscapes.
1 Tool/Activity Worth Testing
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Workshop Tactics by Pip Decks
Workshop Tactics helps you run effective workshops so you can get important work done with your team, and put an end to pointless meetings.
Check it out here >
Something I've been pondering...
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The world's most successful and impactful leaders flip the traditional notion of the role of emotions in leadership and culture. Steve Kerr, Golden State NBA Head Coach, explicitly talks about intentionally crafting the emotional culture of his team before he discusses the offensive patterns he will coach them to run. He intuitively understands that emotion drives performance. World-class coaches (aka leaders) start by establishing the emotional culture as the foundation of their team. When watching this clip, I can’t help but think about what Sigal Barsade once said about emotional cultures at work: “Every organisation has an emotional culture - even if it’s one of suppression.”
ECDTV.
New ways. New ideas. New answers. New perspectives. Watch the latest ECDTV videos here...
Unlock the Secrets of Emotional Culture Mastery with The ECD Online Masterclass. Welcome to the Emotional Culture Deck Online Masterclass – a transformative journey designed to fit seamlessly into your life and elevate your emotional culture expertise. Dive into this video to explore the unique features of our course and discover how it can reshape your approach to emotional culture in the workplace.
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