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 25,000 other leaders worldwide interested in simple ways to humanise the workplace.
In your October 1:2:1:
- 1 ECD Prototype Activity: Best Boss versus Worst Boss
- 2 pieces of content to inspire: Understanding and Overcoming Belonging Uncertainty, How to have better arguments
- 1 Tool Worth Testing: 7 Fundamentals of Facilitation by SYPartners
- ECDTV: Growing a healthy emotion-led team culture with Jono Sole
R&E News
1 ECD Prototype
Activity
Beautiful ECD Question: How did you feel working for your best boss and working for your worst boss?
Step 1: Think about the best boss you ever worked for.
Step 2: Select 3-5 ECD cards (either black or white) that best describe how you felt, and share a story about why you felt that way working for that boss.
Step 3: Think about the worst boss you ever worked for.
Step 4: Select 3-5 ECD cards (either black or white) that best describe how you felt, and share a story about why you felt that way working for that boss.
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.
Read
2. How to have better arguments, by Scott Aikin & John Casey
"Our aim with this Guide is to help you think through how to approach arguments so that you can have more productive ones, ones where you and your argument partner understand the stakes and are both willing to follow the reasons where they lead."
1 Tool Worth Testing
Be a better facilitator – 7 Fundamentals of Facilitation
Leading a group of people to a productive outcome through conversation can be tricky. Whether it’s in the boardroom, in a community group, or at the dinner table, delicately balancing a collection of personalities and egos is rough—even for the most seasoned leader.
Check it out here >
Something I've been pondering...
"The ‘soft skills’ evangelists fell into a trap of binaries. Framing up soft skills as the opposite of hard skills meant the wrong the reference point was set and soft skills suddenly came to be in competition with hard skills and the opposite. In reality, it’s never been one or the other but been more of a spectrum between technical skills and relational skills. I’ve always thought ‘relational skills’ better captured the ideas we’ve been calling soft skills. Life is relational. We don’t exist without relationships. All the so called ‘soft skills’ are the essential skills required to develop, foster and grow relationships (and self). Which ultimately helps us become better technically."
Upcoming Events
Global Elephant Rider Meetup – November 15
Come along and hear ECD Bright Spot Stories from Kayleigh Woodings about how she uses The ECD & Customer Experience Deck with her clients to design more human and empathetic team cultures.
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 Leadership Workshop
| London, United Kingdom
| December 1, 2022
Presented by Steve Hargreaves
In this interactive and hands-on workshop, you'll learn how to use the Emotional Culture Deck in four key areas we believe are essential to human leadership. You’ll be posed a bunch of 'beautiful questions' to explore these areas and use the ECD as a tool to navigate these questions. It’s a ‘sandpit environment’ where you come along, get your hands on the deck and experiment and learn together.
ECD Leadership Workshop
| Wellington, NZ
| November 21st, 2022
Presented by Lotty Roberts
In this interactive and hands-on workshop, you'll learn how to use the Emotional Culture Deck in four key areas we believe are essential to human leadership. You’ll be posed a bunch of 'beautiful questions' to explore these areas and use the ECD as a tool to navigate these questions. It’s a ‘sandpit environment’ where you come along, get your hands on the deck and experiment and learn together.
ECDTV.
New ways. New ideas. New answers. New perspectives.
Watch the latest ECD TV videos here...
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