Advice for transforming leadership, culture, Curiosity, and communication from Beth Wonson
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The swift river that is work and the emotions associated with work continues to flow while you are gone. In order to successfully jump in, you must be well nourished, well rested, and well organized. Otherwise you can end up flailing, being swept away and barely able to keep your head above water, just like my client.
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Rethinking 1:1 Check-Ins
One of the best ways to increase employee engagement is with 1:1 Check-ins. However, 1:1 Check-ins are one of the most dreaded and least thought about tools in the engagement toolbox. Let’s talk about making check-ins more effective, efficient, and valuable.
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Positive Empathy – An Easy Way To Shift Culture
When hearing empathy discussed, it is mostly in terms of meeting someone where they are at when they are experiencing distress. But I find positive empathy even more intriguing because of the benefits to both parties. Researchers suggest that people who practice positive empathy build stronger bonds with those around them and are more open to engaging and connecting in positive ways.
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A Simple Plan for the Year Ahead
If you and those around you aren’t clear on where you’re going, how can you possibly get there? Follow my top tips to help you make your 2023 goal setting easier, and clear enough so you can take action. These strategies work for both individual goals and for organizational goals.
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Healthy Predictability is Good for Culture
When you are intentional about learning tools and strategies to become predictable, it’s a gift to those around you and yourself. There’s no more drama and chaos, and less shame and guilt, that unhealthy predictability can create. And you are showing those around you another pathway to deal with life and work pressures.
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The Way We Do Work
Management tools and worker engagement strategies that have been used in the past are just no longer effective. Yet most of my clients continue to try and deploy them. Change is hard, I get that. Still, change is critical. My forward-thinking client recognizes this for the crisis that it is.
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Leading a New Generation of Leaders
I was having a conversation recently with a leader of a large institution who was wondering what changes must be made to lead and develop people who are newly entering the workforce. Do younger generations who are potential or emerging leaders need more consistent and direct feedback than ever before? Or have we all always needed more consistent and direct feedback, but it wasn’t a part of what leadership considered important?
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Defining YOUR Leadership Presence
Even if you aren’t in a leadership position, you have a leadership presence. You get to choose what that leadership presence is. So why not choose a presence that instills confidence?
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What is Leadership Presence?
Leadership presence is your ability to command a room, communicate with charisma, and engage others to follow you. It is the brand that you are known for as a leader. It is what others say about you and think of you when you are not in the room. When you are someone who has authority or power over others, your presence extends far further than the physical space you occupy.
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What We’re Missing About Quiet Quitting
If you haven’t heard of Quiet Quitting by now, you will soon. I’m all for this! 100%. But I don’t love the term quiet. I believe this movement needs to be loud. Both employers and employees need to have difficult, messy, loud, healthy dialogue. Even healthy conflict perhaps. Because that’s how change happens.
Leveling up Leadership and Culture Through Healthy and Candid Communication
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