Advice for transforming leadership, culture, Curiosity, and communication from Beth Wonson
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Do you get rattled when you are giving someone feedback, and they start crying? Do you immediately get distracted from the message you were delivering and get to work trying to stop the tears? Well, guess what? That’s not your job. Listen in here and change your perspective on what your role is when someone is crying in your office.
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Get the Most and Best from Your Brain
Are you using your brain power as effectively and efficiently as possible? To do your best work, it’s important to create an environment that suits and satisfies your brain, as well as a schedule for tackling tough tasks when your brain is at its best.Listen in (or read on) for tips on tidying up, sorting out, making way, and letting go so your brain has space – and energy – to do the most amazing things.
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Get Much More from Your Strategic Planning
Does your organization avoid strategic planning because it is time-intensive, labor-intensive and a little scary? Listen in to find out how my strategic planning process actually helps your team learn new ways to communicate, engage in conflict, and solve complex problems – all while developing a flexible and agile 5-year plan!
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Why It’s Better to Focus Your Feedback
How do you feel when you get an email that says, “If this doesn’t pertain to you, please disregard”? Many new clients tell me this is their strategy when trying to get one recipient to change their behavior. This blanket-messaging strategy causes high-performing staff to waste time. Here’s why…
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Some Is Good. More Is Better.
Making a commitment to behavioral change is easy. Heck, I do it every January 1! But practicing new skills is where change gets tricky, and that can be further complicated by goals for perfection. In this Bit of Beth, I offer tips on the perfect amount of practice for developing new skills. Click for more Bit of Beth videos » http://BethWonson.com/bit-of-beth
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Unblock Your Perspective: Listen More, Learn More, and Get More Done
Our ego wants to protect us from being wrong, and in our effort to be right, we may close our mind to other perspectives, supporting our isolated view even when we would benefit from seeing what things look like from someone else’s perspective.Listen in (or read on) for two stories on perspective-taking – one imaginary and one true – that demonstrate how listening better and more often can help your organization move forward and get more done.
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Hack That System!
Is there something in your work environment that you just can’t stand anymore? How about hacking the system – start by asking yourself these two simple questions! Click for more Bit of Beth videos » http://BethWonson.com/bit-of-beth
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How Office Drama Costs Your Organization, Part 2
The story about a meeting meltdown and its aftermath continues…In this second and final “episode”, you’ll see how the chaos spread through the management tier all day and well into the night.As with last week’s Part 1, as you listen to or read the tale, notice how – and how many – people were affected, and think about all the places where you hear time (and, therefore, money) leaking out of this organization due to a single moment of drama and the subsequent distractions and confusion.
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Did You Make a Shift But Forget to Tell Anyone?
We are in a time of expedient change. And with that, many organizations are reworking their systems, realigning processes to better serve their clients or members, and working with a deep sense of urgency to keep up. I am working with several organizations that are just coming out of this period of realignment, and they are now ready for maintenance and continued innovation within the new framework they’ve built. But as they enter this new phase of sustainability, they are finding that the culture and behaviors required for realignment are not the same as those required for maintenance and innovation.…
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How Office Drama Costs Your Organization, Part 1
This story about a meltdown in a meeting and the chaos that followed is based on a situation that occurred in an organization I worked with. As you listen to the tale, notice how – and how many – people were affected, and think about all the places where you hear time (and, therefore, money) leaking out of this organization due to a single moment of drama and the subsequent distractions and chaos.
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