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Is it really possible to create a way of working based on love not fear? Yes. It’s not only possible. It’s essential. Learn more from this collection of more than 100 posts to inspire and guide you.
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Choose To Challenge
On International Women's Day, we want to #ChooseToChallenge workplaces to be loving not fearful to make work a better place for women.
Slinky
I was running out of post-it notes. This was a serious problem. After all, I depend on those handy three-by-three inch squares to catch ideas, work up plans, and track progress. So I placed an order for 18 pads of the yellow 3M variety along with some other supplies. And then they arrived.
Honoring Collaborators
We can't do the impossible alone. Remarkable things happen when like-hearted people step up to help. Meet three who did that with me in these last 8 weeks and helped bring Working Alone Together to more people! Hats off to Angie Burwell Kerr, Shannon Patterson, and Gregory Flynn!
Leaders: You are not alone
These last four weeks I’ve talk to so many Leaders like you who are working valiantly to face this pandemic challenge and who feel utterly alone. Leaders like you who are responding to the latest developments, adapting to restrictions, and trying to keep your organization viable.
Let them see you sweat
If anything is essential to our survival and well-being during this crisis, it is our humanity. Denying our humanity is a danger. It is dangerous to us personally and collectively because suppressing our human skills and connections will only exacerbate the impacts of stress on our brains and our bodies and prevent us from thinking clearly and acting wisely.
It’s time
On March 3rd I woke up and everything had changed. The day before was my last day as Director of Workplace Transformation for Washington State. For the first time in years, I had just one role, one email account, one website, one newsletter, one calendar, one computer, one cell phone, one team, and one coherent, clear purpose: To make work more loving and human around the world.
Kindness starts at work!
This month we welcome guest blogger Karyn Ross, founder of the Love and Kindness Project Foundation. Karyn is an internationally acclaimed keynote speaker, consultant, coach, Lean practitioner, and award winning author of How to Coach for Creativity and Service Excellence: A Lean Coaching Workbook.
Everywhere I go: in a hotel shuttle in Kentucky.
Everywhere I go people tell me stories about their workplaces. Some are full of fear, missed opportunities, bad business, and outright harm. Others are full of love, respect, kindness and the benefits that come to customers, employees, and organizations when these human values are embraced.
It’s been a month: How’s your one thing going?
I asked you what One Thing you would do to Make 2020 More Human, and so many of you answered with emails and messages describing your intentions and resolve. Thank you for sharing these with me.
Everywhere I go: across the puget sound
My work sometimes takes me around the world and other times it takes me right across the Puget Sound. Everywhere I go, I find people who are doing difficult work thoughtfully, brilliantly, kindly, taking care of each other too, in simple yet meaningful ways.
What one thing?
We met twelve times in 2019 in Olympia, nine times in Seattle, twice in Copenhagen, once each in San Diego, Barcelona, and Reykjavik with related workshops in Houston, Ottawa, Lisbon and Doha! In Olympia we are primarily a gathering of public employees and leaders, with many private sector guests too.
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