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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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Make Meetings More Human, Please! Part 1
In our fast-paced professional world, it's easy to lose sight of the human aspect of our work. Renée explores the importance of meaningful connection in meetings, emphasizing that people crave care, support, and recognition from their leaders and teammates. Discover how adopting a more human-centered approach to meetings can transform your workplace culture, boost engagement, and foster innovation. In this warm and insightful blog post, learn simple yet powerful practices to make your meetings more inclusive and connected. Embrace a kinder, more compassionate way of conducting business, and experience the difference it can make for your team.
Gender Equality Month: Reflecting On Humanity
March is not just Women’s History Month, but also Gender Equality Month! As we celebrate Gender Equality Month, Wil Johnson reminds us that it's important to reflect on what it truly means to embrace our humanity. Gender equality is not just about ensuring equal access to opportunities and resources, but also about removing barriers that hinder access for various groups or individuals. To truly promote equality, we must address gender discrimination, which occurs when a person or group of people are denied access or their voices are marginalized based solely on their gender identity. In this blog, Wil explores how gender inequality shows up in the classroom, workspaces, and interpersonal relationships, and provides actionable steps we can take to promote equality regardless of gender identity. Ultimately, embracing humanity means creating spaces of equality where each person has access to opportunity. By reflecting on our own biases and taking actionable steps to promote gender equality, we can all work towards a more just and equitable society.
Gathering of Trees
Celebrate Women's History Month with us by enjoying artifacts that emerged from our "The Gathering of Trees". The blog includes a powerful poem that speaks to shedding the limitations of societal expectations and embracing one's true strength and potential. As well as two beautiful works of art created by our community members. The post encourages women to take up the space they need, speak their truth, and never be silenced or diminished again.
Weaving Our Human Tapestry
Our society's fabric feels threadbare, and our workplaces often exclude certain perspectives and contributions. Organizations that prioritize creating equitable and inclusive cultures perform better, but where do we start? We need to learn to weave together our common human threads and our differences, both the warp and the weft, to create a stunning and inspired tapestry. This weaving requires learning new skills and habits, which can be uncomfortable but necessary for growth. As we move through the discomfort of collective learning, we can come together to create a more inclusive, dynamic, and innovative way of working, expanding who collaborates, how we collaborate, and what we work on. Let's learn to weave together and create something more beautiful together.
Lift Every Voice and Sing
Wil Johnson challenges and empowers us to find our authentic voices and lift them up to create change together. Through the narrative of his own life, Wil highlights how we can engage with one another to prioritize diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging so that we can further encourage our individual and collective humanity.
Color Mindfulness: Honoring and Valuing Our Skin
Jen Todd shares her experience with “Color Blindness” and urges us instead to move towards “Color Mindfulness”. Sharing stories from her daughter, mother, and her own life, Jen paints an elegant and powerful picture of how ignoring or diminishing race can be harmful and why instead we should choose to celebrate and honor all skin colors.
Black History Month: Acknowledging Historic Harm to Humanize Our Future
Member Blogger Adam Slade shares a powerful account of the history, importance, and foundational path forward to celebrating and honoring Black History Month.
The Importance of Psychological Safety in a Mental Health Crisis
Nancy Kasvosve shares her personal account and experience with psychological safety and burnout. She speaks about the many nuances of a mental health crisis like the fear of ridicule and the bravery needed to share regardless.
Plan to Love
Founder and CEO of A Human Workplace, Renee Smith, challenges us to consider where love shows up in our plans for 2023, and what love you might choose to live.
Take Care of Your Whole-Self This Season
Through the lens of personal and vulnerable storytelling, Jen Todd shares three tips for self-care during the holiday season. She reminds us all that our well-being is of the utmost importance and how to prioritize this during the busyness of the year-end season. Read on for ways to practice your own self-reflection and self-care this month.
The Commitment Cube: Your Path to Increased Productivity and Improved Prioritization
Lili Boyanova Hugh walks readers through The Commitment Cube. She shares that this way of thinking allows individuals to remember a larger purpose and see a bigger picture, realize their strengths and their possible needs for help, identify their knowledge gaps, and plan or re-plan effectively moment-to-moment. Want this type of increased productivity and improved prioritization? Read her blog for practical questions and skills related to Connection, Confidence, Capability, and Capacity.
Making a Human-Centered Work Experience Actionable
Have you ever been paralyzed by the thought that trying to shift your working culture towards one of love and humanity is too big of a job? Renee Smith offers 8 simple, actionable, and tangible ways to make your culture human-centered.
Autumnal Reflection for Inner Alignment
Encouragement for reflection and inner alignment from guest blog writer, Shian Chuan, author of Power Your Purpose: A Leader's Guide to Creating a Better Life and a Better World. Shian provides readers 10 questions for reflection (plus one bonus!) that aids in one’s pondering of the year past and the next year(s) to come.
Responses to Human-Centered Workplaces
Renee shares possible reactions that employees and leaders may have when they hear of a human-centered transformation. She reminds readers that each of these responses is entirely natural and to live into human-centered values that each response should be attended to with care and concern. Read and learn how to engage with a vast array of reactions to love in the workplace.
Three Ways to Increase Love at Work
Renee shares insights from 75 research interviews plus hundreds of stories shared by participants in workshops that culminate in 3 ways to increase love at work. For practical and tangible loving workplace practices, read more here.
The Paradox of Covid: A Journey Through Struggle and Strength
Julie shares her insights and wisdom from reflecting on the paradoxes of COVID-19. Through the narrative of her own life and business, Julie helps readers see how feast and famine, isolation and love, frustration and forgiveness can all co-exist - even coming from the same catalyst. Read Julie’s blog for encouragement, optimism, and a healthy dose of humanity.
An Inner Guide to Self-Regulation and Love
Lili vulnerably shares her experience with self-regulation after a relatable interaction where anger bubbled over. She cites experts on self-regulation and shares practical, repeatable tools for inner dialogue during moments of overwhelm. Lili is a leading voice concerning inner transformation and self-connectedness as a tool for leadership growth.
Leading with Empathy
Guest Writer, Joanne Lee shares practical steps for incorporating a lens of empathy into your daily professional and personal life. She urges readers to opt for empathy in pursuit of greater well-being.
Less is Waiting for You
Lili Boyanova shares the insights that her transition into Autumn has brought. Inviting Less rather than More, making space for lightness, and choosing what to say goodbye to are practices Lili helps readers find practical avenues for in both personal and professional settings.
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