Businesses are People Too! A Podcast - Season 4, Episode 5: What if....businesses believed that business was personal?

Mar 18, 2022

Season 4, Episode 5: What if....businesses believed that business was personal?

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What if....businesses believed that business was personal? with Mike Cameron, MikeCameron.ca

On this episode, we dive on in and learn:

To have buy-in from our people, we need to tap into their emotions
Emotionally connected leaders build better businesses
Emotion is the foundation that supports our cognition
Why business is about the quality of our relationships
Leaders must learn the individual driving motivators for their people
The difference between traditional goal-setting versus setting values, intentions, and milestones
Importance of being creative and agile when circumstances throw a wrench in a path to reaching our milestones
How gathering in circles and not squares is how to cultivate divergent thinking
Why we should practice creating spaces for our people to feel safe in being creative
How our emotional decisions can have extreme permanent consequences
How we can prevent our emotions from having life-altering consequences that cause harm
Why leaders need to feel and not just think
Why compassion and empathy need boundaries and accountability to be impactful in a leadership role
How to have team meetings using the SOAR Framework: slow down, open up, accept, reconnect
That when we numb one emotion, we numb all emotions
The power of simply acknowledging and naming an emotion
That mental health has a 51 Billion dollar impact on businesses
Roughly half a million Canadians miss work each week due to a mental health concern
We don't have to give up productivity in place of empathy and caring
Mike's answer to "What if...businesses realized that they are people too?" (51:58)

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