Mar 14, 2024
S03E12 The Intentional Flexibility Episode (with Lisa Davidian)
Check-In:
* Do think the best time of your life is in the past, present, or future
Big Ideas:
* flexibility in work schedules - what do we need to do so
* the equipment that supports remote working
* shifting mindsets around traditional ways of working
* shifting schedules to accommodate global clients
* sense of freedom in being able to shift your schedule
* flexing people's pay to allow for flexible schedules
* Be present, be equipped, be allowed
* Compressed work week - had to create the model
* Keeping people engaged after 30+ years in the corporate world
* Empowering people to have balance and to grow in new ways
* Employees feel energized and motivated when they have a larger fulfilled
* Need for new working models to offer employees
* Younger generation doesn't want the traditional 9-5, 5 days a week
* Covid has shifted us into new ways of thinking about how we work and where we work
* Can flexibility work for manufacturing, and other hands-on type of work?
* Hesitation to allow flexible schedules
* Creation can happen NOT sitting in front of the computer
* Companies are losing good people if they don't offer flexibility
* Using co-working spaces for networking and shifting perspectives and interacting across-organizations
* How do I lead remotely?
* How can we support leaders to build trusting teams remotely?
* How to facilitate meetings remotely so that people can feel that connection?
* The small moments of trust building,, in person, can't be as easily transferred to online spaces.
* Making connection the primary intention of all gatherings
* Intention, Execution, Results - Observe what is happening in your meetings
* Focus on how people want to feel at the end of a session - the doing happens as a result of the feeling (fulfilled, energized, inspired, motivated, engaged, supported, etc...)
* Making sure that everyone has a voice in whatever way that voice wants to be heard
* Not micro-managing people's time and checking their online status when working remotely
* When people speak in the first 5 minutes of the call, they end up speaking more throughout the meeting
* The relationship between trust and empowerment
* What's preventing leaders from trusting their employees?
* We want engaged employees, but we don't create engagement in the meetings
* Meeting etiquette and expectations -- different practices across organizations, regions, countries
* Less moments to sync outside of meetings when we are remote - more presence needed in online meetings
* What kind of leader does your company need you to be?
* In our fast-paced world, are we giving space for people to BE
* Messaging around productivity and efficiency and how it impacts people
* Separating your ego from your leadership
* Self-reflection as the key to good leadership
Resources Mentione*d:*
* The Extended Mind, by Annie Murphy Paul
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