When your people belong, their efforts pertaining to DEI play a natural part in deepening the company tribe. They'll unite and fight for each other's diverse uniqueness because the ways your people belong are clear in their invitation and boundary. Psychological safety can't provide that. You can't just play it safe.
Read MoreThat risky thing you've gotta figure out, it gets done because you feel, own, and care for someone. Not because you're safe. The line when safe enough to innovate gets closer the more you belong.
Read MoreIt's about the heart, and belonging, by living in the company core values, and believing together in shared purpose. It begins with the Us Story. Here, filtering by how one sounds and looks, seems kind of dumb.
Read MoreIt is completely individual and at the same time cultural… If you ask 24 people, you’ll have 24 different reasons why… Sometimes people are happy because they love who they’re working with. Sometimes it’s the purpose and that purpose really matters. For some, they’re mercenaries.
Read MoreJoon Chang’s words contain a marvelously insightful paradigm for belonging at work. And to get it, and shift ourselves into belonging there, we just have to change one word.
Read MoreIt’s like taking a lead fall. That’s how hard it is for most business people to change their command-and-control business model to a belonging culture. If I let go of the command and control hold, I will die. I mean, it’s working, so if it ain’t broke don’t fix it. But at what cost, what height and quality not achieved?
Read MoreYou don’t want to lose your highest performing and most critical people, but you will, when they stop belonging. And if you’re adding more money to keep them, chances are, they've already left. It's just that their butts haven't followed their hearts, yet.
Read MoreWhen you're around people where the WHOLE YOU belongs and really matters, you know. When we’re where we belong it’s about us. We belong, or we leave.
Read MoreEmployees are your company, and, when treated like company, they sing about what a wonderful place was prepared for them.
Read MoreWe all want to belong with the people in our company, believe in the company’s purpose. To live from our values and strengths, and really join in our stories. To have the autonomy and ownership of our own practices, as we work to grow personally and help our company grow. Remote or otherwise, CEOs- just make it so your people can get a yes to these six affirmations, and watch your company change the world.
Read MoreWhere do you fall on the scale of “the wonderfully alive” to “the working dead”?
If you ask yourself these 6 belonging affirmations below, they might just help you clarify. Six statements of affirmation, that, if you can completely say yes to, you’re probably wonderfully alive.
Read MoreLong ago, our brains developed so we could survive outside threats and perpetuate our species, by working together.
Read MoreBe prepared to recreate a continual state of shepherding, peacemaking and realigning.
Read MoreLikewise, there’s no reason that a blue and pink shouldn’t sit in desks next to each other in economic equality.”
Read MoreYou may not remember this, but you had ferocious drive for competence when you were a toddler.
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