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“If everything around seems dark, look again, you may be the light.”
~ Rumi
What’s one thing you could do this week to improve the interactions between you and your colleagues? If you need some ideas, check out A Better Paradigm’s resource directory and download our planner/journal filled with prompts for stronger work team culture.
🦋 Content Shares to Inspire Workplace Culture Shifts
- We are in the chasm as Terri Maxwell tells us in Shift/Co’s forecast for value-based business models. If you read my e-briefing regularly, Shift/Co’s forecast is 100% for you. It provides data and POVs on the tension in our business environment as we shift from authoritarian, command-and-control, greed-driven business models to business models that leverage and celebrate people-centered, for-profit businesses.
- Delve into new use cases for AI integration in the workplace via Harvard Business Review, or jump to the top 100 list by the author, Marc Zao-Sanders.
- What have we learned from “the great WFH experiment” over the last 5 years? Gretchen Gavett shares data and perspectives. Here’s a sneak-peak recommendation from Gretchen, “First, for hybrid work contexts, I would encourage the use of the physical office to align with project development phases for teams, instead of a set number of days a week for the entire work population.”
- Speaking of WFH, here are the best states in the U.S. for doing that, according to WalletHub.
- Slicing and dicing U.S. household income data. Just because…
- Good decision making is essential to success, yet America’s literacy rates are plummeting, leading to an inability to assess information and make intelligent decisions. How can we turn this around?
- Have you ever thought about why people gather in circles? I didn’t until I read the post from DailyOM.
- Americans are working fewer hours these days according to the latest Gallup research. This article from Workplace suggests reasons you’ll want to factor as you and your colleagues focus on improving your workplace culture.
- There’s lots of good content out there about maintaining the benefits of DEI work while we navigate the current landscape about fairness and intentions. Shouting out this post by Karen Catlin because it makes several good points, including always using a microphone when presenting (she explains why). And sidebar: she includes a link to an app called NameDrop that tells you how to pronounce her name. Very cool.
📖 Book of the Moment: The Next Conversation: Argue Less, Talk More
“From communication expert Jefferson Fisher, the definitive book on making your next conversation the one that changes everything.”
No matter who you’re talking with, The Next Conversation gives you immediately actionable strategies and phrases that will forever change how you communicate. Jefferson Fisher, trial lawyer and one of the leading voices on real-world communication, offers a tried-and-true framework that will show you how to transform your life and your relationships by improving your next conversation.
🖋 Noteworthy: The Essentials of Leadership
I’m grateful that one of the benefits of building A Better Paradigm is meeting the people working globally to foster the conscious-business movement. Last week, I had the pleasure of talking with Shahmeen Sadiq. She’s been coaching companies on improving their teams and profits for over 20 years and has launched a program called The New Essentials of Leadership. The new program helps companies accelerate the implementation of employee-focused practices for bigger, faster wins. I love the simplicity and practicality of this graphic:
Resonates, right? Learn more here.
🌟 Do Good Spotlight: The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
The ACLU advocates and lobbies for the Constitutional rights of US citizens. It has 54 local offices across the U.S. working with attorneys and activists in their communities to shape better policies and spread awareness about their states’ priority civil rights issues.
🎉 Just for Fun
I’ve been cooking up a storm lately (scones, Marry Me Chicken, Eggroll Bowls, Asian Cucumber Salad…), so this Wall Street Journal piece about the best butters is a heart-felt share. 😊
⏳Until Next Time…
To achieve all that you’re here to accomplish, it’s mission critical to take at least a few minutes each day to focus on your intentions and tie those to your purpose. If you haven’t sat quietly with yourself today, how about taking a few minutes right now? Ahhhhhh, ☺️ there you go….
Niki