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A positive corporate culture can be your competitive advantage
We are wired to belong. Contemporary workplaces are modern-day tribes, and yet so many leaders treat them as transactional places of misery. In fact, 82% of leaders have been found to be lacking in the required skills to lead effectively. There is a serious deficit in the soft skills.
Author, consultant, and tech startup leader, Shawn Murphy talks with me about the key principles of belonging in his latest book, Work Tribes: The Surprising Secret to Breakthrough Performance, Astonishing Results, and Keeping Teams Together. These are to be valued, welcomed, and wanted.
Why you should listen: how to manage office politics - positively
Why ‘hiring for culture fit’ is a fast-track to building a country club and not a successful business, why hiring for ‘how you can contribute to the culture’ is a better approach
How we need to have better conversations - ones about the playbook and values and purpose of an organisation - so we can avoid catty bitchiness in workplaces
How we don’t need to wait for permission or a program to create positive work experience. We can get started right now with self awareness
We explore team development strategies based on belonging
The ins and outs of belonging, how it’s an outcome, not a program
How you can’t operationalise belonging but you can develop programs to develop leadership skills that foster belonging
How any behaviour change expected from a training program needs to be backed up by accountable tracking afterwards
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About Shawn Murphy:
Author, consultant, and tech startup leader, Shawn Murphy on team development strategies that foster belonging
Shawn Murphy, author of Work Tribes:The Surprising Secret to Breakthrough Performance, Astonishing Results, and Keeping Teams Together (HarperCollins Leadership), has nearly thirty years of consulting experience and advising companies on implementing organizational change and culture change. Central to his work is applying human behavior and needs to help achieve business results and create a satisfying experience of work for employees. Because of his extensive experience and keen insight, Shawn was handpicked to be part of IBM’s elite New Way to Work futurist group.
Shawn is currently the Director of Organizational Development and Workplace Trends at Silicon Valley start-up, Bluescape. He lives in Northern California.
Shawn’s cool Tech startup
Shawn’s book
Brene Brown and her work on belonging
www.linkedin.com/in/shawndmurphy/
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About your host, Canberra leadership expert Zoë Routh:
Zoë Routh is one of Australia’s leading experts on people stuff - the stuff that gets in our way of producing results, and the stuff that lights us up. She works with the growers, makers, builders to make people stuff fun and practical.
Zoë is the author of four books: Composure - How centered leaders make the biggest impact, Moments - Leadership when it matters most, Loyalty - Stop unwanted staff turnover, boost engagement, and build lifelong advocates, and People Stuff - Beyond Personalities: An advanced handbook for leadership. People Stuff was awarded Book of the Year 2020 by the Smart WFM Australian Business Book Awards.
Zoë is also the producer of The Zoë Routh Leadership Podcast.