Antitoxic cultures have thermostat leaders who help identify toxic behaviors and then lead their organization into thriving cultures of contribution, community and challenge. Researcher, author and consultant, Tamara Myles, joins Jason for an inspiring chat.
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Jason introduces Season 7 episode 32 of the podcast, Antitoxic Cultures with Tamara Myles. Welcome back to the podcast on corporate culture and leadership and thank you for listening. We engage thought leaders like CEOs, CFOs, managers, VPs, directors, and more for this podcast. We wish to create content that engages your mind and heart and allows you to step back and think and add some positivity to your life. We deep dive into today’s topic.
We can’t control everything but what we can control is our response. Still a lot of work to do but wanted to remind the audience what is within our control is the temperature we create in the organizations and teams we work with.
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“The three main attributes of an anti-toxic culture are respect, inclusion, and meaning” – Tamara Myles
4:40 – Jason introduces Tamara Myles, who is a researcher and Positive Psychology Instructor at the University of Pennsylvania. Today she talks about her meaningful research on work cultures and the powerful experiences we all share after trauma and the growth that comes out of it.
10:00 – Tamara talks about post-traumatic growth and how future potential research will shed more light on how people and organizations changed, adapted, and grew post-pandemic. Her past research reiterates that creating culture is more important than ever. People won’t just magically show up. Retaining talent is important.
14:00 – Jason talks about a recent article Tamara had in Fast Company about anti-toxic cultures, Tamara explains the phraseology of this. Non-toxic is too neutral, so Tamara dissected the narrative and created the word, anti-toxic as it relates to workplace culture.
23:20 – Tamara mentions the toxic 5 behaviors in the workplace, toxic cultures not only show these but often encourage them with the classic, dog-eat-dog, taking credit for people’s work, etc. Tamara recommends the book Mastering Civility which actually shows just how important acknowledging appropriate credit in the workplace is.
- Disrespect
- Non-inclusive
- Unethical
- Cutthroat
- Abusive
32:00 – Tamara defines a thriving work culture. When the people thrive in 5 main pillars including: PERMA = Postive Emotion, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning, and Accomplishments.
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Catch more from Tamara Myles at TamaraMyles.com or see her on linkedin
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A thermostat is proactive. It sets the temperature in a room. Controls the temperature. Regulates the temperature. But in today’s distracted, fast-paced and digital world, it’s easy for individuals and organizations to act more like thermometers, slipping into reactionary thinking, becoming scattered and inconsistent. The most compelling leaders, teams, organizations, families, or collection of humans of any kind operate in thermostat mode. They calibrate their mind and heart to set the temperature for the vision and culture they want to create. Jason Barger, globally celebrated author, keynote speaker, and founder of Step Back Leadership Consulting, is the host of The Thermostat, a podcast journey to discover authentic leadership, create compelling cultures and find clarity of mission, vision, and values.