Season 6 Episode 16: How Are You?

Season 6 Episode 16: How Are You?
Season 6 Episode 16: How Are You?

Studies reveal that employees have never felt more physically and emotionally isolated in their places of work. Research (and our own hearts) also points us to important conversations we need to be having with teammates.

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SHOW NOTES

Jason introduces Season 6 episode 16 of the podcast, How Are You? 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. If you have a suggestion, please send it to info@jasonvbarger.com

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“Now is the time to engage with our people”

4:05 – Jason introduces today’s topic that we have been isolated and a lot has happened over the last 2 years. Our schedules have been shifted and we have changed our habits. Society has been dealing with heavy issues as well. The Great Resignation has been happening where over 30 million people have resigned from their jobs. We cover this in greater detail in our multi-part series on the Great Resignation. On our teams and organizations and our friends and family people are still dealing with this trauma. Jason covers how as leaders we can cope with these topics to better communicate with our teams and tips to do so.

9:02 – We have to acknowledge the fact that people have been carrying a lot over the last couple of years so that we can reach people tomorrow. Ken Boyer at EY and his team brought something to Jason’s attention, Ken has been a contributor to this podcast – Listen to his episode here, recent studies from the Harvard Business Review reveal that 40% of people felt physically and emotionally isolated in the workplace. People want to feel like they are part of something bigger than themselves. Research from the Center for Talent Innovation found that it leads to higher productivity, people more motivated, greater levels of engagement, and 3.5x more likely that people can reach their full potential. Gallop also tells us that when employees are engaged, those people are between 2-5x more likely to hit targets, win over teammates, create loyalty, and provide better brands to companies in return. Now is the time to engage with our people.

13:40 – Ask the simple question to your people, “How are you doing?” We know this is important the pure power of that question to our people and how it helps. Jason goes into greater detail about this topic and why it is so vitally important to ask.

These kinds of questions aren’t happening nearly enough.

16:15 – All the important metrics go up when people feel like they are part of a more meaningful work culture. The research is saying that the performance metrics go up when leaders connect with their people on a human level.

17:23 – Jason talks about some tips to better reach your people on your teams.

  1. Check in periodically with your people
  2. Be willing to be vulnerable. Talk about your own obstacles that you are facing and what you did and how you navigate moving forward as a leader to empower others
  3.  Ask clarifying questions to seek to understand someone else’s experience.
  4. Make sure that we are identifying ways to support each other. Identify specific and clear ways how you can support your team, how they can support you, and be clear and specific in what ways we can better support each other.

Questions to Ponder

  1. How are you doing? How are you navigating your way through all this? How are you doing?
  2. Who are the people on your team that you need to ask that question to?
  3. How can you foster that human element? To feel connected, valued, and how are we performing on the job?

Practice appreciation and gratitude for all that is within your control. Now is a chance for all of us to positively impact those around us and on our team. What is our response? How do we behave and help to shape the culture for those around us?

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Remember, the best leaders, teams, & cultures stimulate progress by recalibrating their thermostat together.


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Conversations and micro-thoughts to engage your mind and heart.

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.

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