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Is it really possible to create a way of working based on love not fear? Yes. It’s not only possible. It’s essential. Learn more from this collection of more than 100 posts to inspire and guide you.
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Make Meetings More Human, Please! Part 2 - The Check-In
Renée builds upon her foundational blog Make Meetings More Human, Please! with a part 2. She introduces and unpacks the dynamic and transformational nature of a simple Check-In. When we're constantly bombarded with information, it's easy to lose sight of the human element in our professional lives. By starting meetings with a simple Check-In, we are enabled to collaborate with more effectiveness. Learn how this practice, introduced by organizational consultant Edie Seashore, can foster trust, empathy, and understanding among team members. With real-life examples and tips on tailoring Check-Ins to your group's needs, this blog post is a must-read for anyone looking to improve team performance and create more meaningful connections in the workplace.
Make Meetings More Human, Please! Part 1
In our fast-paced professional world, it's easy to lose sight of the human aspect of our work. Renée explores the importance of meaningful connection in meetings, emphasizing that people crave care, support, and recognition from their leaders and teammates. Discover how adopting a more human-centered approach to meetings can transform your workplace culture, boost engagement, and foster innovation. In this warm and insightful blog post, learn simple yet powerful practices to make your meetings more inclusive and connected. Embrace a kinder, more compassionate way of conducting business, and experience the difference it can make for your team.
Gathering of Trees
Celebrate Women's History Month with us by enjoying artifacts that emerged from our "The Gathering of Trees". The blog includes a powerful poem that speaks to shedding the limitations of societal expectations and embracing one's true strength and potential. As well as two beautiful works of art created by our community members. The post encourages women to take up the space they need, speak their truth, and never be silenced or diminished again.
Weaving Our Human Tapestry
Our society's fabric feels threadbare, and our workplaces often exclude certain perspectives and contributions. Organizations that prioritize creating equitable and inclusive cultures perform better, but where do we start? We need to learn to weave together our common human threads and our differences, both the warp and the weft, to create a stunning and inspired tapestry. This weaving requires learning new skills and habits, which can be uncomfortable but necessary for growth. As we move through the discomfort of collective learning, we can come together to create a more inclusive, dynamic, and innovative way of working, expanding who collaborates, how we collaborate, and what we work on. Let's learn to weave together and create something more beautiful together.
Plan to Love
Founder and CEO of A Human Workplace, Renee Smith, challenges us to consider where love shows up in our plans for 2023, and what love you might choose to live.
Making a Human-Centered Work Experience Actionable
Have you ever been paralyzed by the thought that trying to shift your working culture towards one of love and humanity is too big of a job? Renee Smith offers 8 simple, actionable, and tangible ways to make your culture human-centered.
Responses to Human-Centered Workplaces
Renee shares possible reactions that employees and leaders may have when they hear of a human-centered transformation. She reminds readers that each of these responses is entirely natural and to live into human-centered values that each response should be attended to with care and concern. Read and learn how to engage with a vast array of reactions to love in the workplace.
Three Ways to Increase Love at Work
Renee shares insights from 75 research interviews plus hundreds of stories shared by participants in workshops that culminate in 3 ways to increase love at work. For practical and tangible loving workplace practices, read more here.
Ask This Question
The questions we ask ourselves and others matter. Questions are not neutral but point us in a direction. They cause us to pay attention to some possibilities and to exclude others. In this blog, Renee shares the number one question we should be asking ourselves throughout our careers. From interviews to promotions to recognition to retirement, this question provides a powerful lens for real impact in the world.
A Great Transition
CEO and Founder Renee speaks to the feeling of controlled chaos that comes along with moving and how this is a perfect metaphor for the discomfort we are all experiencing in our modern work world. She provides a series of resources for reflection for leaders and team members to utilize to navigate the same feeling of controlled chaos as we go Forward to Work.
Help Stop the Harm
Workplace traumas are dehumanizing and can be all-consuming. The suffering caused by abusive, fearful workplaces is enormous. We must rise up and decide enough is enough. We must stop the harm. It’s time to set a new standard, to expect something more of ourselves, for ourselves and for each other. Instead, it is time to expect and create workplaces characterized by love. We must make trust, respect, empathy, compassion, and belonging the standard. We don’t have any time to lose.
When I Say the "L" Word
What happens when we say the “L” word at work? I do it a lot. I’ve watched a lot of people squirm in an uncomfortable silence intimidated to use such a raw, but accurate, word to describe the gap in our workplaces. But the incredible, magical, beautiful thing comes next. When we talk about Love at work, people blossom. They open up to creativity, innovation, leadership, honesty, and community. Starting to use the “L” Word might be scary, but it’s well worth the results.
Can't A Little Fear Be A Good Thing?
Exploring when and how fear can actually be a good thing. As a natural human response, it’s important that we understand when fear occurs, what it does to us, and how we can use its helpful benefits when appropriate.
What is fear and why is it important?
“More love. Less fear.” This is what we advocate and work for at A Human Workplace. Those four words offer vast canyons of possibilities to explore with numerous question trails to follow. To go on that journey together in pursuit of understanding deeply what more love and less fear at work really mean, it will help us to share an understanding of some basics about love and fear. These next several posts will give us that common view of this landscape so we can traverse this territory together.
Loving When Overwhelmed
We are not alone in our love and concern. We are together in it, collectively creating a whole loving response out of many parts.
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