“Quite often, we experience folks really believing that their workplace culture and habits and patterns are happening to them.”
The difference between what we want to do + what we're trying to change is where goals come alive so Alfonso + Trina give some goal setting frameworks. What future do we want to realize together? Is it a change in the mix? Is it a systemic outcome change? Is it a change for individuals around their feeling welcome or that they matter?
“If I’m not well, I don’t listen well, I can’t be curious well.”
The enormity of injustice can keep the best of us from taking action if we don't slow down + notice what's needed right in front of us. Alfonso + Trina take 15 minutes to talk about how they come back to focusing on their own responsibilities + actions in organizing, activism, + work. They talk about not succumbing to helplessness + staying well enough to be effective.
“I like being a part of groups that know why they’re together and know how long they’re going to be together.”
Our goal-focused hosts take an episode to talk about patterns around groups + committees in workplaces. When do folks form a group? Do they know their goals, how long they need to exist, who should be a part of the group? Alfonso + Trina share some examples of short + long-term committees inside Team Dynamics, plus they advise a few risks to watch out for.
“It’s important to acknowledge that this wild stuff is happening. We cannot make it small. And we also don’t need to decide that the way we feel is how everyone else feels.”
Alfonso + Trina talk about how they felt watching a white, militant insurrection at the United States Capitol. They share suggestions on how to hold space for processing national events + domestic terrorism for their workers. And they talk about the importance of telling the truth at work.
“It’s not important that we know all the words. What’s important is that when someone tells us what words they use we thank them and use those words for them, too.”
It's Pride Month!
Trina + Alfonso parse out Sexuality, Gender Identity, Gender Expression, + Biological Sex. They also speak into the inextricable linkage between race, gender, + sexuality.
If your workplace is working to support your queer and BIPOC folks, we’re offering this BEHAVE Podcast LGBTQ+ Playlist as a refresher and primer for anyone who is curious about how to show up!
“What we’re trying to trouble is the idea that there’s a singular way to get ready to do any particular job.”
Trina + Alfonso talk about their own education + work backgrounds + then get into the actual impact had by having degree requirements included in job postings.
“A bunch of the workplace norms we practice now in the US were developed in a time when we did very different work.”
Our hosts dig into the current conversation around where people need to be in order to do their work. Mental health, care giving, access to consistent technology, + so many more things to consider when planning schedules. Why don’t we change behavior when we have data that tells us the way we’re doing things isn’t effective? Here are some questions to navigate that.
"There are times when a focus on ethnicity keeps us from understanding the unearned advantages that come with whiteness."
Alfonso + Trina dive into how exploring ethnicity can bring tremendous advantages + disadvantages when doing intercultural capacity building work. They name how race + ethnicity mean different things in different countries while reminding us that race is tremendously impactful in the United States.
“What this would mean is that more people with uteruses are going to die because they don’t have access to safe abortions.”
Trina + Alfonso respond to the leaked news suggesting that Roe v. Wade could be overturned by the US Supreme Court. They talk about navigating things that have been politicized without telling employees how to vote. Listen to our hosts talk about the vast impact of attempts to control the bodies + behaviors of people.
Trina flys solo but welcomes in Kelly Fluharty to organizational change, equity, + Healthcare. Kelly brings her perspective as a white, middle-class woman working in healthcare in rural Minnesota to talk about how her organization fosters a belief in the possibility of change + how they do work that is org wide.
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