leadership practices

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Is technology a barrier to learning in your district? We need to talk! For some, the problem of mobile devices is so severe that states and districts are banning cell phones from schools entirely. In some districts, the use of artificial intelligence tools has been banned, and websites blocked. Apple Watches are now banned in some districts, and the use of browsers on tablets and computers is “locked down” to prevent exploration outside of specific curriculum topics.

In this research-driven, provocative edWeb podcast, moderator Kevin Baird, Chairman at the Global Center for College & Career Readiness, leads listeners through best practices and engages attendees in discussion and debate.

A survey accompanying the edLeader Panel will be used as part of a national research study, published with a major university. All respondents who participate in the National Best Practices Survey – Device Management in Public K-12 Spaces will receive the research and will be invited to the research briefing when completed.

We know we have to do better—for our students. Engagement, distraction-free learning, and safe but cutting-edge technology integration are more essential now than ever before, while we balance the expectations of parents and communities. How do we provide “freedom within a framework”? We need your input, and national education leadership needs to hear your voice. Join us and help lead the conversation as new technology impacts our classrooms daily.

This edWeb podcast is of interest to K-12 teachers, librarians, school and district leaders, and education technology leaders.

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Inspiring individual or organizational change is one of the hardest things for any leader or manager to accomplish.

According to Shalini Verma, a high-energy leader at Google who practices trauma-informed management, it's not about the process or the tools. That’s the easy stuff. In her opinion, the ability to drive individual and organizational change starts with a single thread: self-awareness.

In this episode, Dart and Shalini discuss the fundamentals of trauma research and how it lends itself to management. They discuss practical ways to implement trauma-informed management, how to deal with automatic responses that stem from trauma, why empathy is the key to inclusive product design, trauma as a path of evolutionary development, and much more.

Topics Include:
- Defining trauma
- How trauma shows up in the workplace
- Trauma-informed management
- Practical applications of trauma-informed management
- How to become more self-aware
- How to heal from trauma
- The connection between awareness of the body and anxiety
- How to make better decisions
- Inclusive product design
- And other topics...

Shalini Verma is the ​​Global Lead of Technical Program Management at Google, helping to improve all of Google's products through global developer tools and frameworks. Named to Crain Magazine's Tech 50 - Top Technology talent, her career has transitioned from roles in process, to product, to leadership development. She is an MIT and Harvard Business School graduate.

Whether leading non-profit or for-profit organizations, her passion is to inspire leaders to transform themselves and the world. She has spent the last ten years discovering and developing tools through cross-pollination, collaboration, and experimentation across industries, age groups, and methodologies.

Resources Mentioned:
Listening to your heart might be the key to conquering anxiety: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/sarah-garfinkel-interocept
The Enneagram Prison Project: https://enneagramprisonproject.org/

In this final episode of A Better World of Work Season 1 podcast, hosts Hardeep Matharu and Eoin Higgins take the hot seat with show producer Ng Lay Peng, and share with us their key takeaways from the series so far.

Find out more about what's next for the future of work, how you can make hybrid work, work, and what leadership practices are expected from leaders of the future.

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Inspiring individual or organizational change is one of the hardest things for any leader or manager to accomplish.

According to Shalini Verma, a high-energy leader at Google who practices trauma-informed management, it's not about the process or the tools. That’s the easy stuff. In her opinion, the ability to drive individual and organizational change starts with a single thread: self-awareness.

In this episode, Dart and Shalini discuss the fundamentals of trauma research and how it lends itself to management. They discuss practical ways to implement trauma-informed management, how to deal with automatic responses that stem from trauma, why empathy is the key to inclusive product design, trauma as a path of evolutionary development, and much more.

Topics Include:
- Defining trauma
- How trauma shows up in the workplace
- Trauma-informed management
- Practical applications of trauma-informed management
- How to become more self-aware
- How to heal from trauma
- The connection between awareness of the body and anxiety 
- How to make better decisions
- Inclusive product design
- And other topics...

Shalini Verma is the ​​Global Lead of Technical Program Management at Google, helping to improve all of Googles products through global developer tools and frameworks. Named to Crain Magazine's Tech 50 - Top Technology talent, her career has transitioned from roles in process, to product, to leadership development. She is an MIT and Harvard Business School graduate.

Whether leading non-profit or for-profit organizations, her passion is to inspire leaders to transform themselves and the world. She has spent the last ten years discovering and developing tools through cross-pollination, collaboration, and experimentation across industries, age groups, and methodologies.

Resources Mentioned:
Listening to your heart might be the key to conquering anxiety: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/sarah-garfinkel-interocept
The Enneagram Prison Project: https://enneagramprisonproject.org/

Compassion Fatigue, it’s kind of a buzzword right now; but what does it mean? Today I am talking with Charmaine Nawrocki, Partnership Manager at Airvet. Charmaine’s role in the veterinary industry has changed and been impacted from a really impactful quality of life conversation she had with a veterinarian early on in her career, as well as her own experiences with Compassion Fatigue.

Compassion Fatigue occurs when an individual is giving out so much emotional energy that they are constantly exhausted. In the veterinary industry this stretches throughout constant care for others whether it be a puppy client or human owner or coworker. Us animal lovers can at times forget that this job is not just “saving animals”. There are a lot of factors specific to the veterinary industry that can cause compassion fatigue: extreme compassion for animals without being able to help, not understanding human owners' reasons for declining care, financial struggle, coworker differences or carrying co-worker responsibility, understaffing, and lack of benefits and resources for veterinary professionals to recharge.

Charmaine and I discuss some solutions for Compassion Fatigue that we are already seeing present in the community or that can be changed for the benefit of the industry. First, hospitals can increase the benefit offering to help employees balance off work hours. This might be mental health resources, paid time off, etc. Adequate pay is also important, employees in the veterinary space are often underpaid and overworked. Finally, effective leadership practice and training. Hospitals and leaders need to invest in the proper training and systems to lead and serve their staff. 

Warning Signs of Compassion Fatigue:

• Feelings of helplessness and powerlessness in suffering
• Reduced empathy and sensitivity
• Overwhelmed and exhausted by work demands
• Detached, numb, emotionally disconnected
• Loss of interest in activities you used to enjoy
• Increase in anxiety, sadness, anger, and irritability
• Difficulty concentrating and making decisions
• Sleep difficulty or disturbances
• Physical health symptoms: nausea, headaches, dizziness
• Increase conflict in personal relationships
• Neglecting self-care
• Withdrawal and isolation

If you’ve listened to this episode and are wondering, do I have Compassion Fatigue….you probably do. Reach out for help and keep in mind some of the solutions we discussed today. Life is too short to spend your time suffering, you deserve to thrive!

What’s Inside:

• What is Compassion Fatigue?
• What are examples and causes of Compassion Fatigue in the veterinary industry?
• What are the warning signs of Compassion Fatigue?
• How can we solve Compassion Fatigue in the veterinary field?
• How does leadership impact Compassion Fatigue?

Mentioned In This Episode:
Charmaine Nawrocki - LinkedIn
Airvet
Compassion Fatigue Self Assessment 

In this final episode of Season One of Questioning Work, Terri, Maxine, and Ciela reflect back on lessons learned in 2021. They discuss their major takeaways from the first season of the podcast, and how things have changed for them and the world since the project's first inception.

Topics Include:
- Connection, and the need for connectivity
- Polarities and paradoxes
- The changing role of leadership in organizations
- Agency in the workplace
- Responsibility
- What matters at work
- Balance diverse values
- And other topics...

Want to connect? Reach out to us online!
https://www.questioningwork.com

How are ideas of culture changing as we enter a new era of work? What does it mean to be part of a collective that does not share spaces?

Terri, Maxine, and Ciela explore these questions and more in this episode of Questioning Work. They ask what the relevance of company culture will be in a world of remote work, and how we might build a company culture in a remote environment.

Topics Include:
Definitions of culture. The juxtaposition between the individual and the collective. Reconciling individual agency and collective wellbeing. Differences between culture and purpose. Creating connection in a remote environment. How culture spreads through an organization. The role of managers in remote or hybrid environments. And other topics...

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https://www.questioningwork.com/

Ciela, Maxine, and Terri are joined today by Terrence Taylor to talk about inclusion and exclusion in organizations and in the workplace. They discuss the academic environment, how institutions can create a feeling of belonging, and how leaders can embrace the need for more equitable systems.

Topics include:

• What does it take to create an inclusive organization or workplace?
• Is inclusion always a good thing?
• What does exclusion look like in the organization?
• Inclusion and exclusion for large organizations
• Creating incentives
• The courage of inclusivity
• Speaking up and being vocal
• Cancel culture
• And other topics...

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https://www.questioningwork.com/

What is work? Is work a noun or a verb? What does it mean to question work? In this episode, Terri, Maxine, and Ciela explore these questions and the mental constructs we have around work as organizations and as individuals.

Topics Include:

• Individual conceptions of work
• Eastern and western visions of what work should feel like
• Work as a source of purpose and meaning
• Defining "essential work"
• Work as a contribution, not a burden
• Work and identity
• Visibility as a worker
• Changing the world of work
• And other topics...

Resources Mentioned:
Your Reflected Best Self – https://hbr.org/2005/01/how-to-play-to-your-strengths

Want to connect? Reach out to us online!
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What does it mean to wake up in the workplace and in our personal lives? What has COVID taught us about work and our relationship to work? What do we mean by "the new normal", and how might we shape these new norms consciously? In this episode, Terri, Maxine, and Ciela explore these questions and much more.

Topics Include:

• Bringing consciousness and self-reflection to the workplace
• What the "new normal" may be for various groups and organizations
• The possibility of maintaining a "work culture" when working from home
• What it means to have agency in the workplace and in your career
• The recent trend of "career portfolios"
• Courage and risk-taking at work
• And other topics...

Resources Mentioned:
Forbes Article – Why It’s Time To Consider A Portfolio Career

Want to connect? Reach out to us online!
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Ciela, Maxine, and Terri discuss why being a part of an organization often feels dangerous and the feelings of fear and anxiety that can result. They explore the changing expectations of leaders and organizations in a post-COVID world, why kindness is key at the individual and collective level, the problem with blurry lines between professional and personal relationships, and more.

Topics Include:

• Vulnerability in the workplace
• Changing expectations for leaders and organizations
• Objective truths vs subjective human experiences
• Diversity and inclusion
• Personal growth as an organizational goal
• Belonging–knowing that you are cared for and a part of
• Balancing safety and risk
• Appropriate levels of connection and intimacy with your team and advisors
• The problem with "family" as a core value in the workplace
• Kindness as a balm for fear and anxiety 
• Being nice vs being kind
• The need to ask better questions
• And other topics...

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Resources Mentioned:
Immunity to Change by Robert Kegan
Better Listening by Jack Zenger and Joseph Folkman

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https://www.questioningwork.com/

Ciela, Maxine, and Terri discuss the role connection plays in an organization. Together, they explore why connection is important but can also feel dangerous, differences between connection, collaboration, and trust, intentionally connecting with those who hold differing opinions, and more.

Topics Include:

• Trust within an organization
• What it means to feel "connected" in the workplace
• The shadow side of connection or trust
• The theory of Dunbar's Number
• The relationship between connection and competition
• Connecting with yourself to connect with others
• Fostering connections with people who think differently than us
• An "I see you, and I am here" attitude
• Seeing the person, not the role
• And other topics...

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Resources Mentioned:
How to Build Trust? Break it First. by Julia Diamond
Dunbar's Number - BBC

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https://www.questioningwork.c

Ciela, Maxine, and Terri meet to discuss identity in the workplace. In this conversation, they explore the difference between resilience and resourcefulness, 2020 as a mindset reset, investigating our scope of influence in the workplace, and more.

Topics Include:

• Adaptive resourcefulness
• Blurred lines between home and work during COVID
• Identity and work
• Resilience vs resourcefulness
• Adaptation–leaving behind that which no longer serves you
• Mindsets and how they can change
• Slowing down to co-create with others
• An individuals scope of influence in the workplace
• And other topics...

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Resources Mentioned:
Ikigai by Chris Myers
Deliberate Practice by James Clear

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https://www.questioningwork.com/

Welcome to Questioning Work! In this introductory episode, hosts Terri Soller, Maxine Jaffit, and Ciela Hartanov share their intentions for the podcast, and what listeners can expect in forthcoming episodes.

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https://www.questioningwork.com/