organizational wellness

Have you been in stressed out workplace that makes attempts to address wellness, but doesn’t really get at the root causes of toxicity in your culture?

In this episode, Rachelle explains why stopgap measures like chair massages and staff yoga are not enough to create a true culture of thriving, and offers some steps leaders can take to achieve the organization’s mission and vision with vitality and longevity.

Using research data on workplace wellness and her own wealth of experience working with social impact organizations, Rachelle examines 5 toxic organizational traits that cause people to leave their jobs. Listen to learn how you can tend to these traits within your own organization and the costs of letting them go unaddressed. 

Resources:

The Four Pivots: Reimagining Justice, Reimagining Ourselves by Dr.Shawn Ginwright

“Why Every Leader Needs to Worry About Their Toxic Culture” MIT Sloan article

“The World’s $7.8 Trillion Workplace Problem” Gallup article by Ryan Pendell

Are you a heart-centered leader looking for more support in coping with or addressing issues of workplace wellness? Rachelle helps leaders with big missions to engage in a process of transformative wellness so they can serve their community with vitality and longevity. Book a free consultation here!  

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Since the beginning of 2020, personal wellbeing has been a hot topic in the world, especially when it comes to work. With the Great Resignation, we see the effects of workplace cultures where people feel undervalued and overworked.

The antidote to this?

Creating a psychologically safe workplace. You need to design a workplace that allows people to harness the best of themselves in order to do something amazing and important. You could consider this a eudaimonic organization, which is what Andrew Soren has joined me to discuss today. By implementing components of positive psychology, leaders can design the conditions where individuals, teams, and organizations can be their best selves and do their best work.

Tune in and start supporting the collective wellness of your organization today.

About Andrew Soren

Andrew Soren is the founder and CEO of Eudaimonic by Design. For the past 20 years, Andrew has worked with some of the most recognized brands, nonprofits, and public sector teams to co-create values-based cultures, develop positive leadership, and design systems that empower people to be their best. 

Since 2013, Andrew has been faculty with the University of Pennsylvania’s internationally renowned Masters of Applied Positive Psychology program. He founded Eudaimonic by Design to harness the collective strengths of the most talented alumni from this program working at the intersection of organizational effectiveness, design thinking, and positive practice. 

Andrew is an ICF certified coach. He splits his time between Toronto, Canada, Philadelphia, USA, and Montevideo, Uruguay. To learn more you can visit his website and follow him on Twitter and LinkedIn.

Mentioned In This Episode:

• The Psychology of Hope by Charles Snyder
• Making Hope Happen by Shane Lopez
• Lindsay Recknell - Expert in Hope
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