How to Be A Workplace Where People Learn and Grow
When an organization creates enough psychological safety to encourage learning, people are more likely to experiment, take risks, make mistakes they can learn from, and as a result, come up with innovative and unexpected solutions to complex problems.
Nine Tips for Giving Good Feedback in the Workplace
Feedback is very important. It is the way we learn, grow and become the people we want to be. Regular and supportive feedback helps people shift out of fear and experience it as an opportunity. You can create a workplace culture where feedback is welcomed, expected and part of the norm.
How To Be A More Trauma Informed Workplace
Trauma is very common in the workplace, and many workplace cultures make it worse or even create it. Learn tangible steps for building a trauma informed workplace culture that supports people’s safety, belonging and dignity.
Generative Conflict: Leadership Skills for Healthy Workplaces
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What if you were able to approach conflict as a source of learning, creativity, and possibility rather than as something to fear and avoid? Learn skills to support your team to have generative conflict.
How a Workplace Came Back Stronger from a Crisis
Andrew, Enviro’s Director of Operations, knew that something major needed to be done to support healing after a formal complaint of bullying and harassment led to an investigation. They needed a solution to the immediate crisis, but he had a bigger vision than that. He wanted to build a healthy workplace culture where people could collaborate respectfully, disagree constructively, and feel safe enough to learn from feedback.
We Are Nature Not Machines
When we place urgency and deadlines before human wellbeing, we end up with major problems of burnout, turnover, conflict and toxicity … the list goes on. We need to do the personal and interpersonal work that is necessary to really change how we relate, what we value, how we act, and how we lead.
How to Know When We’re Leading from Reactivity
There is no one right way to engage in conflict, but it is possible to have less reactivity and more choice in our responses. With choice, we can have more fluidity, a sense of capacity, and feel in alignment with our dignity. Leaders have a greater responsibility to develop a range of ways to respond in conflict because of the power attached to their role.
What is Somatic Coaching?
Your body knows how to heal and resource itself. Big Waves uses a range of somatic approaches to help you listen to your body’s wisdom to find your path to greater alignment.
Five Questions to Begin Your New Relationship with Conflict
Five Questions to Begin Your New Relationship with Conflict Brook Thorndycraft I used to be afraid of conflict, and I had the survival strategies to match that fear. Sometimes I would come out swinging hard, if I felt righteous, or particularly angry. Other times, I would give up my own needs and boundaries to protect […]
Preventing workplace conflict: Part Two
You can create a healthy conflict culture: a space with the fluidity and flexibility to encourage disagreement, prevent serious harm, and learn from both successes and mistakes. In this kind of setting conflicts are less likely to escalate into a crisis that requires costly and traumatic intervention.