This is Your Brain on Work Relationships

People need a sense of belonging and purpose, and we thrive through connection and mutual trust, but our workplaces are not set up to encourage trust-based relationships. We can change those workplace structures and cultures by integrating greater practices of trust into our work. 

 High Conflict vs. Generative Conflict

Conflict does not have to be as bad as it often feels. Conflict is a source of energy for change, and it always has the potential to lead to new possibilities and deeper relationships. But for this to happen, we need to build the skills and determination to avoid the lure of high conflict whenever possible. 
This is what is meant by the idea of generative conflict.

Why We Gossip About People at Work

Leaders often try to get people to stop gossiping without a deeper understanding of what is driving the behaviour. Is there conflict that needs to be addressed? Are there systemic issues that people are upset about? Getting people to stop the behaviour is very hard if we are not addressing the root cause.

There’s No Psychological Safety Without Equity

You can either have a “psychologically safe” team that feels safe enough for interpersonal risk taking because people more or less agree with each other and share very similar identities and experiences, or you can strive for an equitable psychological safety in which everyone generally feels safe enough, most of the time, to really express the ways they are different.

Generative Conflict: Leadership Skills for Healthy Workplaces

Online. Tuesdays October 2 to November 20, 2023.

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.

Five roots of healthy organizations

Five roots of healthy organizations Brook Thorndycraft I recently had a conversation with a friend about our experiences with non-profit and community based organizations. We both intentionally chose to work in the community sector because we wanted to effect positive change in the world, and cared about the value of community wellbeing. At various times, […]