Businesses are People Too! A Podcast

By Lindsay Harle

What happened to all the people? Business is changing, sending the "costs first, people last" mentality from past decades right into the deleted folder.

What if leaders supported the HUMAN in human ... more

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Businesses are People Too! A Podcast episodes:

August 12, 2022Season 4, Episode 12: What if....businesses were actually neural circuits?
What if....businesses were actually neural circuits? with Lindsay Harle, Businesses are People Too! A Podcast! and Quirky Lindsay Harle
On this episode, we dive on in and learn:
How is a team like a neural circuit?

What's a neural circuit?

What's a neuron?

How each team member see their role within the larger team

How individuals see each others and their roles within the larger team

How one person impacts the larger ecosystem of the team

Neuroplasticity of a team

Values and their role in neuroplasticity and team alignment

Environment priming in supportive of reinforcing a neural circuit

Progress takes time; changing behaviours, attitudes and mindset requires patience

How to build up specific neuron strength within the team neural circuit

Connect with Lindsay
Website: www.quirkylindsayharle.com

Instagram: @quirkylindsayharle

LinkedIn: Lindsay Harle-Kadatz

Email: [email protected]

Stay connected with Mental Prune Juice, a weekly resource for leaders on brands, values, and team health and alignment
...more
19min
July 29, 2022Season 4, Episode 11: What if....businesses invested in driving passion?
What if....businesses invested in driving passion? with Kira Day, The Passion Centre
On this episode, we dive on in and learn:
What cold workplace cultures drive over their people

The impact of functioning in alignment versus functioning in fear

How our childhood experiences shape our beliefs in what we can "have"

Passion focuses on what is meaningful to the individual and whether or not they're able to express this in the world

The Passion Formula: Passion = Meaning x Investment (P = M x I)

What drives meaning

You cannot find passion. You have to activate it from within

What passion drivers are via the study Kira and her team conducted

What parameters impact your ability to feel passion

Angela Duckworth links passion with sustainable performance over time

Kira's Passion Study identifies the internal and external passion drivers

Passion is a holistic experience which is dependent upon the emotions scale

How our emotions are hardwired into our physical experience of passion

People develop emotional diversity based on how they're wired and how they've been allowed to express these emotions/passion

To ask what is driving our passion

What is influencing our access to our passion

Passion is energy positive, whereas an absence or imbalance of passion is energy negative

Passion is personal

Kira's answer to "What if...businesses realized that they are people too?" (33:46)
Links in this episode:
Website: www.thepassioncentre.com

LinkedIn: Kira Day
Connect with Lindsay online:
Website: www.quirkylindsayharle.com

Instagram: @quirkylindsayharle

LinkedIn: Lindsay Harle-Kadatz

Email: [email protected]

Stay connected with Mental Prune Juice, a weekly resource for leaders on brands, values, and team health and alignment
...more
36min
July 22, 2022Season 4, Episode 10: What if....businesses used this not-so-hidden secret for success?
What if....businesses used this not-so-hidden secret for success? with Kayla Walsh, ISC Health
On this episode, we dive on in and learn:
How the brain, body, and environment impact each other (a wee bit of biopsychosocial health)

What is energy management

How are choices impact our understanding of our energy investments

Why values, boundaries and roles are important for our self image in business

The reality behind the health of the leadership team and it's impact on business

The trifecta of business health and how it impacts our honest energy over supplemental energy

The Sleep - Caffeine - Stress cycle

How to identify what we're doing to hurt ourselves

The cycles we may be trapping ourselves in

The importance of behaviour modelling, not behaviour telling

What rest really means...hint...it's not being on social media

What leaders can model for their people in order for all to be a well-rested team

True rest results in higher quality of work and efficient hustle, not ineffective hustle

Kayla's answer to "What if...businesses realized that they are people too?" (29.18)
Links in this episode:
Website: inspiringselfcare.org

Instagram: @isc_health

Facebook: @isc_health

LinkedIn: ISC Health Program

Sept 2022 Program Registration: Annual Women's Come & Grow 2-Day Retreat
Connect with Lindsay online:
Website: www.quirkylindsayharle.com

Instagram: @quirkylindsayharle

LinkedIn: Lindsay Harle-Kadatz

Email: [email protected]

Stay connected with Mental Prune Juice, a weekly resource for leaders on brands, values, and team health and alignment
...more
33min
July 15, 2022Season 4, Episode 9: What if...businesses turned down the suck to turn up their possible?
What if...businesses turned down the suck to turn up their possible? with Tim Sweet, Team Work Excellence
On this episode, we dive on in and learn:
That business is a relatively new human experience

Work can no longer be a fixed experience, but one that's in constant flux

Why the destruction of old systems allows teams to be stronger and help people achieve their potential

What re-norming is and why it's needed today

In order for teams to grow together, they must feel involved in the culture development

Leaders cannot be passive; they must be active participants in their team

Tim's 3 Trust Pillars: logic through understanding, empathy for greater connection, and authenticity for consistency

Workplaces are emotional experiences

Hybrid teams bring a new threat to team trust

What the difference between suboptimal and optimal/high-performing teams is

What "high-performing" actually means

To question if we have the right metrics for success

Great leaders can still fail if the company structures, processes, design, and strategy are not set up correctly

The interconnectivity of all factors for team failure

The difference between capacity and WILLING capacity

Why leadership is not taught in business school (hint...it's a private journey)

The health of the individual relies on the health of the whole

Tim's answer to "What if...businesses realized that they are people too?" (1:00:52)
Links in this episode:
Discovery Call: twe.team/discovery

TWE Solutions: twe.team/solutions

LinkedIn: Tim Sweet
Connect with Lindsay online:
Website: www.quirkylindsayharle.com

Instagram: @quirkylindsayharle

LinkedIn: Lindsay Harle-Kadatz

Email: [email protected]

Stay connected with Mental Prune Juice, a weekly resource for leaders on brands, values, and team health and alignment
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1h 12min
July 08, 2022Season 4, Episode 8: What if....businesses recognized that WE is greater than ME?
What if....businesses recognized that WE is greater than ME? with Suzanne Ricard-Greenway, SR Greenway Leadership
On this episode, we dive on in and learn:
Feltman's Model of Trust (The Thin Book of Trust)

The theory, results, and insights on how to build trust via the Absolute Trust System

Proactively, consciously building trust means anything is possible. When teams trust each other, they OWN mistakes, take accountability, challenge the status quo, etc.

Trust allows leaders to be engaged and involved with their team

Trust encourages innovation and creativity because of the synergy it creates for teams to thrive and produce

Cognitive elaboration grows from trust - this is where the "impossible" solutions begin to happen

In trusted environments, people love going to work

Trust breeds the extraordinary

2 of the 4 pillars of the Absolute Trust System

Pillar 1: People have different starting points with trust. Some give instantly, others require it be earned, others are somewhere in between

Pillar 2: Our trust blind spots, meaning what we look for in trust is what we show in trust. Our brain defaults to "what makes sense to me makes sense to you," but this is not always the case (rarely)

The simplest way to build trust is to ask them what you need to do to build their trust

Clarity of expectations is crucial to earn or keep your trust. Create the same definition for expectations - finite details matter

Trust building = transparent, explicit, and detailed communication

Leaders gain trust from their people by being transparent, reliable, competent, and being an advocate for their people

Teams who trust each other elevate their level of diversity, connection, and vulnerability.

Trust between teams become about the we and not the me of the team

Trust is what will move teams out of storming, into norming, and all the way to performing

Suzanne's answer to "What if...businesses realized that they are people too?" (45:37)
Links in this episode:
Website: srgreenway.com

LinkedIn: Suzanne Ricard-Greenway
Connect with Lindsay online:
Website: www.quirkylindsayharle.com

Instagram: @quirkylindsayharle

LinkedIn: Lindsay Harle-Kadatz

Stay connected with Mental Prune Juice, a weekly resource for leaders on brands, values, and team health and alignment
...more
49min
April 01, 2022Season 4, Episode 7: What if....businesses decided to DANCE with innovation?
What if....businesses decided to DANCE with innovation? with Dr. Caroline Brookfield, The Reluctant Creative
On this episode, we dive on in and learn:
The #1 skill businesses are seeking for their teams

The difference between big C and little c creativity

How to access our own creativity beyond the traditional sense of the word

93% of businesses say they want innovation, but only 18% of people feel safe taking creative risks in their workplace

The two judgement barriers of creativity - internal and external

Why rejection feels like physical pain

How leaders can model creativity while braving judgement

Why creating a safe space to explore all creative failure is how we get to the “good stuff”

The practice of creative failing to work our creative muscle

Benefits of creativity. E.g., higher income, better leadership, more confidence in uncertainty, etc.

The power of a "literary mullet," fun in the front, data in the back

The biological facts about creativity

Creativity is contagious

Why and how leaders can support teams to step into creativity

Why we tend to fall back into status quo solutions when feeling uncertain and how creativity can reduce this

How to redefine creativity within our business teams

That DANCE helps to democratize creativity in teams (Daydream, Ambiguity, Novelty, Curiosity, and Edit Later)

The difference between divergent creativity (ideating without judgement) and convergent creativity (distilling divergent creativity)

Daydreaming = productive boredom

Tolerance of Ambiguity to build non-status quo solutions

How Novelty builds more data points for connecting to unique solutions in our brains

Curiosity is the foundation of all creativity

Ernest Hemingway was right when he said "Write drunk, edit sober" (separating divergent and convergent creativity)

Caroline's answer to "What if...businesses realized that they are people too?" (42:46)
Links in this episode:
Website: carolinebrookfield.com, thereluctantcreative.com

LinkedIn: Dr. Caroline Brookfield

Instagram: @artfulscience

YouTube: Creative Lifescaping
Connect with Lindsay online:
Website: www.quirkylindsayharle.com

Instagram: @quirkylindsayharle

LinkedIn: Lindsay Harle-Kadatz

Email: [email protected]

Stay connected with Mental Prune Juice, a weekly resource for leaders on brands, values, and team health and alignment
...more
46min
March 25, 2022Season 4, Episode 6: What if....businesses stopped asking people to pay?
What if....businesses stopped asking people to pay?
On this episode, we dive on in and learn:
The difference between giving and paying

What happens when we pay attention versus giving attention to prospects

How employees can thrive when given attention
Connect with Lindsay online:
Website: www.quirkylindsayharle.com

Instagram: @quirkylindsayharle

LinkedIn: Lindsay Harle-Kadatz

Email: [email protected]

Stay connected with Mental Prune Juice, a weekly resource for leaders on brands, values, and team health and alignment
...more
16min
March 18, 2022Season 4, Episode 5: What if....businesses believed that business was personal?
What if....businesses believed that business was personal? with Mike Cameron, MikeCameron.ca
On this episode, we dive on in and learn:
To have buy-in from our people, we need to tap into their emotions

Emotionally connected leaders build better businesses

Emotion is the foundation that supports our cognition

Why business is about the quality of our relationships

Leaders must learn the individual driving motivators for their people

The difference between traditional goal-setting versus setting values, intentions, and milestones

Importance of being creative and agile when circumstances throw a wrench in a path to reaching our milestones

How gathering in circles and not squares is how to cultivate divergent thinking

Why we should practice creating spaces for our people to feel safe in being creative

How our emotional decisions can have extreme permanent consequences

How we can prevent our emotions from having life-altering consequences that cause harm

Why leaders need to feel and not just think

Why compassion and empathy need boundaries and accountability to be impactful in a leadership role

How to have team meetings using the SOAR Framework: slow down, open up, accept, reconnect

That when we numb one emotion, we numb all emotions

The power of simply acknowledging and naming an emotion

That mental health has a 51 Billion dollar impact on businesses

Roughly half a million Canadians miss work each week due to a mental health concern

We don't have to give up productivity in place of empathy and caring

Mike's answer to "What if...businesses realized that they are people too?" (51:58)
Links in this episode:
Website: mikecameron.ca

LinkedIn: Mike Cameron

Instagram: @axiommike

Other: [email protected]
Connect with Lindsay online:
Website: www.quirkylindsayharle.com

Instagram: @quirkylindsayharle

LinkedIn: Lindsay Harle-Kadatz

Email: [email protected]

Stay connected with Mental Prune Juice, a weekly resource for leaders on brands, values, and team health and alignment
...more
56min
March 04, 2022Season 4, Episode 4: What if....businesses listened to understand?
What if....businesses listened to understand?
On this episode, we dive on in and learn:
The importance of listening in the workplace for burnout

The importance of preparing to listen

How to prepare to listen, including preparing your emotions, biases, body, and breathing

Why safety, approval, and control are part of the speaker's journey

What tone and speed in speech help to indicate

Why behaviour is part of listening

How to close the gap between providing information and supporting your people to use the information provided
Connect with Lindsay online:
Website: www.quirkylindsayharle.com

Instagram: @quirkylindsayharle

LinkedIn: Lindsay Harle-Kadatz

Email: [email protected]

Stay connected with Mental Prune Juice, a weekly resource for leaders on brands, values, and team health and alignment
...more
20min
February 25, 2022Season 4, Episode 3: What if....businesses practiced deep listening?
What if....businesses practiced deep listening? with Oscar Trimboli, podcast host of Deep Listening
On this episode, we dive on in and learn:
Listening is a practice, like any other skillset

The maths of listening; the 125/400 Rule and the 125/900 Rule

The difference between hearing and listening

The power of a pause and how to use it

Why "how" is a good process-oriented question

The difference between feedback and feedforward and which one promotes more action

Why we must ask who's potentially missing from our conversation - who's not being listened to

The power of short questions

Why process-oriented questions of 10-words or less promote comprehension and application

The difference between great leaders and managers

The role the leader plays in setting the listening temperature of a group

An engaging technique for teams to set better listening and leverage time

The three lenses of listening for leaders: self, people, greater ecosystem

The number 1 thing that distracts people from listening

The three questions to use to explore what isn't being said: Tell me more, what else, pause

How to evolve a question/thought when guided by an engaged listener

The importance of a reflective practice, a group of trusted advisors, and having hobbies

The four listening villains

How to teach your boss to listen

Oscar's answer to "What if...businesses realized that they are people too?" (1:05:10)
Links in this episode:
Listening quiz: www.listeningquiz.com

Website: www.oscartrimboli.com
Books in episode:
Permission to Feel by Marc Brackett, Ph. D.

Selfish, Scared, and Stupid by Dan Gregory & Kiernan Flanagan

It's Who You Know by Janine Garner
Connect with Lindsay online:
Website: www.quirkylindsayharle.com

Instagram: @quirkylindsayharle

LinkedIn: Lindsay Harle-Kadatz

Email: [email protected]

Stay connected with Mental Prune Juice, a weekly resource for leaders on brands, values, and team health and alignment
...more
1h 11min

FAQs about Businesses are People Too! A Podcast:

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The podcast currently has 52 episodes available.