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This week we welcomed Christina Blacken to Intentional Conversations!

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KEY TAKEAWAYS & RESOURCES:

• Storytelling is your most powerful tool for trust building. Story helps in finding meaningful connection beyond transaction.
• Leadership is a practice, it is not just about title status and appearance.
• If your culture is toxic and unsafe and full of inaccurate stories, people will not want to stay.
• How do you create when all you're talking about is what’s bad and what’s wrong?
• It can be difficult for companies to shift cultures without a change management strategy.
• Recognizing what the positives are in the change… how does the change actually express your values?
• Leaders need to be clear on your transformation story, if you’re not doing this, people will insert their own story.
• Telling story Pulling from lived experience is important. These steps sound intuitive, and not difficult, but a lot of people are not doing it.
• What are you regularly consuming? What you are consuming has an impact on the internal narratives you have.
• Practice. Get clear on your values and create a structure of story-telling around your values.
• Psychological safety is very important when telling stories, affirming what you’ve heard deepens trust.
• Whatever narrative you’ve picked up from your family will show up in the workplace.
• Slow down the stories you assume about others. Ask "Is the story I’m attaching to this person in this moment inaccurate and am I asking enough questions?" It will create changes we didn’t know was possible.
• When things are falling apart, it is a great time for regeneration.
• Christina's LinkedIn Course

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