To learn more about how embodiment training can help you
successfully integrate young workers, visit…www.evleaerlab.com/integrateGenZ

In this episode, Amanda and Timm share how the ancient internal martial art of Tai Chi is used in embodiment training which can be very beneficial for leading at work and in your life.

We'll discuss where Tai Chi comes from and what makes it ideal for embodiement training.  We'll give examples of how Tai Chi can be a vehicle for being more aware of how you are showing up in life and work and learning important distinctions that can be put into practice.

Because this season is about helping Gen Z thrive at work, we'll also discuss some specific ways that embodiement training can support young workers thrive in the workforce.  Because Gen z will soon  be making up over a third of the workforce and 10% of our managers, it is important to everyone that they  thrive and succeed.

#EVLeaderLab #leadership #embodiedleadership
#leadershipdevelopment #innovation #successmindset #mentor #development
#businessdevelopment #workplaceculture #GenZWorkplace #LeadershipMatters
#ConnectedWork #Tai Chi

To learn more about how embodiment training can help you
successfully integrate young workers, visit…www.evleaderlab.com/integrateGenZ



Our guests in this episode have chosen to use their
influencer identities - Ruby and Zatare (or just Z).  Ruby and Z are in a relationship and they actually met through their respective influencer channels.  Both Ruby and Z entered the workforce as young adults and both of them have chosen to focus on charting their own course rather than seeking a career through employers.



Be patient in learning about Ruby and Z’s background and experience, because interspersed are some of the key cultural and philosophical issues.  We learn how Ruby and Z see the tradeoffs that Gen Z workers will be making as they decide to how to shape their path to making a living and living a good life.



For example, one insight is that while doing your own thing provides much greater flexibility, it comes with the constraint and pressures of still needing to make a living.  Ruby shared that she prefers self-employment because there are days when for health reasons she physically cannot accomplish all of her typical tasks but she can stay engaged in her work goals while taking care of her health needs.  In contrast, in a typical employment setting, she’d either have to buck it up and neglect her health, or call in sick and not contribute or get paid at all.



The interview also touches on: what Gen Z workers aspire to and what they believe is possible, what is behind the rise in do it yourself, crafts and trade, how Ruby and Z view leaders and leadership opportunities, as well as is Gen Z feeling lonelier than previous generations? And much more.

#EVLeaderLab #leadership #embodiedleadership #leadershipdevelopment #innovation #successmindset #mentor #development #businessdevelopment #workplaceculture #GenZWorkplace #LeadershipMatters #ConnectedWork #GenZInfluencers

To learn more about how embodiment training can help you successfully
integrate young workers, visit www.evleaderlab.com/integrateGenZ.

Our guest, John Scudder is a native Arizonan who
works as a human resources manager in the public school system. He
previously served as an elementary and middle school principal, and he taught
for 10 years prior to that.  One of John’s
current responsibilities is hiring new public school teachers into his district.

In this show we explore how the current demands and
challenges for teachers and how new young teachers just entering the school
system are managing those demands.  John
explains why now more than ever, we need these young teachers to succeed and
thrive.

John references the 3 primary motivations of workers
(purpose, autonomy and mastery) by Daniel Pink , and “The Art of Science and
Teaching by Robert J. Marzano as he explains what he thinks it is going to take
to keep young teachers in the profession and the roles that school
administrators need to play to facilitate desired result.

#genzworkforce, #publicschoolteachers, #EVLeaderLab #LeaderLabAZ #leadership #embodiedleadership #leadershipdevelopment #innovation #successmindset #mentor #development #businessdevelopment #workplaceculture #GenZWorkplace #LeadershipMatters #ConnectedWork

To learn more about how embodiment training can help you
successfully integrate young workers, visit…www.evleaderlab.com/integrateGenZ.



This is one of this season’s short episodes where Timm and
Amanda discuss ways that we help Gen Z integrate and thrive in the workplace in
our embodiment curriculum.



In this episode, we discuss the Anatomy of Action, a
fundamental framework for understanding where results come from.  The Leader Lab adopted this framework, with
permission, from Bob Dunham of the Institute for Generative Learning.



 The Anatomy of Action explains how the results
organization’s desire are connected to the deeply engrained cares of their
employees.  We also discuss how the
Anatomy can be applied to help Gen Z thrive in the workplace, and why this is
important to all of us.



#genzworkforce. #embodiment, #Leadership, #GenZ, #EVLeaderLab, #leadership #embodiedleadership #leadershipdevelopment #innovation #successmindset #mentor #development #businessdevelopment #workplaceculture #GenZWorkplace #LeadershipMatters #ConnectedWork

To learn more about how embodiment training can help you
successfully integrate young workers, visit www.evleaderlab/integrateGenZ.



Our guest, Jorge Sanchez is Senior Programs Manager at Aliento, where he oversees daily operations, staff professional development, and ensures compliance with grants and programmatic requirements.  He is also the direct supervisor of Guadalupe Reynoso Jiminez who was our guest in Episode 2.

Jorge explains how, like Guadalupe, most of his team of Project Coordinators are Gen Z and they come in through Aliento's client base of "Dreamer" kids and their families. It is sort of a built in workforce development pipeline that gets their Gen Z employees off to a great start.

Jorge cautions other organizations and mangers that keeping the same standards as they always have for promotional opportunities (e.g. need 10 yrs of experience to move up) is missing an opportunity because this generation picks things up and adapts so fast.  

He also highlights the importance of focusing on soft skills development with young new workers. They set professional standards for communicating and showing up on time as part of their basic employee development which, as we could see in our interview with Guadalupe pays dividends in how they show up to customers and everywhere else.

And, as successful as Aliento is at developing new young workers, he does share some of the challenges they've found managing this generation and how they use "full reflective practices" and other techniques to help their younng workers thrive.

To learn more about Aliento, view or listen to Season 1, Episode 2 of Mind & Body@Work for an interview with their Executive Director.

#EVLeaderLab #leadership #embodiedleadership #leadershipdevelopment #innovation #successmindset #mentor #development #businessdevelopment #workplaceculture #GenZWorkplace #LeadershipMatters #ConnectedWork #dreamers, #defendDACA

To learn more about how embodiment training can help you
successfully integrate young workers, visit…www.evleaderlab.com/integrateGenZ.

Our guest, Guadalupe Reynoso Jiminez, is Leadership Development Coordinator
at Aliento, where she supervises their Arizona’s Future Fellowship
program.  Aliento is a non-profit that
provides advocacy for, and support to, students as well as undocumented,
dacamented and mixed status families. 
Lupe is also a product of Aliento and the first university graduate in
her family.

Lupe is an example of someone who sought out and has found
work aligned with her purpose. She believes Gen Z in general feels more
empowered to find fulfilling work – not just get a job.  That being said, she also feels like the
environment is making it tougher to feel economically sound enough to do that.

Lupe relates that she has found it important for employers
to be a little flexible in how they expect the new generation to carry out
tasks and meet the stated goals rather than training them to do everything the
way it has always been done.

Lupe is so well spoken and competent that we were surprised
when she told us that her biggest challenge in entering the workforce has been
fighting back internal fear and self doubt. 
And our audience may be surprised to learn what Lupe says she and her
friends talk about when they aren’t working.

In an upcoming episode, we’ll be having a conversation with
Lupe’s direct supervisor at Aliento.

#genzworkforce, #dreamers, #defendDACA, #EVLeaderLab  #leadership #embodiedleadership #leadershipdevelopment #innovation #successmindset #mentor #development #businessdevelopment #workplaceculture #GenZWorkplace #LeadershipMatters #ConnectedWork

To learn more about how embodiment training can help you
successfully integrate young workers, visit…www.evleaderlab.com/integrateGenZ.

Timm and Amanda introduce Mind & Body@Work’s Second
Season – “Helping Gen Z Thrive in the Workplace”.  This season we will be talking to young
people entering the workforce as well as some of the people who hire and manage
Gen Z employees.  In shorter episodes, between
guest episodes, Timm and Amanda will discuss some of the ways they use embodiment
practices to increase well-being and leadership in their Leader Lab courses.

It is in all of our interests that the latest generation
thrive in the workforce.  Come see what
Season 2 is about!

#EVLeaderLab #leadership #embodiedleadership #leadershipdevelopment #innovation #successmindset #mentor #development #businessdevelopment #workplaceculture #GenZWorkplace #LeadershipMatters #ConnectedWork

To learn more about addressing well-being on your team, visit (https://www.evleaderlab.com/well-being).

Our guests are David and Shannon Baxter, Founders of Beanchain, which is both a coffee shop and a long term plan to improve the lives of workers.

David and Shannon have an operating coffee shop and community hub in Mesa Arizona.  But their vision is much bigger.  David suffered from poverty as a teenager and young adult and he is committed creating opportunities so others can achieve financial well-being and without having to experience that suffering.  Shannon also shares her dream of helping people and animals through horse therapies and other methods. 

The current Beanchain store is intended to test a template for worker directed businesses (which can be an interim step to a worker owned cooperative), where centralized services are automated and run through a non profit so that there is more profit to share among the workers as they learn to become the decision makers and direct the business. The next phase they envision is attracting other existing businesses to this model and providing the roadmap for transitioning from privately owned and directed to the Beanchain model. The model can apply to any business, not just coffee shops.

If you are local, come see the atmosphere David and Shannon have created in the center on the NE corner of Alma School and Southern in Mesa, along with their variety of food and drink offerings (e.g. amazing cinnamon roles!). If not, you can learn more about their model and plans online and on social media platforms at bchain.coffee.  David mentioned you can also learn a lot of about worker cooperatives at disco.coop and recommends “Care for Capitalism: Democracy at Work” y Richard Wolf and “Manufacturing Consent” by Noam Chomsky

#mind&body@work, #embodiedleadership, #wagetheft, #beanchain, #workerownedcooperatives

To learn more about addressing well-being on your team, visit (https://www.evleaderlab.com/well-being). 

Our guest Jacob Talbot is Managing Partner of “SixthDivision” and a grief counselor, along with being a husband, father, author and hobbyist.

SixthDivision helps small businesses succeed, by helping them master marketing tools and other elements key to business success, AND a good life.  Their technical expertise creates an opportunity to do some sophisticated leadership coaching, measured at least partially by improvements in their clients revenues.

We learned what some of this coaching could look like as Jacob described how his organization operates.  How they hire and onboard people to ensure they won’t have to fire anyone.  How they take care of each other whenever someone is dealing with health or other distracting issues. How they operate on trust and have a simple set of values that they help each other really live by.  Not to mention a lot of fun “shiny” benefits they share with their employees (e.g. massage Fridays!).

Jacob’s leadership and coaching are informed by his other vocation of grief recovery counselor.  And his story of how he got into this and how he works with his clients leads to another of his big ideas - “The Giver Method”, which is about developing your gifts into superpowers and offering them to others without asking for anything in return (because the Univers will always pay you back).  Jacob’s book of that title will be coming out soon. 

You can learn more about Jacob and his passions at SixthDivision.com, AZGriefREcovery.com, TheGiverMethod.com and you will also likely find him by searching “Jake the Comic”.

To learn more about addressing well-being on your team, visit (https://www.evleaderlab.com/well-being). 

Our guest, Bob Dunham, is Founder of the Institute for Generative Leadership and developer of the discipline of Generative Leadership

 IGL is an international organization with hubs on 4 Continents. 

Bob has led the organization since 1993, teaching intensive multi-year courses on Leadership and Coaching in organizations, as well as consulting with companies around the world.

Bob co-authored The Innovator’s Way: Essential Practices for Successful Innovation (with Peter J. Denning), and most recently "The Power of Owning Up" (with Sameer Dua).

Bob provides a great summary of what is meant by generative leadership, how it begins with a full understanding of action in the world, and how it is a "full body contact sport."  He describes individual and organizational success stories where people discovered blindspots and used them as portals to greater possibilities for themselves and others.

Bob shares a powerful acronym to remember about who we are - SELPH.  We are all Somatic, Emotional, Linguistic, Practicing, Historical beings, and effective leadership and the good life require attending to all these aspects.  

Bob explains that in order to have personal and organizational well-being, and enabling others to be healthy, we need healthy conversations, healthy connection, and healthy listening skills.

To learn more about Generative Leadership and IGL, go to https://generateleadership.com/,  or pick up Bob’s most recent book, The Power of Owning Up.