Practice Your Leadership

In this second episode of a two-part reflection series, Saralyn invites you to take what you’ve learned from looking back on your year in order to consciously choose what practices – in your leadership and your life as a whole – you wish to take with you into 2022, and what you wish to leave behind.

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Grab your favourite pen, all. It’s time to do your own work. In this first episode of a two-part reflection series, Saralyn invites you to look back on your 2021 and all of its significant happenings and learnings, so you can begin to consciously craft meaningful commitments to your leadership and inner work moving into the New Year.

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We’re taught to equate productivity with output. To bulldoze through even when we’re running on empty. To constantly do more. But what if we told you that notion is harming us, our teams, and our work? That reflection, relationship building, and even rest can be productive? In this episode, Saralyn is joined by Annika Voltan, Executive Director of the Community Sector Council of Nova Scotia, to advocate for a drastic recalibration of how we define productivity for ourselves, our teams, and our organizations.

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Team alignment matters. Why? The only way to create the meaningful change you were built for is to journey together with collective beliefs, actions, and behaviours towards your team’s purpose. But what does an aligned team actually look like? In Saralyn’s experience, an aligned team: actively defines and consciously works in a brave space that prioritizes psychological safety in order to hold difficult yet required conversations, deeply understands their shared priorities to ensure everyone and everything is pointed in the same direction, and operationalizes the behaviours of trust in a way that works for everyone on the team.

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Create the intention, attention, and space required to cultivate psychological safety on your team. Why? So you can be intentional in your behaviours and align your heads, hearts, and efforts towards the impact you were formed for. How? Define it – Amy Edmondson defines psychological safety as “a belief that one will not be punished or humiliated for speaking up with ideas, questions, concerns, or mistakes.” Talk about it – Explore the lived experience of what psych safety looks like on your team. Cultivate it – Intentionally create the conditions and conversations needed to hold your team in brave spaces. 

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Is your team avoiding hard conversations for the sake of false harmony? It’s time to disrupt the “peace.” Avoiding conflict is only harming your team and its work. When teams begin to explore areas of discomfort, conflict becomes productive data that can help transform the way you work together for the better. What’s required? Creating brave spaces to host honest conversations, cultivating psychological safety, and doing your own inner work to hold yourself accountable.

Teams must journey together. Both in the work itself, and by centring the team as the work.

But how do you do that? How do you journey together to reflect on “us” as a team and build back stronger? 

In this week’s podcast, Saralyn explores how teams can benefit from the ferocity of reflection using the following practices:

• Reflection Studios – Take the time to integrate your collective learning and align
• Adaptive Cycle – Examine how you behave together, creating space for new practices
• Our No List – Create an inventory of what you have permission to not work on
• Hopes & Fears – Explore your hopes and fears as a team

The inner work of teams requires reflective, intentional practice so we can collectively learn and journey together. 

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How do we work together? It may seem like a simple question, but it’s powerful. When teams talk about how they work together, they oil the machinery for doing the work together. In this episode, Saralyn explores asking this question through different lenses – accountability, power, discomfort, trust, and language – in order to hold a continual conversation around the required inner work of teams.

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As the podcast continues to hold conversations around optimizing team relationships and dynamics, Saralyn begins to explore the importance of focusing on the inner work of teams. In this episode, she explores the necessity of aligning and reflecting on your team’s behaviour, putting relationships at the centre of your team’s work, and doing your own work as a team so you can align towards your impact. Dysfunctions exist in every team. The inner work of teams is to journey together, intentionally.

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Saralyn sits down with thought leader, social justice activist, and out-of-the-box thinker Tyler Colbourne to talk about how his new role has the power to pull one of the biggest levers in team dynamics of all time – focusing on the team so the team can focus on the work.

This dedicated role sees the team as its work and cultivates the conditions to: 

• Make space for conflict and difficult conversations
• Challenge the status quo and patterns
• Navigate power and equity
• Hold reflective pauses to integrate and take action 
• Dance in the tension of empowerment and accountability
• Hold relationships at the centre of it all

This is one of our 1:1 Power Conversations. We Learn Out Loud from Tyler’s experience in dedicating a role to cultivating the conditions for teams to thrive.

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