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For today we have Rishita Jones as our guest, and we will be talking about HR and the Employee experience. Rishita is the Founder of NRG HR. She is an HR Transformation Specialist that focuses on disrupting the status quo and is intent on building people-centered HR practices using agile HR, design thinking and technology to enrich and uplift the Human Experience in the workplace.

Let's dive right in and learn how Rishita disrupts the status quo to over all enrich and uplift human experience in the workplace

Things you will learn in this episode:

[00:01 – 05:10] Opening Segment

• I welcome and introduce my guest, Rishita Jones, to the show
• Rishita talks about the mindset and framework as an Agile coach and facilitator
• • Her ambition and purpose is to create human-centered enterprises
• Rishita talks about the Agile principles in the HR

[05:11 – 11:41] HR and Team engagements

• Rishita talks about employee engagements and feedback
• • There should be a daily engagement between teams and management
• The importance of getting more information from your employees

[11:42 – 26:04] How to better interact with employees 

• What leaders can do to improve team engagements
• • Have a daily check-in
  • Acknowledge your employees
  • Do a quick recall at the end of each day or week
  • At the end of each day, ask your team what made them sad, glad, and mad
• The difference between Trust and Psychological safety
• Agile mindset for leaders in the workplace
• • As a leader, ask how your team what they need from you
  • As a leader, how can you bring your team together?
  • How can you make their day better than when they came in

[26:05 – 31:12] Closing Segment

• What do you think still needs to be said?
• • As leaders, we need to re-examine our processes, reduce complexity and increase agility so we can meet the needs of the customers much faster.
• Final words from me and Rishita

Tweetable Quotes:

"You can't build trust in your team if you don't show your vulnerability first. You've got to give something of yourself if you want others to give something of themselves too." - Rishita Jones

"It's not about giving the employees what they want, it's about giving the right conditions and environment for them to succeed. It's about being able to understand where they're coming from." - Rishita Jones

You can connect with Rishita on LinkedIn. Send her an email at [email protected] or visit her website https://www.nrg-hr.com/ 

To know more, you can connect with me on LinkedIn, and follow the podcast on Instagram, and Twitter. Be sure to visit our website https://thehappyhealthyworkplace.com/ for even more content. Email me at [email protected], I'd love to hear your thoughts.

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Today we're talking with Jeff Harry about how to infuse more play into the workplace to help your staff find their flow. Jeff has worked for various international companies like Google, Microsoft, the NFL, Amazon, and Facebook.

Jeff is an International Positive Psychology speaker and was selected by Bamboo HR and Engagely as one of the top 100 influencers of 2020 for his organizational development work. Jeff's playwork has been featured in the New York Times article How to Add More Play to Your Grown-up Life, Even Now.

Let's dive right in and learn from Jeff on how infusing play in the workplace can help you and your staff find your flow in the day-to-day and do your best work.

Things you will learn in this episode:

[00:01 – 08:16] Opening Segment

• I welcome and introduce my guest, Jeff Harry, to the show
• Jeff talks about his background
• • His inspiration to start Rediscover Your Play
• Jeff shares his insight on Positive Psychology

[08:17 – 14:13] Recognizing your inner critic

• Breaking down the play experiment
• Jeff talks about your inner critic
• • Identifying your inner critic
  • Acknowledging and distinguishing yourself from your inner critic

[14:14 – 20:27] The Process and Result of the Playshop

• Jeff talks about how he conducts his workshop
• • Play values in the workplace
• Eradicating toxicity in the workplace
• • Organize and take up more space
  • Confront the toxic person directly
  • Go to the supervisor
  • Dig into your inner critic and stand-up to the toxic person

[0:0 – 0:0] Closing Segment

• What do you think still needs to be said?
• • Managers should consider to spend less time focusing on what needs to get done and spend more time checking in with their staff and really focusing on connection.
• Final words from me and Jeff

Tweetable Quotes:

"You can't destroy your inner critic, you can't get rid of it. It's there for a reason, it's just not as needed as much anymore. You just have to recognize it because it wants to be recognized rather than just put it in the back seat." - Jeff Harry

"When you are able to do your flow work, your zone of genius work, just a little bit more. It actually has a ripple effect, a positive effect on all the other work that you do. And if you start your day with that positive work, that's amazing." - Jeff Harry

Resources Mentioned:

• Top 100 Influencers of 2020 for Organizational Development
• How to Add More Play to Your Grown-Up Life, Even Now
• The Big Leap by Gay Hendricks
• How Play Can Solve Your Employee Engagement Problem by Jeff Harry

You can connect with Jeff on LinkedIn, Instagram and Twitter or. Visit his website https://www.rediscoveryourplay.com/ 

To know more, you can connect with me on LinkedIn, and follow the podcast on Instagram, and Twitter. Be sure to visit our website https://thehappyhealthyworkplace.com/ for even more content. Email me at [email protected], I'd love to hear your thoughts.

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Encouragement is the fuel that powers hope. Today we're talking with Brian Sexton about why this is important. Brian, the host of the Intentional Encourager Podcast, is a seasoned veteran in sales management as well as other industries and has been awarded in his fields. Through the years he came to the realization that there is little encouragement in our world. Brian seeks to break down barriers, create connective bridges to become an indispensable partner to customers and encourage growth in people.

Let's dive right in and learn from Brian how the power of intentional encouragement can positively impact you and your workplace. 

Things you will learn in this episode:

[00:01 – 07:06] Opening Segment

• I welcome and introduce my guest, Brian Sexton, to the show
• • Brian's business achievements and current activities 
• Brian gives a bit of background 
• • 25 years of sales experience 
  • A lot of expertise, not a lot of encouragement
  • Seeing the effects of intentional encouragement 

[07:07 – 13:17] Intentional Encouragement; The Fuel That Powers Hope 

• Brian talks about the difference between intentional and regular encouragement 
• • Passion vs. purpose 
  • Purpose goes along with intentionality 
  • Finding ways to impact someone where they are at 
• Why it's important to do this for your staff
• • You can encourage your staff and it may drive them forward
  • Encouragement is the fuel that powers hope
  • People are at the point where our work is our lives 
  • They need to know they are valued at work 
• Brian talks about value vs. appreciation
• • Value is more important 
  • Giving specific things to your staff that you value
  • • This is what Brian values about me

[13:18 – 21:53] Tactical Steps to Becoming the Intentional Encouragers

• Brain talks about where we start
• • Understand what a specific person brings to the table 
  • Brian's fire analogy 
  • Ex: of an impactful encouraging statement 
  • Give it often 
• I talk about what I learned from Brandon Laws - link below
• The effects of knowing that you're valued
• • You are more likely to continue working in that environment 
  • You are going to try to be consistent in your actions
• We talk about our kid's experience in the workplace 
• • Value has become determined by social media 
  • Giving your children the right tools

[21:54 – 26:53] Closing Segment

• What do you think still needs to be said?
• • 1. You have the right to become a free agent to find value
  • 2. Encourage yourself every day 
  • • You can't fill other's cups if yours is empty
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• Final words from me and Brian

Tweetable Quotes:

"Purpose and intention go along with each other… Intentionally I wake up and say, 'ok, today I've got to impact somebody, I've got to impact something.'" - Brian Sexton

"Encourage yourself everyday… Before you encourage others, you have to be encouraged yourself." - Brian Sexton

"A pat on the back is only 18 inches from a kick in the butt…" - Brian Sexton

Resources Mentioned:

• Podcast episode featuring Kristen Sherry
• Podcast episode featuring Brandon Laws
• Xenium

You can connect with Brian on LinkedIn and Twitter or email [email protected]. Visit https://intentionalencouragerpodcast.podbean.com/ and tune into his amazing podcast providing value to many.

To know more, you can connect with me on LinkedIn, and follow the podcast on Instagram, and Twitter. Be sure to visit our website https://thehappyhealthyworkplace.com/ for even more content. Email me at [email protected], I'd love to hear your thoughts.

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Welcome back! Today we're talking with Danielle Dobson. Danielle is a licensed CPA, Personal Trainer, Wellness Coach, and the author of Breaking The Gender Code. Breaking the Gender Code unpacks why we feel the constant pressure to keep all of the balls in the air and why we think we have to. It looks at how the cultural myths created and reinforced over millennia underpin our expectations today and aren't serving us. But most importantly it deconstructs how to do it differently.

Let's tune in and get into Danielle's story about why she became passionate about women in the workforce and how you can take the first steps to break your own code and do things your own way. 

Things you will learn in this episode:

[00:01 – 11:57] Opening Segment

• I welcome and introduce my guest, Danielle Dobson, to the show
• • Speaker, author, and mother
  • Making a difference in the workforce
  • Using what you have to get what you want 
  • Supporting mothers 
• Danielle talks about how her passion began
• • Originally set out just to get to know the people she would coach better
  • Helps mothers lead at work and lead at home 
  • Wonder Women on the outside but feel unworthy 
  • Built critical skills from being a parent 
  • What started as research became a mission
• "To fix the problems in the workforce, I had to break my own work code"
• Danielle talks about gender roles within evolution 
• • We're more similar than we are different 
  • Gender roles are learned through culture, they are not adapted 
• Massive expectation gaps
• Write your own code and leave out the rest

[11:58 – 24:45] Understanding the Gender Code 

• I talk about my own experience with expectations in work life and parenting
• We assume rather than ask 
• • We often don't have the conversations that need to happen 
• Why are you the CEO of the home yet you're expected to clean all the toilets?
• Danielle talks about the mental load on women
• • For every hour the man does work at the home, women do an hour and forty-six 
• Quantify the unpaid work 
• The value of sharing the load and caring for people 
• • Professional benefit and asset 
• Danielle talks about how men can support women in the workplace appropriately 
• • Have conversations where you're asking rather than assuming
  • Listen to understand not respond 
  • Leaders who have empathy, they don't need answers, they need questions
• Decide for yourself what parts of the code you want to keep, leave, write or create
• "If I tell you if I'm thirsty, I'm not asking for water but for you to feel my thirst"

[24:46 – 30:35] Breaking the Gender Code 

• Breaking and Writing your own code
• • Just because it worked before doesn't mean it will today
  • Gender, empathy and understand
• Breaking your code sets others up after you to break their own 
• Danielle talks about her experience seeing what motivates people 
• • The things you can't measure are harder to sustain 
  • Effort and commitment to make a change in the code
• There is a direct correlation between having women in leadership and the productivity of the business 
• • Improved by 6.6% in market value
  • Having more gender balance in the workforce raises profitability 
• Women look for connections in order to succeed 
• • Building psychological safety in the workplace 
• Ultimately empathy wins

[30:36 – 36:25] Closing Segment

• I expand a bit on the important psychological safety
• • Being agile means changing 
  • Connect with someone like Danielle to figure out how to create this 
• What do you think still needs to be said?
• • Your first step is to get curious and ask yourself the question
  • Is this working? Why or why not? 
  • Ask your males in the workforce if they have any questions 
• Final words from me and Danielle

Tweetable Quotes:

"I was interviewing all these amazing people and they were Wonder Women on the outside, but not one thought they were worthy of that title. They just lived and operated as what they thought society expects." - Danielle Dobson

"Rather than basing our lives on gender codes and unrealistic expectations, we can actually define what we want and let go of the rest." - Danielle Dobson 

"When you listen to somebody, listen to understand and listen to connect rather than listening to respond or react." - Danielle Dobson

Resources Mentioned:

• Breaking The Gender Code

You can connect with Danielle on LinkedIn. Visit her website https://www.codeconversations.com.au/ to keep the conversation going. 

To know more, you can connect with me on LinkedIn, and follow the podcast on Instagram, and Twitter. Be sure to visit our website https://thehappyhealthyworkplace.com/ for even more content. Email me at [email protected], I'd love to hear your thoughts.

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Today I had the immense pleasure of speaking with one of the Founders of Snackcess, Sonny Drinkwater. Sonny's mission is to educate people about healthy living in simple and easily understandable ways and to provide the products and services that allow people to execute this. Sonny and his co-founders believe healthy living can be fun, rewarding and liberating, as well as bring a long term return on investment for your company.

Let's jump right into Sonny's story and learn why healthy eating is so important in your workplace and how we can work together to simplify the process.

Things you will learn in this episode:

[00:01 – 08:30] Opening Segment

• I welcome and introduce my guest, Sonny Drinkwater, to the show
• • Founder of Snackcess
  • Simplify healthy lifestyle
  • Other two founders, Joshua Barley and Kiren Fitzgerald
• Sonny talks about why he started this company
• • Interested in fitness form a young age 
  • Felt too guilty eating more food
  • Not what you're eating but how you look at it 
  • Noticed a striking change in performance after starting on the path to healthy living
  • Simplify healthy living by taking an existing habit like snacking and making it healthier
• I talk about my own journey towards healthy living related to Sonny's mission
• We look too much at the symptoms rather than the causes

[08:31 – 17:30] Breaking Through the Workplace Power Struggle

• I talk about taking individual responsibility towards healthier living
• I share a story of a former client of mine 
• • Giving out Red Bull in the workplace 
  • Power struggle providing healthy options
• Sonny speaks about this issue 
• • How can we make this easy for people and affordable for companies
  • Making healthy living the norm by giving good ROI
  • • Boosting productivity by 20%
  • Encouraging snack breaks
  • Positive mental health
  • 90% of Serotonin (the happy hormone) is produced in the gut
• Creating water cooler moments

[17:31 – 29:30] Simplify Healthy Living Through Eating

• I talk about presenteeism in the workplace 
• • We don't know their story or stress 
• Sonny talks about the path to healthy living in the workforce
• • It's a lifestyle choice and it can start with eating
  • Creating inspiration to take personal responsibility 
  • Helping people adopt the right habits
• Proactive vs Reactive 
• I share a story about another client 
• • Holding a sugar detox that didn't facilitate change
• Sonny talks about how he makes the change easy and simple
• • Employees need to connect with the idea
  • Snacks include 10 items, juice and coffee
  • • Helpfulpeeps Bristol
    • Rhythm 108
  • Transparent and simplified ingredients 
  • Showing people how easy it is and offering support
  • Team effort

[29:32 – 34:21] Closing Segment

• What do you think still needs to be said?
• • The environmental impact to eating healthy is second to none
  • Better eating is more sustainable and leaves the world a better place for people to come
  • The Food Fix by Mark Hyman
• How to connect with Sonny
• • Links below
• The importance of label reading
• • Look for transparent ingredients
• Final words from me and Sonny

Tweetable Quotes:

"It's actually simple to live a little bit healthier, and the steps we take we get this sort of fly-wheel effect where healthier eating leads to a little bit more training and a little bit more focus in other parts of your life." - Sonny Drinkwater

"Healthy living within the workforce boosts productivity by 20%, it reduces absenteeism, and the long term effects completely outweigh any sort of misconception that might cross your mind about healthy snacking being considered expensive… " - Sonny Drinkwater

"You can live a healthier life, and it's more simple than you think…" - Sonny Drinkwater

Resources Mentioned:

• Helpfulpeeps Bristol
• Rhythm 108
• The Food Fix by Mark Hyman

You can connect with Sonny on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn. Hop on over to his website https://snackcess.co.uk/ to learn how you can engage your team with healthy, energizing snacks. 

To know more, you can connect with me on LinkedIn, and follow the podcast on Instagram, and Twitter. Be sure to visit our website https://thehappyhealthyworkplace.com/ for even more content. Email me at [email protected], I'd love to hear your thoughts.

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