the uplift

A discussion of the fourth stage of psychological safety - the safety to challenge the status quo - as form of institutionalized and acceptable dissent.

[02:22]: The three stages of psychological safety we've covered so far: Inclusion Safety, Learner Safety, and Contributor Safety. Today we'll dig into the role of dissent in psychological safety and explore how institutions create a culture where folks are in the habit of disagreeing in order to get better.

[05:22]: What "the safety to challenge the status quo" can look like at work - and how I used it in my role as "the purpose girl."

[8:35]: An example of how an organization can have varying levels of psychological safety based on differing team dynamics, and how that can be exacerbated by race and gender bias.

[13:44]: "Where psychological safety is high, there is necessarily a high level of inclusion and belonging."

[15:30]: The role of discipline in creating a culture where people can disagree. That's discipline as in consistent behavior, not as in punishment.

[21:00]: Recommended strategies for embracing dissent, inclusion, and discipline, no matter your role, style, or level of leadership.

[30:50]: Hey have you left a review yet? Please do it today!

Let's connect! Come find me on LinkedIn, Instagram, or Facebook.

I also coach women leaders (individually and in groups) and facilitate campus workshops. Learn more at the website.

Have a question about whether I can help you? Just ask! I actually love getting emails from listeners. 🧡

"Being a contribution" -- an idea from The Art of Possibility by Rosamund Stone Zander and Benjamin Zander --  provides a frame for creating the 3rd stage of psychological safety (Contributor Safety), even as it helps you develop what Amy Edmondson calls Leadership Inclusiveness. 

Let's connect! Come find me on LinkedIn, Instagram, or Facebook.

I also coach women leaders (individually and in groups) and facilitate campus workshops. Learn more at the website.

Have a question about whether I can help you? Just ask! I actually love getting emails from listeners. 🧡

For better or worse -- & TBH, just for worse -- our busy-ness has become a measure of our worth. But activity is not achievement. We know this from teaching. Now it's time to infuse this into our leadership practice.

Let's connect! Come find me on LinkedIn, Instagram, or Facebook.

I also coach women leaders (individually and in groups) and facilitate campus workshops. Learn more at the website.

Have a question about whether I can help you? Just ask! I actually love getting emails from listeners. 🧡

Some of your best skills in the classroom translate to your best skills as a leader. In this episode I explore the second stage of psychological safety -- the safety to learn -- and draw parallels between what successful teachers know in the classroom and the ways leaders can create learner safety for their teams. 

Let's connect! Come find me on LinkedIn, Instagram, or Facebook.

I also coach women leaders (individually and in groups) and facilitate campus workshops. Learn more at the website.

Have a question about whether I can help you? Just ask! I actually love getting emails from listeners. 🧡

in today's episode i discuss why inclusion matters so much to psychological safety, and how to identify inclusive behaviors in your own leadership, on your team, and even from your own boss. i weave together research from amy edmondson, nika white, and timothy clark. i also share some resources you can use today to identify behaviors you can change to improve psychological safety for your team, as well as behaviors you can look for to assess your own team's levels of inclusion with each other.

Let's connect! Come find me on LinkedIn, Instagram, or Facebook.

I also coach women leaders (individually and in groups) and facilitate campus workshops. Learn more at the website.

Have a question about whether I can help you? Just ask! I actually love getting emails from listeners. 🧡

I recently hosted a couple workshops designed to help leaders find joy in their work again. On today's episode I share the audio of the workshop along with the workbook participants used to complete the activities. Grab a copy of the workbook -- a color copy to print, or a fillable PDF -- and follow along!

Listen to this episode along with #35, The Secret to Joy at Work, as a kind of mini-course on using consistent feedback on meaningful work to re-energize your team, increase their inner work joy...and in the process, reignite your pleasure and happiness in your leadership.

Let's connect! Come find me on LinkedIn, Instagram, or Facebook.

I also coach women leaders (individually and in groups) and facilitate campus workshops. Learn more at the website.

Have a question about whether I can help you? Just ask! I actually love getting emails from listeners. 🧡

After talking with women across the country about how to love your job again, we're digging into the core premise: inner work joy comes from getting consistent feedback on meaningful work. This is findings of the research from Teresa Amabile and Stephen Kramer, which they share in their book The Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement, and Creativity at Work.  

Let's connect! Come find me on LinkedIn, Instagram, or Facebook.

I also coach women leaders (individually and in groups) and facilitate campus workshops. Learn more at the website.

Have a question about whether I can help you? Just ask! I actually love getting emails from listeners. 🧡

When I told a friend about my dream of building an app to help women see whether their new-boss-to-be is toxic -- before they accept that new job -- he burst out laughing and said “you’re on a serious vendetta here.” 

My first response was oh no, no no no. And then immediately I was like uhhh, yeah, maybe a little bit.

In this episode I explore how what could have been a vendetta instead has become my mission to transform higher ed. 

Let's connect! Come find me on LinkedIn, Instagram, or Facebook.

I also coach women leaders (individually and in groups) and facilitate campus workshops. Learn more at the website.

Have a question about whether I can help you? Just ask! I actually love getting emails from listeners. 🧡

This idea has pervaded my life since childhood, but I hadn't heard (or remembered) the phrase until I saw it last summer, painted starkly on a building mural near George Floyd Square in Minneapolis. For days I couldn't get the phrase out of my head.

Budgets reflect values - that's not news. I've seen this at play in institutional budgets on every campus where I've worked. It's at the heart of our debates every budget cycle. As leaders, we have a responsibility to ensure our institutional values and our distribution of resources are aligned. And when they're not? We should be honest about that.

After seeing George Floyd Square, I began to wonder what our lives could look like if we approached all our budgets through this lens. How would we allocate our money? Our time? Energy? Our love?

Today I invite you to think about the resources you have and what you do with them. What do you save and spend? What do you cling to out of fear or worry? What do you generously distribute? And why? What's behind all those choices and feelings?

This is just one issue I help women leaders explore in my new course, Leading with Clarity. The course gives leaders the space and community that makes it possible to think deeply and connect the dots between our personal values and priorities, the ways we plan, and how we lead our teams. Doors will open soon -- join the waitlist so you can be first to hear when registration opens!

Join the waitlist: https://theclareogroup.com/leadingwithclarity

Let's connect! Come find me on LinkedIn, Instagram, or Facebook.

I also coach women leaders (individually and in groups) and facilitate campus workshops. Learn more at the website.

Have a question about whether I can help you? Just ask! I actually love getting emails from listeners. 🧡

This week I reflect on lessons from my “Year of Yes.” Shonda Rhimes coined this phrase in her 2016 book Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person.

Higher ed is not great at creating space for women to integrate our desires and aspirations. We are complex creatures - we seek professional success, disciplinary expertise, promotions and positive evaluations, connections with our families and people we love, our hobbies and fulfillment, and the ability to build a life in a place we care about. At least, this has been my experience - and I've spent my career accepting all those compromises in pursuit of professional success and recognition. But then last January I came to face-to-face with the truth: this was no longer working for me.

So this year, I embraced my "Year of Yes" and decided to rebuild my life to be integrated and joyful, inside and outside of work.

SHOWNOTES: https://theclareogroup.com/2023/01/09/lessons-from-my-year-of-yes/

Let's connect! Come find me on LinkedIn, Instagram, or Facebook.

I also coach women leaders (individually and in groups) and facilitate campus workshops. Learn more at the website.

Have a question about whether I can help you? Just ask! I actually love getting emails from listeners. 🧡