The Workplace Chameleon with Dr. Celina

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If we aren't leading our teams, they are following someone. What else happens when there is a leadership void or someone who isn't prepared or empowered to lead? Dr. Celina explores both the lack of leadership and opportunity it creates to do better than "Simon says" and step in to make an impact where you can.

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Dr. Celina takes on the gap of alignment and ties it to strategy. When we don't know where we are going, we end up in all sorts of places, and always the best ones in our teams and organizations. Listen in and explore where gaps of alignment may exist and how, whether as a leader or individual contributor, you can stretch your perspective to see best ways to align resources so we can deliver our very best.

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Furthering our conversation and understanding about gaps, Dr. Celina addresses why we should seek them out. While gaps happen because of a deficiency, they are also an opportunity. By uncovering and naming, we can choose what to do next. This is our second episode in Season 3 to address the issue of gaps. Stay tuned in each of the next episodes, we'll address specific types of gaps - trust, communication, perspectives, processes, and more. With over 40 types I have already identified for our next future episodes, there is so much we can look at. Join us for more discussion and learning about what we do to close the gap.

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Kicking off Season 3, Dr. Celina is tackling one of the biggest opportunities she sees in companies everyday: gaps. Listen in as we start a journey exploring all the ways and places gaps show up in our teams and organizations and what you can do to see them with new insight!

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Frustration can emerge from unmet expectations. Dr. Celina explores more in this episode about what we can learn from what type of expectations we have, how they were set, and what happened as a result.  Teams today are even more challenged by shifting priorities, demands, and goals.  As a result, expectations can shift quickly.  Listen in to hear Dr. Celina share some of those examples and ways we can navigate that at work better.

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What frustrates you? Dr. Celina takes a look at the emotion of frustration in this episode because there seems to be a whole lot of it going on in our world, our organizations, our teams, and daily life.  What can you learn from your frustration?  In this short episode we'll look at what is in your control, what impact you have on it, and why it might be frustrating you at this moment.  If you can understand that more, maybe you can reset your expectations sooner to free up some energy and focus for something else more positive or important.

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What does control do for you?  What do you need from it?  If you find it hard to let go of control, Dr. Celina takes on a few ideas in this episode about why you might want to keep it and why you need to let some go.  Dig a little deeper into your own "why" and find a new opportunity to release some stress, support other people's learning, and be more collaborative in your work.

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How are you? It’s a question that some times confuses us in not knowing how to answer or even if it is just a greeting. Dr. Celina explores this question and its connection to self-care.  How do we articulate “how we are” when we aren’t even sure “how we are”?  Listen in and learn more about the changing definitions of self-care and being able to respond to this question the next time you are asked.  

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When do you step in?  If conflict can't be avoided and leaders must help others work through it, when do you intervene and when do you not?  In this episode Dr. Celina outlines reminders of why we want to build skills in others so they solve it directly yet recognize signs that our help is needed. Support those around you better by not letting conflict fester and address it sooner, not later.

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Recently Dr. Celina spent some time with HR professionals in a discussion about teaching ethics in today's workplace.  In this episode she shares some of that insight with listeners while also connecting it to a wider picture about the role of leaders in setting and defining ethical decision-making structures in their teams and organizations.  Even if you aren't a leader of a team, there are good reminders in here that you have to be clear on your own values, boundaries, and decision-points before you are confronted with a situation that adds pressures to figure that out.