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Wise@Work episodes

  • WW006 – Building a Resilient Organization – Bill Duane
    In This Episode
    Bill Duane, wellbeing expert, engineering executive, and organizational consultant and Wisdom Labs’ Michael Taft, discuss the intersection of individual resilience and organizational effectiveness.
    Bill Duane works at the intersection of individual resilience and organizational processes and culture, creating ways of working and being that increase effectiveness, innovation, adaptability and happiness at scale. As a long time engineering executive, Bill is passionate about providing practical, specific skills and management methods to allow people and organizations to meet the challenges of being a human today.
    Before becoming Google’s Superintendent of Well-being, Bill ran several groups with the Site Reliability Engineering organization at Google.  He also has 10 years of consulting experience in healthcare, manufacturing, finance, telecom and media with studies in neuroscience, team effectiveness, mindfulness and the latest in well-being science.
    Conversation includes: reaching the individual in times of stress, how to best implement mindfulness in the workplace, the importance of giving attention to organizational resilience, the power of leadership modelling, and the need for connection and understanding in corporate settings.
    Links:
    Research on Working Additional Hours
    Dr. Tania Singer
    Greater Good
    The Science of Well-Being
    Research on Compassion and Empathy
    Show Notes
    2:48 – Bill’s Story From Stressed to Resilient
    4:52 – What Does My Community Need?
    5:50 – Bill’s Time at Google
    6:38 – Hope is Not a Strategy
    7:13 – Mindful Mediation
    7:35 – Wellbeing Advice as Organizational Advice
    9:18 – The Importance of Organizational Resilience
    10:19 – What Behavior Are You Rewarding?
    11:23 – The Power of Leadership Modelling
    13:58 – Our Responsibility to Desired Narrative and Values
    15:55 – Creating a New Narrative Culture
    16:28 – Failing Intelligently and Magnificently
    17:08 – Rewarding Intelligent Failure
    17:55 – Orienting New Team Members on Organizational Culture and Values
    18:33 – Encouraging Core Values on a Daily Basis
    19:27 – The Beauty of a Good Workplace Culture
    20:33 – The Mindfulness Pushback
    22:12 – The Importance of Skilled Teachers and Values for Mindfulness at Work
    23:13 – Cultivating Values and Connection for Mindfulness Programs
    25:44- The Transactional Door to Mindfulness as an Entry Point
    26:41 – A Wise Teacher Meets the Student Where They Are
    28:54 –  The Next Unfolding of Mindfulness in the Workplace
    30:25- Compassion and Empathy vs. Connection and Understanding
    35 min
  • WW005 – Can Going to Work Be Good for Your Health? – Parneet Pal, MBBS, MS
    In This Episode
    Parneet Pal, MBBS, MS, a Harvard and Columbia-trained Physician and Chief Science Officer at Wisdom Labs, and her Wisdom Labs colleague, Meghna Majmudar, discuss the workplace as part of a long-term health plan. Parneet explains epigenetics and the powerful link between adversity and health decline, as well as the importance of finding meaning and purpose in work and life.
    Conversation includes: How to create wellness programs that work, positive behavior changes and the limits of willpower, the value of psychological safety in the workplace, and how the essence of compassion is courage, not kindness.
    Links:
    Dr. Steve Cole and Wisdom Lab Study
    Conserved Transcriptional Response to Adversity
    Prefrontal Cortex
    Parasympathetic Nervous System
    Psychological Safety
    The Aristotle Project
    Amy Curry – Women in Leadership
    Show Notes
    1:31 – The Power of Lifestyle Medicine
    3:15 – The Lifestyle Medicine Movement
    3:50 – The Evolution Public Health
    4:31 – The High Cost of Stress in the Workplace
    5:41 – Creating Wellness Programs That Work
    7:15 – The New Field of Epigenetics
    9:07 – Your DNA is Not Your Destiny
    9:50 – The Effects of Stress and Adversity on Gene Expression
    11:15 – Epigenetics and Illness in the Workplace
    12:10 – Mindfulness Can Lower Inflammation and Increase Connection with Others
    14:31 – The Limits of Motivation and Will-Power
    16:27 – Creating Positive Behavior Changes
    17:43 – Mindfulness and Compassion Are Key for Creating New Options
    19:17 – Meaning and Purpose Protect Your Health
    20:00 – Finding Purpose and Meaning In and Out of the Workplace
    21:34 – Compassion is Good for Your Health and Your Company
    23:09 – Building Psychological Safety
    24:04 – Lead By Example with Vulnerability
    25:05 – The Responsibility of Leaders
    26:29 – New Leaders and the Importance of Warmth
    27:59 – Trust and Mindful Listening
    28:48 – “Let’s Do This Together”
    29:15 – Compassion is Courage
    31:43 – Acts of Courage in the Workplace
    37 min
  • WW004 – The Joy of Not Knowing – Judson Brewer, M.D., Ph.D.
    In This Episode
    Judson Brewer, M.D., Ph.D., a thought leader in the field of habit change and the “science of self-mastery,” and Wisdom Labs’ Michael Taft, explore workplace burnout and the cutting edge solutions, as well as the ancient wisdom practices, that can help you avoid that trap.
    Conversation includes: how empathy fatigue can lead to suffering and burnout, the power of curiosity and mindfulness, and how to expand into positivity and flow day to day in your work. Judson also shares knowledge on overcoming anxiety and “the joy of not knowing.”
    Links
    Judson Brewer
    Default Mode Network
    Jon Kabat-Zinn
    Empathy Fatigue
    Flow
    Judson’s New App Unwinding Anxiety
    Show Notes
    1:07 –  Workplace Burnout and Empathy Fatigue
    4:20 – What’s Going on with Empathy and Empathy Fatigue?
    5:54 – The Contraction of Empathy
    7:45 – The Mindfulness of Letting Go
    9:19 – Taking on Other’s Pain vs. Acceptance and Compassion
    10:36 – Being Instead of Doing
    11:25 – The Power of Curiosity
    13:30 – Being with Suffering without Taking It On
    15:02 – Taking Self Out of the Way
    17:08 – Calibrating the System for Compassion and Resiliency
    19:13 – Unwinding Anxiety
    21:50 – Expanding into Positivity
    22:20 – Moving Toward Flow Moment by Moment
    22:52 – Exploring the Conditions that Create Flow
    25:27 – The Joy of Not Knowing
    26:09 – Curious Awareness
    28 min

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We spend the majority of our waking hours at work—if business is going to be a force for good in our world, it’s going to be an inside job. The Wise@Work podcast is passionate about exploring the…