Workday Playdate

You work with people, but how much of your daily tasks have to do with understanding those people in a way that will change the way you work together? As a change agent focused on restoring humanity into both our work and workplaces, Anna Oakes takes on the question of bringing your attention back to the people, no matter what your job title is. ICYMI – Your Post-Episode Homework: Ask yourself these three questions: 1) Am I trying new things and are we giving people permission to do that at work? 2) Are we investing in leadership? 3) Are our benefits in line with our company values? Answer these three questions, send it to someone on your team, and have a conversation around this episode.   Connect with Anna Oakes:

• Anna’s Instagram
• Anna’s LinkedIn

• Tell us about your fails and/or send a question/voice message on SpeakPipe here!
• Want to book Erin to speak at your organization or large-scale event: Learn more here!
• Did today’s episode resonate with you? Please leave us a review for a chance to win a self-care package from us!
• Take the quiz to download your free Wellness Workbook!

• @itserindiehl on Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter 
• Erin’s LinkedIn 
• improve it! TikTok 
• improve it! Instagram 
• improve it! Facebook 
• improve it! website 
• Book a Laugh Break 
• Book a Workshop 
• Email Erin: [email protected]

🌟 Learn more about Workday Playdate: https://www.learntoimproveit.com/podcast-page
🎤 Book Erin to speak: https://www.learntoimproveit.com/keynote-speaker
📚 Workshops & Team Experiences: https://www.learntoimproveit.com/experiential-training
💌 Learn more about Erin: https://www.itserindiehl.com/meet-erin
📱 For more information on improve it! visit www.learntoimproveit.com.

If this conversation made you think differently about work, leadership, or building joyful teams, please follow Workday Playdate on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, leave a review, and share this episode with someone who could use more play in their workday.

If you’re not taking all of the candy in the candy jar, you’re exactly where you need to be. Anna Oaks is a change agent focused on restoring humanity into both our work and workplaces. Raised by hippies, she’s always had a natural inclination to leave the world better than we found it. She brought this proclivity from her childhood into over two decades of work in small, mid-sized, and large companies focusing on strategy, growth, and culture. She toggles between being both an intrapreneur, or working directly in companies, and also an entrepreneur, or working on solutions to make work better through her own company, Oaks Co. In this episode, Erin and Anna discuss what it means to be an intrapreneur vs. an entrepreneur (and why you’re probably already doing both), why intention overrules your opinion, and how doing what is asked of you and nothing more is saving our workplace culture. ICYMI – Your Post-Episode Homework: Think about your current role.  Maybe you're an intrapreneur listening to this show and you don't recognize that you are an intrapreneur. Or maybe you're an entrepreneur listening to this show and you lead a team of people and that team might include some intrapreneurs. How can you get more curious? Is this the season of your life that you are going to do that? Maybe it's not your season and you want to leave the candy on the table. But if this season feels like you can dream and you want to get curious, I want you to jot down a list of three ways that you're going to get more curious at your current role.   Connect with Anna Oakes:

• Anna’s Instagram
• Anna’s LinkedIn

• Tell us about your fails and/or send a question/voice message on SpeakPipe here!
• Want to book Erin to speak at your organization or large-scale event: Learn more here!
• Did today’s episode resonate with you? Please leave us a review for a chance to win a self-care package from us!
• Take the quiz to download your free Wellness Workbook!

• @itserindiehl on Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter 
• Erin’s LinkedIn 
• improve it! TikTok 
• improve it! Instagram 
• improve it! Facebook 
• improve it! website 
• Book a Laugh Break 
• Book a Workshop 
• Email Erin: [email protected]

🌟 Learn more about Workday Playdate: https://www.learntoimproveit.com/podcast-page
🎤 Book Erin to speak: https://www.learntoimproveit.com/keynote-speaker
📚 Workshops & Team Experiences: https://www.learntoimproveit.com/experiential-training
💌 Learn more about Erin: https://www.itserindiehl.com/meet-erin
📱 For more information on improve it! visit www.learntoimproveit.com.

If this conversation made you think differently about work, leadership, or building joyful teams, please follow Workday Playdate on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, leave a review, and share this episode with someone who could use more play in their workday.

Remember the last time you were sucked into a rabbit hole? Maybe it was this morning when you checked your phone right after you heard your alarm go off. Perhaps it was during your lunch break scrolling through Tik Toks detailing some of Robert Pattinson’s best (and worst) outfits. Or maybe it was during your one free hour at night where no one’s asking you to do anything. These rabbit holes are everywhere, every day, in every moment. In today’s episode, Erin shares her #1 hack for jumping over the rabbit holes and back into real life. ICYMI – Your Post-Episode Homework: Challenge yourself to completely unplug from your nemeses this weekend. Let us know how you felt on Monday morning by sending us a message @learntoimproveit on Instagram.   Show Links:

• Tell us about your fails and/or send a question/voice message on SpeakPipe here!
• Want to book Erin to speak at your organization or large-scale event: Learn more here!
• Did today’s episode resonate with you? Please leave us a review for a chance to win a self-care package from us!
• Take the quiz to download your free Wellness Workbook!

• @itserindiehl on Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter 
• Erin’s LinkedIn 
• improve it! TikTok 
• improve it! Instagram 
• improve it! Facebook 
• improve it! website 
• Book a Laugh Break 
• Book a Workshop 
• Email Erin: [email protected]

🌟 Learn more about Workday Playdate: https://www.learntoimproveit.com/podcast-page
🎤 Book Erin to speak: https://www.learntoimproveit.com/keynote-speaker
📚 Workshops & Team Experiences: https://www.learntoimproveit.com/experiential-training
💌 Learn more about Erin: https://www.itserindiehl.com/meet-erin
📱 For more information on improve it! visit www.learntoimproveit.com.

If this conversation made you think differently about work, leadership, or building joyful teams, please follow Workday Playdate on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, leave a review, and share this episode with someone who could use more play in their workday.

Play looks different on everyone, but it has some common denominators: it helps us learn new tasks better, improves our mood, and boosts our productivity. If you’re asking yourself how it’s possible to add play into a 40-hour work week, Erin has five answers for you to take and run with on today’s episode. ICYMI – Your Post-Episode Homework: Add one of the five ways to add more play into your workday into tomorrow’s schedule.   Show Links:

• The improve it! Spotify playlists
• improve it! Laugh Breaks
• Tell us about your fails and/or send a question/voice message on SpeakPipe here!
• Want to book Erin to speak at your organization or large-scale event: Learn more here!
• Did today’s episode resonate with you? Please leave us a review for a chance to win a self-care package from us!
• Take the quiz to download your free Wellness Workbook!

• @itserindiehl on Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter 
• Erin’s LinkedIn 
• improve it! TikTok 
• improve it! Instagram 
• improve it! Facebook 
• improve it! website 
• Book a Laugh Break 
• Book a Workshop 
• Email Erin: [email protected]

🌟 Learn more about Workday Playdate: https://www.learntoimproveit.com/podcast-page
🎤 Book Erin to speak: https://www.learntoimproveit.com/keynote-speaker
📚 Workshops & Team Experiences: https://www.learntoimproveit.com/experiential-training
💌 Learn more about Erin: https://www.itserindiehl.com/meet-erin
📱 For more information on improve it! visit www.learntoimproveit.com.

If this conversation made you think differently about work, leadership, or building joyful teams, please follow Workday Playdate on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, leave a review, and share this episode with someone who could use more play in their workday.

When you think about reconnecting to your inner child, what comes to mind? Maybe it’s finger painting or playing hopscotch. Maybe it’s taking some time to go outside. Maybe it’s everything that seems, for a lack of better words, like a silly waste of time. Since inner child work may not be on the top of your to-do list or leadership-building agenda, Erin is here today to explore the idea that reconnecting to your inner child—and taking it seriously—may be the missing piece to enhancing your creativity, attracting everything that’s meant for you, and viewing the world with fresh eyes so the world can view you with fresh eyes, too. This episode is for you if you know something needs to change but you’re not sure what. Inner child = reconnected. ICYMI – Your Post-Episode Homework: Put the five steps to connecting back to your inner child into action and let us know how it goes at [email protected].   Show Links:

• Tell us about your fails and/or send a question/voice message on SpeakPipe here!
• Want to book Erin to speak at your organization or large-scale event: Learn more here!
• Did today’s episode resonate with you? Please leave us a review for a chance to win a self-care package from us!
• Take the quiz to download your free Wellness Workbook!

• @itserindiehl on Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter 
• Erin’s LinkedIn 
• improve it! TikTok 
• improve it! Instagram 
• improve it! Facebook 
• improve it! website 
• Book a Laugh Break 
• Book a Workshop 
• Email Erin: [email protected]

🌟 Learn more about Workday Playdate: https://www.learntoimproveit.com/podcast-page
🎤 Book Erin to speak: https://www.learntoimproveit.com/keynote-speaker
📚 Workshops & Team Experiences: https://www.learntoimproveit.com/experiential-training
💌 Learn more about Erin: https://www.itserindiehl.com/meet-erin
📱 For more information on improve it! visit www.learntoimproveit.com.

If this conversation made you think differently about work, leadership, or building joyful teams, please follow Workday Playdate on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, leave a review, and share this episode with someone who could use more play in their workday.

If you read the title and you’re asking yourself, “How do you make the leap from personality test to culture of belonging?” We have the answer for you. In the final episode of this three-part series, join Erin and Enneagram expert Sandhya Sudhakar as they examine how to use the Enneagram to build a culture where all are seen, heard, and valued in your organization. ICYMI – Your Post-Episode Homework: Take the Enneagram test here. Understand your number, take a look at the results, put some intention into understanding this for you, and give yourself a safe space to do this. Then, encourage your team to take this assessment. You don't need to understand every single nuance of their Enneagram, but get a high-level overview of their Enneagram number. This will help you as a leader to understand the motivations for the people that you serve.   Show Links:

• Tell us about your fails and/or send a question/voice message on SpeakPipe here!
• Want to book Erin to speak at your organization or large-scale event: Learn more here!
• Did today’s episode resonate with you? Please leave us a review for a chance to win a self-care package from us!
• Take the quiz to download your free Wellness Workbook!

• @itserindiehl on Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter 
• Erin’s LinkedIn 
• improve it! TikTok 
• improve it! Instagram 
• improve it! Facebook 
• improve it! website 
• Book a Laugh Break 
• Book a Workshop 
• Email Erin: [email protected]

🌟 Learn more about Workday Playdate: https://www.learntoimproveit.com/podcast-page
🎤 Book Erin to speak: https://www.learntoimproveit.com/keynote-speaker
📚 Workshops & Team Experiences: https://www.learntoimproveit.com/experiential-training
💌 Learn more about Erin: https://www.itserindiehl.com/meet-erin
📱 For more information on improve it! visit www.learntoimproveit.com.

If this conversation made you think differently about work, leadership, or building joyful teams, please follow Workday Playdate on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, leave a review, and share this episode with someone who could use more play in their workday.

Sitting beside our excitement for something as interesting as the Enneagram test is also our doubt – how accurate can it be? How can we use the results in meaningful ways? In part two of this three-episode series, Erin and Enneagram expert Sandhya Sudhakar discuss the Enneagram’s biggest challenges and how to work with them, not against them, for yourself and your team. Listen to learn how to take you and your team’s Enneagram results and put internalization, action, and intention around them. ICYMI – Your Post-Episode Homework: Listen to part three of this series, Episode 170. It’s all about how the Enneagram can help us build a culture of belonging within our teams and organizations.   Show Links:

• Tell us about your fails and/or send a question/voice message on SpeakPipe here!
• Want to book Erin to speak at your organization or large-scale event: Learn more here!
• Did today’s episode resonate with you? Please leave us a review for a chance to win a self-care package from us!
• Take the quiz to download your free Wellness Workbook!

• @itserindiehl on Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter 
• Erin’s LinkedIn 
• improve it! TikTok 
• improve it! Instagram 
• improve it! Facebook 
• improve it! website 
• Book a Laugh Break 
• Book a Workshop 
• Email Erin: [email protected]

🌟 Learn more about Workday Playdate: https://www.learntoimproveit.com/podcast-page
🎤 Book Erin to speak: https://www.learntoimproveit.com/keynote-speaker
📚 Workshops & Team Experiences: https://www.learntoimproveit.com/experiential-training
💌 Learn more about Erin: https://www.itserindiehl.com/meet-erin
📱 For more information on improve it! visit www.learntoimproveit.com.

If this conversation made you think differently about work, leadership, or building joyful teams, please follow Workday Playdate on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, leave a review, and share this episode with someone who could use more play in their workday.

I am such a Type 4. You’re definitely a Type 2. My inner-Type 3 is coming out to play. Maybe you know your Enneagram type or perhaps this is all new to you. No matter which boat you’re in, Erin and Enneagram expert Sandhya Sudhakar discuss how she first became interested in Enneagram, why taking a sabbatical was the best decision she could’ve made, and how Enneagram helps us to understand how our core motivations can help us develop as leaders. Sandhya Sudhakar created a company called Self at Work where she takes a trauma-informed, inclusive approach to leadership, development, and wellbeing in the professional sphere. Sandhya’s main goal is to help leaders build meaningful connections with themselves, their teams, and their work so they can achieve breakthrough business results without burning out their employees or themselves. If you are a leader who wants to understand yourself so that you can understand your teams on a deeper, meaningful, tangible level, then this three-part series is for you. ICYMI – Your Post-Episode Homework: Take the Enneagram test here to gain a deeper understanding of your core motivations.   Show Links:

• Tell us about your fails and/or send a question/voice message on SpeakPipe here!
• Want to book Erin to speak at your organization or large-scale event: Learn more here!
• Did today’s episode resonate with you? Please leave us a review for a chance to win a self-care package from us!
• Take the quiz to download your free Wellness Workbook!

• @itserindiehl on Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter 
• Erin’s LinkedIn 
• improve it! TikTok 
• improve it! Instagram 
• improve it! Facebook 
• improve it! website 
• Book a Laugh Break 
• Book a Workshop 
• Email Erin: [email protected]

🌟 Learn more about Workday Playdate: https://www.learntoimproveit.com/podcast-page
🎤 Book Erin to speak: https://www.learntoimproveit.com/keynote-speaker
📚 Workshops & Team Experiences: https://www.learntoimproveit.com/experiential-training
💌 Learn more about Erin: https://www.itserindiehl.com/meet-erin
📱 For more information on improve it! visit www.learntoimproveit.com.

If this conversation made you think differently about work, leadership, or building joyful teams, please follow Workday Playdate on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, leave a review, and share this episode with someone who could use more play in their workday.

In a world where we fear disappointing others no matter what the cost is – your job is to go through life disappointing as many people as it takes to prevent disappointing one person... Yourself. As a recovering people-pleaser and improvisor who’s reflex is to say, “Yes, and...” Erin gives you her #1 tip for setting boundaries and sticking to them – zero guilt included. ICYMI – Your Post-Episode Homework: Send Erin a message (contact info below) about who/what you’re saying “no” to. Download the Wellness Workbook by taking the quiz (below) to create your own Wall of Nay like Erin mentioned in today’s show.   Show Links:

• The Compound Effect by Darren Hardy
• Tell us about your fails and/or send a question/voice message on SpeakPipe here!
• Want to book Erin to speak at your organization or large-scale event: Learn more here!
• Did today’s episode resonate with you? Please leave us a review for a chance to win a self-care package from us!
• Take the quiz to download your free Wellness Workbook!

• @itserindiehl on Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter 
• Erin’s LinkedIn 
• improve it! TikTok 
• improve it! Instagram 
• improve it! Facebook 
• improve it! website 
• Book a Laugh Break 
• Book a Workshop 
• Email Erin: [email protected]

🌟 Learn more about Workday Playdate: https://www.learntoimproveit.com/podcast-page
🎤 Book Erin to speak: https://www.learntoimproveit.com/keynote-speaker
📚 Workshops & Team Experiences: https://www.learntoimproveit.com/experiential-training
💌 Learn more about Erin: https://www.itserindiehl.com/meet-erin
📱 For more information on improve it! visit www.learntoimproveit.com.

If this conversation made you think differently about work, leadership, or building joyful teams, please follow Workday Playdate on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, leave a review, and share this episode with someone who could use more play in their workday.

Whether something pops into your mind immediately when you hear “side hustle” or not, here’s the deal: doing things that fuel your soul and allow you to pursue your passion outside of work is only going to make you better at your job, or make someone on your team better at their job if side hustle aren’t your cup of tea. There are a lot of courses out there. A lot of podcasts. A lot of interactive workbooks. Leave your nine to five, make your side hustle make you money, do this, do this. But building your side hustle truly boils down to five simple steps, and that's what Erin is here to give you today. Get a pen and paper out or your most prized Google Drive folder. To all the creative 9-to-5ers out there, this one’s for you. bursts into song ICYMI – Your Post-Episode Homework: Use the link below to ask Erin a question on SpeakPipe that she’ll answer in her next Q&A episode!   Show Links:

• The Compound Effect by Darren Hardy
• Tell us about your fails and/or send a question/voice message on SpeakPipe here!
• Want to book Erin to speak at your organization or large-scale event: Learn more here!
• Did today’s episode resonate with you? Please leave us a review for a chance to win a self-care package from us!
• Take the quiz to download your free Wellness Workbook!

• @itserindiehl on Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter 
• Erin’s LinkedIn 
• improve it! TikTok 
• improve it! Instagram 
• improve it! Facebook 
• improve it! website 
• Book a Laugh Break 
• Book a Workshop 
• Email Erin: [email protected]

🌟 Learn more about Workday Playdate: https://www.learntoimproveit.com/podcast-page
🎤 Book Erin to speak: https://www.learntoimproveit.com/keynote-speaker
📚 Workshops & Team Experiences: https://www.learntoimproveit.com/experiential-training
💌 Learn more about Erin: https://www.itserindiehl.com/meet-erin
📱 For more information on improve it! visit www.learntoimproveit.com.

If this conversation made you think differently about work, leadership, or building joyful teams, please follow Workday Playdate on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, leave a review, and share this episode with someone who could use more play in their workday.