Working Humans

Leaders today need to be highly visible. Physically, with teams and stakeholders but more and more, also digitally, producing meaningful posts and thought leadership content for internal and external audiences. When words are needed, ChatGPT can help. When refined for accuracy, voice and coherence, it’s a tool that can help raise your profile and get your message out.

AI is intimidating. Here are a few facts you need to know. Five easy ways to use it and five best practices to make AI your b*tch.

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Fiona Passantino is an executive leadership coach, speaker and trainer, helping professionals engage with their teams and communities and increase their visibility and impact in complex, international organizations, working with groups or individuals. Culture can be fixed, and Fiona can help. Learn more about how to bring out the best in yourself and others at work by visiting Executive Storylines.

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"Radical Listening" means taking every opportunity to ask your workplace community what they want across a variety of channels and delivering results within 48 hours. In some cases done with the small, technically meaningless “Listen and Deliver” tight loops, and in some cases long and in-depth, "Deep Listen" cultural dives. And don't forget Bean Voting.

All these listening channels have very different goals, deliver different data but together form a more accurate picture of the current state of engagement and helps build trust in the process of data collection. The point is to maximally listen and quickly deliver for your community to build trust for when it counts: the engagement surveys.

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Fiona Passantino is an executive leadership coach, speaker and trainer, helping professionals engage with their teams and communities and increase their visibility and impact in complex, international organizations, working with groups or individuals. Culture can be fixed, and Fiona can help.

What's a "workation" and what does it mean for the future of work? A "workation" is the act of leaving one’s city or country for an extended period of time, and working fully remotely using the video conferencing and visual collaboration tools that the pandemic brought us. Turns out it's a thing. A very big thing.

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Laughter reduces stress, eases tension and connects people. Doctors know that laughter helps with pain relief, tension and overall immunity. Joy and laughter in the workplace increase productivity and lowers attrition; teams are more engaged and creative. Five ways to find the funny while still doing serious business.

We all know what burnout is. Chances are, someone we know is suffering from the effects of burnout at work. Or we are feeling it ourselves. But what about when we do it to ourselves due to an overarching lack of psychological safety in the workplace?

“Quiet quitting" describes an employee who switches off psychologically; logging in, doing the bare minimum to avoid being fired or becoming burned out, and at the end of the day, logs off. “Quiet firing” is the other side of that coin. How to spot when it's happening, or when you're doing it without even being aware of it, and how to turn the tide.

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Understanding Flow

“Flow” contributes to increased job satisfaction and improvise our mental, physical and emotional well-being which naturally translates to higher levels of engagement and lower churn rates. The average workday, chock with meetings, incoming fire of communication, expectations and deliverables, needs to be carefully choreographed to create that all-important, critical ingredient for achieving “flow”: silence. 

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During Covid, we all grew used to the erosion of work-life boundaries and the 5% productivity increase. We do more, take on more, work more hours, deliver more. We “engage” by suggesting mindfulness courses or yoga, which we join to be a team player. But the key to post-Covid engagement is conscious workload reduction: creating space for quality results, more creativity and joy that only time can allow. A few easy ways to lighten the load.  

These ideas are based on the Handbook for Post-Covid Engagement, book 2 in the Comic Books for Executives. Go to www.postcovidhandbook.com for the latest articles, comics, the books and more!

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