YouMeWe Amplified - Conversations w Wave-Making Women: Transforming Lives with Social Solutions

Knowing if you’re leading from cause or effect is vital when considering “Why Nobody Wants to Work.”

As we continue the Nobody Wants to Work Series, we have seen an increase in resignations. Although many people from diverse occupations have spouted, “I have had enough!” and are seeking more purposeful work, others are opting for early retirement, while others are begrudgingly staying put as inflation skyrockets.  So, as a leader, you may have experienced managers evacuating, unfulfilled colleagues, or begrudging employees who can’t afford to leave. Or maybe you have managed to create a purposeful workplace. Well done!

To engage employees and turn nobody wants to work "into everyone wants to contribute," there needs to be a consideration of who or what they contribute and how they contribute. Without this crucial consideration, a social initiative may be unsustainable. 

As a small business, you may want to take advantage of the camaraderie of collaborative contributions. So, if you miss the mark on connecting your team to their compassion-connection™, all is not lost. They may discover meaning by tapping into their talents to execute a contribution.

As a small business, it can be a challenge to incorporate a social initiative into your business that the team can get behind and promote. In the last YouMeWe Infusion, I shared strategies to Connect Your Colleagues to What They Care About. Their compassion-connection™, what your company can provide, and what the World needs must be complementary, not contradictory. 

Meaning value-aligned initiatives are at the root of who you contribute to.

There is no limit to the number of social, economic, or environmental issues that need our attention. During the pandemic alone, we have:

Witnessed more people of all abilities, cultures, races, genders, sexual orientations, and sizes feel more isolated.

Seen our systems break down and people along with them.

Noticed a dramatic increase in the demand for foodbanks.

Observed an exodus of mothers leaving the job market to homeschool.

Supported small businesses struggling to survive.

Heard of more minorities being attacked, disregarded, and degraded. 

Experienced the environment yelling back at us for our continuous disregard.

Evaded our responsibility to assist provide vaccines to developing countries

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Whether your mission has a social initiative as part of your DNA or not, your colleagues may not align with who or what issue your business addresses. Without that connection to “who you serve,” they may be an uninspired employee rather than a committed contributor motivated to the mission.

As your colleagues seek to live their purpose, they crave to connect to who or what they care about. I call this a compassion-connection™.

According to CBC and likely you, the pandemic has made most of us re-evaluate our priorities. A survey conducted by Angus Reid and the CBC, released in March 2022, suggests that 80 percent of Canadians have reflected on what is important to them in their lives during the pandemic. And just under half said they have since made significant lifestyle changes.

We have experienced a splintering society during the pandemic. Biases, privilege, and power have come out of the shadows and have been thrust into the light. Conscious leaders of SMEs and social enterprises are not standing by. [Check out YouMeWe Amplified Podcast to receive actionable insights into what, why, and how to make a social impact to empower you, your organization’s culture, and your community https://podcast.youmewe.ca/.)

With the Great Resignation in the United States reaching record highs month over month in 2021, Canadians may be wondering if we will experience the same attrition trend. If you have been paying attention over the last couple of years, what starts in the United States seems to creep up to Canada. And with the increased resignations, it is no different. Nor is the reason why employees quit. Listen in for reasons why people quit their jobs and what you can do to change that.

Interview with Natasha Halliday, Therapist, Emerging Resilient Counselling and Psychotherapy; Canada.

Natasha Halliday is a therapist, speaker and comedian. Natasha believes that we all possess resilience. Natasha has worked supporting individuals with their mental health for over 20 years. She is dedicated to uncovering the resilience already there, fostering and building resilience where needed, and demonstrating how to grow through adversity. She is passionate about helping people move past fear into the life they desire and are purposed to live. Natasha infuses humour into most aspects of her life, a skill she learned growing up in a very funny family. Natasha is a published author and was recently part of a collaborative project called Affirmations For a Woman on a Mission Journal.

INTERVIEW HIGHLIGHTS:

• What affects youth’s mental health, and what are just human emotions.
• How to assist a child when concerned about their mental health
• How to connect to youth
• How to gain insights into issues affecting other cultures
• How to contribute so you don’t suffer from compassion fatigue

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Natalie Lowe is an entrepreneur, owning her event company for 17 years. She worked in gaming, hotels and events in operations, sales, and marketing. She is a certified meeting manager through Meeting Professionals International and a Climate Reality Leader through the Climate Reality Project. She co-founded The Sustainable Event Forum with a mandate to "Educate, Inspire, Collaborate and Act" and hosts "Earth Day for Event People" every April.


INTERVIEW HIGHLIGHTS:

• What can you do today to have the most significant impact on the environment?
• What is the primary concern for environmentalists, and why?
• What to consider if planning an event, owning a restaurant, running a business, or hosting a dinner party to reduce emissions
• How to take an issue you care about and bake it into your business
• How not to overwhelm stakeholders while promoting a social initiative
• How to influence executing more sustainable events
• How to create a ripple effect one small step at a time

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With over three decades as an educator, administrator, speaker, and most importantly, real-life in-the-trenches classroom experience, Lani’s view of education can be radically different from standard definitions. Known for her practical, humorous, street-savvy style, Lani appreciates and shares with others that education is so much more than current definitions allow. As President, CEO and Chief Visionary Officer of the Engaged Educators Corp., a company whose mission is to innovate education on a massive scale, she has now opened: UP Academy. A 100% independent, private school that offers every student an individualized education program.

INTERVIEW HIGHLIGHTS:

• What children really need to learn
• How a private school puts educating children on its head. i.e. parents fill in the admittance test, what?
• Insights into designing education for the learner, not the system and the impact.
• The facts about dyslexia
• Why you may not want government funding when having a social impact
• How a small business can proactively have a social and environmental impact with few resources

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Dr. Natasha Williams moves women from "typical self-care" to radical self-care by redefining selfishness so that they can improve their physical, emotional and mental health. During her career as a Clinical Psychologist and one of the founding Clinical Directors of "Allied Psychological Services," she has empowered many women to challenge their gender, cultural and ethnic paradigms to create a new narrative for themselves so they can work through their healing process, live their life on their own terms and ultimately become the best versions of themselves.

INTERVIEW HIGHLIGHTS:

• Gain insight into black women’s archetype and why it can hold them back from their potential
• How the Church and faith can impact mental health
• Why the Black Canadian Women’s experience varies from others
• What advocacy is and how to implement it to regain your power
• When leading a social initiative, how to not become consumed that you can no longer serve

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