The Behaviorist

Strategy Meets Culture - Part 1

Can a healthy, vibrant corporate culture and shrewd business strategy peacefully coexist within one organization? Yes, if you understand the differences between the two - and work intentionally to cultivate them both. In this episode of The Behaviorist, Work Wisdom’s Matt Sware and Sarah Colantonio discuss the intersection of culture and strategy. Strategy is the road map that your business needs to succeed, culture is the fuel for the vehicle to get there. Find out what concrete steps you can take as an individual and company to nurture both of these crucial concepts. And don’t miss Part 2 of Strategy Meets Culture - in next month’s episode, Kedren Crosby will share Work Wisdom’s methods for weaving culture and strategy together to go farther, faster as a stronger company.
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Equitable Work

In this week's episode, Sarah is joined by Work Wisdom's Donunshae Sanders to talk about Workplace Equity. Creating at atmosphere that makes all of your employees feel heard and valued increases morale, retention, and profitability. Sarah and Don discuss the many tools leaders can use to help uncover their own bias, like the Implicit Association Test, or IAT. Listeners will also learn about an interviewing tactic that will ensure an equitable and positive experience for both your team and potential candidates. 
You can follow Work Wisdom on LinkedIn, Instagram, and Twitter at @workwisdom, and learn more at our website at https://www.workwisdomllc.com. 

PSYCAP

What is PSYCAP? Positive Organizational Behavior expert Fred Luthans defines Psychological Capital as an individual's positive psychological state of development that is characterized by efficacy and confidence. Join Work Wisdom's Sarah Colantonio and Kedren Crosby as they walk through the four pillars of PSYCAP - Confidence, Optimism, Hope, and Resiliency. These mindsets are not set in stone - they can be practiced and learned. Kedren shares some concrete practices that you as an individual can bring into your daily life and workplace to begin improving your PSYCAP and moving your organization to a place of positive growth and unlimited potential. 
You can follow Work Wisdom on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter at @workwisdom, and learn more at our website at https://www.workwisdomllc.com.  
 
 

The Review Club

This week, Work Wisdom's Sarah Colantonio and Jaime Arroyo are joined by Joe McMonagle, Vice President of Set Construction at Atomic Design. Joe is a member of Work Wisdom's The Review Club, a cohort of leaders and rising leaders who meet monthly to quickly and collaboratively digest and discuss articles from the most current issue of the Harvard Business Review. Jaime Arroyo, co-facilitator of The Review, explains how the group benefits from a concise and focused conversation about each HBR article, and how it can relate to and benefit each members' workplace culture and habits. Joe shares what practices he has learned from the diverse and disparate group of leaders in his Review cohort to take back to his workplace - practices that have made real and rapid changes to how his team handles challenges. 
You can follow Work Wisdom on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter at @workwisdom, and learn more at our website at https://www.workwisdomllc.com.   
 

Leadership Derailers

There are four key emotional intelligence skills that are directly correlated with leadership derailment. In this episode of The Behviorist, Work Wisdom's Kedren Crosby and Sarah Colantonio review those four skills and what practices you can bring into your life right now to improve them. Learn how like most toolboxes, your emotional toolbox has two levels - the top one is filled with tools that help you cope with with stressors, but the bottom level is where the real power tools are stored - the ones that can help you get to the source of the stressor - and pull it up by the root. 
 
You can follow Work Wisdom on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter at @workwisdom, and learn more at our website at https://www.workwisdomllc.com. 
 

Mindsets

Join Work Wisdom Co-Founders Sarah Colantonio and Kedren Crosby as they dive into the concept of "Growth Mindset" - how changing the way we view challenges can be an extraordinarily transformative tool.  In her groundbreaking book, Mindsets: The New Psychology of Success, researcher Carol S. Dweck explains the difference between a "fixed" and a "growth" mindset - how some people rigidly hold on to their beliefs, but others are able to see challenges as opportunities for learning and can flex their mindset to allow for this growth. Kedren explains the "ABCDEs" of cognitive reframing and how, recently, the Work Wisdom team themselves had to take a bit of their own advice when faced with some challenging client feedback. Best enjoyed with a light snack. 
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The Virtues Of Avoiding

Work Wisdom's Sarah Colantonio and Kedren Crosby discuss why avoiding is not necessarily a bad thing. Learn what tools you can use in your professional and personal life to find the "sweet spot" of knowing when avoiding is a positive, diplomatic and productive choice. Gaining self-awareness of your relationship with avoiding (do you do it to much? or not enough?) can help you become a more value-driven and agile leader. 
 
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