The Behaviorist

Shifting to a Relational Culture

19 million American workers have quit their jobs since April and the number continues to climb. Leaders are scrambling. While the answer to attracting and retaining talent is simple, it is not easy. In this episode, Kedren Crosby and Sarah Colantonio discuss the recent study from McKinsey that reports on the massive attrition happening across industries and give advice to leaders who instead want to create cultures that attract, motivate and retain employees.
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7 Concrete Tips For Healing Burnout

Burnout is at epidemic proportions, with 52% of the workforce now reporting feeling burned out.  In this impromptu bonus episode, Sarah and Kedren share seven concrete (and personally tested) methods that you can begin using today to restore vibrancy and prevent future bouts of burnout.
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Work-Life Integration

What does work-life integration mean to you? Is it being on a work call while emptying the dishwasher? Putting your toddler in front of a Disney movie while you attend a zoom meeting? Instead of work-life balance, which pits our career against our personal lives, work-life integration takes the various threads of our lives to bolster and reinforce each other. Working with the same set of values, towards the same goal, it requires our clarity of purpose, clarity of our values, our crucibles, and then we pull together all the facets of our lives in service of this overarching purpose. Join Kedren Crosby and her guest, the talented, whole-life enthusiast, Dr. Erica McCray from the University of Florida.
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Enneagram 5: The Investigator

This week on the Behaviorist Podcast listen in as Randy Berridge interviews Therese Crosby Toczek & Jen Beachy about being an Enneagram 5. In this episode we take an exciting journey into the mind of the knowledge seekers on the Enneagram. Enneagram Type 5’s are the intense, cerebral, perceptive, and sometimes detached type. These self-identifying Type 5’s discuss what they love about being a 5, what challenges them, and what they wish others knew. If you are a 5, work with 5's, or consider yourself an ‘Investigator’, this podcast is a must-listen!
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Mom Guilt

One of our dearest clients wrote in an email, “I have this feeling like there isn’t enough of me as a mama, wife, daughter, sister, friend, employee, community member. Not enough time, not enough for all the needs. It feels like a scarcity mindset that is difficult to break out of.” When sociologist Caitlyn Collins interviewed working women in the U.S. she heard a similar refrain. In this episode of The Behaviorist, join Sarah as she interviews Ashlinn, Vanessa, and Carm to discuss the perils of Mom Guilt, the important ways we can more fully understand it as a mindset and concrete behaviors to address it.
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Talent Density

In 2001, Netflix was hit hard by the first internet bubble bursting.  They were forced to lay off a third of their team.  They were exceptionally intentional about how they navigated that difficult period and stumbled upon a principle that has served them extraordinarily well for the past two decades: Talent Density.  
 
High concentrations of (nothing but) stunning employees are the foundation for creative, trusting, fast, powerful, and smart organizations.  Couple Talent Density with candor and streamlined processes and you have a recipe for joy and profitability: our favorite combination at Work Wisdom.  However, it is not an easy journey to achieving High Talent Density.  Join Kedren, Vanessa, and Mike McKenna, CEO of Tenfold, as they explore and expand upon this simple, elegant, but not easy practice of winning cultures.
 
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Enthusiasm: The Unsung Hero Of Empowerment Cultures

Many of us are tired, suffering from the fog of Pandemic Brain and the fallout of the Great Resignation.  Those of us who are survivors are wondering how to lead, how to scale, how to empower, and how to build back better.  While the resignations, presenteeism and disengagement continues, there are these unusual positive deviants who are doing something particularly rare at this moment in history. The enthusiasts among us are exceptionally appreciated and causing an upward spiral bringing hope, energy, creativity and joy back to our work.  How do we as leaders SPARK the enthusiasm? How do we help fuel the joy? Listen to Becky Walck, Partner at Simon Lever, Vanessa and Kedren explore how to get more of what we all need now: joy, spark, and enthusiasm for our work.  
 
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The Emotional Impact Of The Great Resignation

Is it really true that ‘people don’t leave jobs, people leave bosses’?  There are a lot of bosses who are reeling from this quote in the midst of The Great Resignation.On this week’s episode of The Behaviorist, Kedren and Sarah argue that perhaps now, during The Great Resignation, people are NOT focused on leaving their bosses, but instead are truly leaving for greater meaning, increased flexibility, better compensation, and more joy. In this episode, learn about mindsets, habits and communication that can help leaders process the emotional toll of this Great Resignation. You can follow Work Wisdom On LinkedIn and Instagram, at @workwisdom, and learn more at our website at https://www.workwisdomllc.com

Post-COVID Living: Why We Re-Released Slowly

The Great Resignation is an indication of the enormous numbers of people choosing not to return to their pre-COVID frenzy.  Join Kedren to hear about why Work Wisdom Press decided to re-release a book she wrote in 2008 which offers a prescription for living an intentional life worth savoring.  Learn about her rationale for writing this book, the ingredients of this slower way of living, and what as aged well and what feels a little dated more than a decade later.  
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The closing song is "Beautiful Day" by U2

Leading Through Tumult

Join Sarah and Kedren to discuss how the role of leaders is changing in managing the emotional response to external tumult.  Learn how to name it, norm it, make it, build it, move it and relate in order to help individuals and teams journey together through traumatic times. You can follow Work Wisdom On LinkedIn and Instagram, at @workwisdom, and learn more at our website at https://www.workwisdomllc.com.