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Question Your Leadership Assumptions

Question Your Leadership Assumptions with Melissa Swift

by | Jun 16, 2023 | Podcast |

If you change your leadership assumptions, can you create a powerhouse with the organization or team you already have? The COVID-19 pandemic and an ever-changing array of new ways of working seem to have all of us asking, “Does work really have to suck this bad?” It looks like a small taste of flexibility and freedom has made many of us rethink the nature of the work we do and how we do it.

In this episode Melissa Swift, author of Work Here Now: Think Like a Human and Build a Powerhouse Workplace, gives you a roadmap to better work that generates wins for companies and employees alike. Learn different ways to improve the growth-impeding, borderline inhumane people management practices we’ve created and endured over time. And start with a simple framework questioning your own leadership assumptions to help you make people-centered decisions.

06:05

There’s not necessarily a great reason why work has to suck and ample research shows that when it doesn’t suck it goes better and we’re more productive. Society just kind of works better when work works better. But we’ve been stubbornly resistant to improving it.

13:04

We’ve got these dysfunctional leadership assumptions that people are lazy and people are slow, and those misdirected assumptions have created all of this frustration, headache, and lousy work.Strategic Leadership Training Programs

16:31

People have a natural and intrinsic motivation to do and be and create and solve and people are wired in different ways but most people do want to do well at what they’re doing and feel good about what they’re doing.

17:56

We need to unpack our foundational talent management assumptions and look at what decisions have we made on the basis of believing these assumptions.

17:13

There are fundamental assumptions that permeate the modern workplace and as leaders, we need to reflect, examine and question our leadership assumptions.

32:04

We’re losing the traditional workforce.

40:45

Two critical levers for an awesome working culture and what greedy work and animal farm syndrome look like.

 

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David Dye helps human-centered leaders find clarity in uncertainty, drive innovation, and achieve breakthrough results.  He’s the President of Let’s Grow Leaders, an international leadership development and training firm known for practical tools and leadership development programs that stick. He’s the award-winning author of four books including Courageous Cultures: How to Build Teams of Micro-Innovators, Problem Solvers, and Customer Advocates and Powerful Phrases for Dealing with Workplace Conflict, and hosts the popular Leadership without Losing Your Soul podcast. David is a former executive and elected official. David and his wife and business partner, Karin Hurt, are committed to their philanthropic initiative, Winning Wells – building clean water wells for the people of Cambodia.

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