2022 Recording

Breaking Barriers to Communication

Barriers to communication can arise all throughout the workplace: between coworkers, in meetings, or with a boss or client. Societal stereotypes, assumed gender roles, and interpersonal differences can contribute to a communication gap in most any conversation. Recognizing the common barriers and having the insights and tools to overcome them is a great step towards improving communication at work.

In our December training call, Cecilia shared 3 barriers that may be limiting your communication ease and impact, plus provide ideas on how to best break down those hurdles at work.

You’ll learn:

✅ How internal wiring contributes to communication barriers

✅ Ways to audit communication to identify potential barriers

✅ Action steps to break through barriers and improve your communication impact

Unleashing Creativity at Work - For Everyone

The word "creative" has been used as an adjective for about 500 years and as a noun for around 200 years. The word "creator" (small c) has only been coined for 11 years (by Youtube).  Each generation has a stronger desire to be identified as creative - 1/3 of Boomers, 1/2 of Millenials, and 2/3 of GenZ.

During this call, Jing Herman, co-founder of 28Muses (learn more) — a company that stimulates team engagement and confidence through unique, live art workshops, shares: 

✅    The evolution of creativity and what recent shifts mean to the workplace 

✅    What “flow state” is, why it is important, and how to tap into it

✅     An interactive Chinese Calligraphy Activity

BONUS - You’ll also get to participate in one of 28Muses’ popular art activities – Invent Your Name in Chinese. During this short experience, you’ll use the transformational power of Chinese Calligraphy to reinforce your identity.

Additional links related to this month’s topic:

Psychology Today: How to Be More Creative

HBR: So, You Think You’re Not Creative

The UPSide of Failure with author Tiana Sanchez

In this interactive discussion, Tiana Sanchez, author of F’d Up: The UPSide of Failure shares how failure can be one of our greatest teachers if we embrace the power of its lessons. Especially now, in this changing work environment, being able to take risks and stretch our skills is critical - which potentially results in failure.

Tiana answered discussion questions and presented ways to impact our belief around failure and boost our resilience to grow from it.

Key Learning Points:
✅ What it takes to harvest a growth mindset
✅ What failure does for us
✅ A new way to look at defeat

Ditching the Need to Please at Work

Is your workload unmanageable because you keep saying "yes"?
Do you lack "me time" because you're always giving time to everyone else?
Does "I'm sorry" constantly fly out of your mouth?
Do you feel on edge or anxious daily?
Is kindness your personal motto?

Or do you know someone like this?

Some employees contribute their career success to pleasing people, but it doesn't come without a cost. Whether you are a people pleaser or know someone like this, understanding the inner workings of this tendency -- and healthier ways to advance without it -- can be powerful.

During this call Chelsea:

✅ Helps you understand how people pleasing might be holding you back in your career.

✅ Shares how stopping people pleasing can increase productivity and engagement, and enhance relationships at work.

✅ Suggests ways to reduce the desire to people please -- and propose what to do instead.

  • How to reframe how to look at time management

  • Ways to align work style to productivity

  • Strategies on how to gain time and energy

Navigating the Time Crunch: How to Prioritize Tasks and Time for Better Work and Home Life

This month, Cecilia taught Navigating the Time Crunch: How to prioritize tasks and time for better work and home life.

Most people are searching for a better balance between work and home obligations, especially as work volume and intensity continue to rise.

During this session, Cecilia shared better tools to help organize a workday, create a system for efficiency, and ideas on how to navigate the never-ending time crunch.

Key points:

  • How to reframe how to look at time management

  • Ways to align work style to productivity

  • Strategies on how to gain time and energy

Owning Your Career Progression - The Authentic Path to a Fulfilling Career

Chelsea will be teaching Owning Your Career Progression - The Authentic Path to a Fulfilling Career.

Ever feel stuck or off-track in your career progression? When we navigate our career without a map, dead ends and detours are easy to come by.

During this talk, Chelsea will share how to confidently progress in your career and gain fulfillment, even when there is no line for advancement in sight structurally.

You'll learn:

  • The 2 core paths to career progression

  • Building your unique career roadmap

  • Progression when there is no clear line to advancement

How Women Rise: Breaking The Habits That Hold You Back at Work

Cecilia will be teaching core lessons from the book , How Women Rise by Sally Helgesen and Marshell Goldsmith.

Together, we'll explore - Breaking The Habits That Hold You Back at Work.

Helgesen and Goldsmith developed a list of 12 habits that hold women back in their careers and in leadership roles, along with solutions to combat these unhelpful habits. In their climb to achieve professional success and establish their own worth in the workplace, women have been found to develop some habits that are preventing them from further strengthening their leadership skills.

On our training call, we'll dig into 3 habits and provide insights and tools to overcome them.

  1. Expecting others to notice and reward your work

  2. The Perfectionism Trap

  3. Minimizing (Physically & Verbally)

 

Setting Healthy Boundaries with Confidence

During this call Chelsea leads a conversation with guest Stacè Middlebrooks, M.A., PCCC, CBC, and The Chief Empowership Officer of Purpose Powered Coaching + Consulting.

Together, they explore - Setting Healthy Boundaries with Confidence.

Setting boundaries can be difficult, especially if we are not used to doing it. Many of us are socialized to be always accessible and available for our work, our families, our friends, and our communities.

However, that does not have to be our norm. Setting healthy boundaries can be our ticket to freedom from all of that.

 
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