The #1 thing people crave at work (it's not what you think!)
The #1 thing people crave at work (it's not what you think!)
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HOT TOPICS in this issue #1:
Workplace findings from researcher Sunnie Giles
Leading with Dignity book review
"Maybe,” said the farmer …
Reading time = about 2–3 minutes
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“Will you produce radical innovation or will you become irrelevant by those who do?”
Researcher & innovator Sunnie Giles is calling this a time of “volatility, uncertainty, complexity & ambiguity” in the workplace—a.k.a., a time of great change & innovation.
It’s a fact we know as we move throughout our day-to-day lives. But the elevated view lets us see clearly that lasting leaders are built in times of great upheaval. Sunnie poses a salient question (our title above).
Ouch. That’s a blatant way of framing it. And since not everyone can be on the cutting edge of every new innovation, how do you bring groundbreaking-but-lasting change to your team?
The first step is knowledge as power: This Harvard Business Review study reveals the top 10 leadership competencies, according to 195 global leaders’ ratings of 74 qualities. (It’s like Clifton Strengths on steroids.) What was the #1 ranked quality by a significant 67% vote?
Strong ethics & safety is the key.
Leading with Dignity
Donna Hicks, Ph.D., has spent years studying, teaching, training & mediating human dignity all over the world. From the university classroom to the corporate & non-profit boardroom to the closed & open doors of international conflict resolution—including with the U.N. & the likes of Desmond Tutu & Nelson Mandela (her stellar C.V. is available online)—Hicks has helped move the needle forward for human development. Her series of books on the concept of dignity includes one just for leaders, Leading with Dignity.
In it, she shares the 10 Elements of Dignity, according to her body of work:
Acceptance of Identity
Recognition
Acknowledgment
Inclusion
Safety (sound familiar?)
Fairness
Independence
Understanding
Benefit of the Doubt
Accountability
Maybe we can do things differently …
You may well have heard the old fable about the Chinese farmer whose horse ran away …. Or maybe you haven’t.
In searching this story out as a sample concept illustration for a client last week, I came across a befitting version online that points to the company perspective.
Consultant Steven Morris shares at the top of this story’s page the reality that, “Our work life can be an emotional roller coaster,” & that, “We can transcend … [by being] present to what is.”
