Allowing Humans to be Human with Mark LeBusque
Higher Purpose Podcast
Joining us for another session on what it means to live, love, work, and lead in a humans first kind of way is Mark LeBusque. He describes his work as allowing humans to be human, whether that’s in the workplace, outside of the workplace, or in their communities. We talk about the magic that happens when you allow humans to get back to connecting, and why we need to be human beings before we can become human doings.
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Everybody Matters with Bob Chapman
Higher Purpose Podcast
Adding to this series of conversations we’re having about what it means to approach business from a people first focus is today’s episode with Bob Chapman. Bob is the author of Everybody Matters, and today we’re talking about creating work cultures where people flourish, how that impacts our lives outside of work, and what it means to care about and be a steward for your organization.
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The 7 Laws of Employee Loyalty with Heather Younger
Higher Purpose Podcast
With more and more people switching jobs every few years, how can you as a leader cultivate loyalty in a humans first kind of way? Join us on this episode with Heather Younger, the host of the podcast Leadership with Heart, the author of The 7 Intuitive Laws of Employee Loyalty, and, in her words, an employee advocate.
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Being a Brave Leader with Kimberly Davis
Higher Purpose Podcast
What does it mean to be a brave leader? This is our 10th installment in our HumansFirst series of heart-to-heart discussions on what it means to live, love, lead, and work in a humans first way. Today we’re joined by Kimberly Davis, the author of Brave Leadership and the Founder and Director of OnStage Leadership, and on this episode she talks about showing up as our best selves, making our impact, and leading from the heart.
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How Leadership is Evolving with Sesil Pir
Higher Purpose Podcast
Is there a magic pill to make your team and organization work? Welcome to another installment in what it means to live, love, lead, and work in a humans first way. Today we have Sesil Pir, an organizational psychologist and a leading researcher on workplaces and workplace culture. She’s here to share her keen insights on the future of work and human resources, and why we need to challenge the status quo of work to suit the way we’re built as human beings.
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Finding Real Happiness at Work with Brooke Erol
Higher Purpose Podcast
There’s job satisfaction, and then there’s the real happiness that comes from working at a company whose purpose aligns with yours AND where your job has meaning. We continue our HumansFirst series with Brooke Erol, the founder of Purposeful Business, and she shares how we can become more engaged at work, so we can become more engaged in life.
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The 7 Simple Superpowers of the HumansFirst Heroes
Higher Purpose Podcast
Today, we’re talking superpowers. We’re midstream in a series of conversations on what it means to live, love, and lead in a HumansFirst kind of way, and for this special solo episode, I want to talk to you about some important simple skills. Now, don’t confuse simple for easy. These skills require us to put someone else ahead of ourselves, which is difficult and doesn’t come naturally to many of us. I call them: The 7 Simple Superpowers of the HumansFirst Heroes.
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Being a Chief Heart Officer with Claude Silver
Higher Purpose Podcast
What is it like to mentor almost 800 people? Claude Silver is the Chief Heart Officer at VaynerMedia, a global digital advertising agency. She was previously the company’s Senior Vice President, and was handpicked for the role three years ago by the CEO himself, Gary Vaynerchuk. Today on the show she’s talking about the immense ability we have to touch people’s lives, even in the smallest of ways.
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The Future of Work with Dr. Heather Hanson Wickman
Higher Purpose Podcast
What does the future of work look like? According to our guest, the future of work is ‘Love in Action.’ Heather Hanson Wickman is the co-founder of Untethered Consulting and the author of “The Evolved Executive,” and today we’re talking about what it means to lead with love, not fear. Heather shares that her purpose is to awaken the souls of leaders to create soulful organizations. So how can we do that?
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Making Work More Human with Renée Smith
Higher Purpose Podcast
What does it look like when we make work more human? Renée Smith serves as the Director of Workplace Transformation for Washington State as part of the Governor’s Results Washington Office. She leads the ‘Make Work More Human’ project, and she’s here to answer the question: “What’s love got to do with it?”
info_outlineThere’s job satisfaction, and then there’s the real happiness that comes from working at a company whose purpose aligns with yours AND where your job has meaning. We continue our HumansFirst series with Brooke Erol, the founder of Purposeful Business, and she shares how we can become more engaged at work, so we can become more engaged in life.
Reflections from a HumansFirst Club meeting
What stays with Brooke the most are the conversations they have with their attendees. They opened up their hearts, called the group their ‘tribe,’ and immediately felt like this was a place they belonged to. Not only is this heartwarming to see, but it verifies what we already know: there’s a lot of hunger for ‘HumansFirst’ workplaces.
The hunger and the thirst for work to be HumansFirst
Our level of consciousness increases over time, and every time it does, the way we lead organizations changes. The concept of purpose is nothing new, but now we’re more aware of it and intrinsically yearn for it. We understand even more now that we can’t separate our work selves and our personal selves. The mindset from the industrial age definitely isn’t working anymore, especially with the new generation. Something’s gotta change.
Brooke’s path to HumansFirst
Brooke applied the formula given to all of us: good grades, good school, good job. She landed a great job at IBM and she was supposed to be happy. Everything looked great on paper. But in her early 20s, she began to question her purpose. Why was she working there? Was it really what she wanted to do for the rest of her life?
With the help of a coach, she realized her purpose was to make people happier at work, and now she has a tribe of amazing people she’s able to talk to about this every day.
On expressing her purpose today
Brooke runs Purposeful Business to help organizations reinvent themselves and grow based on a foundation of purpose. When that’s the case, profit becomes the byproduct, not the end goal, and everyone wins.
Making work more human is the answer — so what’s the problem?
Many workplaces don’t know how to motivate, attract, and retain the new generation. We now value different things than the generation before us, which leads to high turnover at a significant cost.
Many employers are also asking how they can get their employees more engaged. It’s an important question, too: when you’re disengaged at work, you’re disengaged from the rest of your life, and you bring that bad energy wherever you go.
The awakening
This movement is slowly but surely happening on a global scale. It’s getting much more attention than it used to. But many business leaders are trying to make people happy using the old tools: a good compensation plan, bonuses, free coffee, a ping pong table at work. Not that these aren’t great — they are! — but that’s not sustainable happiness.
Real happiness at work comes from more intrinsic things that we need as human beings, like relationships, and whether we find meaning and purpose in what we do. And that’s what helps with things like engagement, creativity, and innovation.
And if you don’t work for a company who’s had the awakening yet, Brooke shares some advice on finding meaning in what you do.
Final thoughts
It all boils down to our belief system. If you believe that it’s possible to treat people with the dignity and respect they deserve, and make them feel like they matter whatever their job is and that what they do contributes to a bigger purpose, that will bring the best results for your organization and for everyone.
Wanting to grow as a HumansFirst leader and connect in meaningful conversations with other HumansFirst leaders?
Join me for HumansFirst Book Club where we do a deep dive into a book a month and often engage the authors in conversation.
Resources
Everybody Matters: The Extraordinary Power of Caring for Your People Like Family (Amazon)
HPP Episode 33 – Explore, Discover and Transform Work with Gary Adamson
Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success (Amazon)