Permission to Pause | The impact of one simple action with Dr Ali Young
Release Date: 07/17/2023
Season 6 - Wrap Up
Work Life by Design
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Optimising Real Estate to Build Community - with Jeremy Pollak
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Building Community with SMART Work Design - with Sharon Parker
Work Life by Design
The role that our workplaces play in encouraging and enabling our relationships at work, was largely taken for granted, until they were taken away from us. A silver lining of the pandemic, we realised the impact of our workplaces and the role they play in our establishing and supporting the social & support networks in our lives. And social connection is a foundation for building any community. Today’s guest ARC Laureate Fellow Sharon K. Parker. I was first introduced to Sharon and her work through my friend and Colleague Dr Meg Hooper of Carousel Consulting, and her...
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Using place to connect to the hearts, bodies & minds of your people
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Using Place to connect to the Hearts, Bodies and Minds of your People Often when we look at our workplaces, we think of them as property. As real estate. And sadly, often as a balance sheet liability. But they have the potential to be so much more than that! Your work place is an underutilised asset in attracting and connecting to your people. Often spoken about in the terms of “People, Place & Technology” our workplaces should not be devoid of our humanity. They are created for our people. That means that they need to Personal....
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Shifting Culture with Everyday Actions - with Meredith Wilson
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How can we create workplaces where our people are empowered? Where they are given autonomy and choice? It all starts with culture. Now that might sound overly simply, but at the grassroots of this, it’s the everyday actions that leaders take that shift and create culture in their teams and organisations. And it really is the simple things that make the difference. And today’s guest, Meredith Wilson has written the book, on how you too can you use GRASS in your workplace to shift your culture. Meredith makes culture simple and actionable....
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Corner Offices don't build Community | The Evolution of the Workplace
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Over centuries work has evolved from a labour some, back breaking manual task to what today some of us refer to as a "cushy office job"! And we have the invention of machines and technology, a few key players and a pandemic to thank, as the catalysts for this change. However, some things have very much stayed the same, even though the world we are living and working in today, is very different to the world in which these things were created for. In today's episode I'm winding back the clock just over 100 years as we start to look at; The impact of machines and technology on how we...
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Creating Memory in Place through Community - with Imelda Miller
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Curating a community is not a passive activity. It takes conscious effort, care, and a respect for the people that you are embracing in this community. But when you bringing together a community with no traditional “place” how can you engage with a place temporarily and make it your own? This is exactly the work that today’s guest, Imelda Miller, does in her role as the Curator of First Nations Cultures at Queensland Museum Kurilpa. A third generation Vanuatu woman, Imelda is a proud South Sea Islander and responsible for bringing together communities of origin...
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The Art of Gathering, a placemaking perspective
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Hey! Have you read Priya Parkers book, ? If you haven't yet, I highly recommend you do, it's a good read! In her book Priya shares: "gatherings in our lives are often vague & unproductive" And I would argue that our workplaces are in fact a place where we gather, rather than places we "go to" to "work", and if we want people to come to the workplace, we need to be offering them an experience. It needs to be a purposeful, and productive contribution to their lives. In today's episode I'm expanding on the framework that I share with you in , to dive deeper into the...
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Working your M.A.G.I.C at Work - with Sharon Darmody
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"When work starts to work again, it becomes a place where people want to be" Creating a thriving workplace where people want to be, voluntarily, requires us to take a different perspective to the "productivity" approach that our workplaces once swore by. Today's guest is Sharon Darmody. With a background in Occupational Therapy, Sharon is an Organisational Consultant, Mediator and the Founding Director of Strive Occupational Rehabilitation. With over 25 years consulting to organisations, she identified a recurring theme, leading her to develop her M.A.G.I.C model to help businesses, teams and...
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It's not about RTO Mandates. It's about Fostering Community
Work Life by Design
If we’re still talking about getting people back to the office, we’re having the wrong conversation”. I don’t know about you but I’m getting frustrated with all this RTO talk! I think those that are stuck in this vortex, are completely missing the point! What we should be talking about, is what makes a workplace a COMMUNITY. In the work that I do, creating a workplace where people WANT to be is key, BUT while the physical environment plays a large part, it’s not the whole story. “For centuries our communities have centred around sharing an imagined...
info_outlineIn last weeks episode I spoke about wellbeing rhythms in the workplace and the need for us all to be building in moments of self-care.
I then read an article in the Harvard Business Review by author Greg McKeown, who’s written two of my favourite books and are recommended reading at COMUNiTI; Essentialism & Effortless. In this article Greg says that for organisations to build top performing teams, they should only be asking for 85% effort. The premise that when we consistently perform at 100% we burn out.
Prior to this Dr Meg Hooper and I discussed the recent legislative changes around psychosocial hazards in the workplace.
I see a theme emerging… the conversation as to the health and wellbeing of our people is being elevated in our workplaces and is at the core of all business performance.
So, this week I’ve invited Dr Ali Young to join me, to better understand what is that we can be doing to support ourselves individually, and what we can be doing as teams and organisations to practically support the health and wellbeing of our people.
Dr Ali Young is a health strategist, who works with mums owning and operating health practices. After recovering from burnout in 2019 and writing a book about it, she has become passionate about supporting other health practitioners, particularly mums, to navigate the same stressors with a different outcome.
In this episode Ali shares with us not only the science that backs up why we should be taking better care of our health, but if we are not giving ourselves the permission to pause, no amount of sleep, trips to the gym or healthy eating is likely to change our perception of stress and impact our wellbeing.
We discuss how a simple conversation with your team can uncover opportunities to support everyone’s wellbeing and the simple changes in schedule that have led to increased performance in her own practice.
She also shares with us her three tips to ensuring maximum wellbeing in our work week.
So, why not take a walk, tune in and use this 30mins as your permission to pause.
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