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Manager Memo: Improv through Conflict
What a way to start the year by about lessons we learn through theatre!
Listen to learn:
qualities of good improvisers to emulate in the workplace
team lessons from ensemble-based thinking
becoming both a spectator and actor at the same time
what it’s like to work with McLaughlin Method to get real about actual scenarios at work and how they impact us
Relationships at Work: Why We Need the Power of Theatre at Work
In this episode of Relationships at Work, Katie talks about why we need to introduce the principles and power of theatre into the employee experience.
Katie shares her thoughts and experience with...
What does theatre looks like as an engagement tool in the workplace? How theatre can help employees be seen and heard The challenge of diversity in introducing theatrical practices.The two biggest takeaways from a theatre exercise. How to convince decision makers to embrace theatre. When the best time to incorporate this method in the employee journey.
Life Beyond the Numbers: Your Intention
Katie speaks about how she uses her background in theatre to facilitate transformation at work. She believes that we need more artists in the world of business as there's less of a science to business and more of an art. In this episode, we talk about how your intention matters and to be wary of the unintended impact of your intentions. We talk about vision, values, connection, meaning and the skill sets we need to better communicate, collaborate and understand each other. We also cover unfulfilled potential in our workplaces, workplace hurt and the value of felt lived experience.
ATD Tulsa: Translating Your Learning and Talent Management Skills to Change Management
Change is inevitable. It’s a constant element in any type of organization that brings a couple of setbacks. But there are ways to manage change where it’s not too disruptive. You might think that you need to have a completely different skill set to step into a change management role. But what if you could get better at translating your current skill set of learning and talent management skills to change management roles? In this session, we’ll dig into your existing skill set to help you match your skills with change management roles and projects to make yourself more marketable in a job search, or to provide more value to your existing organization. We’ll also look at how your learning and talent management skills make you the ideal candidate for working on change management projects. You have access to data and intel that are crucial to help you advocate for change in your company, gain insights into blockers or avenues for change, and communicate why you’re implementing change.
Closing the Gap: Katie McLaughlin shares how theater skills can stop workplace hurt
In this episode, Katie McLaughlin, Founder of the McLaughlin Method, talks us through how leaders can use tools like body language, tone, and dialogue to positively impact business results.
Katie describes most leaders as people who are "kind of leading by accident and aren't aware first and foremost that they have choice and that they have the ability to affect behavior and affect change. And then secondly, that once they know that they can do that, how do they want to show up? If they've never thought about what does it mean for me to be the leader I want to be? And how does that look when I'm leading my team?"
If you're wondering how to positively impact relationships and drive the results you want in your organization, this is the episode for you.
The Porch: Culture Change Catalyst
Katie talks about what we can do to improve our workplace culture in this remote landscape.
A few takeaways from this episode :
- Being a remote employee and leader takes more emotional energy than being in person. What we save in commute time, we use towards connecting over technology.
- Culture is found in small moments like showing up on time and celebrating small wins.
- In a remote workforce culture, it can be easy to assume you’ll save resources because you aren't paying for office space. Practically speaking, those same resources can be re-allocated to enrich the lives of your teammates.
Leader’s Role in Creating Company Culture
Katie will demystify the leader’s role in creating a culture where people want to stay, feel engaged, and be productive.
Three Questions Answered:
Why is it so crucial for companies to build a happy and healthy workplace culture?
How do you measure if a workplace culture is successful?
How can companies showcase their culture now that most of us are working remotely?
Key To Creating Engaged Teams: Deliberate Leadership
We know leadership is about enabling others to do their best work, and it takes consistent communication to create the right environment for a winning culture.
But if we are not deliberate with how we communicate, we won’t be able to build anything.
That’s why Katie McLaughlin is so passionate about leading deliberately and taught you how
We discussed:
– how to avoid the temptation to micromanage in the moments you need to give your team space (often the hardest ones!)
– why toxic work culture often stems from how the leader is perceived by their team members (and the leader has no idea!)
– how she built a world-class onboarding program for a major, public company that is still in place over a decade later (so you can too!)
Workplace Hurt with Katie McLaughlin of the McLaughlin Method
How is your past workplace hurt showing up in your work today? As a leader, are you aware of how trauma and past experiences are affecting the perception and performance of your team? In this episode, I speak with Katie McLaughlin who asks these very important questions of leaders as she seeks to help them all heal and move forward in a productive way. Using methods from her theatre background, she helps to uncover what's holding individuals and teams back from their best work.
