Employing Differences, Episode 184: What do I want?

11/21/23 • 16 min

"There's a famous quote from Yogi Berra, who may or may not have actually said it: 'If you don't know where you're going, you might end up somewhere else.'"
Paul & Karen talk about the importance of defining the thing that we want and thinking about what's going to get us there.

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Employing Differences, Episode 183: What if this can’t be fixed?

"So, if my coworker comes in in that state – or someone in community or whatever – if that person is in front of me, and I would desperately love to fix everything for them, but I can't, how do I live with that?
Karen & Paul discuss strategies for working through feeling helpless.

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Employing Differences, Episode 185: Is this confidential?

"If you don't hold things in confidence, you break trust. But if you're not transparent, you also break trust. So how do we navigate this where we want to be in trusting communities, trusting environments, trusting workplaces, and some things need to be confidential and some things need to be transparent?"
Karen & Paul discuss how both confidentiality and transparency can improve or hinder the flow of information.

Employing Differences - Employing Differences, Episode 184: What do I want?

Transcript

[00:00:00] Paul: Welcome to Employing Differences, a conversation about exploring the collaborative space between individuals.
[00:00:12] Karen: I'm Karen Gimnig.
[00:00:14] Paul: And I'm Paul Tevis.
[00:00:15] Karen: Each episode, we start with a question and see where it takes us. This week's question is, 'What do I want?'
[00:00:24] Paul: So there's a famous quote from Yogi Berra, who may or may not have actually said it.
[00:00:28] Paul: He said, "If you don't know wher