Hybrid/Remote Centre of Excellence - Perspectives: Transparency Isn’t Trust - Anna Burgess Yang

Perspectives: Transparency Isn’t Trust - Anna Burgess Yang

10/05/23 • 57 min

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Sponsored by Nola Simon Advisory: Learn More From This Bonus Podcast Episode When Anna Burgess Yang wrote about starting a new series called Perspectives, encouraging people to share their experiences of work so we can learn from them and create better and healthier workplaces in the future, I volunteered to be interviewed. Anna is a writer as well as an automation expert and I adore her work. We came up with the idea that she would write the article but I would interview her for the podcast and then we would publish the same day. A version of cross-promotion - it's not the same content. In fact, I have not yet read the article Anna has written though she recorded the podcast to use that to write the final version. I'm excited when creative people talk about doing things differently. If we never talk about negative experiences, how can we learn from them? It's not gossip, it's not ill will. It's a desire to craft a better environment and to encourage others to do the same. A guiding principle for futurism is that if you want to imagine 10 years in the future, examine 20 years in the past. The conversation also includes a discussion about writing and the future of AI, the benefits of automation - if you want to learn how to repurpose, Anna has amazing resources for that on Medium, Linkedin, Substack etc. She's everywhere. She uses AI and automation as tools to save her time and she's constantly learning and sharing her insights. Here are some of Anna's articles: The end of a job: an untold story Perspectives: Global Remote Work How to Automate Your Content Repurposing in 5 Steps (From Someone Who Has Done It!) Anna Burgess Yang is a former product manager turned content marketer and journalist, based in a suburb of Chicago. As a niche writer, she focuses on financial technology. And as a self-proclaimed workflow geek, she is obsessed with tools and automation. Find her at annabyang.com. Fintech + Product Writer Schedule a Meeting This podcast is wholly owned and funded by Nola Simon. Consulting Services - Hire Nola Simon Advisory Nola Simon's website - check out her speaking offers, workshops and community Connect with Nola Simon on LinkedIn Nola's Substack Listen, rate and review the podcast on Goodpods Find the Hybrid/Remote Centre of Excellence podcast on your favourite player

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The Story of Us: How to Make Sense of the World with Mitch Weisburgh

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Mitch Weisburgh is the founder of Academic Business Advisors, a company that helps organizations create educational products that prepare kids for the future.

Most of the time when I speak to Mitch it's as part of my futurist buddy group. We rarely spend time on titles - we are too busy talking ideas. Our conversations are far reaching, imaginative and often surprising. Mitch actually made my jaw drop during this episode - on the topic of challenging the status quo. I appreciate him precisely because he challenges my thinking.

Key takeaways:

Mindset is the way we see ourselves and the world, and it influences our behavior and outcomes.
Sense making is the process of creating meaning from information and experience, and it involves being aware of our biases, assumptions, emotions, and perspectives.
Sense making can help us overcome cognitive traps, such as confirmation bias, availability bias, anchoring bias, and framing effects, that can lead us to make poor decisions or judgments.
Sense making can also help us be more flexible, adaptable, creative, and resourceful in facing challenges and opportunities in a rapidly changing world.
Sense making can enhance our communication and collaboration with others by helping us empathize, listen, ask questions, give feedback, and resolve conflicts.

Awesome quotes:

“Education should be the way that we are preparing the next generation to assume their roles as adults.” - Mitch Weisberg
“I’ve always been interested in how our minds make sense of situations.” - Mitch Weisberg
“The brain has evolved to make decisions rapidly. How those rapid decisions very often lead us astray. How we can be aware when they lead us astray. How to prepare to be more flexible if we’re drawn off course. How to self correct. So that we’re more resourceful. How to deal with other people who are also making quick decisions and probably also being led astray.” - Mitch Weisberg
“Sense making is not something that you do once. It’s something that you do continuously.” - Mitch Weisberg
“The future is not something that happens to us. It’s something that we create.” - Nola Simon

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The Perfect Story - Karen Eber

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Karen Eber and I share an odd thing in common. We both have different coloured eyes. It's called heterochromia. Mine is caused by Waardenburg Syndrome - Karen's may or may not be related to eating green crayons. (Check out the cover of her book and the first story she tells - you'll understand).

On Twitter one day, we exchanged stories about people's reactions to our eyes.

"Did you know your eyes are different colours? (Gee, I must have missed it in the mirror.)

"You look like my husky." (Ummm thanks? Not exactly though people love their dogs.)

"You are like David Bowie." (Ummm no. He had an enlarged pupil as the result of a fight.)

It's the type of uncommon experience that bonds across time and space.

That's how it started but we have other things in common like a passion for improving workplace culture and storytelling. Karen has written a fabulous new book called A Perfect Story and I invited her to tell us some of the best stories. We talk about the discipline needed to weave stories to make effective points - her book is a great example of how you don't need more stories to illustrate your theories. Storytelling can be manipulative with the wrong intentions and we talk about return to office mandates to illuminate this point.

Learn more about Karen Eber's book: The Perfect Story: How to Tell Stories that Inform, Influence, and Inspire, (HarperCollins, Oct 2023)

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