Megan Reitz on Open Dialogue, Spaciousness and the Conversations We Need to Have

09/18/24 • 36 min

Speaking up – and empowering your employees to speak up – is a vital prerequisite for a company culture that supports innovation. In this episode of Minds Worth Meeting, Justin Louis and Meg Virag sit down with Oxford University Saïd Business School associate fellow, Megan Reitz. We discuss the importance of how leaders “show up” to work, why we all need safe environments to speak up and permission to pause, and how AI is starting to change dialogue in organizations.
In this episode:

Before employees can be empowered to speak up, Megan explains why leaders need to work on their own habits first.
She shares fascinating insights about employee activism and how workers and leaders alike can constructively participate.
Megan dives into her new research on “spaciousness” at work and how it can supercharge productivity, creativity and wellbeing.

Where to find Megan Reitz

Megan’s website
Megan Reitz at the University of Oxford Saïd Business School
Megan’s book, “Speak Out, Listen Up: How to Have Conversations That Matter”
Megan’s book, “Speak Up: Say What Needs to be Said and Hear What Needs to be Heard”

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Before employees can be empowered to speak up, Megan explains why leaders need to work on their own habits first.
She shares fascinating insights about employee activism and how workers and leaders alike can constructively participate.
Megan dives into her new research on “spaciousness” at work and how it can supercharge productivity, creativity and wellbeing.

Where to find Megan Reitz

Megan’s website
Megan Reitz at the University of Oxford Saïd Business School
Megan’s book, “Speak Out, Listen Up: How to Have Conversations That Matter”
Megan’s book, “Speak Up: Say What Needs to be Said and Hear What Needs to be Heard”

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How to Supercharge Strategy While Avoiding Digital Exhaustion with UCSB's Paul Leonardi

Successfully leading a business in the AI-heavy digital age requires a new mindset. In this episode of Minds Worth Meeting, Justin Louis sits down with University of California Santa Barbara professor and Technology Management department chair, Paul Leonardi. We talk about how to cultivate a digital mindset and why it’s so important to do so, he shares strategies for helping employees succeed with generative AI and tells us how to keep digital exhaustion at bay.

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Paul explains how digital technologies like artificial intelligence, especially generative AI, are changing work roles, and what those new roles look like.
He reassures us that we don’t need to become experts overnight to be digitally literate and explains “the 30% rule.”
On a topic that many of us feel in our professional and personal lives alike, Paul discusses digital exhaustion and how to avoid it with practical tips that anyone can implement immediately.

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Is It Time for Performance Reviews to Be Put Out to Pasture? Leadership Expert and Author Ashley Goodall Explains

From an employee standpoint, constant upheaval and the specter of having to sit down with the boss multiple times a year to be graded via performance review is a recipe for organizational disaster. In this episode of Minds Worth Meeting, former Cisco and Deloitte HR executive and author, Ashley Goodall joins Justin Louis to discuss his latest book, "The Problem with Change" and offers practical solutions to help your business understand what people need at work in order to contribute their best.
In this episode:

We talk about Ashley's book and how constant change stymies the process of actually achieving organizational goals.
Ashley delves into why leaders need to get serious about understanding how their teams operate, especially what makes the best teams so good.
He picks apart the performance review process and explains why regularly assigning a grade or number to an employee's achievements has the opposite of the intended effect of boosting performance and morale.
Ashley describes how HR has lost its way in today's business ecosystem, explaining why leaders need to become more focused on the human aspect of "human resources."

Where to find Ashley Goodall:

Ashley's website
Ashley Goodall on LinkedIn
Ashley's book, “The Problem with Change: And the Essential Nature of Human Performance”

Click or tap here to learn more about how Ashley Goodall provides leaders with strategies for rethinking the change process and performance evaluations that will build stronger teams, not disengaged employees.

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