Transform Your Workplace

In this episode of the Transform Your Workplace podcast, host Brandon Laws welcomes Carolyn Swora, a trauma-informed leadership and culture consultant and the author of Evolve: The Path to Trauma-Informed Leadership. The two discuss Carolyn’s personal journey from navigating her husband’s terminal kidney cancer to her eventual path to healing. Listen in to learn the impact of trauma in the workplace and how leaders can adopt more compassionate and human-centered approaches toward their people.

TAKEAWAYS

• Being attuned to others' experiences and valuing their perspectives is at the core of self-awareness and leadership.
• The foundation of leadership lies in awareness and the ability to navigate emotional complexities in a noisy world.
• The terms "care" and "trauma" aren’t often used in the corporate context, but the collective trauma experienced during the pandemic has brought these concepts to the forefront, making it crucial for workplaces to acknowledge and address them.
• Leaders must understand trauma, its effects, and how they can foster a sense of belonging by honoring the diverse experiences of their team members.
• Evolved leaders recognize the interconnectedness of safety, authenticity, and consistency.

A QUICK GLIMPSE INTO OUR PODCAST 🔊 Podcast: Transform Your Workplace, sponsored by Xenium HR 🎙️ Host: Brandon Laws

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Fear can often be a helpful emotion – it keeps us from ending up in risky, potentially harmful situations. But when does fear hold us back from reaching our full potential either as individuals or organizations? Darrin Murriner, author of Corporate Bravery: Eliminate Fear-Based Decision Making, joins the podcast to discuss how mistrust and being overly cautious can set us back personally as well as how it can impact a company’s growth and success. Drawing on personal stories, the current political climate, and more, listen in on the discussion and find out how encouraging people to be comfortable with the potential for failure leads to ultimate success.

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About the Guest:

Darrin Murriner has over a decade experience with some of the largest corporations in America. Darrin has worked as an outside consultant, led operations and finance teams and worked in risk management. These experiences has provided the thesis for Corporate Bravery. In addition to his corporate experiences, Darrin has also started businesses as well. He founded BabysitEase with his wife Peggy in 2005 and the local news site Fort Thomas Matters in 2008. In late 2014 he started his latest venture - Stockpilz.com, a marketplace for commercial paper, with the idea that business to business sourcing can be accomplished more efficiently. He is currently the President and Co-Founder of Cloverleaf, a development tool for teams. In addition to his business experiences he lives with his wife Peggy and three children in Fort Thomas, Kentucky - a small suburb located a couple miles from Cincinnati, Ohio.

Introverts and extroverts work differently. Their environment plays an important role in how they show up at work.

Most companies don’t really think about whether their workplace and culture are fit to cater to both extroverts and introverts. Mainstream company work culture tends to value extroversion over introversion. And this undermines the strengths of the quiet ones.

What if they have more to offer, but it doesn’t get into the table because leaders and employees don’t really understand how their introvert people operate?

Join me in this episode, as we learn and understand the introverts' traits and how companies can bring out their true strength and talents!

Jennifer Kahnweiler is an author and speaker hailed as a pioneer of the past decades' introvert revolution. Her books are focused on how introverts can lead and inspire others at work by tapping into their natural quiet strengths.

She will talk about her book, Creating Introvert-Friendly Workplaces: How to Unleash Everyone’s Talent and Performance, and explain how your organization can create an introvert-friendly workplace where everyone thrives!

We also touch on the myths related to introverts that’ll make you cringe and why introverts are not what you think they are.

Create a welcoming culture that maximizes the introverts' skills and talents by listening to this episode as Jennifer offers the guides to introvert inclusion!

Grab yourself a copy of Jennifer’s Creating Introvert-Friendly Workplaces: How to Unleash Everyone’s Talent and Performance 👉 here and unleash the introverts' natural skills and talents!

In this episode, you will learn about:

• How to assess whether a workplace is set up for introverted employees
• What is the introvert revolution?
• Extrovert focused systems
• Jennifer talks about the common hiring process in several high performing companies
• Hiring an introvert vs. an extrovert person
• Questioning our own biases and perspective when hiring people
• Jennifer’s thoughts on hiring people for the future of the business
• The best way to deliver training, learning, and development systems to power introverts
• How companies and organizations are serving their introvert employees
• The LOUDership leadership
• Whether extroverted skills are more valued inside of a workplace
• Educating people about what introverts are
• Preparation, the real differentiators for introverts
• Understanding and nurturing relationships with your introvert people
• The good meeting hygiene
• Myths about introversion that’ll make you cringe
• The modes of communication that introverts tend to rely on
• Silence and the power of the ‘pause.’
• The relevance of creating an introvert-friendly workplace

Connect with Jennifer:

• Website
• LinkedIn
• Twitter
• Instagram
• Facebook

Resources mentioned in this episode:

• The Introverted Leader by Jennifer Kahnweiler
• Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain
• Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility by Patty McCord

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It’s straightforward stuff: retaining your talented employees is necessary for your organization to grow and thrive. What’s less straightforward is where to start with accomplishing that task. What kind of turnover is healthy turnover, and what can you do about the preventable turnover? What kind of data tracking should you be doing, and how do you use those numbers to make improvements? What’s an easy way to go about stay and exit interviews to ensure you’re getting honest, raw feedback?

Jeff Kortes, employee retention speaker and author, joins Brandon Laws in a discussion of all things employee retention. Listen in to hear about practical tips and tools to introduce into your workplace practices as well as the meaning of Jeff’s “C.R.A.P.” leadership system and what it could do for your company and people.

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About the Guest:

Jeff Kortes didn’t become an employee retention speaker, author and expert by accident. His early career spanned 25 years as a human resources professional, trainer, and consultant. He has held leadership roles in companies such as ConAgra, Midas International, SPX, and Regal Ware, Inc.

Jeff's no-nonsense approach is reflected in his C.R.A.P. Leadership System, which instills positive supervisory and managerial behavior while driving results in the organization. Jeff also works as a “headhunter,” finding candidates to fill organizations’ talent needs and constantly learning about what drives candidates to choose one employer over another.

Jeff speaks and conducts workshops nationwide as an employee retention trainer. He draws on his experiences as a human resources professional, father, coach, martial artist and U.S. Army veteran to provide thought-provoking programs that yield results.

Are your communication efforts moving you forward and or are they keeping you stuck in a negative loop? Find out in this episode of the Transform Your Workplace podcast, where Brandon Laws interviews Cheri Torres and Jackie Stavros, coauthors of Conversations Worth Having. The three discuss eye-opening tips for recognizing negative communication patterns and having meaningful conversations that move you and your team forward.

TAKEAWAYS

• Everything we do revolves around conversation either with others or ourselves.
• The conversations we have either move us in the direction we want to go or keep us stuck in a loop of negativity.
• Our conversations affect our wellbeing, our productivity, and our engagement.
• Appreciative Inquiry engages us around what we want to see and where we want to go; it’s about the outcome rather than traditional problem-solving centered around fixing the root of the issue.
• When we come from a place of destructive, depreciative conversations, we put people in protect-mode and hinder effective communication.

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A QUICK GLIMPSE INTO OUR PODCAST

🔊 Podcast: Transform Your Workplace, sponsored by Xenium HR

🎙️ Host: Brandon Laws

📋 In his own words: “The Transform Your Workplace podcast is your go-to source for the latest workplace trends, big ideas, and time-tested methods straight from the mouths of industry experts and respected thought-leaders.”

Contact Brandon and Xenium HR:

Email [email protected] or connect on LinkedIn, Twitter, or Instagram.

Learn more about Xenium HR at xeniumhr.com

Follow Xenium on Twitter, Instagram, or LinkedIn.