How to Reduce Human Debt in the Workplace w/ Duena Blomstrom Co-Founder of PeopleNotTech & Tech Led Culture Author

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08/13/24 • 38 min

You may not have heard the term Human Debt before. But, you've felt it.
We had the privilege of sitting down with powerhouse Duena Blomstrom to talk about HumanDebtTM in the workplace.
Duena is a HumanDebtTM fighter, author of Tech Led Culture, Co-founder of PeopleNotTech, and Neurospicy at Work. She also has a fantastic newsletter on LinkedIn, Chasing Psychological Safety,.
How do broken promises and neglected well-being create a toxic anti-culture at work? Join us in a heart-to-heart with Duena Blomstrom, a leading voice in Human and Tech Debt and workplace culture, as she unpacks the critical issue of human debt in modern organizations.
Duena sheds light on how human debt, can cripple an organization if left unresolved, emphasizing the importance of genuine human connections and understanding emotions and emotional intelligence is critical for organizations to literally survive in the long term.
This is a unfiltered conversation about what workplace and every individual within an organization can do to decrease human debt and make work more healthy and human.

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Your Work Friends - How to Reduce Human Debt in the Workplace w/ Duena Blomstrom Co-Founder of PeopleNotTech & Tech Led Culture Author

Transcript

Speaker 100:00:00.040

I'm wondering if you can explain it to our listeners like a five-year-old . What is human debt ?

Speaker 200:00:07.641

To five-year-olds it would be difficult because they would have to assume that the enterprise is an honest place where good things should have happened . So I can't do that , but I can explain it to a 35-year-old .

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