#018 : Connecting. Getting out of your comfort zone, holding people accountable and reconnecting with your past.

This week I share a great conversation I had with Brenda Harrington. Brenda is the founder of Adaptive Leadership Strategies LLC, and the author of ACCESS DENIED: Addressing Workplace Disparities and Discrimination. As a Certified Executive Coach, she works with leaders globally across a variety of sectors to help them develop the professional habits needed for them to achieve their goals.  

What you’ll hear about:

• Trying to fit into an archetype not your own limits your impact

• The importance of building relationships and appreciating people for who they are

• The continuum between influence and authority

• The need to create a space of psychological safety for people to be confident to be their whole selves

• Gaining confidence by taking small steps into something new

• The importance of starting meaningful conversations

• We have to move away from thinking of diversity, equity and inclusion as a tick-box exercise

• Being aware you can’t mandate how people feel, their values and beliefs

• Companies need to hold people accountable for desired and expected behaviour

• Having  diversity does not automatically assume inclusion 

• Finding your not alone through story

• Using story to get out ouf your own head and try different approaches

• Setting the right expectations for yourself

• Taking ownership and thinking strategically about what you have the power over to do differently

• Get out of your comfort zone

Weekly Challenge : Do something which makes you uncomfortable and find comfort in being uncomfortable

Power of Music : I Wish - Stevie Wonder

Links:
Brenda’s LinkedIN