Businesses are People Too! A Podcast Lindsay Harle

What if....businesses decided to DANCE with innovation? with Dr. Caroline Brookfield, The Reluctant Creative

On this episode, we dive on in and learn:


The #1 skill businesses are seeking for their teams
The difference between big C and little c creativity
How to access our own creativity beyond the traditional sense of the word
93% of businesses say they want innovation, but only 18% of people feel safe taking creative risks in their workplace
The two judgement barriers of creativity - internal and external
Why rejection feels like physical pain
How leaders can model creativity while braving judgement
Why creating a safe space to explore all creative failure is how we get to the “good stuff”
The practice of creative failing to work our creative muscle
Benefits of creativity. E.g., higher income, better leadership, more confidence in uncertainty, etc.
The power of a "literary mullet," fun in the front, data in the back
The biological facts about creativity
Creativity is contagious
Why and how leaders can support teams to step into creativity
Why we tend to fall back into status quo solutions when feeling uncertain and how creativity can reduce this
How to redefine creativity within our business teams
That DANCE helps to democratize creativity in teams (Daydream, Ambiguity, Novelty, Curiosity, and Edit Later)
The difference between divergent creativity (ideating without judgement) and convergent creativity (distilling divergent creativity)
Daydreaming = productive boredom
Tolerance of Ambiguity to build non-status quo solutions
How Novelty builds more data points for connecting to unique solutions in our brains
Curiosity is the foundation of all creativity
Ernest Hemingway was right when he said "Write drunk, edit sober" (separating divergent and convergent creativity)
Caroline's answer to "What if...businesses realized that they are people too?" (42:46)

Links in this episode:


Website: carolinebrookfield.com, thereluctantcreative.com
LinkedIn: Dr. Caroline Brookfield
Instagram: @artfulscience
YouTube: Creative Lifescaping

Connect with Lindsay online:


Website: www.quirkylindsayharle.com
Instagram: @quirkylindsayharle
LinkedIn: Lindsay Harle-Kadatz
Email: lindsay@thewriteharle.com
Stay connected with Mental Prune Juice, a weekly resource for leaders on brands, values, and team health and alignment

What if....businesses stopped asking people to pay?

On this episode, we dive on in and learn:


The difference between giving and paying
What happens when we pay attention versus giving attention to prospects
How employees can thrive when given attention

Connect with Lindsay online:


Website: www.quirkylindsayharle.com
Instagram: @quirkylindsayharle
LinkedIn: Lindsay Harle-Kadatz
Email: lindsay@thewriteharle.com
Stay connected with Mental Prune Juice, a weekly resource for leaders on brands, values, and team health and alignment

What if....businesses believed that business was personal? with Mike Cameron, MikeCameron.ca

On this episode, we dive on in and learn:


To have buy-in from our people, we need to tap into their emotions
Emotionally connected leaders build better businesses
Emotion is the foundation that supports our cognition
Why business is about the quality of our relationships
Leaders must learn the individual driving motivators for their people
The difference between traditional goal-setting versus setting values, intentions, and milestones
Importance of being creative and agile when circumstances throw a wrench in a path to reaching our milestones
How gathering in circles and not squares is how to cultivate divergent thinking
Why we should practice creating spaces for our people to feel safe in being creative
How our emotional decisions can have extreme permanent consequences
How we can prevent our emotions from having life-altering consequences that cause harm
Why leaders need to feel and not just think
Why compassion and empathy need boundaries and accountability to be impactful in a leadership role
How to have team meetings using the SOAR Framework: slow down, open up, accept, reconnect
That when we numb one emotion, we numb all emotions
The power of simply acknowledging and naming an emotion
That mental health has a 51 Billion dollar impact on businesses
Roughly half a million Canadians miss work each week due to a mental health concern
We don't have to give up productivity in place of empathy and caring
Mike's answer to "What if...businesses realized that they are people too?" (51:58)

Links in this episode:


Website: mikecameron.ca
LinkedIn: Mike Cameron
Instagram: @axiommike
Other: mike@mikecameron.ca

Connect with Lindsay online:


Website: www.quirkylindsayharle.com
Instagram: @quirkylindsayharle
LinkedIn: Lindsay Harle-Kadatz
Email: lindsay@thewriteharle.com
Stay connected with Mental Prune Juice, a weekly resource for leaders on brands, values, and team health and alignment

What if....businesses listened to understand? 

On this episode, we dive on in and learn:


The importance of listening in the workplace for burnout
The importance of preparing to listen
How to prepare to listen, including preparing your emotions, biases, body, and breathing
Why safety, approval, and control are part of the speaker's journey
What tone and speed in speech help to indicate
Why behaviour is part of listening
How to close the gap between providing information and supporting your people to use the information provided

Connect with Lindsay online:


Website: www.quirkylindsayharle.com
Instagram: @quirkylindsayharle
LinkedIn: Lindsay Harle-Kadatz
Email: lindsay@thewriteharle.com
Stay connected with Mental Prune Juice, a weekly resource for leaders on brands, values, and team health and alignment

What if....businesses practiced deep listening? with Oscar Trimboli, podcast host of Deep Listening

On this episode, we dive on in and learn:


Listening is a practice, like any other skillset
The maths of listening; the 125/400 Rule and the 125/900 Rule
The difference between hearing and listening
The power of a pause and how to use it
Why "how" is a good process-oriented question
The difference between feedback and feedforward and which one promotes more action
Why we must ask who's potentially missing from our conversation - who's not being listened to
The power of short questions
Why process-oriented questions of 10-words or less promote comprehension and application
The difference between great leaders and managers
The role the leader plays in setting the listening temperature of a group
An engaging technique for teams to set better listening and leverage time
The three lenses of listening for leaders: self, people, greater ecosystem
The number 1 thing that distracts people from listening
The three questions to use to explore what isn't being said: Tell me more, what else, pause
How to evolve a question/thought when guided by an engaged listener
The importance of a reflective practice, a group of trusted advisors, and having hobbies
The four listening villains 
How to teach your boss to listen
Oscar's answer to "What if...businesses realized that they are people too?" (1:05:10)

Links in this episode:


Listening quiz: www.listeningquiz.com
Website: www.oscartrimboli.com

Books in episode:


Permission to Feel by Marc Brackett, Ph. D.
Selfish, Scared, and Stupid by Dan Gregory & Kiernan Flanagan
It's Who You Know by Janine Garner

Connect with Lindsay online:


Website: www.quirkylindsayharle.com
Instagram: @quirkylindsayharle
LinkedIn: Lindsay Harle-Kadatz
Email: lindsay@thewriteharle.com
Stay connected with Mental Prune Juice, a weekly resource for leaders on brands, values, and team health and alignment

What if....businesses celebrated empathetic teams? with host, Lindsay Harle

On this episode, we dive on in and learn:


What makes an empathetic team
What the three components of empathy are (emotional, cognitive, and compassion)
Who needs to be empathetic on a team
How can we model and practice empathy
What are tools to practice empathy
How empathy creates more cohesive, collaborative, and innovative teams

Connect with Lindsay online:


Website: www.quirkylindsayharle.com
Instagram: @quirkylindsayharle
LinkedIn: Lindsay Harle-Kadatz
Email: lindsay@thewriteharle.com
Stay connected with Mental Prune Juice, a weekly resource for leaders on brands, values, and team health and alignment