BEHAVE Team Dynamics LLC

“If I’m not well, I don’t listen well, I can’t be curious well.”
The enormity of injustice can keep the best of us from taking action if we don't slow down + notice what's needed right in front of us. Alfonso + Trina take 15 minutes to talk about how they come back to focusing on their own responsibilities + actions in organizing, activism, + work. They talk about not succumbing to helplessness + staying well enough to be effective. 

“I like being a part of groups that know why they’re together and know how long they’re going to be together.”
Our goal-focused hosts take an episode to talk about patterns around groups + committees in workplaces. When do folks form a group? Do they know their goals, how long they need to exist, who should be a part of the group? Alfonso + Trina share some examples of short + long-term committees inside Team Dynamics, plus they advise a few risks to watch out for. 

“It’s important to acknowledge that this wild stuff is happening. We cannot make it small. And we also don’t need to decide that the way we feel is how everyone else feels.”
Alfonso + Trina talk about how they felt watching a white, militant insurrection at the United States Capitol. They share suggestions on how to hold space for processing national events + domestic terrorism for their workers. And they talk about the importance of telling the truth at work.
Truth/Space/Action

“It’s not important that we know all the words. What’s important is that when someone tells us what words they use we thank them and use those words for them, too.”
It's Pride Month!
Trina + Alfonso parse out Sexuality, Gender Identity, Gender Expression, + Biological Sex. They also speak into the inextricable linkage between race, gender, + sexuality. 
If your workplace is working to support your queer and BIPOC folks, we’re offering this BEHAVE Podcast LGBTQ+ Playlist as a refresher and primer for anyone who is curious about how to show up!

“What we’re trying to trouble is the idea that there’s a singular way to get ready to do any particular job.”
Trina + Alfonso talk about their own education + work backgrounds + then get into the actual impact had by having degree requirements included in job postings. 

“A bunch of the workplace norms we practice now in the US were developed in a time when we did very different work.”
Our hosts dig into the current conversation around where people need to be in order to do their work. Mental health, care giving, access to consistent technology, + so many more things to consider when planning schedules. Why don’t we change behavior when we have data that tells us the way we’re doing things isn’t effective? Here are some questions to navigate that.