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S4 E106 | eXpertease: Karim Benammar and reframing business models CareerXroads
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Welcome to the CXR channel, our premier podcast for talent acquisition and talent management listen in as the CXR community discusses a wide range of topics focused on attracting, engaging and retaining the best talent. We're glad you're here.Chris Hoyt, CXR 0:18 Hello, listeners and watchers. Welcome to the CXR podcast. I'm Chris Hoyt president of CareerXroads, and today's host for an edition of our podcast that we'd like to call eXpertease where we're spending about 15 minutes or so with an industry leader, an expert, who shares a few valuable life lessons with us things that we think will help others in their day to day or with various leadership challenges. Now, you can subscribe to all of these and work at CXR.works/podcast and we're happy to say you can watch or listen to them nearly anywhere you already subscribe to your favorite shows. And today, we've got with us Karim Benammar, who is Ph.D. and philosopher specializing in transformative thinking. He gives lectures and workshops for companies and organizations. He studied philosophy in England, the United States, and Japan taught at Kobe University and is the author of Abundance in 2005, and Reframing the Art of Thinking Differently in 2012. Now, you can get more information at KarimBenammar.com and Karim also deliver some pretty great courses at udemy.com. Now, I know those are mouthful online, but we'll share all of these on the screen. And online those links directly in post production now. Actually, Karim joined us not too long ago, for a CXR workshop on rethinking our actions and reframing our approaches to DE&I challenges, and it was one of our favorite workshops. So we're excited to have him back and to catch up and share some of his wisdom and experience. Karim, welcome to the show.Karim Benammar 1:51 Thanks, Chris. Thanks for the introduction. Great to be here.Chris Hoyt, CXR 1:55 So I always start out if we've if we've got somebody on who's going to be relatively new to that new to the crowd, right and new to listeners or watchers, with asking the participant or the guest, to kind of give us an escalator pitch of who they are. I know we've only got about 15 minutes on the line here. But can you give us sort of a one or two liner about who the heck you really are? And why should anybody care what you have to say?Karim Benammar 2:20 Well, I'm a lapsed philosopher, I used to be an academic philosopher. And philosophy is really about thinking why the world is as it is. And so when I work with people, I kind of shared that curiosity, that you dig deeper and deeper and deeper, and then you try and find out why we do the things we do. And this reframing is all about, when you understand why you do things, you can change it, you have a better understanding of how you could do it radically differently. And you can try it. And it's a lot of fun. It's, you know, the idea of transformative thinking is that you think and that it changes what you do.Chris Hoyt, CXR 2:56 And it's not just slamming stuff in differently, I understand we're supposed to put some forethought into into our actions. Is that what you're telling me?Karim Benammar 3:03 Yeah. I mean, we tend to do things out of habit, we tend to do things because that's the way it's always been done. And when we do things differently, we just do trial and error, which is great if you have three options, or five options. But if you have a million options, trial and error, you know, it will last a long time. So the idea of thinking about it a little bit, taking the time out of your busy schedule, out of doing doing doing, taking the time to think and be open to the wonder of why you do things in the first place. I think it's a great journey. It's a journey, I take every day about different things about our money system, about COVID and pandemics about why we what we do at different stages in our lives about working with you and and other people about how we hire people. How we, you know,
Welcome to the CXR channel, our premier podcast for talent acquisition and talent management listen in as the CXR community discusses a wide range of topics focused on attracting, engaging and retaining the best talent. We're glad you're here.Chris Hoyt, CXR 0:18 Hello, listeners and watchers. Welcome to the CXR podcast. I'm Chris Hoyt president of CareerXroads, and today's host for an edition of our podcast that we'd like to call eXpertease where we're spending about 15 minutes or so with an industry leader, an expert, who shares a few valuable life lessons with us things that we think will help others in their day to day or with various leadership challenges. Now, you can subscribe to all of these and work at CXR.works/podcast and we're happy to say you can watch or listen to them nearly anywhere you already subscribe to your favorite shows. And today, we've got with us Karim Benammar, who is Ph.D. and philosopher specializing in transformative thinking. He gives lectures and workshops for companies and organizations. He studied philosophy in England, the United States, and Japan taught at Kobe University and is the author of Abundance in 2005, and Reframing the Art of Thinking Differently in 2012. Now, you can get more information at KarimBenammar.com and Karim also deliver some pretty great courses at udemy.com. Now, I know those are mouthful online, but we'll share all of these on the screen. And online those links directly in post production now. Actually, Karim joined us not too long ago, for a CXR workshop on rethinking our actions and reframing our approaches to DE&I challenges, and it was one of our favorite workshops. So we're excited to have him back and to catch up and share some of his wisdom and experience. Karim, welcome to the show.Karim Benammar 1:51 Thanks, Chris. Thanks for the introduction. Great to be here.Chris Hoyt, CXR 1:55 So I always start out if we've if we've got somebody on who's going to be relatively new to that new to the crowd, right and new to listeners or watchers, with asking the participant or the guest, to kind of give us an escalator pitch of who they are. I know we've only got about 15 minutes on the line here. But can you give us sort of a one or two liner about who the heck you really are? And why should anybody care what you have to say?Karim Benammar 2:20 Well, I'm a lapsed philosopher, I used to be an academic philosopher. And philosophy is really about thinking why the world is as it is. And so when I work with people, I kind of shared that curiosity, that you dig deeper and deeper and deeper, and then you try and find out why we do the things we do. And this reframing is all about, when you understand why you do things, you can change it, you have a better understanding of how you could do it radically differently. And you can try it. And it's a lot of fun. It's, you know, the idea of transformative thinking is that you think and that it changes what you do.Chris Hoyt, CXR 2:56 And it's not just slamming stuff in differently, I understand we're supposed to put some forethought into into our actions. Is that what you're telling me?Karim Benammar 3:03 Yeah. I mean, we tend to do things out of habit, we tend to do things because that's the way it's always been done. And when we do things differently, we just do trial and error, which is great if you have three options, or five options. But if you have a million options, trial and error, you know, it will last a long time. So the idea of thinking about it a little bit, taking the time out of your busy schedule, out of doing doing doing, taking the time to think and be open to the wonder of why you do things in the first place. I think it's a great journey. It's a journey, I take every day about different things about our money system, about COVID and pandemics about why we what we do at different stages in our lives about working with you and and other people about how we hire people. How we, you know,
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