listen | KT & Associates https://kathrynthomasandassociates.com Your key to unlocking performance for people and their organisations. Thu, 02 Aug 2018 00:35:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://kathrynthomasandassociates.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/logos-black-150x150.png listen | KT & Associates https://kathrynthomasandassociates.com 32 32 Can You Engineer Trust? https://kathrynthomasandassociates.com/2018/08/02/can-you-engineer-trust/ Thu, 02 Aug 2018 00:35:17 +0000 https://kathrynthomasandassociates.com/?p=796 Can You Engineer Trust? appeared first on KT & Associates.]]> Every day in conversations with my clients we discuss trust and its impact on organisational culture and how people engage in the workplace. Leaders overtly being deeply trustworthy matters more than ever. Today’s podcast from the Michelle McQuaid Making Positive Psychology work series that I am recommending is Can You Engineer Trust with Paul Zak.

Paul discusses the power of building trust and trustworthiness to build strong and effective teams in the workplace. I loved the concept of “management experiments” to test a hypothesis, iterate, review and learn in an agile way to continuously adapt a workplace culture to ultimately impact performance and the bottom line.

The post Can You Engineer Trust? appeared first on KT & Associates.]]> Quality Conversations https://kathrynthomasandassociates.com/2018/06/06/quality-conversations/ Wed, 06 Jun 2018 04:25:12 +0000 https://kathrynthomasandassociates.com/?p=621 Quality Conversations appeared first on KT & Associates.]]> My focus and that of my clients lately has been on the quality of the conversations that leaders have with their followers and how through those conversations organisation culture is created.  My desire to understand more about the true elements of essential conversations led me to the ABC Radio National podcast “Best Practice”

Carmen Hurwitz from WorkPlacePLUS describes the continuum from easy to hard conversations, great to courageous conversations and the power of those conversations on people, relationships and culture.

Being brave, having a structure and the confidence to have a conversation that will unlock performance through getting the heart of what really matters Carmen suggests, needs to be embedded into the way people in organisations find resolution in a psychologically safe place.

It’s worth 11 minutes of your time! You can listen on the ABC website or click the player below.

The power of having a hard conversation

 

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