S03E12 The Intentional Flexibility Episode (with Lisa Davidian)

Check-In: 

• Do think the best time of your life is in the past, present, or future

Big Ideas:

• flexibility in work schedules - what do we need to do so
• the equipment that supports remote working
• shifting mindsets around traditional ways of working
• shifting schedules to accommodate global clients
• sense of freedom in being able to shift your schedule
• flexing people's pay to allow for flexible schedules
• Be present, be equipped, be allowed
• Compressed work week - had to create the model
• Keeping people engaged after 30+ years in the corporate world
• Empowering people to have balance and to grow in new ways
• Employees feel energized and motivated when they have a larger fulfilled
• Need for new working models to offer employees 
• Younger generation doesn't want the traditional 9-5, 5 days a week
• Covid has shifted us into new ways of thinking about how we work and where we work
• Can flexibility work for manufacturing, and other hands-on type of work?
• Hesitation to allow flexible schedules
• Creation can happen NOT sitting in front of the computer
• Companies are losing good people if they don't offer flexibility
• Using co-working spaces for networking and shifting perspectives and interacting across-organizations
• How do I lead remotely?  
• How can we support leaders to build trusting teams remotely? 
• How to facilitate meetings remotely so that people can feel that connection?
• The small moments of trust building,, in person, can't be as easily transferred to online spaces.
• Making connection the primary intention of all gatherings
• Intention, Execution, Results - Observe what is happening in your meetings
• Focus on how people want to feel at the end of a session - the doing happens as a result of the feeling (fulfilled, energized, inspired, motivated, engaged, supported, etc...)
• Making sure that everyone has a voice in whatever way that voice wants to be heard
• Not micro-managing people's time and checking their online status when working remotely
• When people speak in the first 5 minutes of the call, they end up speaking more throughout the meeting
• The relationship between trust and empowerment
• What's preventing leaders from trusting their employees?
• We want engaged employees, but we don't create engagement in the meetings
• Meeting etiquette and expectations -- different practices across organizations, regions, countries
• Less moments to sync outside of meetings when we are remote - more presence needed in online meetings
• What kind of leader does your company need you to be?
• In our fast-paced world, are we giving space for people to BE
• Messaging around productivity and efficiency and how it impacts people 
• Separating your ego from your leadership
• Self-reflection as the key to good leadership

Resources Mentioned:

• The Extended Mind, by Annie Murphy Paul

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