Changing Conversations
Change happens and manifests in Conversations, both for us as humans and for organisations. As leaders and employees we are never not in conversation. Conversations are elemental in making things happen, but it is still a blind spot with a huge potential for many of us. Conversations might be the smallest biggest thing in making organisations fit for humans and fit for the future. In this explorative podcast series, hosts Katrina Marshall Dyrting and Stig Albertsen will discuss Changing Conversations together with a range of conversation evangelists. The guests will include business leaders, as well as management thinkers and thought leaders from academia and beyond.
Changing Conversations
Wendy Smith – Capitalising on Tension in Conversation
Wendy Smith is a professor of management at the Alfred Lerner College of Business & Economics, co-founder of the Women’s Leadership Initiative and author of the book Both/And Thinking. She is an advocate for bold leadership, and much of her work focuses on helping leaders and teams navigate paradoxes. We have invited Wendy Smith to talk about how we can get better at embracing paradoxes and go from either/or to both/and thinking.
The key topics covered in this episode are:
- How we can embrace and invite tensions into the organisation
- How paradox invites us to honour different points of view
- How we can capitalise on friction
- The importance of being transparent and vulnerable as a leader
- Inviting ourselves to think about a different possibility space
- How we can change questions from either/or to both/and
For references, links, and other episodes, visit the podcast homepage here.