Unprofessionalism
Professional performance is exhausting. Maintaining the mask. Editing ourselves. Pretending we know when we don't.
This podcast is about people who dropped the performance. And what happened next.
Each episode features someone who broke professional conventions and found something better on the other side: the executive who disclosed grief in a corporate setting and found it opened new ways of relating; the coach who realised her authority came from integrity, not compliance; the designer who ignored the 'approved tools' and saved thousands of hours.
Conversations circle around three questions:
- What does it cost us to perform professionalism instead of showing up as ourselves?
- How do we create spaces where people can bring their full attention and humanity to work?
- When is the “unprofessional” move actually the most responsible one?
If you feel the tension between who you are and who you're expected to be at work, this podcast shows you what happens when people stop managing that tension and just stop performing.
Hosted by Dr Myriam Hadnes—behavioural economist and founder of workshops.work. New episode every week.
Unprofessionalism
228 - Leading Through Facilitation: Unpacking the Complexity of Group Dynamics with Rob Evans
The prevailing view in organisations (and among their leaders) is that change processes are rational challenges — a question of getting from A to B with efficiency and minimal interruption.
After 30+ years of facilitating change processes and training others to do the same, Rob Evans has learned that a great deal of the work to be done is anything but rational.
The emotional and political contexts in which groups exist matter. The decision-making structure around the team matter. The restrictions and fears matter.
Join us for a discussion in the depth and detail of group dynamics, participant empowerment, and the deeply human sides of facilitation.
Find out about:
- Why prioritising participants learning and growth is an ever-reliable foundation for workshop planning
- How to account for emotional and political contexts in your workshop and avoid over-rationalisation
- Why Rob believes successful workshops hinge on having a large enough group
- How to approach a problem that is too big for the group to fix
- Why it’s worth asking why a change hasn’t happened yet, before we ask how to make the change
- What Rob has learned form helping drug users to rehabilitate from their addictions
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Links:
Watch the video recording of this episode on YouTube.
The Collaboration Code website.
Connect to Rob:
On LinkedIn.
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