001: create a new experience at work

Work Can Be Different

Turn work as you know it on its head. Executive coach and culture strategist Kristi Daniels addresses your most pressing challenges at work, and gives you the tools to create a better experience on the job.

This podcast series is part of a greater mission to shift how we work, how we show up, how we manage and lead, how we run our business and our organizations. It's time to thrive, and intentionally create a workplace environment that brings out the best in each other.

Dislodge toxic traits (fear, insecurity, scarcity) and replace them with conscious business practices, bringing mindfulness to work and evolving as people.

Episode 01: create a new experience at work

What is your most pressing challenge at work or the one situation you want to change?

Get clear on what you are currently experiencing. How do you want the situation to change? What would you rather be experiencing? Get specific.

Gain awareness for what’s stopping you from getting from where you are now to where you want to be.

Here are 4 usual suspects that might be keeping you from success:

1. The first is “where are you making excuses, or blaming somebody else for the situation?” Anytime you are pointing the finger outside of yourself, you are coming from the place of a victim, and it’s not a place where you’ll initiate change or transformation. So, you’ve got to take 100% responsibility for the situation. And it doesn’t matter if somebody is doing something to you, or you feel you’ve been wronged, when you’re in a victim mentality you will not be able to initiate change. So ask yourself, “Where can I take 5% more responsibility for this situation? What needs to shift? What do I need to do differently?” When you come from that powerful place, you will be able to move forward and initiate change.

2. The second area that maybe blocking you is “what are you projecting?” Meaning what view do you have of yourself, what self are you putting out to others and in this situation, and how are others viewing you? So take 100% responsibility and take a candid look at how are you showing up and how is that being perceived and responded to?

3. The third common trigger is “where are you wearing blinders, where are you not seeing the big picture?” Maybe you’re not listening or hearing to what’s going on and what’s happening. The solution here is you’ve got to expand your view and take multiple perspectives. Meaning, you know your perspective and where you are coming from, now take a second perspective, put yourself in the shoes of the person or people who are also involved in this situation. And then take a third perspective, put yourself in the shoes of the business or the organization. Look at it from the greater good and the whole picture. Where are you wearing blinders and having too narrow of a vision, you need to expand that vision and take multiple perspectives.

4. And the last trigger is “where are you wasting your time trying to change someone else?” I see this so often within organizations and companies that leaders or managers think “Well, I just have to change my people and then everything will be better.” That is such a weak place to come from and one that will never produce the results that you want. You have to know that YOU need to be the change you want to see. If you’re in a situation where you want people to take more initiative or you want to see more enthusiasm around you…YOU need to step in with more initiative and with more enthusiasm. When you show up, you teach people how to respond. When you show up and become the change you want to see, you give others permission to do the same.

Each week I'll be addressing your most pressing challenges at work on the Work Can Be Different podcast