Author Recap: How HR Transforms Workplace Culture with Mental Health & Learning Innovation

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Highlights: 📍
🗣️❤️ The Importance of Mental Health at Work: Comparison to physical health to highlight the need for equal treatment and attention.
🧠💪 Techniques for Managing Anxiety and Enhancing Mindfulness: Curiosity as a tool to combat fear and reduce judgment. Promoting empathy and understanding through intentionality and curiosity.
🔄🌟 Creating a Culture of Learning and Development: Democratizing access to quality learning content and fostering a supportive environment for skill development.
🧩 Finding Purpose and Practicing Optimism: The significance of practicing optimism and being epically empathetic in leadership.

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Transcript

So, the passion, the curiosity, the devotion, I mean, Alexandra was just phenomenal. You can tell that she's thriving in a culture where people really matter. Tell me what some of your big takeaways were. Okay, here's the first takeaway is that I had a chance to interview their CEO and I bought some stock after just interviewing him because he was such an amazing guy and after listening to to Alexandra Who immediately quoted their values ownership agility shared curiosity? It's like you know how many organizations that you and I go into and we ask people okay? Tell us your values They go. I you know they're up on the wall somewhere. There's a culture where everybody is connected by what they believe in. And so that was first. That was the first aha. The second is mental health is health and they're not afraid to talk about it. They're not afraid to embrace the discussion. That was powerful. Yeah, yeah. My first takeaway as well, you know, you said The way she put it in context. So what a great sense of humor. He says you don't tell your pancreas Chira Buck up friend the idea of The jury is not judgmental. I thought was was great and creating this positive intent Yeah, that we're all in a journey and we're gonna learn and we're gonna make mistakes and that's okay, right? The practicality of what they're implementing to this first aider program on mental health. Wow, what a great idea for any company, right? You've got mental health, well, you've got people that work for your company that are trained to be supportive in the mental health area. And she said, and even if you don't use it, you know it's there. And isn't that a great message? That even if you don't need it, it's like insurance, right? I don't think about it a lot, but something terrible happens, it's there and I know they've got my back. So powerful to know that you have a first responder on staff who can say, okay, I've been there, this is the way we're gonna process this. And it's confidential, I'm your support. So powerful. Love that. Yeah, a couple of more things. You know, she talked a lot about purpose, how important that is in their organization, but also for herself. The look, she says, I try to practice my purpose and we try to figure out what am I good at? What does the world need and what can I make money at? And that you walk your purpose every day. You want to bring your anxiety down, find something that gives you purpose. For her, it's being, as she quoted Walt Whitman, be curious, not judgmental. Really powerful that you and I work in every day. The people we're coaching, we try to have them first and foremost figure out what their purpose is. It's amazing how few people do that. Yeah, yeah. The biggest thing for me was curiosity. You know, that solves a lot of problems. If you have a culture of curiosity, it's first innovation, it's first conversation, it's inclusive, you know, and that's why they've got so much learning going on. They have a platform that, you know, she talked about, it's available to everybody, everywhere. Follow your passion, follow your curiosity and things get better. So, yeah, and then lastly, I love that she didn't have a formula. So many of our guests do, you know, move, meditate, journal or exercise or whatever it might be. And she said, you know, I wish I had a great S.U.V. I don't. Yeah, but what did she say? I give myself grace. That was her formula. So it's a little different than we hear, but how powerful. Yeah, just so many great takeaways and so many great products. So yeah, buy some stock in Heinz. You'll probably be in good stead. People have to eat. That will never change. You know, we have a great producer, Brent Klein, who puts together all the mishigash that we've got, there's a little bit of Yiddish for you, and makes it sound great and puts it together in a way that people can get great ideas and so on. So we can't thank Brent enough. Would you say he's like the Kraft Heinz of producers, that kind of quality? He's the mac and cheese. He's the bedrock. Anyway, of course, we want to thank Christy Lawrence as well who finds these amazing guests for us. And of course, all of you who listen in, you can spend your time in a lot of places and we're delighted that you spent some time with us. If you like the podcast, share it with friends and family. We'd love you to visit our website, thecultureworks.com for some free resources to help you and your team not just get through the day, but to thrive. And what we love to do more than even eating Kraft Heinz's products is speaking to audiences around the world virtually or in person. We love to speak on culture, teamwork, resilience. I just landed last night, late in the evening, but I was so excited to come speak to Alexandra. But that's what we do. Give us a call. We'd love to have you chat maybe about your event and how we can make that great. Right, Ches? Yeah, and of course buy the book, Anxiety at Work. It's available in hardcover, in digital, audible, and a wonderful new platform called Lit Video Books. We also have some wonderful online training we've just launched, so you'll find that at the Culture Works as well on anxiety at work. Well, another wonderful podcast. Three guests, lots of energy, lots of applause all the way around. But as always, I give you the last word. Thanks, everybody, for joining us until next week. We wish you the best of mental health.