In today´s episode of 'Professional Success Podcast', host Sheila Boysen - Rotelli, a Master Certified Career Coach, Recruiter and Talent Development Leader who coaches purpose-driven individuals to help them develop their personal brands. In this episode, she shares her views on creating a 'Culture of Kindness' in workplaces.
Episode Highlights:
- Sheila Boysen says that kindness isn't always seen as a priority in the workplace.
- She states that to bring in the 'Culture of Kindness' at workplace means carrying authentic quality to work, being gentle and kind to ourselves and to other people around us.
- Sheila narrates how the researchers from the University of California studied a group of workers, mostly female employees from Coca Cola's Madrid headquarters, on kindness.
- The participants were asked to give details of the generous acts or acts of kindness they performed towards their coworkers each week, said Sheila.
- According to Sheila, we can perhaps perform random "Acts of Kindness" anytime on a regular basis instead of celebrating it just for a week in February every year.
- Sheila discusses some ways of showing kindness at workplace.
- She points out that genuine compliment really can leave a lasting impression on someone who is receiving it.
- Be an active listener for our colleagues, says Sheila.
3 Key Points:
- Sheila Boysen shares that wellbeing is tremendously important and as per research over a period of time, wellbeing in workplace, can help organization, team, company or institution.
- As per Sheila, small acts of kindness, not only benefit the receiver, but they benefit the person who is giving that act of kindness and they benefit the whole organization.
- When someone does something for you or when someone's does a good job or favor, show them gratitude by saying it out loud or even better.
Tweetable Quotes:
- "Office culture today can be tremendously cutthroat and competitive. It can lead to lots of hurtful comments and criticism, complete lack of collaboration and miscommunication." - Sheila Boysen - Rotelli
- "After about a month, the study showed that the acts of"" kindness do not go unnoticed and it had a huge impact on the overall positivity in the workplace and the employee's sense of wellbeing." - Sheila Boysen – Rotelli
- "I think the most interesting aspect of the study was to show that acts of kindness are contagious." - Sheila Boysen – Rotelli
- "Each of us can improve our social communication skills and positively contribute and impact the culture of our working group of our professional network or of our organization." - Sheila Boysen – Rotelli
- "Active listening is about giving your complete intentional focus on what someone's saying." - Sheila Boysen – Rotelli
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