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Bringing your whole self to work

Bringing your whole self to work

From the course: Thriving @ Work: Leveraging the Connection between Well-Being and Productivity

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Bringing your whole self to work

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- Well there's two components to being yourself or being safe at work. One is the environment you're in. So it would be great to have the idea that everybody would feel the freedom to go in and be themselves in every environment, but I always talk about you know, leadership has to create that environment. So psychological safety is not complicated. You can easily create an environment of safety if people know that they have the freedom to be themselves. How does that, what does that look like? Well, you give people an opportunity to express, you don't make their expression right or wrong, you go great. At some point people realize I'm free to express. That's one part of it. But secondly, you can be yourself if you're willing to risk whatever comes with that. So for example if I don't care whether I'm allowed to work here or not, I'm going to be me. I'm going to have a lot more freedom than I have a lot of attachment to working at this job. So one of the things we will tell people as…

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