Spaciousness
Across many areas of life, from education and health through to business and politics, we’ve become obsessed with the ‘doing’ mode. We like to keep busy in a world where success is measured and rewarded through meeting immediate, tangible targets. Pausing, stepping back to reflect on what this busyness is all about, is seen as a sign of laziness or inefficiency. It can also feel terrifying when we’re not used to it – it forces us to engage with who we are when we aren’t busy with our busy doing.
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The Conscious Leaders Podcast
Megan has a long history of working at the cutting edge of leadership development and marks a departure from the usual guest on this podcast.
She is a deep thinker and researcher around how leaders need to behave in what she calls a ‘pathologically busy’ workplace. This interview explores how our society has an over focus on the short-term, the to do list which leads to rampant busyness. This is not the role of a leader who needs to be able to step back and have perspective.
Megan shares how reflective practices and wise attention will help us become the leaders we want to be.
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Minds Worth Meeting
🎙️ On the next episode of Minds Worth Meeting, leadership and dialogue expert Megan Reitz joins us to discuss the importance of how leaders “show up” to work, why we all need safe environments to speak up and permission to pause, how AI is starting to change dialogue in organizations, and more.
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Leading the conversation: Enabling mental health discussion
Mental well-being is critical for individuals, communities, and organizations, yet despite the lifting of taboos around mental health in society, employees are feeling less cared for than ever. So why are we still reluctant to talk openly about our mental well-being at work?
Leaders can play a critical role in facilitating these conversations by speaking up about their own experiences and encouraging others to do the same.
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Leaders Speak Up: Unlocking Mental Health in the Workplace
In the last of our special Mind Matters sessions, Megan Reitz, Amy Edmondson, Peter Sims and moderator Morra Aarons Mele discuss the implications of the leader’s optimism bubble, de-stigmatising failure, and building scaffolding to invite input: a culture of speaking up doesn’t create itself, it requires scaffolding. Find out more about productive vulnerability, the role of experiential knowing, and how to make space for the bigger conversations.
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When a Team Member Speaks Up — and It Doesn’t Go Well
Speaking up — and being heard — in organizations is critical, but failed attempts to speak up happen often at work and can lead people to silence themselves and others in the long run. Instead, leaders and team members should frame such situations as opportunities to learn.
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Speaking Truth To Power With Megan Reitz
How can you speak confidently and navigate difficult conversations in your organization? How does power dynamics affect communication? In this episode, Megan Reitz, the author of Speak Out, Listen Up, talks about how perceptions of power enable and silence others. She also breaks down the TRUTH Framework that affects whether we speak or listen. Delve into the subtle influences that prevent us from voicing our most innovative ideas. Join Megan Reitz in this valuable conversation today.
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How better (not smoother) conversations can deliver at work with Megan Reitz & John Higgins
Megan and John discussed the idea of ‘psychological safety’ and how better (not smoother) conversations can be delivered at work. They provided guidance on navigating power dynamics, empowering you to speak up confidently and ensure your voice is heard. They also discussed how to leverage your influence and encourage others to express themselves.
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How AI Features Can Change Team Dynamics
Generative AI has the fastest take-up of any technology to date. Now, as AI applications are becoming immersed in workplace culture and power, we’re beginning to see how GenAI tools will impact our conversational habits, which direct what we say and who we hear.
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The perils of speaking up at work too often deter staff from voicing concerns
Staff at Boeing are still reluctant to speak up about safety problems, even after a door panel on one of its jets recently blew out mid-flight and hundreds of lives were lost in two earlier planes crashes, according to an experts’ report commissioned by the US Federal Aviation Administration.
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Changing the Conversation
Have you ever considered the conversations going on in your workplace? What is said but overlooked? Who gets to talk to whom? What counts as a valuable conversation?
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Thinkers 50 2023
Working at the intersection of leadership, change, dialogue and mindfulness, Reitz’s research focuses on how we meet, see, hear, speak, learn with and encounter one another in organisational systems and how we might encourage dialogue which is more humane and which enables us, our colleagues and our society to flourish. Current focus is on the rise of ‘employee activism’.
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The Routledge Companion to Leadership and Change
The unique leadership challenges organizations face throughout the world call for a renewed focus on what constitutes "authentic, inclusive, servant, transformational, principled, values-based, and mindful" leadership.
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Certain Uncertainty
In Certain Uncertainty, renowned management theorist Des Dearlove delivers an exciting and illuminating discussion of how to build resilience and agility into our lives and businesses.
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