571. How to Build Organizational Cultures Where Your Teams Can Thrive - Laura Buckley
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Overview
Meet Laura. She's a leadership coach and consultant who helps leaders create thriving cultures. From integrating work and well-being to making meetings meaningful, she’s sharing practical strategies to build inclusive and supportive environments. Tune in to learn how small, intentional changes can transform your org into a place where everyone thrives🌱
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The importance of bridging the gap between work and well-being
How to build thriving cultures
Practical tips for improving meetings
Today's Guest
Laura Buckley, Coach and Consultant
“When we think about making these shifts toward cultures where people can thrive, it is just one small step at a time.”
Episode Transcript
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Episode Highlights
Laura’s story and journey to where she is today (3:15)
Workplace dynamics (5:50)
How can we build the bridge between work and well-being (9:20)
What to do individually to build organizational cultures we can all thrive in (13:30)
Reframing team building so we can build thriving cultures (18:50)
Talk to us about the art and science of meetings that actually move us toward collective action. (25:00)
A powerful moment of philanthropy in Laura’s life (29:35)
Laura’s One Good Thing: Schedule your meetings for 25 minutes or 50 minutes and always have space at the end to get up from your desk. (31:50)
How to connect with Laura (33:20)
Powerful Quotes
“I’ve always been in this place of how do we help people?” -Laura
“How do we continue to center well-being while also really finding ways to build those connections and opportunities to engage with the culture, when we’re not all sitting together.” -Laura
“What is the actual capacity of our human resources? How do we have enough constraint in what we say yes to, to allow people space to get up and walk away from their computers?” - Laura
"Meetings are the place where we can really help each other understand the work that we're doing." -Laura
"If it's not a conversation, it doesn't need to be a meeting." - Laura Buckley
"When we think about making these shifts toward cultures where people can thrive, it is just one small step at a time." -Laura
"How do we engage people in their own work, in their own development as leaders?” -Laura
“In just acknowledging somebody's expertise, regardless of where they are in their career journey, it empowers them to have a voice in their work, and people want to have that empowerment.” -Laura
“Because when I think about building that bridge between our work and our well-being. It's really thinking about, how do we center the human side of work?” -Laura
“I think about team building very much in terms of doing good work together in a pretty organized and intentional way, where people can walk out of it, feeling like they understand the organization better, they understand each other better, and they understand how their role fits into both of those things.” -Laura
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