23/10/2024
Looking for strategies to help you navigate power differences at work and ensure your voice gets heard? I discussed this, her book Speak Out, Listen Up and so much more with Megan Reitz on Episode 85 of the Reframe & Reset Your Career podcast.
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In this episode, we discussed:
🔷 Lessons she learned from working in a start up in the early days of the internet boom,
🔷 How she developed an interest in management, teamwork, change and culture,
🔷 The TRUTH framework which can help you understand power and to communicate more effectively,
🔷 The importance of empathy,
🔷 Understanding and managing workplace politics,
🔷 The 5 Ws of speaking up,
🔷 Preparing for and having difficult conversations and
🔷 How mindfulness can help leadership.
Megan is Associate Fellow at Saïd Business School, Oxford University and Adjunct Professor of Leadership and Dialogue at Hult International Business School. She focuses on how we create the conditions for transformative dialogue at work and her research is at the intersection of leadership, change, dialogue and mindfulness. She is on the Thinkers50 ranking of global business thinkers and is ranked in HR Magazine’s Most Influential Thinkers listing.
Megan has written Dialogue in Organizations and Mind Time and she has just published Speak Out, Listen Up which is the second edition of her bestselling book Speak Up, with Financial Times Publishing. Speak Up was shortlisted for the CMI Management Book of the Year 2020.
Megan is a contributor to Harvard Business Review and MIT Sloan Management Review. She has presented her research on the BBC, CNBC and Deutsche Welle and she writes for numerous academic and practice-based journals. Her research on employee activism was nominated for the Thinkers50 Breakthrough Idea Award 2021 and her TED talk on the topic has been viewed more than one and a half million times.
Her latest research focuses on ‘spaciousness’; how, whilst attending to the task, we can also create, hold and value the space to innovate, reflect, learn and develop relationships, in workplaces that are increasingly experienced as instrumental and addicted to busyness.
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