Whilst working in incredible roles within amazing organizations, she saw the same culture struggles, relationship issues, and growing pains play out over and over again. She thinks that the way to do work right now simply isn’t working and that we can build something better. Being a leader, for me, is about learning to access all of the different parts of yourself and hopefully have them show up in the right way to others. Ruth Penfold Related Links:

Ruth has spent the past two decades building and rebuilding teams with organizations including Shazam, Onfido, and bp Launchpad. She’s also built and rebuilt herself from the inside out in the process. And so if now, many years later, if we would have actually took time and reflect and say, "Hey, what's happening? Like the way we're working isn't working, what's happening?" It would have caused us to probably have a different reaction or different change. According to the Mayo Clinic, the person you report to at work is more important for your health than your family doctor.”

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Or if this thing has happened, what's my best guess as to the tools that I can draw upon? And, you know, and I think at an organizational level, therefore it's not about creating sort of these crazy machine humans that can withstand anything. It's just about giving them the opportunity to put tools in their toolkit, really, and to build their own version of resilience, whatever that means for them. You know, what do they need from you? What do they expect from you? What pleases them? What problems can you solve to keep them happy? Not in a manipulative way, but building your relationship, but also what doesn't work with them and where have they reacted badly in the past. So that you actually learn the sort of dynamics of the humans that are certainly your closest humans, so that you can really create the foundation for honesty, honest reflection between all of you. Beyond basic survival, we need to sustain ourselves physically with sleep, nutrition, fitness, and rest. Our physical capacity lays the foundation for all other sources of energy. If you don’t take care of your body, you simply can’t perform optimally. The bigger the reservoir of value of value and well-being, the less emotionally vulnerable we are to everyday challenges. According to Schulte: “Our culture is not aligned with living well and working well, our policies are not aligned with living and working well, and our workplace cultures are antithetical to living and working well.”

So, you know, in, in the here and now, I think I think that at the very least, to build the kind of dynamics that you need to have within a team and as a leader within your team, so you know, the difficult thing about self-awareness is you have to be willing to step into discomfort to develop self-awareness. And so if somebody isn't willing to step into discomfort, even if they can hold the discomfort of founding a company, and this isn't just about founders, this is about all of us.

Study shows that asking students when and where they’d do their writing led to completing the assigned task (specificity in accountability is key) Know, but I mean, I and not necessarily with those companies and not even necessarily with the ones that I've worked within but I've definitely within businesses before her dove and I also coach people. So I do hear about this by proxy too. Our identity is the sum of the stories we tell about ourselves. Our worldview is the sum of the stories we tell about others.” Evolved Executives and organizations not only thrive in the new world, often showing significant performance improvement compared to traditional organizations, but they do so while bringing purpose, meaning, and human connection to their employees and communities. And then I hopped out of there and into a machine learning FinTech called Onfido. And then most recently in bp Launchpad, which was a BP Scale-up arm. So I've really sort of touched many different sizes of organizations and kinds of different organizations from the people standpoint, but where you find me right now, Tim is in a place where I actually decided to leave my job this summer.Ruth Penfold You can write to Tim and he will let you know, right? But yeah, no. I mean, gosh, when I talk about human growth. So I think if you think about it from the lens of a founder who, by the way, you know, like founding an organization, I have such a huge amount of admiration for, because it is hard to put yourself out there in the world and try to build something. And I don't think I'm alone in that because you know, without wanting to jump on a load of buzz slogans that are out there right now, the great resignation being one of them. But I think that for me, what I was starting to experience was a relentlessness that felt uncomfortable, right? So, you know, you're kind of driving towards things, you're building things. The difficult thing about self-awareness is you have to be willing to step into discomfort to develop self-awareness. Ruth Penfold