38: Can performance vocabulary be a competitive advantage for businesses? A conversation with Maya Sadasivan

38: Can performance vocabulary be a competitive advantage for businesses? A conversation with Maya Sadasivan: 'Performance Vocabulary' is it just jargon? Or does it serve a purpose? The pandemic has forever transformed how we live and work, it has already thrown out of the window traditional wisdom that workers need to be in the workplace to be productive. The only certainty in today's world is the uncertainty. In this uncertain environment, businesses are having to rethink ways to being able to deliver effectively on their financial goals, have a highly motivated workforce, happy customers and also meet broader societal expectations. All this while navigating a world in a constant state of flux. The reality is that across the world many employers are also getting ready to get back to in-person work; but all employees are not. We are all trying to process new ways of working and also evaluating our relationship with work. It also does not make it easy that different countries are at different stages of the risk mitigation journey i.e. their vaccine programme; rates of infection; government advisory etc. The expectation of employers and employees also differs from country to country and across generational divide. There are no homogenous groups that are for in-person or those against. This may lead to different levels of engagement or dis-engagement or productivity or lack of if, which in turn is likely to impact motivation/morale and ultimately bottomline. In such scenarios what can organisations do to build a cohesive culture of performance - at the individual employee level but also at the broader organisational level? In the 38th episode of #TheElephantintheRoom podcast I spoke with Maya Sadasivan a leadership coach about the evolving role of managers and teams within an organisations and also performance vocabulary. 👉🏾 What can organisations do to ensure that individuals and teams are able to still deliver and be productive? 👉🏾 Performance vocabulary, what it means in practice 👉🏾 Building a team or organisation wide performance vocabulary 👉🏾 Is it a competitive advantage? 👉🏾 Should the C-Suite be championing it? Who owns it? 👉🏾 Performance vocabulary and it's role in defining culture #motivation #culture #productivity #ownership #performancepsychology Listen here Listen here 👇🏾👇🏾 https://lnkd.in/d-t2dbyh

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The Elephant in the Room Podcast is a curated safe space to have uncomfortable conversations about the pervasive inequalities in society and our workplaces. The idea of the podcast was born from my sense of conflict about identity, self and the concept of privilege and fuelled by my own need to understand how my overlapping identities and experiences had impacted and would continue to impact my life chances. Two years ago I decided to ‘opt out’ to find my own purpose and focus on passion projects including learning about the systemic biases that are endemic in business and society. The Podcast is my very own listening project, a step towards being more intentional in my learning. The Elephant in the Room Podcast is for people who want to be a part of the change, for those who want to step up & speak out, for those who want to learn more about biases, barriers and best practice, for business leaders and for individuals, anyone who is interested in a fairer, more inclusive and compassionate society and workplace. Each week I will interview inspiring speakers from across the world on issues that are taboo and deserve to be mainstream including(but not limited to) systemic and institutionalised racism, discrimination based on further eight protected characteristics, poverty, mental health, climate change. The podcast will also talk about cognitive inclusion, culture, purpose, ethics and the importance of empathy, cultural intelligence and how conversations on identity and disadvantage would be incomplete without considering intersectionality. With the podcast I hope to share stories of people with lived experiences, stories that may have never been told, stories that galvanise us to take action for change and keep the conversations alive by raising the decibel on issues of inequity, inequality in our search for a fairer and more inclusive world.