How to Keep Your Employees Engaged with Jason Cochran
In this episode, Roxanne chats with Jason Cochran about the crucial role authenticity plays in leadership. They delve into lessons from Jason's experiences in Haiti, discuss the impact of negative inner dialogue on leadership, and stress the importance of commitment to people. The episode also touches on stress management and the benefits of collaborative problem solving.
Key Points
- Understanding and managing one's stress signature is crucial for leaders to maintain effective communication and decision-making under pressure.
- Reflective listening and being curious are essential techniques for leaders to ensure they are not misinterpreting signals and to foster clear and positive communication.
- Leaders should be equipped with a variety of self-awareness and problem-solving tools to handle workplace situations appropriately and to support their teams effectively.
Quote: “Even though our inner dialogue tends to be negative, we don’t really like to have conversations with other people who are negative.” Jason Cochran
In order to have a productive team and retain your best talent, you must have strong leadership. Strong leadership is created when you maintain a good relationship with your employees. On this episode of Authentic Living with Roxanne we welcome psychologist and connection expert, Jason Cochran to share his strategies on how leaders can keep their employees engaged by teaching them effective leadership skills.
Jason gave us so much great information that we are splitting this into a two-part series, so be sure to tune in again next week for Part II.
Jason is a licensed psychologist of 15+ years and the co-founder of technology companies iAspire and Dulead in Indianapolis. Fascinated with the exploration of human potential, Jason has devoted his life to building scalable solutions that attract, develop, and retain talent. He also has hands-on experience working with organizations in education and business leading people, change, process improvement, and digital transformation in consulting roles.
Authentic Touch Points
How leaders can stay authentic. 2:00
Biases and cultural ideals. 5:00
Recalibrating to practice reflective listening. 9:30
Crooked thinking. 12:30
Let’s get everyone involved. 15:00
Finding your stress signature. 18:00
Jason devised the 4 Principles of Connection ™️ model (connecting with self, others, role, and organization) which is used to design impactful employee and leadership experiences throughout the employment lifecycle - addressing the innate needs for why people desire meaningful work in their lives. His passion is to help organizations build growth cultures where people elevate to their potential and organizations fulfill their missions in the world.
As we move toward reopening workspaces and gathering again, I encourage leaders to reach out for guidance about presenting their authentic self to develop an improved workplace for everyone with less conflict as I offer executive coaching. Click here to contact me at your convenience or click here to Chat with Roxanne!
Stay Authentic,
Roxanne
Links:
Roxanne’s LinkedIn profile:https://www.linkedin.com/in/roxannederhodge/ Roxanne’s email: [email protected] Chat with Roxanne: https://roxannederhodge.com/chat/ Roxanne’s previous podcasts: https://roxannederhodge.com/blog/
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