How to Cultivate an Ego Free Work Environment
Welcome back to the What You Do Matters Podcast! This week we are talking about what it takes to cultivate ego free teamwork and an ego free work environment. I brought my team member, Sara Jensen on today to break down five ways that we came up with together to step into ego free work. This episode is perfect for anyone working with a team of people, or even those interacting in our everyday relationships (AKA everyone!). Enjoy!
Topics we dig into in this episode include:
The why behind the work
Being very intentional with the interactions you deal with in your life and work
How as a team we highly prioritize development and caring about each other
Deemphasizing yourself and shining the spotlight on the team
The five things you can implement in order to cultivate your own ego free work environment
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Five things to help you have an ego free team and work environment:
+Using we language
Something you have to train yourself to do
Makes you feel powerful
You’re a team
You have each other's back
You’re doing the work together
Not just saying it out-loud. You also want to include it in emails.
When you want to take the credit, that’s coming from a place of ego.
+If you do the work you present it
If you’re the one who is putting the time in, you should be the one presenting it.
This really applies to team members. You don’t always need to be the person relaying the information.
Also applies to other relationships in your life.
+Handing out gold stars, not collecting them
This comes from William Gentry in his book “Be the Boss that Everyone Wants to Work For.”
“Sarah did this amazing thing” instead of, “Sarah did this amazing thing because I let her.”
When you give, it comes back to you.
+Calling yourself out when you don’t show up in the ways you want to
This shows the other people that you do care.
You don’t always have to be right. It is okay to be wrong.
It’s not expected to be 100% all of the time but it is expected to be compassionate.
+Actually caring
You are not going to have good quality relationships at home or at work if you don’t actually care. You can’t pretend that you care.
You can’t lead well if you don’t care.
To dig into this a little deeper, read the book Radical Candor by Kim Scott
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