MEGA SESSION Ditch the Drama: Innovation and Collaboration Are Your Natural State When the Drama's Gone
There is a cost to drama in the workplace, both in the happiness of employees and in millions of dollars of waste in organizations. Employees spend almost two and a half hours per day indulging in ego-driven behaviors (e.g., low accountability, resisting change, withholding buy-in, blaming, venting), our natural human reaction to change and challenging situations. This energy can be conserved and reinvested with a few simple changes in how we think, how we lead and how we work. By using good mental processes, we can bypass the ego, ditch the drama, and reveal our natural state of innovation and collaboration. This opens us up to endless possibilities and create a whole new level of potential for ourselves and results for the organization.
Learning Objectives:
- Identify the differences between the “high self,” the “low self,” and the ability to toggle between them.
- Ensure that you are using your best self to ditch the drama in challenging situations and circumstances.
- Recognize that accountability drives engagement.
- Identify ways to positively impact relationships and strategic organizational goals.
Cy Wakeman
Cy Wakeman is a drama researcher, global thought-leader, and New York Times best-selling author who is recognized for cultivating a counter-intuitive, reality-based approach to leadership. Backed by 20 years of experience, Wakeman’s philosophy offers a new lens through which employees and executives alike, can shift their attention inward, sharpen their focus on personal accountability, and uncover their natural state of innovation simply by ditching the drama.
Deemed “the secret weapon to restoring sanity to the workplace,” Wakeman has helped companies such as Google, Facebook, NASA, Pfizer, Bank of America, and United Healthcare learn to harness energy wasted in workplace drama and reinvest that effort into achieving profound business results.