Visual Workplace Radio: Let The Workplace Speak

The world of work can sometimes resemble politics—where the method of choice for handling differences is often further polarization: Go to your corners and come out fighting. Though trendy, playing our differences against each other is rarely effective. In this week’s show, your host and visual expert, Gwendolyn Galsworth, recounts the true story of Pro-Life and Pro-Choice groups doing the hard work of seeking and finding common ground. Though polar opposites, they learned a new way and broke the myth of either/or choices. The same is possible in the workplace—beginning with an executive decision to invert the power pyramid and develop a new power proposition with value-add associates. The result? Alignment and the simultaneous definition of areas of commonality and areas of enduring differences. The outcome: unity. And throughout, managers and supervisors are caught in the middle. Another great ENCORE show. (Sorry: Though Gwendolyn is much better, her voice has yet to return.)