Visual Workplace Radio: Let The Workplace Speak

The world of work often seems to most closely resemble politics, with further polarization the method of choice for handling differences: Go to your corner and come out fighting. Though trendy, playing our differences against each other is not the only way. In this week’s show, your host and visual workplace expert, Gwendolyn Galsworth, recounts the true story of Pro-Life and Pro-Choice groups doing the hard work of seeking and finding common ground. These polar opposites demonstrate the importance of our learning a new way and breaking the myth of either/or choices. No less so in the workplace. That process begins with an executive decision to invert the power pyramid and develop a new power proposition. Executives then learn a new way as do value-add associates. The result? Alignment and the simultaneous definition of areas of commonality and areas of enduring differences. In a word: unity. And throughout, managers and supervisors are caught in the middle. Tune in and learn more.