Audio Version of December 2022 LILA Brief – There Is A Place for Us
This is the audio version of the December 2022 LILA Brief - There's A Place For Us
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Links to Video Presentations for December 2022
This post contains the links to the LILA You Tube Channel where you can view the Day 1 presentations. -
Audio Link to October 2022 LILA Brief
This is the audio version of the October 2022 brief. -
Summary of March 2022 Member Call : Mastering Community
What makes people thrive, and what makes them feel connected and engaged? Christine has surveyed hundreds of thousands of people and concludes that to help people thrive, we should focus on these levers: (1) unite, (2) unleash, (3) respect, (4) radical candor, and (5) provide meaning. -
Summary of LILA Member Call with Pat Satterstrom: The Power of Cultivating Ideas and Voice
On January 13th, LILA members joined the first Member Call of 2022 for a discussion on the role of voice, which can be considered a bridge between agency and belonging, two of the cornerstone topics (Oct. and Feb.) in LILA’s 2021-2022 theme “The Human Factor”. The call featured guest speaker Patricia Satterstrom from New York University. -
Power for All with Julie Battilana.
During the October gathering, we explored what agency looks like and what practices might lead to greater agency for all. Among the puzzles we identified was the connection between agency and power. To help us deepen our understanding, we invited Julie Battilana to share her research with the LILA community. Julie is a scholar, educator, and advisor in the areas of social innovation and social change. She is a both a Professor at the Harvard Business School and Professor of Social Innovation at the Harvard Kennedy School. Julie has recently published a book titled Power for All: How it Works and Why it's Everyone's Business with her co-author Tiziana Casciaro. -
Trust – Harnessing the Power of Agency and Belonging
People have an inherent need for belonging and agency, which can be fulfilled by trust in different ways. But just what is trust? It is the willingness to be vulnerable—to take a risk—in a relationship based on positive expectations of the trustee. And in the workplace belonging and agency matter because of their impact on job performance, commitment to the organization, and well-being. Mike’s research suggests that feeling trusted and having an opportunity to trust others can increase employees’ sense of belonging and agency. By a wide margin, the three biggest predictors of trust are ability, benevolence and integrity. (There is also trust propensity – a personality trait where someone is more willing to believe that others are reliable – but this can go away.) A few examples of trusting behavior include the supervisor’s willingness to rely on the employee’s skills and abilities, to disclose sensitive information or feelings to the employee, and to reduce monitoring of the employee. What are your thoughts? When have you experienced trust that led to your feeling a sense of agency, belonging and connection? -
Uniting Through Difference with Rachel Arnett
In the first presentation Rachel spoke about the benefits and risks of navigating a minority identity in the workplace. In this presentation she spoke about one way to bring attention to a cultural identity in a way that doesn’t necessarily activate bias and exclusion, and can actually activate and increase inclusion. -
Agency in the Context of Diversity with Rachel Arnett
In her first presentation, Rachel shared some of her work about agency in the context of diversity. Diversity is increasingly a reality of the workplace, and it brings lots of benefits – we gain new perspectives, we gain access to broader and better talent pools, for example, which helps us to innovate and improve how we do things in organizations. And there are also many challenges for example, how do we navigate sources of differences. Rachel’s research explores how the perceived risks and benefits of sharing features and aspects of identity can influence and enhance both individual and collective agency at work. -
Agency for Unimagined Events
Agency and structure matter for how you act but also for what future events you imagine or can’t imagine. Lets look at reflective agency - when you consider scenarios that could happen, you do so based on your current position and the information available to you at the time which lead you to consider different alternatives and contingency plans. Pre-reflective agency driven by past experiences, will lead you to take for granted that some aspects of reality will be as they have been in the past – leaving you in the dark about the future.