“What does a non-acceptance look like? It looks like rumination. It looks like looking backwards. It looks like gossip. It looks like ‘shoulding.’” – Kari Granger
Welcome to Leadership Impact, the podcast for modern executives who are reinventing leadership within their organizations. Hosted by executive leadership coach and CEO of The Granger Network, Kari Granger, and Sound Financial Group CEO, Paul Adams, this podcast aims to address the topics of performance and leadership through real life examples.
In this first ever ‘debriefisode,’ Kari and Paul debrief episode 11, How to Inspire a Resigned Team, by discussing the topic of acceptance. Paul points to the current political climate in the United States to accentuate his point that accepting a new reality can sometimes be extremely difficult. Kari expands on this example by dissecting non-acceptance and identifying what this looks like within organizations. Non-acceptance is synonymous with rumination and dwelling in the past whereas acceptance is the acknowledgment of something as it is without modifying or adding anything. Kari discusses the role of listening with the intent of understanding and arriving at a place of acceptance. Finally, Kari stresses the importance of completion before creation, meaning that before you can move forward with an action you must first ensure that the change has been implemented and is complete.
What We Covered:
00:17 – Introducing today’s ‘Debriefisode’
01:09 – The current political climate
03:26 – How this political climate is infiltrating organizations
04:29 – What non-acceptance looks like
05:50 – The role of listening in moving towards acceptance
08:57 – An observation Kari has made about strategic planning
09:42 – The key takeaway: Completion before Creation
11:30 – The wrong way to listen
13:04 – The purpose of listening for acceptance
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Acknowledgements:
Our work is mosaic art. We read, study, and practice many philosophies, methodologies, and modalities of human performance, to ensure that our approach best serves our clients. We would like to acknowledge all of the thought leaders and organizations, whose ground-breaking work has influenced the Granger Network approach – especially Fernando Flores, Jim Selman, Michael C. Jensen, Julio Olalla, Pluralistic Networks, The Newfield Network, and the Strozzi Institute.
In this episode, we’d especially like to thank Herwig Schoen and Reconnective Therapy for their extensive work on Acceptance during the School of Life.
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