Katie shares her expertise in using theater-based exercises to address biases, boost emotional intelligence, and foster inclusive cultures in start-up environments. Together, we explore the impact of company culture on business success, the challenges of displaying vulnerability as a leader, and the role of non-verbal communication in facilitating meaningful discussions.

Join us for an insightful conversation that will inspire you to take a deeper look at your own contributions to company culture and the art of asking questions in the workplace.

What a way to start the year by about lessons we learn through theatre!

Listen to learn:

• qualities of good improvisers to emulate in the workplace

• team lessons from ensemble-based thinking

• becoming both a spectator and actor at the same time

• what it’s like to work with McLaughlin Method to get real about actual scenarios at work and how they impact us

In this episode of Relationships at Work, Katie talks about why we need to introduce the principles and power of theatre into the employee experience.

Katie shares her thoughts and experience with...

What does theatre looks like as an engagement tool in the workplace? How theatre can help employees be seen and heard The challenge of diversity in introducing theatrical practices.The two biggest takeaways from a theatre exercise. How to convince decision makers to embrace theatre. When the best time to incorporate this method in the employee journey.

Katie speaks about how she uses her background in theatre to facilitate transformation at work. She believes that we need more artists in the world of business as there's less of a science to business and more of an art. In this episode, we talk about how your intention matters and to be wary of the unintended impact of your intentions. We talk about vision, values, connection, meaning and the skill sets we need to better communicate, collaborate and understand each other. We also cover unfulfilled potential in our workplaces, workplace hurt and the value of felt lived experience.

In this episode, Katie McLaughlin, Founder of the McLaughlin Method, talks us through how leaders can use tools like body language, tone, and dialogue to positively impact business results.

Katie describes most leaders as people who are "kind of leading by accident and aren't aware first and foremost that they have choice and that they have the ability to affect behavior and affect change. And then secondly, that once they know that they can do that, how do they want to show up? If they've never thought about what does it mean for me to be the leader I want to be? And how does that look when I'm leading my team?"

If you're wondering how to positively impact relationships and drive the results you want in your organization, this is the episode for you.

Katie talks about what we can do to improve our workplace culture in this remote landscape.

A few takeaways from this episode :

- Being a remote employee and leader takes more emotional energy than being in person. What we save in commute time, we use towards connecting over technology.

- Culture is found in small moments like showing up on time and celebrating small wins.

- In a remote workforce culture, it can be easy to assume you’ll save resources because you aren't paying for office space. Practically speaking, those same resources can be re-allocated to enrich the lives of your teammates.

Katie will demystify the leader’s role in creating a culture where people want to stay, feel engaged, and be productive.

Three Questions Answered:

Why is it so crucial for companies to build a happy and healthy workplace culture?

How do you measure if a workplace culture is successful?

How can companies showcase their culture now that most of us are working remotely?

We know leadership is about enabling others to do their best work, and it takes consistent communication to create the right environment for a winning culture.

But if we are not deliberate with how we communicate, we won’t be able to build anything.

That’s why Katie McLaughlin is so passionate about leading deliberately and taught you how

We discussed:

– how to avoid the temptation to micromanage in the moments you need to give your team space (often the hardest ones!)

– why toxic work culture often stems from how the leader is perceived by their team members (and the leader has no idea!)

– how she built a world-class onboarding program for a major, public company that is still in place over a decade later (so you can too!)