Laura Pike Seeley
@laurapikeseeley
Laura Pike Seeley
Empathy and consideration for your users are foundational elements of change management. The change should serve your people and the business in equal measure. Crafting your messaging with the same eye toward employee experience is critical, and knowing what will improve employee experience means knowing, relating to and responding to your... See more
Laura Pike Seeley • Change Management Communications: Overcoming Resistance Through Empathy
The brain is continually making predictions about the causes of the sensory information it receives, and it uses that information to update its predictions. In other words, we live in a “controlled hallucination” that remains tied to reality by a dance of prediction and correction, but which is never identical to that reality.
The big idea: do we all experience the world in the same way?
Emotional regulation is the process of experiencing an emotion, allowing the sensations to pass through the body (rather than trying to distract oneself with, say, drugs or alcohol or an iPhone or food), identifying it (‘I am angry right now’ or ‘I am sad’), and breathing through it until it eventually passes. The practise of emotional regulation
... See moreNicole LePera • How To Do The Work: Recognise Your Patterns, Heal from Your Past, and Create Your Self
Successful change management is highly faceted. A critical element lies in messaging strategy, including the language and channels used to inspire, educate and receive feedback about change.
Laura Pike Seeley • Change Management Communications: Overcoming Resistance Through Empathy
One of the things that happens as boys are growing up is they learn about a very restrictive version of masculinity, a list of things that you’re not allowed to do or say. Particularly around emotions: You’re allowed to be angry, and you might be able to cry if something’s really bad — like a sports team you’re on loses a really important game, or... See more
Keren Landman • How to talk to boys so they grow into better men
Our tools and the organizational culture they reflect and ultimately enable can add to the noise and static that distract and distress our employees, or they can reduce it.
Laura Pike Seeley Follow @lpikeseeley • Deep Work and the Digital Workplace
The more I think about it, the more I think this is why so many of us, myself included, are attracted to data-based optimization. We’re painfully aware that we are vulnerable, fallible creatures. Our shame about that is reflected in Western religious traditions: The Bible tells us that upon first creating the world, God “saw that it was good,” but... See more
You can’t optimize your way to being a good person
The rule of reframing can look different depending on what you're dealing with. But it always involves seeing a problem from a different angle, with the goal of breaking a cycle of harmful thoughts and behavior.