Creating a Safe Space for Growth - EP 3

Growth through Learning: leadership conversations for employee development

How can a culture of learning engage employees and lead to lasting growth? In the fast-paced and ever-changing modern workplace, it can be difficult for leaders to relinquish control - risking the satisfaction of upper management - and allow employee happiness to share the stage with immediate results.

However, employees who don’t feel supported or connected to their leadership and workplace become disengaged. Today, employees are reclaiming their power. They do just enough to get by while searching for new opportunities with better-aligned values. As a result, that laser focus on how much gets done ends up delivering short-term wins but fails in the long run.

In this episode, host Hannah Brown explores why fostering a positive culture of learning is just as important as ensuring immediate results. As the insights and experiences of these people-focused leaders highlight, stronger teams lead to lasting growth, and that strength is achieved through attention to six vital factors, the Growth Equation.

Learn how proven leadership practices and strategies can lead to both employee satisfaction and bottom-line benefits:

• What leaders can do to influence the motivation and performance of their employees;
• How fixed and growth mindsets impact both leader and employee success;
• The need for curiosity and vulnerability in the creation of great team culture;
• How to strike a leadership balance that upholds both organizational and individual goals.

Important resources from the episode:

• See the Growth Equation as a graphic: https://hannahbrown.co/resources/podcasts/growth-through-learning-episode-3/
• University of Rochester research on motivation - https://selfdeterminationtheory.org/SDT/documents/2000_RyanDeci_SDT.pdf
• “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success” by Carol Dweck - https://bookshop.org/book/9780345472328
• “The Business Case for Curiosity” by Francesca Gino - https://hbr.org/2018/09/the-business-case-for-curiosity
• Quote by Henry Ward Beecher - https://www.azquotes.com/author/1130-Henry_Ward_Beecher/tag/compassion
• “The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups” by Daniel Coyle - https://bookshop.org/book/9780804176989

Connect with the leaders who share their stories on the show:

• Robin Young, Director of Corporate Training Services at Durham College in Toronto - https://www.linkedin.com/in/robin-young-mba-63b7639b/
• Julianna Morris, People Excellence and Academy Leader, Porche - https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliannamorris
• Christy Billan, Director of Small Business Lending Products, Farm Credit Canada - https://www.linkedin.com/in/christybillan/
• Adam Stephens, Director of Marketing and Community Engagement, The Humane Society of Kitchener Waterloo & Stratford Perth - https://www.linkedin.com/in/astephens77/

Connect with Hannah:

• Pre-order Into the Hands of Leaders: Employee Growth Through Learning - https://hannahbrown.co/resources/books-and-articles/
• Learn about the programs that help leaders and organizations develop a growth through learning orientation - https://hannahbrown.co/programs/
• Learn more about Hannah’s work - https://hannahbrown.co/