Workplace Therapy

Here at Workplace Therapy, we talk a lot about toxic workplace experiences and how organizations, leaders and individuals can invest in the work of charting a different path. In today’s session, we’re fortunate to have an expert who has devoted her life to this work, and brings a unique set of skills, techniques and perspectives to bear in her mission to help organizations develop a talent strateg...

In this week's Workplace Therapy session, we’re going to be discussing something that we’ve all come to accept as a standard part of the corporate experience - performance reviews. Performance reviews are supposed to be an opportunity to recognize and reward people for their efforts and to coach people to higher levels of performance and personal growth. When done right, performance reviews ha...

This episode concludes a two part series. In this series, Scott is joined by his wife Monica Arrieta to discuss how the lessons they've learned in the workplace have impacted how they show up as parents and partners to each other. Monica is a strategic advisor to Unity and Company, where she brings invaluable experience as a global program manager for some of the world’s leading technology com...

In this week's episode, Scott is joined by his wife Monica Arrieta to discuss how the lessons they've learned in the workplace have impacted how they show up as parents and partners to each other. Monica is a strategic advisor to Unity and Company, where she brings invaluable experience as a global program manager for some of the world’s leading technology companies to help us provide lead...

We've talked a lot about the benefits of working in a culture that values psychological safety. On today's episode, we're joined by Jake Herway, a Partner at Gallup and a seasoned expert at driving cultural transofrmation. In today's episode, Jake shares his experience working with executive teams to drive cultural transformation. We discuss how he's successfully used a strengt...

Many of us have had experiences working in toxic work environments. Working in toxic cultures can have a significant negative impact on your level of engagement at work, your mental health and the quality of your extended relationships.  Once we find ourselves in a toxic work environment, it's hard to make a change. Even worse, we may find ourselves escaping one toxic environment only to imme...

One of the reasons people go to therapy is to discuss and process a traumatic experience. In this episode, we introduce the concept of "big T" and "little t" traumas. "Big T" traumas describe experiences that threaten your physical safety like physical injury or sexual violence, while little T traumas on the other hand describe experiences that are still distressing but don’t immediately threaten...

This week at Workplace Therapy, we're discussing a situation that happened recently at Twitter whereby an employee (Hallie Thorleifsson) was laid off without notification and had to resort to tweeting Elon Musk to confirm his employment status. After an initial volley of defensive and accusatory remarks, Elon eventually reached to Hallie and apologized, but not before leaving a trail of trauma and...

This week, we continue our discussion of an article written by Amy Gallo published by the Harvard Business Review entitled "What is Psychological Safety?"  Last week we discussed  what trust and psychological safety looks like in the workplace and the benefits of prioritizing trust and psychological safety as a cultural value.  This week, we discuss how to determine if your organiza...

This week, we review an article written by Amy Gallo published by the Harvard Business Review entitled "What is Psychological Safety?" In this episode, we discuss our experiences with trust and psychological safety in the workplace - touching on times when it was done well and other times when it was done poorly. We touch on the true value of cultivating trust in the workplace and the costs of fai...

Work is a significant part of the human experience. Most of us will spend more time in pursuit of our vocation than we will on any other singular aspect of our lives. Given how much of ourselves we dedicate to our work, it's not surprising that the workplace can also be a significant source of trauma in our lives. That's why we created Workplace Therapy - a podcast that puts the human expriences o...