SUMMARY
Global Leadership Podcast team members Eric Case and Aubrey Wentz recently sat down with Julie Baumgardner, Senior Director of WinShape Marriage, to discuss the relationship between the health of our home and relational worlds and our work performance. Julie has spent over 20 years working—first as a counselor and now as an executive-level leader—to build healthy families, and in this conversation with Eric and Aubrey she shares how work life can be impacted by challenges at home and offers some practical tips for starting healthy conversations that can lead to healing.
IN THIS EPISODE:
- What was Julie’s favorite vacation that she has taken?
- What brought Julie to her work of strengthening marriages and families?
- What was the transition from counselor/practitioner to executive leadership like?
- How did Julie know it was time to move on from her role at First Things First?
- When we think about our relational worlds, both inside and outside of work, is there such thing as “work/life balance”?
- How does the burden of a hurting home or relational life affect how we show up as a leader?
- Do men and women respond differently to the need to ask for help?
- Are there communication tools for spouses to talk honestly and productively with each other about the state of their relationship?
- What is a good communication framework for starting daily conversations in order to go deeper with each other?
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STANDOUTS AND TAKEAWAYS
- When people move from a position of peer to a position of leadership, the relational dynamic does change, and it has to change, because you’re in a position of responsibility now.
- It’s not so much about “work/life balance” as much as it is being in a healthy rhythm, and being able to know what does “thriving” look like? If there is distress in your world, it impacts your ability to show up at work, and there’s absolutely nothing wrong with acknowledging that and with asking for help.
- Sometimes it’s helpful to reach out and talk to someone who is just a little further down the road than you are.
- Make sure you regularly take time—ideally on a daily basis—to address the state of your relationships outside of work.
- It’s a learning process; the best thing you can do is stay at the table, and if you need to ask for help from a third party, that’s okay.
- If you learn to do conflict well, you are teaching your team/family/friends how to be more connected, which can lead to more creativity and higher performance.
- Sometimes we get hung up by trying to solve “ten things,” instead of just focusing on one thing to address.
- After we identify the one situation we are trying to address, take some time to identify what your desired outcome might be.
LINKS MENTIONED
- Website: WinShape Marriage
- Website: First Things First
- Website: Register today for the 2024 Global Leadership Summit
- Website: Global Leadership Network
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