🍂 It's the first of the month, signalling the arrival of your first Growers community newsletter!
Planted in your inbox, reliably on the 1st — we'll remind you of coming Growers gatherings (virtual and IRL); alongside curated reading, listening, viewing and doing — all designed to support your learning around all things people and culture.
Workplace maestro and friend of You Can Now Bruce Daisley has been very busy promoting his new book Fortitude. In it he finds fault in what he calls the 'Resilience Orthodoxy', and the emphasis on resilience building at the individual level. For Bruce, the opportunity is to practically experience the ways that resilience can be fostered at the cultural and team level — and in Fortitude he outlines a practical playbook for doing just that.
We've invited Bruce to personally persuade us on his thinking in a conversational virtual session in October (which we'd love for you to join).
📮 And, as a founding member of our Growers community, we've a free copy of Fortitude to send your way if you'd like to dig in. Just let us know where to post it to (we won't store the address or use it for anything else).
🌮 Lunchtime Listening? This week Bruce boiled down some of the biggest ideas in his new book with Helen and Sarah on the Squiggly careers podcast. Motivating listening as always.
Do: Growers IRL meet up: Next Wednesday
For those in London or nearby, it's not too late to sign up for our first Growers in-person gathering next week. We'll put our powerful Talky Feely tool in the hands of all those along, demonstrating its power as an emotionally intelligent conversation kickstarter — and then turn our attention to the question: How can company values best support development programmes? Nourishing refreshments will naturally be served, with time saved for community conversations and new connections too!
Read: Why your biases are busting your productivity
In this fascinating long read on doist, you'll discover why your brain is fundamentally hardwired to sabotage your best intentions to get things done, and (thankfully) what you can do about it.
Read + Do : ADHD 2.0 and our coming virtual Growers Gathering with Dr. Anne Cockayne
'Finding the right kind of difficult', is just one of the fascinating insights into how to harness the strengths of neurodivergent team members in ADHD 2.0 — a super-stimulating read from Edward Hallowell and John Ratey. Together they literally 'wrote the book' on the condition nearly 20 years ago in Driven to Distraction, putting ADHD properly on the radar of a mass audience.
And in our Growers virtual gathering for October, we've invited HR specialist and neurodiversity expert Dr. Anne Cockayne to share some evidence based scenarios relating to disclosing neurodivergent conditions in teams, and to positively facilitate discussion around them.
Listen: What can a cuckoo chick teach you about motivating others?
An extraordinary NatureBang podcast from Radio 4, delving into animal behavioural research and revealing the 'Supernormal Stimulus', a strange phenomenon in which an animal's most basic instincts can be over-ridden — making them behave in extraordinary ways.
Wouldn't it be great to apply it to our colleagues?
