It Starts with Us -- Leading the Way to Workplace Well-being: Interview with Newton Cheng | Episode 27
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Sharing vulnerabilities as a leader in the context of culture change and mental health at work can include discussing challenges faced, lessons learned, or personal growth experiences. When you are...
show moreWHAT DOES LEADERSHIP VULNERABILITY RELATED TO MENTAL HEALTH LOOK LIKE?
- Share instances where you've learned valuable lessons from setbacks. This helps normalize the idea that growth often comes from overcoming challenges.
- Share your understanding of the difficult human experiences — like grief, trauma, and failure, acknowledging that everyone encounters difficulties at different points in their lives and that you are no exception.
- Use mental health resources and share the benefits you have received from them.
- Emphasize the importance of continuous learning and personal development. Demonstrate how you, as a leader, actively seek opportunities for growth and learning, including in areas related to mental health awareness.
In this episode, I model vulnerability by sharing my embarrassing anxiety-fueled outtakes as I was fairly star-struck by my guest Newton Cheng.
Here we are at the Google sponsored John E. Martin Leadership Symposium
Newton is a family man, a world champion powerlifter and the Director of Health + Performance at Google.
Learn why Newton doesn’t like the saying “Bring your whole self to work.”Newton shares these two takeaways:
- Vulnerability can be built like a muscle. Saying: "I don't know how to be vulnerable" is being vulnerable, and
- Start with seeing the human first — treat everyone first as just another human in a certain context.
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