Own Your Armor - Michelle Brody

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Résumé :
A master class on team dynamics in a picture book -- yes! Only someone with Michelle Brody's experience and wisdom could do that! Read this book and learn from the best! -- Amy Hayes, Global Head of Learning and Development at Meta (Facebook) We all experience workplace conflict. Now, SEE the solution in a new way. What if workplace teams that are pulled apart by conflict could be drawn together by actual drawings - playful but pointed illustrations that help us see ourselves (and each other) in normalizing, lighthearted ways to rapidly trigger breakthroughs in team tension? Using a visual method developed for couples therapy, high-stakes and high-emotion team situations are captured in mindset-changing pictures so that teams can deescalate conflict, engage responsibility, and achieve real resolution. In her groundbreaking new book Own Your Armor, executive coach and psychologist Dr. Michelle Brody presents a dramatically different, refreshing, and proven way to improve ineffective workplace dynamics and repair toxic cultures. She helps us see our people dynamics problems in new ways so we can craft lasting solutions. A Book Like No Other, Now for Your Unique Team There are a lot of books for leaders on how to fix your team when they are difficult, which suggests that the team is the problem and the leader is the change agent, pushing or pulling strategic levers to improve the situation. Own Your Armor approaches team dynamics with a completely different set of assumptions:The problem isn't just the team, The solution isn't just the leader's, and The levers aren't strategic. The levers are psychological, and they belong to us all. Team dynamics are co-created and are circularly reinforced over time. Unwinding them requires everyone (leaders and team members) to recognize their contribution to the culture problem and to rejoin the team with their best self. In the engaging pages of this book, which is filled with instructive illustrations and framed by 10 principles for owning your armor in the workplace, Brody shares the true causes of why teams experience bad culture and offers a practical way to talk about moving a team toward greater health. Revolutionary Change for Workplace Culture Fixing an unhealthy work culture isn't easy, but it's impossible if we don't get at what is causing it. The root of team dynamics problems is nearly always a pileup of everyone's defensive armor. We can all show up as our regular selves at work, Brody explains, but when we're under threat, we put on some armor. Passive-aggressiveness, micromanaging, finger-pointing, and resource-grabbing are all forms of armor that good people sometimes resort to when under threat. Once people start armoring up, mistrust in a team grows, causing more need for armor, and locking up the culture even more. For a team to take off armor to restore good communication, armor has to be owned....

Biographie:
Michelle Brody, PhD, is an executive coach and clinical psychologist who brings 25 years of experience in both corporate and family settings to the challenging problem of interactional conflict. Her specialty as a coach is in guiding teams that have complicated dynamics, and helping them reach greater collaboration, improve communication, and resolve tension. She has worked with global teams, complicated couple conflicts, and polarized communities, and has deep expertise in what unlocks stuck dynamics. Dr. Brody has coached and designed executive training programs across a wide range of industries, including technology, manufacturing, management consulting, marketing, academia, insurance, non-profit management, politics, healthcare, accounting, and law. She has worked with teams at global companies like Meta (Facebook), Siemens, and Alcoa, as well as for smaller companies, startups, and partnerships. Her approach for teams is informed by powerful psychological tools that break down defensive walls, build trust, shift stuck mindsets, and change vicious interactional cycles, but the approach is made simple and actionable for everyone to use. Dr. Brody has been an invited speaker for corporate and community groups on topics related to team communication, team dynamics, and team collaboration. She has also served as a master trainer of psychologists, professional coaches, and professionals who work in human resources (HR) and learning and development. Dr. Brody is a senior practitioner with The Exetor Group, a global executive training and coaching company. Her first book, Stop the Fight! An Illustrated Guide for Couples: How to Break Free from the 12 Most Common Arguments and Build a Relationship That Lasts, has helped tens of thousands of couples. Her latest book, Own Your Armor: Revolutionary Change for Workplace Culture, helps companies to rapidly deescalate conflict and rebuild healthy teams.