Strategic Alignment & Illustrating Paths to Better Mental Wellbeing with Cat Lewis

Cat Lewis joins The Future of Teamwork host and HUDDL3 CEO Dane Groeneveld for a spirited conversation on helping companies adopt change management techniques that can align employees to a business strategy, while emphasizing the incentives for improving mental wellbeing, employee purpose, and inclusivity. Cat is the Founder and Director of Culture and Transformation, a company that helps leaders breed positive and productive work cultures through practices like strategic focus on how narrative impacts vision and purpose, the MAPs framework, and more.Key TakeawaysMeet Cat Lewis, author, founder and director of Culture & TransformationThe pros, cons, and range of vulnerable experiences of being a leader and CEORallying teams around company strategic visions, creating purpose and enjoymentFinding purpose in a remote and hybrid world, regular communication keeps everything movingHelping companies adopt new change management strategies, putting ideas to paperStrategy and narrative as they affect future vision and employee purposeChasing revenue and margin, metrics that don't always drive behavior changeMetrics-driven incentives and driving behaviors through storyMAP — Mission, Actions, and Plans as a framework for directionMore on strategy MAPs, illustrating a visual path to successExamples of actions companies take toward achieving plansThe Iceberg of Ignorance, research says only 5% of employees understand company strategyThe Iceberg of Ignorance, inviting people in to share the same informationInclusivity and removing organizational rigidity, how it affects succession planning and onboardingHelping teams center and come back to strategy and priorities, the power of regular communication and newslettersInclusivity and team habits, engaging with the narrative and providing security for the team"If you don't talk about the challenges you're facing, they're just going to make them up."The Little Monster story, mental health, and wellbeing in the workplaceTouching on the science of anxiety and listening to our bodiesRecapping Cat's experiences and talking pointsConnecting with Cat