PLAY Polarities

When you've got disengaged employees, the whole team feels it.

Conversations are short. Everyone's out of the office by 5:01. The vibe is OFF.

Managers are in a good position to re-energize and re-engage your people, but they'll need support to do the heavy lifting!

Read through our guide to empowering your managers (or yourself!) to be a "Best Boss" and give your team both the encouragement and accountability they need to do their best work.

Download it here and see what you can put into practice right away:

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At Play Polarities, we hold the Five Calls of Personal Leadership as the building blocks of a proactive life. Answering these calls is how we make meaningful decisions about the leader we want to be.

Most people don’t care about the questions we ask in these calls. They get up, do their jobs, go home to their families, and repeat over and over again. They would accuse us of “overthinking.” But we would suggest that lack of consciousness is “underthinking.”

Leadership says “While you may want to do X, our larger goals will be better achieved through Y.” That sense of strategy, of a larger game plan, of a purpose requires us to ask these deeper questions.

You don’t have to ask all of them. You don’t have to (and probably shouldn’t) come up with definitive answers, never to be revisited. You don’t have to spend all your time thinking about them. But, answering the Five Calls in some form changes your relationship to the world and what you want from it.

We answer the Fifth Call by taking what we have learned and sharing it with others so they may join us as Leaders.

Would you like to learn more about the Call to Share and have fun doing it?

Playing With Purpose blends improv and personal development the weekend of 9/30 and 10/1 in Glenview, IL.

To learn more and register: https://zurl.co/LLU6

We know a ton of EXCELLENT managers, and we love learning from the best!

Sign-up link: https://zurl.co/mqNK

We've been holding monthly mastermind sessions to provide a space where managers can bring their people challenges, talk through them with peers, and work toward a solution.

Are you wanting more professional development and mentorship than your leaders can provide? These conversations often lead to great insights, skill sharing, and high-value partnerships.

The best part? Manager Excellence Mastermind is FREE and you can tune in from anywhere!

RSVP and join us next Wednesday, September 27 at 11A CENTRAL.

When you come up against a difficult situation at work, how much mental space do you have to process what's going on and decide how to react?

Viktor Frankl said, “Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”

Can you think of anyone who's great at taking action on the spur of the moment? Here's a hint: everything's made up and the points don't matter.

Improv games give you a safe space to practice letting your instincts do the talking. It can be challenging at first, but the magic really happens when people surprise themselves and create a scene that's wilder and more hilarious than anything they could have come up with through hours of "work."

We have some great opportunities coming up for individuals and teams to learn these Personal Leadership skills. (Yes, there will be games and plenty of laughs!)

Join us for the Playing With Purpose workshop at the end of September or check out more ways to work with us at https://zurl.co/5jQz

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