Speaker: Allison Young, CEO, KGH Foundation
What did you love about the Dare To Lead training?
Allison Young: What did we love about Dare to Lead? Well, I have to say the whole experience, the two days with Diane and her team was exciting, scary, meaningful, but most of all, it gave myself and my leadership team the words and the tools that we didn't quite have when we looked to tackle tough conversations, you know, accountability and just how we relate and how we work together. So we certainly arrived with a shared desire to connect better and more deeply. And when we got back to the office, we immediately felt the benefit of that time together beyond just really understanding each other at a deeper level, which is so important for how you work. But it did give us the words and the tools to, plan, to tackle hard conversations, to get creative, to get brave. And ultimately just to be reminded every day that we're all here for the same reason, we're all trying to do good and the barriers that sometimes pop up are more manageable than what we might have thought.
What made the experience unique and valuable for you?
Allison Young: I personally really enjoyed doing Dare To Lead with my leadership team. It was scary, super vulnerable, but it also allowed us to see each other as human beings outside of the roles that we hold at work. And even beyond that, the rules that we hold in our personal lives, mothers, fathers, parents, Children, but just who we are as humans and the teachings, no surprise, didn't just amplify who we are in the workplace, but for me personally, my experience is I was able to thread parts of me that sort of woke up during that couple of days into every aspect of my life.
What did you take away from the Dare To Lead training that you use all the time?
Allison Young: The thing I took away that I use in the workplace all the time, the entire team does, is the story I'm telling myself is....so simple but so powerful and not only do I do that in the office, I do with my partner, with my kids, with my friends. It just pulls the fear out into the open and completely strips it of the power, it at least for me once had. So now I can sort of feel those stories rolling around and I'm a lot quicker pulling them out into the surface. And as a result I can be way more productive and meaningful with my thinking and my time.
