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Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 2:00
#AskAnExpert | Sharpen That Corporate Crayon: Introducing Resident Speaker Parker Gates
I'm very happy to introduce to you Parker Gates. Parker Gates is our resident speaker covering business here at Swell. And I'm really excited because Parker's got Mojo. And when it comes to talking about leadership and business and innovation, sometimes we get a little tired of some of the buzzwords. So we're going to bust through that and get into some real creative, creative language
Parker Gates
@parkergates · 2:36
Well, to get started, I was in it in my early twenty s, and ironically, you're already getting to what my therapist would call a core wound here, so no. I felt like such a phony in the early years that I was in corporate America. I felt like the kid at the conference room table for a very long time. And some of this was how I viewed myself, which was not nearly as capable and competent as the way my superior saw me
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 2:49
And I asked that because most people have personalities and you don't want to change them, you don't want to make people feel like they need to be different. But what happens when someone's personality is the core issue? How do you work with them if their personality just kind of gets in the way of their potential to be a better leader?
Parker Gates
@parkergates · 3:41
But oftentimes it feels like the leaders that are the hardest to work with or the hardest to be around or can sometimes be the most damaging to a culture or a team are the people who lack some self awareness. They're not really sure how they show up. And they're probably under the assumption that they show up just fine in a perfectly healthy way. But they say and do things that are damaging to emotional safety or kind of to the team's sense of confidence or to a person's confidence
phil spade
@Phil · 2:18
But I really want to get to the question of how do you see this world different since COVID And now this year with layoffs happening and layoffs, at least at the bigger, larger company, larger employers in the United States, employers that had been called by some recession proof that all of a sudden they're having mass layoffs. All of a sudden they're laying people off at 230 in the morning via email, nobody's talking. And how have you seen this world change from 2018 to now?
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
Parker Gates
@parkergates · 2:29
Phil? Yeah, Phil, that's a really good question. The world really is a different place in post COVID times as far as the workplace is concerned, for sure. And now, like you said, with all the tech layoffs, there is so much more unease and anxiety. I think in younger people especially, there's a lot of distrust in a lot of the traditional systems and kind of conventional ways of working and living right