?? Belonging without boundaries: Nature’s lessons on different modes of belonging
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VP of People at Gorilla | Building Employee Experience as a Product | In pursuit of making work suck less | Leadership & Career Coach | Corporate Hippy - views expressed here are my own
During transitions one or more of our self-role-identities are “challenged”.
Put another way we ask ourselves?“Who am I …now?”
If one of our self-role identities has changed, this triggers other questions such as?
How do I fit in with others?
How do I belong?
Our need to belong is based on evolution; the need to survive and reproduce as a species. More recently it’s fair to say it’s also for emotional support and a sense of pride.
Read this week's issue of The Nature of Leadership + Career to find out more about
- Social Identity Theory
- Social, social-solitary, and solitary animal group behavioral patterns
- 5 key lessons from animal belonging patterns
- Thought Exercise
3x Founder, Harvard MBA, ex-Bridgewater Associates, Goldman Sachs | Executive Coach | Helping ambitious founders/CEOs unleash their potential and purpose
1 年The “who am I … now?” Is a question that comes up over and over. I’m transitions and especially after failures. Where the identify is challenged and re-examined and recreated. Interested to read this over the weekend to see what we can learn from nature.
Executive Coach I Team Coach | Speaker I From Medical Doc ? Finance ? Entrepreneur. I work with top execs, senior leaders and their teams looking for exceptional performance
1 年‘Belonging has a reason and a season’ - this stood out for me. Checking in re where we are and what we need is key.
Executive Coach | Leadership Advisor | Career Strategist
1 年"We stay in a role that no longer challenges or fulfills us because we feel love belonging to our team or the company." - this is worth its weight in gold. Have seen it in myself and many others.