Creating a Culture of Connection
How can we communicate better and have real human connections these days? What is the relation of grit and greatness? On this installment of the podcast, Joyce Pring talks with Tom Krieglstein on how he was able to build his business, adjust to this new world and still stay connected to the people around us.
Tom Krieglstein is the founder of Swift Kick has been training over half a million leaders around the US and the world including England, South Korea, Indonesia, and Bermuda on how to build a Culture of Connection™ within their organization. He is a TEDx speaker, held a Guinness World Record, and sat on the board of the NYC Entrepreneurs’ Organization for five years.
Building A Healthy Relationship
At the end of the day, human connection is what's going to matter more than anything else. Have a core group for it isn’t having an unlimited number of friends like social media makes people feel. The reality is the ones that have the biggest emotional value will be the ones that cultivate a lot of time with and give a lot of energy. In psychology, this is called bridging social capital, these are people who bring out the best in a person. (TK)
Ingrained biologically, human connection demands people to be with one another for them to thrive and survive, like tribal beings. Moreover, having people around will define that person as when a family molds each member by growing with each other. (JP)
How to Build Real Connection?
○ Do One on Ones – Mankind pick up the habits of the people around them, so it helps if one hangs out with people who bring the best value in him through one on ones or small groups.
○ Utilize Social Media – The social media can be a tool in keeping a person up to date on what people are doing. Be intentional in checking how they are.
○ Reach Them Out – Actively send mails, write letters, and send unique things. Make efforts on cultivating relationships.
Steps on How to be a Better Student
Surround Oneself with Successful People
Upgrade friends if there are people trying to bring you down and are not helping in building you up. Next is get involved outside the classroom or within the university space. Think about life at a bigger level. Fourth is that proximity is power. Establish strong relationships with the faculty, staff, and administrations so opportunities will come to your way. (TK)
Reject the Fear of Being Rejected
No one can achieve something if he or she will not be willing to take that step. Be willing to try, take the risk, because if one is constantly afraid of looking dumb or being the dumbest, or being a failure, that person will really not succeed. (JP)
“Reject the fear of being rejected or the fear of failure.”
Effect of Technology in Human Connection
Technology is a tool, like writing a letter would be a tool; however, at the end of the day, humans must have time together. It’s like communities that want to have sustainability, who need to get their members to be in person. (TK)
Determining a Long-Term Plan
The heart whispers. It doesn't yell, it whispers something. So give yourself time to journal and write because bottling up all those thoughts, emotions inside and keeping them may manifest in negative ways. Another trick is to take a piece of paper and draw four circles on it. In the first circle, write down everything you think you're good at. In the next circle, write down everything that you have ever heard from someone else say you're good at. In the third circle, write down everything that you've spent a lot of time doing that.
And then the last circle, cut it in half and put a plus sign and a minus sign. And then in this circle, write down every everything that you grew up around, the positive things on the plus sign and negative things on the minus sign. Then check which occurrence connects and overlaps with all these circles. (TK)
“Sometimes, people’s past mess becomes their future message. ”
From Episode 75 of Adulting with Joyce Pring: “CREATING A CULTURE OF CONNECTION FT. TOM KRIEGLSTEIN”
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