The Pilot (EP.01)
Last Updated
November 1, 2019
Pilot episode of the new Work. Shouldn't. Suck. podcast. What’s in store for this adventure? Listen to find out.
Co-Host: Tim Cynova
Host
TIM CYNOVA spends his time assisting teams and organizations with the things they need to create workplaces where people thrive. He is a certified Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR), a trained mediator, on faculty at Banff Centre for Arts & Creativity and New York's The New School teaching courses in People-Centric Organizational Design and Leadership & Team Building. He is a certified trainer of the Crucial Conversations and What Motivates Me frameworks, and is a firm believer that Work. Shouldn't. Suck. He currently serves as the Chief Operating Officer of Fractured Atlas where he oversees the FinPOps team (Finance, People, and Operations, as well as is a member of the organization’s four-person, non-hierarchical shared leadership team). Prior to that, Tim was the Executive Director of The Parsons Dance Company and of High 5 Tickets to the Arts, had a memorable stint with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, was a one-time classical trombonist, musicologist, and for five years in his youth he delivered newspapers for the Evansville Courier-Press. Also, during a particularly slow summer, he bicycled across the United States.
Transcript
Introduction, Host:
Hi, I'm Tim Cynova, and welcome to Work. Shouldn't. Suck., a podcast about, well, you know, that. On this podcast journey, we'll be looking at the intersection of creating environments where people and teams thrive, that have commitments to anti-racism and anti-oppression, and that are grounded in resilience and self-care. Along the way, we'll be chatting with coworkers, colleagues, and friends, sometimes even a combination of those things, to hear about the different approaches and perspectives people have when they're experimenting with crafting the future of work.
We'll explore how people are creating community and connection among teams when no two members live in the same state. We'll look at tools and frameworks for better collaboration, alignment, and transparency, like objectives and key results. We'll talk shared non-hierarchical leadership structures, and what it's like to be a part of a fully virtual organization. We'll dive into meditation and mediation, words that have many of the same letters in them, and it can be invaluable skills and approaches to building thriving teams. In the end, if you're a human being working with other humans to achieve a goal, there will be something in this adventure for you.
We'll start dropping full-length episodes in early December. In the meantime, if you're interested in hearing about a specific topic or want us to dig into a burning question, drop us a line at hello@workshouldntsuck.co, or ping us on Twitter @WrkShouldntSuck. Until then, thanks for listening.
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