
Welcome to our interview with Dr. Helena Lass. Helena is an entrepreneur, awareness teacher and psychiatrist. She is also the Founder of Wellness Orbit. Her work is focused on mental health, awareness, entrepreneurship, and intra-personal wellbeing—especially at workplaces.
Helena sees wellness not as a goal by itself but rather as the main pre-requisite for excellent performance at all times and tasks. She believes the way we direct and manage our attention impacts both professional results and satisfaction from life.
Welcome Helena, and thank you for contributing to the questions that are at the heart of the Exploring Forward Thinking Workplaces conversation. (Read my interview highlights and get my take on the interview at Is your autopilot serving you?)
How can we create workplaces where every voice matters, everyone thrives and finds meaning, and change and innovation happen naturally?
What you will learn in this segment:
- Two ways in which every voice matters
- What are complexes and why they are important
- What is awareness and how it differs from attention
- Why workplaces can’t give people meaning
- What workplaces and kindergarten have in common
- What it really means to move beyond thinking and memory to insights and awareness
What does it take to get an employee’s full attention and best performance?
What you will learn in this segment:
- The employees role in getting full attention & best performance
- Why it’s so important to be aware of when you need more information
- How our awareness is hijacked by monkey mind
- Why not knowing how to direct our awareness is one of the biggest misfortunes that can happen to us
- The critical differences between attention and awareness
What do people really lack and long for at work?
What you will learn in this segment:
- Why we are actually not lacking anything
- What’s really directing or commanding us
- Why it’s so important to recognize and resolve our complexes
What is the most important question leaders should ask employees?
What you will learn in this segment:
- Why leaders should be asking employees what they actually need
What is the most important question employees should ask leaders?
What you will learn in this segment:
- Why employees should be asking for what they actually need and how they fit into the bigger picture
What is the most important question we should ask ourselves?
What you will learn in this segment:
- Why asking ourselves who is leading our lives is the most important question to ask
What realities do we face in making these changes real in the workplace?
What you will learn in this segment:
- Why we need to take personal responsibility for leading our lives
- What it means to become more human
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