Walking the Talk of Emotional Inclusion at HP

Yves Cabanac
A 20 year veteran at HP, Yves has been missioned with the digitalization of his organization. In this episode, he will speak to us about his alignment with emotional inclusion in the ever changing digital realm.

Insights from this episode:

• The “How are you?” question - encouraging conversations about emotions in the workplace and learning the act of truly listening
• How cultural differences affect the different engagements in the workplace
• Effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on employees and companies
• Managing change and emotions of people through this digital transformation
• Emotional trust, authenticity, and empathy from leaders toward their people
• Corporations’ moral obligations, responsibilities, and support towards their employees
• HP’s Mental Health First Aiders and the support it brings for the people
• The use of the Emotion Wheel and weekly emotion and feelings survey within teams
• Changes of digitalization to management

Quotes from the show:

• “So when you are leading this digital transformation like I do in our organization, I know that the key success factor is to ensure that you manage the change, you manage the emotions of our people, vis-à-vis change.”
• “If a company wants to be successful in this digital transformation, they need to have this emotional inclusion. They need to understand their people and deal with those emotions with this transparency that more and more employees are looking for.”
• “We are truly humans at work. And if we fail to recognize that, we fail to lead altogether.”
• “We need trust to change and organize an organization. Trust is only received when showing one’s humanness.”
• “Psychological safety really does lead to interpersonal bravery and courage.”
• “Corporations have the moral obligation to take care of their people.”
• “Without clarity and honesty, we simply do not progress.”
• “There is not one recipe for being a good leader. I think the best recipe is see yourself for who you are and manage accordingly.”

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