159: Building a Culture of Compassionate Accountability with Nate Regier

How can organizations foster a culture of compassionate accountability?
In a captivating conversation with Nate Regier, the CEO and founding owner of Next Element Consulting, the concept of compassionate accountability is explored. Nate emphasizes the significance of finding and retaining exceptional talent within organizations. He suggests that recruitment should focus not only on resumes but also on identifying individuals who possess a compassionate mindset. Moreover, he highlights the importance of fostering a quality culture and effective leadership to ensure employee satisfaction and retention.

Nate delves into the idea of compassionate accountability, emphasizing the need for organizations to treat employees as valuable, capable, and responsible. He discusses the development of leadership competencies that align with what top performers desire, emphasizing the importance of values, capabilities, and responsibility. Nate also highlights the need for compassion and accountability beyond organizational boundaries. He notes that these traits are vital for addressing societal challenges, such as politics, climate change, and restorative justice.

The main points throughout this podcast include:
- Compassionate accountability involves valuing and respecting others while holding them responsible.
- Self-awareness, effective communication, and leadership are crucial for cultivating a culture of compassionate accountability.
- Recruitment for compassion involves finding individuals who already possess the compassion mindset and teaching it to those who may not have it initially.
- Retention of talent is influenced by the quality of organizational culture and leadership.
- Compassionate accountability is relevant not only within organizations but also in addressing broader societal issues.
- Being happier at work means treating oneself and others as valuable, capable, and responsible.

“Never before in our history of the world has the need for compassion and accountability been greater. Not only is it the key to thriving organizations during turbulent times, think about what's going on in politics, climate change. Restorative justice inclusion. These are big issues that are unfortunately dividing... when we really should be applying compassionate accountability.”

Listen back:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/4NpcfD0XU9CBNjYLVnAdeW

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