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6 Mindsets to Breathe Oxygen into Your People By Jason V. Barger

out carbon dioxide.” In teams and orga nizations, the leader’s role is to breathe oxygen into their people with mindsets and actions that fuel energy, possibility, connection and progress while flushing out negativity, blame and toxins. The best leaders and teams on the planet understand that their role is to help breathe oxygen into their people that helps give energy, hope and life, so that all are able to thrive in a com plex environment. These leaders and cultures are intentionally inhaling and exhaling with their people. The air they breathe and the mindsets they bring to stimulate action are everything. 6 Mindsets To Breathe Oxygen Into Your People and Culture 1. Clarity Vision + Direction is air that all need to breathe. Is your Mission clear? Is your Vision clear? Are your Values for how

We all could use a deep breath. M ost teams and companies are still figuring out how to help support their people and engage with them remotely, in hybrid settings and in-person gatherings. With all that businesspeople have been navigating: differing modes of communication, the expansion of remote workers, global

health, issues of racism, social injustice and equity, political and economic uncertainty, they are also expected to maximize the experience, product or service that they are delivering to the marketplace. Deep breaths are needed. For the human body, the process of breathing is “the process of moving air into and out of the lungs to facilitate gas exchange with the internal environ ment, mostly to bring oxygen and flush

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