Episode 65: The Leader Who Sees the Whole Person
About this episode
This episode discusses the importance of recognizing mental health as a leadership issue and how leaders can see their team as whole people.
Mental health is a leadership issue. Not a benefit program. Not a wellness initiative. A leadership issue that lives in the ordinary moments between a leader and the people they lead every day. In this episode of A Student of Leadership, Robert Adams explores The Napkin, the sixth piece of the Place Setting Framework, and what it actually looks like when a leader sees their team as whole people rather than functions on a schedule. In this episode: - The data that should change how every leader in food service thinks about their role: Deloitte's finding that managers have more impact on employee mental health than therapists or doctors - The culture in food service and hospitality that has historically treated acknowledging struggle as weakness, and what that culture is costing the industry - Three specific things a leader does consistently when they see the whole person: noticing, asking, and responding without fixing - Tim Etherington-Judge and Healthy Hospo: the movement built on the truth that people who pour care into guests every shift deserve to have care poured back into them - Why a leader cannot create safety for their team if they do not have it for themselves - Where…
People in this episode
Host: Robert Adams
Topics covered
- mental health
- leadership
- food service
- hospitality
- employee well-being
- Place Setting Framework
Keywords
- mental health
- leadership
- food service
- employee well-being
- Deloitte
- Healthy Hospo
- Place Setting Framework
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Deloitte, Healthy Hospo
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