The Culture Coach

E002: Temporal Consulting: Bringing humanity back into business

The Culture Coach

Published: 12 January 2023 at 14:14 Europe/London

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ABOUT THE CULTURE COACH:

We discuss all things culture - from creating a great company culture to what contributes to a toxic one. What does a strong culture look like? How do some organisations get culture so right, and some so very wrong? How can you create lasting, positive cultural change within organisations? These are the sort of topics we cover on The Culture Coach podcast.

EPISODE 002 - NICOLA TEMPORAL. TEMPORAL CONSULTING:

Nicola Temporal trained as a psychotherapist, meditation teacher and founder of a cultural change and executive coaching consultancy. She also happens to be Grace’s mum.

In this episode we discuss the start of her career, how her background in meditation and psychotherapy became the lens with which she saw the world, and how this informed her 35 years of work dedicated to creating cultural change in the workplace.

Nicola has a human-led, heart-centered approach to business, believing that we need to reconnect our heads and hearts. She creates safe spaces through her work which enable people to be honest with each other, build trust, and truly listen to each other on a thinking, feeling and willing level.

Nowadays, meditation seems commonplace, but Nicola was bringing meditation, self-awareness and self-mastery into the business room 25 years ago.

With her pioneering, award-winning ‘Wheel of Wellbeing’ experimental programme in the construction industry, she proved that a holistic approach to wellbeing - encompassing both the person and their environment - was needed to create lasting cultural change within organisations.

Nicola reveals that her top tip for creating cultural change within organisations is meditation and that a toxic culture is an unaware, unconscious culture. She shares her belief that listening is the greatest gift we can give each other, the difference between self-awareness and self-mastery, and that collaboration is our natural state of being.

Topics:

Early context

How meditation and psychotherapy inform my work

Collaboration is our natural state

Reconnecting people with our hearts and humanity

High-quality relationships lead to creativity and innovation

Removing the judgement around self-preservation

Driving fear out of organisations

The difference between self-awareness and self-mastery

Blame within business

How to listen with your whole body

Why I teach meditation within business