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What’s Behind Your Micromanaging Habit-- And How To Stop It
Feeling micromanaged sucks. And if you're like me, you micromanage people in your life and don't even realize it. Ugh. You micromanage because you're anxious, or overwhelmed, or just used to offering advice! EDHEC Business School's Prof. Dr. Julia Milner understands that most micromanagers mean well- and she wants to help us break the habit. It starts with listening and asking open ended questions. It starts with adopting a coaching mindset.
This Week on LinkedIn Live We Say Goodbye to Impostor Feelings with Dr. Lisa Orbé-Austin
This week on LinkedIn Live Morra sits down with Lisa Orbé-Austin they discuss about how 2024 is going to be THE year to stop feeling like a fraud all the time.
Idea of the Day: Navigating social media
It’s possible to balance the impact of social media on your life with some personal guidelines, says author Morra Aarons-Mele.
“We’re not lacking, and we’re not failures. We’re just human – and we want to be in community with each other, bringing out each other’s best.”
It’s Time to Talk to Your Team About Mental Health
HBR On Leadership curates the best case studies and conversations with the world’s top business and management experts, to help you unlock the best in those around you. Morra sits down with HBR on Leadership to discuss how you can help your organization make employee mental health a priority.
Understanding Social Class Is Key to Belonging at Work
As I watched A Christmas Carol with my kids the other night, it struck me that the holidays are a useful time to consider the role of social class in our lives. And then I thought about my own LinkedIn feed, and its consistent class coding, from the alumni groups I belong to to the photos I share.
Morra featured by IMD Business School Magazine
Morra and Alyson sit down and discuss how anxiety often gets a bad rap. Yet for millennia, it has arguably helped keep us alive. It can also be a huge motivating factor that pushes us to excel. For this reason, many high achievers are known to experience anxiety
Anxious Achiever is #3 in Next Big Idea Club’s top 23 leadership books of 2023
The rankings are based on the most popular “Book Bite” audio summaries in the Next Big Idea App. In other words, they are 2023’s best leadership books, according to our tens of thousands of app users.
My Vote For Words of the Year: Loneliness and Belonging
Join LinkedIn News editor-at-large Beth Kutscher and Morra Aarons-Mele, host of The Anxious Achiever podcast, for a live conversation with U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy on the epidemic of loneliness and what it means for workplaces.
Morra Emcees Google’s John E. Martin Leadership Symposium
Morra on stage with Larry Green at Google Bay View Campus for the John E. Martin Symposium!
Gen Z is bringing a whole new vibe to the workplace: anxiety
Morra is featured on Business Insider India!
In the article the author wrote about how Morra speaks about anxious teams being well documented and how they can be less likely to take risks, to innovate, and have low psychological safety.
This Week on LinkedIn Live Morra Sits Down With Nihar Chhaya
This week on LinkedIn Live Morra sits down with Hihar Chhaya and they share their practices for reflection and goal setting
Morra sits down with Dorie Clark from Newsweek
Morra and Dorie Clark discusses anxiety as a leadership superpower
Charlene Li: How to be great (and maintain your boundaries)
This week on LinkedIn Live Morra sits down with Charlene Li and they talk about improving health, and discussed how you can disrupt your own unhealthy patterns.
Menopause and the Cost of Silence
Personal issues intersect with work. Learning how to talk about them with respect and understanding is the heart of leadership. “I think that menopause is a human issue. One set of humans experiences it, and it just seems incredibly important that all the humans “get it.”
Family systems theory: Over-functioning, under-functioning, and the differentiated self
When you're with your family of origin, do you suddenly find yourself acting like a kid again? Many of us regress into old roles when we're home for the holidays or with our parents and siblings. Many of us regress into these roles when we're at work!
Morra sits down with Alex Pascal from Coaching.com
Listen to the episode now and discover the role anxiety plays in our workplace behavior, and how can we unconsciously be allowing it to effect the team around us.
Do You “Need” Chaos To Thrive?
Do you feel comfortable in chaos? If you keep moving all the time, it can be easier to avoid feeling uncomfortable feelings. Today’s podcast and newsletter are all about how to stop running, and settle. It’s such a valuable skill (and very challenging for me, I must admit!)
When Asking For What You Need At Work Threatens Power
To change work for the better we need to change systems, and often those who hold power don’t want to change systems. Asking for what you need can threaten power. This week, I wrote you a newsletter about how some of the world’s leading scholars are thinking about speaking truth to power. It’s what I gleaned from the amazing Thinkers50 gala in London this week.
Morra interviewed by Forbes India
Morra was recently interviewed by Forbes India. Morra and Forbes spoke about how real leaders need to be vulnerable, authentic and skilled at driving their teams through challenging times.
What's Your Money Story?
Money. I can’t think of another vehicle into which we embed so much of our self-worth, personal history, fears, and hopes and dreams. For a lot of us, money is a story we tell ourselves, because our emotions are so entrenched in how we feel about it. And how we feel about money can become more influential in decision making than the actual dollars and cents