ARCHITECTING Podcast - Career + Lifestyle Mentoring for Architects looking to move beyond overwhelm and make a difference through design

Is it You? How workplace culture impacts performance

While I'm big on personal accountability, a fish in polluted water can't thrive. This episode focuses on the systems that form workplace culture and how they may be unintentionally undermining performance and engagement.
Too often, when behavior problems and conflicts are encountered, we focus on the behavior of the individuals involved without seeing that they are reacting to the pressures of the system where they've been placed. Responses to the individual treat the symptoms, not the root cause.
Much like a faucet turned on full blast while the drain is open,  pouring resources into a situation while not fixing the system just wastes the resources.
Behaviors like poor attitudes, bullying or defensiveness come from a system that foments stress and competitiveness.
Take time to understand the sociocultural issues that may also help unlock invisible stressors that impact behavior and create conflict.
Look at your systems of practice and make sure they are aligned with the culture you want to create.
Foster diversity in leadership
Get input on the system from top down and bottom up.
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Why Is It So Hard to Delegate?

Delegating is nothing more than the transfer of responsibility. Super helpful since no way are you keeping all the balls in the air without a little help. In this episode, I explore why it's so hard to let go and give you top notch management strategies to position your projects for success, empower your team and free up your valuable time and energy.
Relinquish control. Seems simple, but for real-  do it! Will there be conflicts that arise- yup. Navigating those, not avoiding them at great personal cost is what makes you a good leader.
Assign the right task to the right person with clear parameters. Let them know what resources are available to help them and give them the psychological safety to use those resources.
Give people aligned work that also stretches them so they feel motivated.
Provide a safe space to fail where lessons can be learned and course corrections made. Help others be solution oriented and take accountability for doing things different next time.
Resist the urge to pitch in and do anything that you could delegate.
By delegating, you are modeling what healthy work behavior looks like to your team.
 
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The 10 Percent Rule

Does it feel like you have zero energy to grow your career? Like it takes everything you have just to keep your head above water? Fret not my friend- this episode is for you. Learn how just 10 percent of effort can next level your situation (and get you out of chaos). Get tips - supported by physics no less - on how to leverage things you already do and redirect it towards your success.
The first law of thermodynamics states that you need 90 percent of your energy to maintain stability but that extra 10 percent can transfer towards the next higher level.
This can look like redirecting 10 percent of your time - just 144 minutes a day to personal growth or professional development.
Be 10 percent more positive and notice how it energizes you and others you work with to be solution oriented and have more fun at work.
If you have even 10 percent more knowledge than someone else, you can reach them and teach them - buh bye imposter syndrome!
Nothing is ever wasted- look at how past experience or seemingly unrelated interests, hobbies or skills can be applied to a current situation.
Leverage your strengths and invest in unlocking your value by pushing yourself to grow 10 percent in those areas.
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Can You Take Criticism? Should You?

Everyone's a critic. But when you're on the receiving end, it can be painful to hear you have room for improvement. This episode is your definitive guide to separating constructive criticism from the destructive kind. Learn how to move past anger guilt and shame triggers to leverage feedback and how to question unfair and confusing accusations.
If criticism is specific, solution oriented and based on your actions in a given situation, it is constructive.
Constructive criticism as useful. If you are triggered by it and become defensive, you lose an opportunity to grow as a person and a professional. Being triggered is not a sign that the criticism is destructive
If criticism feels confusing, unfair or attacks your worth as a person, it is destructive.
Destructive criticism is about making you feel bad and holding you back. It shows up as projection of behavior that the critic exhibits onto you and can sound like accusations. Destructive criticism can be disguised as advice to not pursue and opportunity because it's too difficult or you're not ready.
Always get a second or third opinion to help frame the criticism in proper context.
Remember that negative criticism is never about you. Don't accept unfair comments or discriminatory feedback.
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Don’t Leave the Profession - Change It! Amplifying the Role of Women in Architecture

Considering architecture is a creative profession, we sure do have a white knuckle grip on a traditionally structured model of practice. Women are redefining what it means to be an architect. Stop weighing down your career trajectory with old assumptions about what work looks like.
Beware of two common false choices about practice:
Being a good/wife/mother/daughter/sister etc. OR having a full throttle career
Asserting yourself and making bold career moves OR being nurturing and likable
Women's careers can be restricted in two ways. Societal bias about our motivations or capabilities and self sabotage in the form of guilt related to the false choices.
When women feel like there is no choice but to struggle, they feel unfulfilled and so they leave. Seek out mentors and know that you are an example for others.
Creating a sense of belonging means redefining work in terms of the resources available and structures that accommodate a different practice model.
To amplify your career without taking on added stress, reach out to an expanded network, question the "reasons" why you are blocked, and give yourself agency to ask for the opportunities you want.
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Resourcing Your Career: Interview with Katelyn Rossier

Architecture careers are murky, opaque things. Good thing there are people willing to light our way. Architect and mentorDINO founder Katelyn Rossier shares her story and why she's so passionate about helping others build a career path that's right for them.
When you want to make a difference, it's easy to get sidelined by impostor syndrome. Asking others what they view as your strengths helps build confidence that you are on the right path.
Form your own mentoring Board of Directors. Make sure it includes peers who work outside of your firm, others in the industry and people you admire as leaders. Chang out your "Board" as needed to suit where you are in your career.
You never have to limit your career to being about just one thing. There can be "ands" and commas in your job description.
Architecture is a passion career and you should expect to have seasons where you put a lot of time into your career. However, if you are guided by your purpose, you'll be energized through those moments.
Learn more about mentorDINO: https://www.mentordino.com/
Connect to Katelyn on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/katelyn-rossier-aia-ncarb-lssbb/
Connect on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mentordino_llc/
Email:admin@mentordino.com
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How to Start Living a Success Lifestyle Right Now

Success isn't really about what you have accomplished. So many people who seem to be "winning" at life feel empty inside. If you find yourself paying way too high a price to rack up those wins, listen in to learn how to cultivate a true success feeling today that you can use as a barometer to take future action.
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Accomplishments will feel empty if you don't feel good. On the flip side of that, if you take actions today that get to the root motivation for your success (empowerment, freedom, joy), you can begin to notice how success really feels and switch from validating to life affirming actions.
Stop being "fine." Think about what you are tolerating that's siphoning off your time and energy.
Re-prioritize your day to make time for the things that matter to you. Say goodbye to things that don't serve.
Build habits around activities that help you feel good about your life purpose.
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Misaligned Expectations Leading to Stunted Success and Burnout

An astounding majority of people are experiencing burnout. However, it isn't caused by stress alone. Having a lot to do that doesn't feel meaningful or doing things to prove yourself more than the love of the work will get you every time. Recognize these behaviors as early stages of burnout they are.
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Burnout is caused by feeling no control, a workload that is as overwhelming as it is devoid of resonance and not feeling supported.
Early stages of burnout come with feeling pressure to work harder and perform, which cues the stress response.
Our beliefs about what success really looks like hold us back.
Success is about living your purpose not chasing perfectionism, comparing yourself to others or being validated.
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Stuck and Stunted: Get Out of Your Career Rut

Feeling a little less than fulfilled at work these days? You might have fallen into a high competency rut. The one where you're trapped only doing stuff you're really good at abut don't see a way to expand your horizons or follow your passions. Let's fix that pronto!
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You can feel trapped in a role you are good at but don't love out of guilt and obligation, which is why you need to train your replacement.
You can get to comfortable doing work where you are highly competent. The internal and external validation that comes from a job well done make you want to keep doing it.
When you view realizing your dreams as risky instead of inevitable, failure becomes something to fear. It feels super safe to stay where you are (even when you long for a change).
Know the difference between work that is important vs inspiring. Don't mistake importance for inspiring. Remember that part of the human condition is to be curious.
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When Stress is Givin’ Ends: What You Should Know About Eustress and Distress

As a high performance person, you'd get bored reeaaaalll fast of a completely stress free life. Learn more about eustress, the kind that keeps you curious and motivated. I also share how to spot when distress starts creeping on your happyland and how it fools you into a downward spiral that makes you susceptible to burnout.
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Eustress is good stress. It keeps us motivated and focused- that hit of adrenaline that makes us excited.
When external burnout conditions are present like work overload, lack of support and too many meaningless tasks, we can slip into distress and rely on our addiction to stress hormones to push through.
Distress creates a physical response in the body that is harmful to our physical and mental health unless we have a physical response soon after it is activated.
When distress is chronic, it harms our well being and leads to burnout. As we deal with this overtime, we become "wired and tired," and unable to relax and rest.
Signs of burnout show up in the body as becoming overly controlling impatient and irritable, brain fog, extreme fatigue, resorting to "comfort habits" to numb out or stimulate ourselves, losing motivation.
To reset, you need to identify the root cause, implement boundaries, and reconnection to self with salutogenic activities.
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