EP 15: Restoring Kindness and Civility With Shola Richards

Today I am talking with Shola Richards. Shola is a best selling author of Go Together and Making Work Work, he is a corporate trainer, civility expert, and speaker whose life’s mission is an ambitious one: To end generations of suffering, simply by changing how we treat each other at work, at home and beyond. 

Shola is a father, husband, identical twin, and a self-proclaimed “kindness extremist”. 

Shola and I are talking about the lack of civility in our world, especially in the workplace. We’re talking about how to become more aware of how you treat people, and we’re talking about the need to restore kindness and civility into our everyday lives. 

Episode Highlights

• Our shared love of This or Something Better
• Shola’s Goal to change the world and how we treat each other at work, home, and beyond
• Shola’s personal story 
• Remain in curiosity and stay out of judgment
• Don’t let your mood determine your manners
• The lack of kindness and civility in our world
• Leadership in the workplace and beyond
• The importance of self-awareness
• Three questions to ask yourself. Is it kind, is it true and is it necessary? 

Resources Mentioned

Positive Parenting Solutions https://www.positiveparentingsolutions.com

Go Together (https://amzn.to/2BpDix8 )

Making Work Work (http://amzn.to/1YYdh8U ) 

https://www.ted.com/talks/shola_richards_ubuntu_the_one_word_to_change_how_you_work_live_and_lead

About Shola Richards

Shola Richards’ life’s mission is an ambitious one: To end generations of professional suffering, simply by changing how we treat each other at work. 

Shola is an advocate, a one-man counsel, and a humanitarian hardwired for positivity, who (ironically) speaks, coaches, consults, and authors books on the shadowy, often underground, and underestimated subject of workplace bullying, a pernicious reality that, when overlooked, corrodes trust, distorts communication, and ultimately usurps equity from the bottom line by using up a company’s most valuable resource: its people. 

His approach is to open eyes to the staggering price we pay for normalized, toxic behavior because we can’t address what we don’t see. His result is people equipped with tangible, doable solutions because we can’t accomplish what we can’t make actionable. His conviction is that everyone deserves a healthy work environment because the quality and meaning of our work suffers when we do.

Through his books, Go Together (https://amzn.to/2BpDix8 ) and Making Work Work (http://amzn.to/1YYdh8U ) and featured articles that have reached readers in over 160 countries, and through his presentations with institutions that range from Silicon Valley businesses to the Department of Homeland Security, Shola is spearheading a timely revolution that teaches us how to protect the professionalism of our company cultures, the preciousness of our time, the strength of our talents, the dignity of ourselves, and the mutual respect of one another. 

Connect With Shola Richards

Email Shola@sholarichards.com 

Shola’s website www.sholarichards.com 

Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/sholarichards/

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/SholaRichardsOfficial/ 

Instagram https://www.instagram.com/sholarichards/

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