About Me
About Kristi
Energetic Healing Fusion
As a Healer, I release energies that are trapped in your physical body, this can affect your daily life emotionally mentally, physically, and spiritually. My goal is to bring flow to the body by identifying blocks in the body’s meridians. I specializing in inner child work that can help you move forward in your daily journey.
As a Calmness Coordinator I work with businesses and teams to bring calmness to the workplace. Helping everyone understand their elements and when you are off balance and ungrounded, reducing stress in the workplace and helping the workplace productivity.
Sharing Some of My Lessons Learned
Wisdom Stewardship Trust
In my third year of Leadership overseeing 250 plus employees, I was faced with a season of recession. My supervisor gave me the directive, to make a plan to cut 25% of my existing staff. As I sat with this daunting challenge, I asked myself a series of questions. Why to do I have to look at this situation one way? Is there a way to save my workforce? Are there other ways I can make up to loss without losing an even greater loss as in closing specific locations?
First, I looked at our current staff and was there a way to utilize our staff in a different way? Ran scenarios with my Budget Analyst, and then came up with a plan with my HR Manager and the three of us worked to make sure we did not miss any moving parts with staff, salary costs and budget restrictions.
Next, I included the plan with my leadership team, this had to be a team effort, in order for the plan to work. Then we expanded this communication of the plan to the managers over each of the locations of business. The managers then had specific talking points for all staff at each location. My HR Manger and myself went out and talked to each staff that had to have a location change. The plan changed and adapted as we all worked together. Communication, messaging, adaptability and using the skills of the whole team was key to this plan.
Don't worry if you're not where you want to be yet,
Great Things Take Time! What happened next was so amazing and was beyond what I could have expected. Not only did we keep the budget in the green, we started to build our fund balance yes… in a recession! The biggest unexpected for me was staff’s buy in and attitude change. because there was ongoing communication, updates encouragement and appreciation from leadership the staff started to feel valued in a way, I didn’t expect. Staff appreciated the fact that we valued the whole work force that they started sharing more ways to save money. The power of the team helped build loyalty, positivity and growth. The Plan B, using a time when change is forced upon us can bring us new and different that can be good for you and business.
Learn to Listen & Value Your Staff
A Successful Strategy for Connecting with Your Staff
Traditionally when staff leave an organization an employer will send an exit interview about their time with the agency. I was introduced and used Stay Interviews, this is a tool that gets employees feedback while they are still working with you instead of finding out their thoughts and feelings before they leave. I have found this tool very helpful to make improvements and connect to staff. This is a concept that allows you to use this tool to listen to staff, to stay connected to staff and implement change to improve turnover, moral and communication.
This is how I conducted stay interviews. I invited small groups of staff with job alike positions to come have lunch with me. I liked to keep the groups small 10-12 at a time. The conversation was moderated by me recorded by my assistant and all questions were followed with a letter from me to the staff that were participating. Sometimes changes would happen due to the staff sharing about systems and protocols that were not functioning well or training to improve current practices. If things can’t change an explanation of “why” helps employees to understand why it won’t change. I followed up each meeting with a letter to staff and shared the findings with the current leadership to understand and support staff.