Ways to Change the Workplace with Prina Shah – Details, episodes & analysis

In this solo episode of the Ways to Change the Workplace podcast, host Prina Shah dives deep into a topic that touches us all – how to create a lasting legacy at work. Drawing insights from her new book, Make Work Meaningful: How to Create a Culture that Leaves a Legacy, Prina challenges listeners to shift their focus from mere achievements to building a meaningful impact that transcends daily tasks.

Key Takeaways:

• The Achievement and Legacy Paradox: Success without significance can leave us feeling hollow, despite external achievements.
• Personal Stories: Prina shares moments from her career when she realised she wasn’t making the impact she desired, despite climbing the corporate ladder.
• The Power of Everyday Legacy: Legacy isn’t just for leaders. Every interaction, decision, and small action at work can create lasting change.
• Practical Tools from the Book: Discover activities and reflections that will help you actively build a meaningful career legacy.
• A Call to Action: Prina encourages listeners to become the architects of their own careers, creating not just success but significance.

Don’t Miss:

• Learn how one CEO’s mantra transformed the DNA of their entire organisation.
• Why your impact at work matters more than your KPIs or targets.
• A personal challenge from Prina to reflect on the kind of legacy you’re building today.

Resources:

• Grab a copy of Make Work Meaningful and start creating your own legacy at work and leave me a review.
• Subscribe to the Ways to Change the Workplace Podcast for more actionable insights.

Support the show

If you are seeking professional advice or would like to change your company culture through training, consulting, speaking and coaching, get in touch with Prina Shah today. Email Prina.

For More Info on Prina Shah & her Services:

Grab a copy of Make Work Meaningful and start creating your own legacy at work and leave me a review.

Subscribe to the Ways to Change the Workplace Podcast for more actionable insights.

Prina Shah LinkedIn: ⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/prinashah/
Prina Shah Website⁠⁠⁠ - https://www.prinashah.com/
Prina Shah Facebook⁠⁠⁠ - https://www.facebook.com/groups/waystochangetheworkplace
Prina Shah Instagram⁠⁠⁠ - https://www.instagram.com/prina.shah/
Prina Shah YouTube⁠⁠⁠ - https://www.youtube.com/@prinashahconsulting

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Let’s Make Work Meaningful

Welcome to another solo episode of the Ways to Change the Workplace podcast with your host, Prina Shah. This week is monumental as Prina is launching her highly anticipated book, Make Work Meaningful: How to Create a Culture That Leaves a Legacy.

In this episode, Prina delves into the heart of the book, exploring its central theme—the Achievement and Legacy Paradox. She talks about the tension between success and fulfillment that many leaders and teams face in the workplace, sharing why short-term wins often leave us feeling empty. The episode emphasises that true success comes not from titles or promotions but from creating a culture where purpose and impact are at the core.

Prina also shares compelling case studies from her book, highlighting real-life examples such as:

• The “whiz kid” leader who made efficiency cuts without understanding the cultural cost.
• The inspiring story of CEO Anthony Vuleta, who transformed workplace culture by focusing on daily moments that matter to employees.

Key Takeaways from This Episode:

• Leadership is about more than numbers and titles—it’s about leaving a meaningful legacy.
• Meaningful work environments lead to higher engagement, creativity, and retention.
• Culture isn't a "nice-to-have"—it's the backbone of sustainable success.
• If you're not growing your people, you're shrinking your business.

Action Steps:

• Grab a copy of Make Work Meaningful and dive into its practical tools for creating a culture that leaves a lasting impact. Leave a genuine review of the book on Amazon to help more people discover its transformative insights.
• Get free tools to help you to Make Work Meaningful.
• Ask yourself and your team: What legacy are we building here? Is it one we’re proud of?

My details are below, get in touch.  Let’s work together to make the workplace meaningful and less "shitty"! Tune in next time for more insights from Prina and other amazing thought leaders.

Support the show

If you are seeking professional advice or would like to change your company culture through training, consulting, speaking and coaching, get in touch with Prina Shah today. Email Prina.

For More Info on Prina Shah & her Services:

Grab a copy of Make Work Meaningful and start creating your own legacy at work and leave me a review.

Subscribe to the Ways to Change the Workplace Podcast for more actionable insights.

Prina Shah LinkedIn: ⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/prinashah/
Prina Shah Website⁠⁠⁠ - https://www.prinashah.com/
Prina Shah Facebook⁠⁠⁠ - https://www.facebook.com/groups/waystochangetheworkplace
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Prina Shah YouTube⁠⁠⁠ - https://www.youtube.com/@prinashahconsulting

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Today, we have Jeff Skipper, joining us all the way from Calgary, Alberta. Jeff is a renowned expert in accelerating change with over 25 years of experience working with top-tier clients like IBM, Suncorp, Goldman Sachs, and the Salvation Army. He holds a master's degree in organizational psychology, is a certified change management professional, and the author of "Dancing with Disruption."

In this episode, we dive deep into the psychology behind why humans in the workplace resist change, even in a world that glorifies innovation and continuous improvement. Jeff shares his valuable insights on how to maximize the potential for people to flourish during change, rather than freeze or flee. We discuss the critical differences between change management and project management, the importance of addressing the emotional impact of change, and how to create a culture where discomfort is seen as a catalyst for growth.

Key Topics Covered:

1. The Psychology of Change Resistance
2. Difference Between Change Management and Project Management
3. Creating a Supportive Change Culture
4. Aligning Change Initiatives with Company Culture
5. The Role of Middle Managers in Change
6. Leveraging Resistance as a Source of Learning
7. Effective Change Communication

Quotes to Remember:

• "In a world that glorifies innovation and continuous improvement, why do humans in the workplace still resist change?"
• "Change management focuses on the people side of change, whereas project management is all about tasks and timelines."
• "We need to make failure acceptable and provide the necessary support for people to feel safe during change."

More about Jeff:

Jeff Skipper is an expert in accelerating change. For more than 25 years, clients such as IBM, Suncorp, Goldman Sachs, and The Salvation Army have engaged him to achieve dramatic results during strategic transformation. Jeff holds a Master’s degree in Organizational Psychology, is a Certified Change Management Professional, and the author of Dancing with Disruption.

Links:

Web: jeffskipperconsulting.com

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If you are seeking professional advice or would like to change your company culture through training, consulting, speaking and coaching, get in touch with Prina Shah today. Email Prina.

For More Info on Prina Shah & her Services:

Grab a copy of Make Work Meaningful and start creating your own legacy at work and leave me a review.

Subscribe to the Ways to Change the Workplace Podcast for more actionable insights.

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Cheer Up: Is Toxic Positivity Ruining Your Culture? 

How can you find ways to change the workplace culture if you find yourself in an environment of toxic positivity?

How can you create an environment where depth of conversation can exist in place of toxic positivity, when it comes to emotional intelligence in the workplace?

How can you interpret the value of negative emotions as data in order to achieve your organisation’s ultimate goals during change projects?

About today’s episode:


Today I chat with Dr Maike Neuhaus who is currently based in Brisbane. Dr Neuhaus is a positive psychologist and self-leadership expert who is passionate about helping driven professionals understand what they need in order to flourish and create positive changes in life.

I speak with Dr Maike about: How to identify and navigate an environment of toxic positivity.

Dr Maike talks about how toxic positivity impedes every organisation’s ability to thrive.

• The difference between toxic positivity and optimism.
• Interpreting negative emotions as data.
• How to create deeper, more meaningful conversations around negative emotions in your workplace.
• How to role model an environment where it’s safe to raise concerns.
• Strategies for HR professionals who identify toxic positivity in their workplace and how to start bringing in awareness.
• Reasons why toxic positivity may be exhibited by the best intentioned people in a workplace and how this often relates to boundaries and effective communication.
• What happens when negative emotions are dismissed at and outside of the workplace, and why they’re valuable data for any organization to achieve their goals. 
• I share perspective on RU Okay Day and ways to approach the conversation so that it is backed by emotional safety.
• And listen in to Dr Maike’s answer to my question:  if you had a magic wand, what is one way you would change the workplace?  Hint: it has to do with what she refers to as a flourishing meter. 

About today’s guest: Dr Maike Neuhaus is a positive psychologist and self-leadership expert who is passionate about helping driven professionals understand what they need in order to flourish and create positive change in life. She i

Support the show

If you are seeking professional advice or would like to change your company culture through training, consulting, speaking and coaching, get in touch with Prina Shah today. Email Prina.

For More Info on Prina Shah & her Services:

Grab a copy of Make Work Meaningful and start creating your own legacy at work and leave me a review.

Subscribe to the Ways to Change the Workplace Podcast for more actionable insights.

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Prina Shah Website⁠⁠⁠ - https://www.prinashah.com/
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Detachment. It is the trait of Zen Masters and you can learn it too!

A lot of the toxic team issues I have helped rectify have been the result of people holding on to grudges, past traumas and work place wrongs.

You know holding onto such things can affect you mentally and physically?

Learn to how let go of unnecessary stuff in this episode!

Support the show

If you are seeking professional advice or would like to change your company culture through training, consulting, speaking and coaching, get in touch with Prina Shah today. Email Prina.

For More Info on Prina Shah & her Services:

Grab a copy of Make Work Meaningful and start creating your own legacy at work and leave me a review.

Subscribe to the Ways to Change the Workplace Podcast for more actionable insights.

Prina Shah LinkedIn: ⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/prinashah/
Prina Shah Website⁠⁠⁠ - https://www.prinashah.com/
Prina Shah Facebook⁠⁠⁠ - https://www.facebook.com/groups/waystochangetheworkplace
Prina Shah Instagram⁠⁠⁠ - https://www.instagram.com/prina.shah/
Prina Shah YouTube⁠⁠⁠ - https://www.youtube.com/@prinashahconsulting

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Are you an inclusive leader?

I have had the pleasure of supporting many CEOs and senior leaders to become more inclusive and I share practical tips with you!

The way you include your people will impact the way you are perceived and trusted. 

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I share examples of what you can do to be more inclusive. 

More about your host, Prina Shah:

We spend more time of our waking day at work than with loved ones, my mission is to make your workplace a good place to be!
 
My specialty is in developing your people and working with you to optimise your organisational cultures.

 Thank you for tuning in!
 
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If you are seeking professional advice or would like to change your company culture through training, consulting, speaking and coaching, get in touch with Prina Shah today. Email Prina.

For More Info on Prina Shah & her Services:

Grab a copy of Make Work Meaningful and start creating your own legacy at work and leave me a review.

Subscribe to the Ways to Change the Workplace Podcast for more actionable insights.

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Have you noticed something about the best leaders at your workplace? 

What is it about them that makes them the best? Is it technical knowledge? Is it their leadership skills? Or could it be that they take you on a journey…

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About today’s episode:

Today I speak with Author Jamie Dixon about How Leaders Speak the Language of the Mind

More about Jamie:

Jamie Dixon is the Author of 3 Books:

- The Story Habit - A methodology for building simple and powerful habits for influencing at work through the power of storytelling
- Overcome and Get it Done! - A book about discipline, productivity and behaviour change that I proudly wrote and published in just 24 hours
-  Shaping Paths, How to Design and Deliver PRACTICAL Training - A practical training design methodology that I use to design all my training solutions

Some of the things we cover

• Change and Culture go together like PB n J yet orgs still mess it up. We uncover why… 
•  What is the biggest skill needed to bring people on the journey of change? 
• Jamie explains what he means by “The greatest leaders are fluent in the language of the mind”
•  Jamie dissects the essential steps of storytelling. Stories are made up of three parts: Relate, Challenge, Resolve.
• Jamie gives us some easy ways to learn the skill of storytelling
• Jamie shares how can leaders enable others to understand their perspective? 
• I ask how can leaders change people’s minds – that’s the hard part of change!? 
• How can leaders inspire people to take action? 
• Jamie’s answer to what is one way you would change the workplace if you had a magic wand is fabulous!

Support the show

If you are seeking professional advice or would like to change your company culture through training, consulting, speaking and coaching, get in touch with Prina Shah today. Email Prina.

For More Info on Prina Shah & her Services:

Grab a copy of Make Work Meaningful and start creating your own legacy at work and leave me a review.

Subscribe to the Ways to Change the Workplace Podcast for more actionable insights.

Prina Shah LinkedIn: ⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/prinashah/
Prina Shah Website⁠⁠⁠ - https://www.prinashah.com/
Prina Shah Facebook⁠⁠⁠ - https://www.facebook.com/groups/waystochangetheworkplace
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Prina Shah YouTube⁠⁠⁠ - https://www.youtube.com/@prinashahconsulting

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Are you a corporate martyr or a realist? You can't do it all- therefore you need to learn the fine art of delegation.

This week I have a few questions for you to consider about how you delegate and communicate.

Try my easy formula and let me know how you go!

Wouldn’t you love that as a people manager?

It can be done...

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If you are seeking professional advice or would like to change your company culture through training, consulting, speaking and coaching, get in touch with Prina Shah today. Email Prina.

For More Info on Prina Shah & her Services:

Grab a copy of Make Work Meaningful and start creating your own legacy at work and leave me a review.

Subscribe to the Ways to Change the Workplace Podcast for more actionable insights.

Prina Shah LinkedIn: ⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/prinashah/
Prina Shah Website⁠⁠⁠ - https://www.prinashah.com/
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Avoid these traps if you are a new CEO...

I have had the pleasure of Coaching many CEOs and senior leaders to begin their new roles effectively.

The way you start any job will determine how you are perceived, liked and followed by those you lead. 

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Are you new as a CEO? 

Do you have mandates from the Board / Investors or Shareholders?

No doubt you’ve got your own intentions of this new role too.

One thing I have repeatedly seen is this trap that too many new CEOs fall into.

I share examples from my past corporate life of the failures I have observed of new CEOs. 

I share examples of great work some of the CEOs whom I support are doing. 

And I share PRACTICAL EXAMPLES of what you can do to start off right if you are a new CEO!

More about your host, Prina Shah:

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We spend more time of our waking day at work than with loved ones, my mission is to make your workplace a good place to be!
 
My specialty is in developing your people and working with you to optimise your organisational cultures.

 Thank you for tuning in!
 
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If you are seeking professional advice or would like to change your company culture through training, consulting, speaking and coaching, get in touch with Prina Shah today. Email Prina.

For More Info on Prina Shah & her Services:

Grab a copy of Make Work Meaningful and start creating your own legacy at work and leave me a review.

Subscribe to the Ways to Change the Workplace Podcast for more actionable insights.

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Prina Shah Website⁠⁠⁠ - https://www.prinashah.com/
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Do you feel like a fake, phony and fraud at work? Are you holding back parts of you?

Did you know that many people of colour don’t enjoy being in the workplace because of a raft of reasons…

Has your workplace rolled out Unconscious Bias training as part of their diversity and equity efforts? Have they missed the mark?

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About today’s episode:
 
Today I chat with Dr Gena Cox all the way from Florida. Dr. Gena Cox is an organizational psychologist and executive coach. She is the author of Leading Inclusion, a groundbreaking guidebook for corporate leaders who want to build inclusive organizations from the top down.

I speak with Gena about: Leading Inclusion: Drive Change Your Employees Can See and Feel

Watch the youtube version here!

Gena talks about: 

• Her past experiences of not fitting into the workplace. 
• The internal conflicts that people from a minority background face at work.
• How people from minority backgrounds address their internal conflicts to fit in.
• How the employee experience can be drastically enhanced for minorities. 
• The importance of understanding people’s racial histories and stories. 
• I share my Dad’s migration story of moving as a senior leader from Kenya to taking on manual labour work in the UK and what effects it had on him.
•  Tips on how individuals, leaders and your organisation can lead inclusion the right way at your workplace!
• And listen in to Gena’s answer to my question: if you had a magic wand, what is one way you would change the workplace? 

 About today’s guest: Dr. Gena Cox is an organizational psychologist and executive coach. She is the author of Leading Inclusion, a groundbreaking guidebook for corporate leaders who want to build inclusive organizations from the top down. Before this, at IBM and Perceptyx,
 
Resources and links

Connect with Gena and check out her

Support the show

If you are seeking professional advice or would like to change your company culture through training, consulting, speaking and coaching, get in touch with Prina Shah today. Email Prina.

For More Info on Prina Shah & her Services:

Grab a copy of Make Work Meaningful and start creating your own legacy at work and leave me a review.

Subscribe to the Ways to Change the Workplace Podcast for more actionable insights.

Prina Shah LinkedIn: ⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/prinashah/
Prina Shah Website⁠⁠⁠ - https://www.prinashah.com/
Prina Shah Facebook⁠⁠⁠ - https://www.facebook.com/groups/waystochangetheworkplace
Prina Shah Instagram⁠⁠⁠ - https://www.instagram.com/prina.shah/
Prina Shah YouTube⁠⁠⁠ - https://www.youtube.com/@prinashahconsulting

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