Attachment Styles in the Workplace - The Foundations
Attachment is the most important and useful lens to help people transform their behavior.
My work in both Attachment Counselling and Executive Learning dives deep in to how attachment is expressed in professional contexts - and how to help people manage it so they can be their most effective, productive, and healthiest selves. While communication skills and emotional intelligence training have their place, attachment is the most important and useful lens I've found to help people transform their behavior and get better outcomes when they are dealing with others at work (and everywhere else) - it's foundational!
By understanding and managing our own attachment style and being mindful of the attachment styles of others at work, we can take control of how we interact and break out of the repetitive patterns that are interfering with professional success and tanking the relationships in your organization. Knowing about attachment and being able to consider it when working with colleagues or clients is like a super power for managing and working with others effectively.
Bev Mitelman, M.A.
Founder, Securely Loved
Programs for Executives & Emerging Leaders
Tailored for individuals with direct responsibility for staff management and team performance.
Attachment in the Workplace: Foundations for Leaders 101
Tailored workshop exploring secure and insecure attachment styles in the workplace, specific behaviors and strategies for self-management and optimizing team performance based on tangible actions to get the best of each employee as you learn to recognize their attachment styles.
Workshop can be delivered virtually (broken in to a 2-part series of 90 minutes each), or in person.
Minimizing Conflict with Anxious and Avoidant Employees
A deep dive in to the emotional patterns and needs of anxious and avoidant employees; how to minimize frustration and best handle conflict with such employees to ensure minimal disruption to operations and performance of your teams.
Workshop can be delivered virtually or in person.
Pre-requisite: Attachment in the Workplace: Foundations for Leaders 101
Hiring and Retaining Secure Employees
Strategies to identify qualities of securely attached employees from the hiring process onwards, how to maximize their performance within teams and integrate attachment style as a key foundational element for effective succession planning.
Workshop can be delivered virtually or in person.
Pre-requisite: Attachment in the Workplace: Foundations for Leaders 101
Programs for Team Members
Tailored for individuals working within organizational or project team structures to accomplish shared business objectives.
Attachment in the Workplace: Foundations for Teams 101
Tailored workshop exploring secure and insecure attachment styles in the workplace with emphasis on understanding one's self and critical self-management skills and optimized communication and collaboration with colleagues.
Workshop can be delivered virtually (broken in to a 2-part series of 90 minutes each), or in person.
Working Effectively with Anxious and Avoidant Colleagues
A deep dive in to the emotional patterns and needs of anxious and avoidant employees, with a focus on tangible ways to best communicate and handle conflict when it arises.
Workshop can be delivered virtually or in person.
Pre-requisite: Attachment in the Workplace: Foundations for Teams 101
Emotional Regulation in the Workplace
We must take responsibility for our own attachment style and how we behave at work by learning to practice critical emotional regulation skills, compassion and curiosity so that we can be non-defensive and extend the same grace to others.
Workshop can be delivered virtually or in person.
Pre-requisite: Attachment in the Workplace: Foundations for Teams 101