How to Be Awesome at Your Job

751: How to Decrease Loneliness and Increase Belonging with Ryan Jenkins

Mar 17, 2022

39:37

Episode guests

Ryan Jenkins

Highlights

AI Chapters

Episode notes

Are You a Lonely Being?

02:24

How Does the Regimentation of the Day Help With Loneliness?

01:50

Never Make Someone Feel Alone, Even When They're With You

02:07

Introduction

3min

Are You Lonely in New York City?

2min

Are There Other Flavors of Connection That You're Thinking About?

3min

Does Loneliness Come First?

2min

Is There a Relationship Between Loneliness and Depression?

5min

Loneliness in the Workplace

4min

Are You a Lonely Being?

2min

Are You Speaking Last?

3min

Four Steps Less Lonely Framework

2min

10.

How Does the Regimentation of the Day Help With Loneliness?

2min

11.

How Is Your Regularity Helping You?

2min

12.

What Are Some Things We Shouldn't Do Right Now to Reduce Loneliness?

2min

13.

Never Make Someone Feel Alone, Even When They're With You

2min

14.

Time Constraints - How to Create Meaningful Connections

2min

15.

The Most Ground Breaking Tool

2min

16.

Aret Ausomat Your Job Podcast

2min

Ryan Jenkins tackles the overlooked problem of loneliness in the workplace and shares expert tips for fostering connection and belonging for both yourself and your team.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) Why you can still feel lonely around other people

2) Just how loneliness is harming our health and productivity

3) The simplest thing you can do now to feel less lonely

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— ABOUT RYAN —

Ryan Jenkins CSP® is an internationally-recognized keynote speaker and three-time published author. He speaks all over the world to companies such as State Farm, Salesforce, Wells Fargo, FedEx, Liberty Mutual, and John Deere.

For a decade, he has been helping organizations create engaged, inclusive, and high-performing teams by lessening worker loneliness and closing generational gaps. Ryan’s top-ranked insights have been featured in Forbes, Fast Company, and The Wall Street Journal.

He is also co-founder of LessLonely.com, the world’s first resource fully dedicated to reducing worker isolation and strengthening team connections. Ryan lives in Atlanta, GA, with his wife, three children, and yellow Labrador.

• Book: Connectable: How Leaders Can Move Teams From Isolated to All In

• Tool: Team Connection Assessment

• Tiktok: @ryanandsteven

• Podcast: The Case for Connection

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Tool: Evernote

• Tool: Asana

• Tool: Boomerang

• Study: Harvard Study of Adult Development

• Study: Project Aristotle

• Video: Space Oddity with Chris Hadfield

• Figure: Christina Koch