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Your Stories of Fear and Love at Work

Thank you for sharing your stories of love and fear at work with us. We truly value your contribution to this growing body of insights that are showing us what is helpful and what is harmful at work. 

Instructions to guide your story-sharing:
You will first be guided through a series of questions to explore a time when you felt afraid at work. That will be followed by a similar set of questions to describe a time when you felt loved at work.

Following the simple prompts, please accurately describe your own experience. Do not share someone else's story. Using your own words, this is an opportunity to be candid and authentic about the impacts you experienced. 

Please do not identify any organization by name. Instead identify the organization by type, for example, a financial institution, a grocery chain, a government agency, etc.

Similarly, please don’t identify anyone in your story by name. You may either use just titles or pseudonyms. 

Necessary Legal Agreements:
By submitting your stories you agree to hereby transfer full ownership and rights of this content to A Human Workplace, LLC. A Human Workplace, LLC reserves all rights to use all or parts of the content, as desired, which may include for talks, writing, training, online content, or in other forms. While A Human Workplace, LLC will make the effort to acknowledge receipt of stories, A Human Workplace, LLC, is not obligated, in any way, to respond to the submitter or use the submission. A Human Workplace, LLC will keep confidential the identity of the submitter and will never publish the identity of the submitter unless permission is given.

We appreciate your trust in sharing your story and your contribution to helping us advocate for putting more love in action and making work more human.

With gratefulness,
Renée Smith and Marcel Schwantes
renee@makeworkmorehuman.com
marcelschwantes@gmail.com

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* 1. Describe a time when you felt afraid at work. Please begin with some context for your story, for example the industry you were working in, the role you had, the time in your career, etc. 

And then, what happened? What did you do and what did others do in the situation? 

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* 2. What was the impact of this fear on you including on your work, your mental well-being, your emotional well-being, your physical well-being, and your personal life?

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* 3. What was the impact of your fear on your team, your organization, and/or your customers, if any?

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* 4. What did having this fear experience mean to you?

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* 5. Describe a time when you felt loved at work. Again, please begin with some context for your story, for example the industry you were working in, the role you had, the time in your career, etc.

Then, what happened? What did you do and what did others do?

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* 6. What was the impact of this love on you including on your work performance, on your physical well-being, on your mental well-being, on your emotional well-being, and on your personal life?

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* 7. What was the impact of your loving experience on your team, organization, and/or your customer, if any?

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* 8. What did having this loving experience mean to you?

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* 9. Please provide your name and email for contact. You will not be identified in your story. 

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* 10. What would you like us to know about your identity (age, gender, race, location, title, etc.) that you think is important for us to know about you? Or leave this blank.

Thank you!

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