Provides a guide for how to build love into organisations and in doing so allow our businesses and our people to achieve their full potential. This presentation provides the definition of love in the business context and why it is imperative to individual and business flourishing. It shows how all of the workplace wellbeing initiatives all come back to nurturing love and presents a 10-step model for how we can build love in.

1. Build
Love In
Belinda Tobin

2. Handing over our humanity
Presentation title
Why is it that when we walk through the doors at work, we
believe we need to leave our humanity at the door?
Why is it that the things that enrich our personal lives, such as love, connection,
imagination, play and emotion, are deemed unsuitable for professional places?
The definition of organisational dehumanisation is:
“the experience of an employee who feels objectified by his or her
organisation, denied personal subjectivity, and made to feel like a tool or
instrument for the organisation’s ends”(Bell & Khoury, 2011, p. 168)
When people are dehumanised at work, they are no longer complex and curious
beings, they are simple, single-dimensional beings who have one goal – to deliver on
the task of the day.

3. The consequences
• The duel of dehumanisation degrades
performance
• Lack of trust forfeits potential
• Lack of integration impacts on mental wellbeing
• Fear dominates – and nothing good has ever
come from fear
• Regret – what could have been? What if?
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4. Business
meets
cognitive
behaviour
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All of the actions we
take in the workplace
are driven by beliefs,
thoughts and
emotions.

5. What is the most important belief?
Presentation title
That you are worthy
of health,
happiness and
love.
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6. What
emotions
are
important?
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Hawkins, D. R., MD PhD.
(2023). Power vs. Force: The
Hidden Determinants of
Human Behavior-Author’s
Official Revised Edition 2012
Excellent series 1.st edition

7. What if?
We can build love
into where we work?
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8. What is love in
the business
context?
I get frustrated that we are
looking to reap the rewards of
love (for example passion,
engagement, wellbeing,
psychological safety) but are not
willing to acknowledge that it is
love that will deliver them.
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9. The
Why
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• When people feel that people around them have their best interests at
heart, they can feel safe and free to be themselves.
• They feel confident to bring their complete selves to work and engage fully.
• They will give trust and feel trusted.
In this way, every single wellness initiative at work
(including psychological safety) is grounded in the
fundamental notion and actions of love.
• When people are working from a place of love, there will be a flow of
positive emotions.
• Acting from a place of love is the vital ingredient to authentic creativity.
• When you are working from love, you are open to life's reality but have the
passion and excitement to contribute and bring positive change.
• When people turn up to work with love (not fear), they participate with a
positive spirit, have high levels of engagement and performance.
Love is pivotal to achieving the best for the individual
and the best for the organisation.
Love is not just
important; it is
imperative to
business success.

10. The
What
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Burke. W. and Litwin. G. H. Causal
Model of Organisational
Performance and change. 1992.
Journal of Management. Vol. 18 (3).
p 523-545.
What is important?
We have plenty of
models that show
us what we need to
be doing to create
successful and
sustainable
organisations.
Top-down and bottom-up – the organisation depends on people.

11. What About the How?
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12. The
How
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What if we began
to focus not just on
what we do, but
how we do it?

13. 01 Leaders courageous enough
to operate from love not fear.
Loving Leadership
02
Clear and kind boundaries and
accountability with dignity.
Gutsy Governance
03 A safe space to be yourself
and to give all you are.
Bold Belonging
04
Communications to reduce
suffering, bring happiness and
enable work.
Compassionate
Communication
05 Understanding interdependence
and contributing to something
beyond your own success.
Connected Communities
06
Integrating heads and hearts to
create strategies that engage
and excite.
Stimulating Strategy
07
Focusing on those things that
bring the organisation to life.
Appreciative Analysis
08 Using our whole intelligence
in decision-making – facts and
feelings.
Plenary Performance
10
Processes and technologies
that add value and bring
people together.
Synergistic Systems
09 Formal channels enhance and
empower, not facilitate force
or fear.
Supporting Structures

14. Loving Leadership
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The critical foundation. One can only
lead to the level of their own
insecurity. Leaders bring out the best
in themselves and others with
kindness and compassion, not fear.
“The day the power of love overrules the
love of power, the world will know peace.” —
Mahatma Gandhi.
Loving Leadership

15. Gutsy Governance
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Clear roles and responsibilities show
regard. Boundaries are a kindness.
Accountability can be done with
dignity and challenge people to
greater achievements.
"Responsibility = accountability =ownership.
And a sense of ownership is the most
powerful weapon an organisation can have"
— Pat Summitt.
Gutsy Governance

16. Bold Belonging
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When people feel that they are safe
and cared for, just as they are, they
can bring their full selves to work, and
anything is possible!
"You cannot change any society unless you
take responsibility for it, unless you see
yourself as belonging to it and responsible
for changing it.” – Grace Lee Boggs.
Bold Belonging

17. Compassionate Communications
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Consciously using all of our
communication tools to bring
happiness, remove suffering and to
help others do their great work.
“Each person is honoured for their differences
and then linked by compassionate
communication.” ~ Daniel Siegel
Compassionate
Communications

18. Connected Communities
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Recognising and celebrating the reality
of human interdependence and our
ability to contribute to something
bigger than ourselves.
““Maturity comes in three stages:
dependence, independence and
interdependence.” ~ Jenna Jameson
Connected Communities

19. Stimulating Strategy
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Using planning to integrate heads and
hearts and create a community
connected and committed to a
meaningful contribution.
“How does your current strategic plan make
you feel?” ~ Belinda Tobin
Stimulating Strategy

20. Appreciative Analysis
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Focusing our attention on the best in
people, our organisation, and the world
around us. Learning about what brings
our systems to life and placing priority
on those thing that power our potential.
“Where are you investing your energy – fixing
little leaks in the hull or getting wind in your
sails?” ~ Belinda Tobin
Appreciative Analysis

21. Plenary Performance
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Applying our whole intelligence to
decision-making – our heads driven by
data, and our hearts whose format is
feelings.
“Not everything that can be counted counts.”
~ William Bruce Cameron
Plenary Performance
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22. Supportive Structures
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Employing managerial structures to
provide assistance not authority.
Creating oversight and reporting
functions that empower and strengthen
rather than foster fear and facilitate force.
“If structure follows strategy, is hierarchy the
structure used to embed an unstated strategy
of dehumanisation?” ~ Belinda Tobin
Supportive Structures

23. Synergistic Systems
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Caring for your resources and your
people by using systems that add value
and processes that bring people
together instead of making enemies of
each other.
“Silo’d or second-rate systems waste people’s
most precious asset – their time, and there is
no greater crime.” ~ Belinda Tobin
Synergistic Systems

24. Summary
• When we hand over our humanity, we are also handing over our potential
and our power.
• We are creatures driven by emotion.
• We have the choice to create environments that foster fear or let love
shine.
• The latter is the only way we can bring out the best in our people and allow
our organisations to reach their full potential.
• We need to build love in to all of our leadership, structures and systems.
• The Build Love In Blueprint provides a guide for how we can go about this.
• Let’s build love in.
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25. “We need to support each
other to build a community
where love is something
tangible. This may be the
most important thing we
can do for the survival of
the earth.”
Thich Nhat Hanh

26. About the Author
Belinda Tobin
B.Com, MBA
Founder of Build Love In
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I am a business transformation professional with over 20 years
of experience helping organisations bring about meaningful
change. I specialise in transformational governance, including
governance frameworks, strategic planning, performance
management and communication.
I am also an author whose work focuses on nurturing
understanding and compassion in all areas of our lives –
personal and professional. I have one clear yet endless mission -
to live a life driven by love and not fear.
www.belindatobin.com

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