Episode 7.
Maxine grew up in a Jewish home, including keeping kosher. She has left that strict observance but retains the core identity and some observance. Zen practice and meditation have been added, something she states proudly. Improv has also been a part of her life, creatively and professionally.
In her work with corporations, she combines business savvy, improv and humor in her Collaborcate® method to empower employers to improve the customer-employee relationship.
Highlights:
· Collaboration begins with yes/and.
· Creativity comes from listening to the voice inside, and meditation helps you to hear it.
· Judaism, Zen and improv all support her, and she finds connection and community readily.
· She stretches herself to relate to people who are different, no matter how small the connection.
· Being one means being present and open to the joy and suffering.
· Be present, listen and lead with curiosity.
Quotes:
“I welcome anyone to go to any Buddhist temple whether they’re chanting or Zen, whatever they're practicing, and hear a chant and not feel the depth of it. And that's the magic of religion.”
“I love rituals. To me they just keep it so clean.”
“I think it's important wherever I go, to show up. I'm ‘gonna be present.”
“We don't have anything in the past. We have nothing in the future. It is about now. Are you allowing yourself to just be so present, either as the customer, [or] the representative of the service product?”
“Listening is one of the deepest gifts we can give to people.”
Social Media Links for Maxine:
LinkedIn – www.linkedin/in/maxineshapiro
Facebook – www.facebook.com/maxineshapiro
Twitter – www.twitter.com/maxineshapiro
Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/maxineshapiro/
Website – www.maxineshapiro.com
Let’s Talk About CEX! The Customer and Employee Experience podcast – https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lets-talk-about-cex-the-customer-and-employee-experience/id1608414716
Social Media links for Méli:
Email – info@talkingwithgodproject.org
LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/melisolomon/
Talking with God Project – https://www.talkingwithgodproject.org
Transcript:
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1851013/episodes/10218964-7-maxine-shapiro-jewish-roots-zen-practice-improv/edit
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