Attachment styles shape how we relate to coworkers and leaders. This 60-minute attachment styles in the workplace webinar explains the four styles, anxious-insecure, anxious-avoidant, disorganized and secure, and how each one forms in childhood.
Drawing on John Bowlby and Mary Ainsworth's Strange Situation study, you'll learn the main traits of each style, how they appear in workplace settings and in meeting work expectations, and the pros and cons of each.
The session also looks at how unhealed attachment behaviors, especially in leaders, can harm culture and productivity, and how trauma-informed leadership principles help build a workplace that increases safety and reduces harm for everyone.
When people work together, patterns from their attachment styles surface. Research links attachment styles with leadership, trust, satisfaction, performance and engagement, and one study found more articles on attachment in organizations in the past five years than in the previous 25.
Recognizing the styles helps you see who views work negatively, who helps in a crisis, who prefers independence or regular feedback, and which behaviors cause conflict. Leaders, managers, executives, HR and team leads benefit.
When people work together, patterns from their attachment styles surface. Research links attachment styles with leadership, trust, satisfaction, performance and engagement, and one study found more articles on attachment in organizations in the past five years than in the previous 25.
Recognizing the styles helps you see who views work negatively, who helps in a crisis, who prefers independence or regular feedback, and which behaviors cause conflict. Leaders, managers, executives, HR and team leads benefit.
Sarah OBrien
Sarah Fargo O’Brien (she/her) is a dynamic and innovative trauma-informed leader and strategist. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW, LCSW-C), and has been a practicing psychotherapist specializing in Anxiety Disorders, Substance Use Disorders, and Relational/Betrayal Trauma reactions and responses for over 15 years. She has had many diverse and enriching experiences as a therapist that inform her work as a Trauma-Informed Consultant. She has been pivoting her clinical skills into other areas to reach wider audiences for impacting social change. Sarah also writes, speaks, and creates audio & video media content in efforts to reduce the stigma around …
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