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Build High Performing Teams Podcast
Hosted by Anna Oakes · EN
Join leadership and performance expert, Anna Oakes, as she shares conversations and insights around sustaining high performance and restoring humanity into our work and workplaces.
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How To Build Your Career Success Team
Jul 21, 202000:37:19Tap to summarize"I feel like I'm not doing a good job at my work, in my life. I feel lonely and overwhelmed." I hear this a lot. My advice is that you shouldn't be navigating the work world alone. There are resources and people to have on your own personal "team". If you don't have this support team already, it is your job to build it and sustain it. In this episode, I'll tell you the roles you need to support you in your work life, internal and external, and explain what exactly to seek from these roles. Discussed in this Episode: How to promote internal success as a leader How to have a consistent weekly communication The power of having a leader, team, mentor, and sponsor How to create your personal board of directors Here are a few highlights: 03:26 LEADER "One of the best relationships, and most influential relationships that you can have is with your leader." 4:54 TEAM "If you're a people leader or if you are thinking about your relationship with your leader, it starts by consistent communication and connection." 14:38 MENTOR "A mentor is somebody who is going to be more behind the scenes; somebody who's agreeing to meet with you on a regular basis." 17:56 MENTORS AND SPONSORS "The difference between a mentor and a sponsor is that a mentor is more behind the scenes and a sponsor is more upfront." 25:38 HR "I want you to be friends with somebody in HR." I appreciate you listening and invite you to subscribe, like and share it with whomever may want to be high performing and own their career. Apply for my Own Your Career Accelerator: A 4-month program with 1:1 coaching, tools, and resources, and your secret weapon for deepening your impact. You'll leave with increased knowledge of how and when you can increase your impact through a career plan, time management plan, and project plan to present your current organization an idea that could add value to the business or its people. Links to the Freebies Mentioned: https://bhpt.mykajabi.com/anxietyatwork https://bhpt.mykajabi.com/tedx-freebie-landing If you or your organization are looking for a thought leader and strategic partner to address organization/team/employee performance, managing change, or people/culture strategy, please contact us at team@buildhighperformingteams.com. I hope you liked today's episode. Please don't forget to subscribe on all podcast platforms and while you're there, please don't forget to rate and review! I truly appreciate and love you, and can't wait to see you in the next episode! Check out Anxiety at Work: A Guide for COVID-19 and Beyond Download Virtual Teams During COVID-19: Mindsets + Values for High Performance Freebie Watch my TEDx Talk on Leveraging Your Now to Get Your Best Next P.S. Please don't forget to tag me @theannaoakes & my team @careerandculture on instagram, and connect on LinkedIn to share your big takeaways and for more Build High Performing Teams updates. I'll see you there! Peace & Progress, Anna
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Talking About Race and Other Taboo Topics At Work
Jul 14, 202000:50:11Tap to summarizeIn today's episode, Anna interviews Alonzo Kelly, founder and CEO of Kelly Leadership. As a sought after speaker and consultant, Alonzo leverages his corporate executive experience and 14 years as a coach and consultant to positively impact the world of work and leaders. Alonzo shares advice on "Talking about Race and Other Taboo Topics At Work" and why it's time we do it more and better. Anna and Alonzo discuss: How to prepare for talking about race in the workplace How to create the change The power of "being a witness" How to create a safe place to talk about and understand different cultures We appreciate you listening and invite you to subscribe, like and share it with whomever may want to be high performing and own their career. Apply for Anna's Own Your Career Accelerator: A 4-month program with 1:1 coaching, tools, and resources, and your secret weapon for deepening your impact. You'll leave with increased knowledge of how and when you can increase your impact through a career plan, time management plan, and project plan to present your current organization an idea that could add value to the business or its people. Links to the Freebies Mentioned: https://bhpt.mykajabi.com/anxietyatwork https://bhpt.mykajabi.com/tedx-freebie-landing If you or your organization are looking for a thought leader and strategic partner to address organization/team/employee performance, managing change, or people/culture strategy, please contact us at team@buildhighperformingteams.com. "I've been using the anatomy of a tsunami [to explain what happened during the BLM movement]. So, out in the ocean, we've got these two things under incredible pressure, pressing up against each other, and then inevitably, something breaks and you have this ripple. And this ripple goes unchecked. So what was a 3 foot wave turns into 30, 30 turns into 300, and then it hits landfall. And at that point, there's really absolutely nothing you can do about it. So everything is about service recovery. So I feel like in the last month, this tsunami hit landfall. And it becomes impossible to not talk about all those things you prefer we not talk about at work, because we're in service recovery. We're all in survival mode." At minute 4:00, Alonzo shares how he visualizes the BLM movement. His analogy paints a picture in your mind that makes it easy to understand what happened, and why. "If I'm looking out and I see a flock of white sheep, all white, 100 of them, and one of them is black, for me to pretend like I don't see that denies that sheep. For everybody to pretend like they don't see that denies their experience with the world around them. 100 people walk by. I won't remember any of them, but the black one. So I don't know why we got to pretend like I don't see it. And so a lot of we don't we don't talk about race here. Well, then you've denied me. And it's really just that simple for me. It doesn't even have to be some of this stuff they think is uncomfortable. I just asked that you see me, I'll go back to the sheep. I'm a sheep. I'd like to be treated like sheep. And I need you to acknowledge that my experience as a sheep is different. And I have no idea why that turned into something taboo. I have no idea." At 12:20, Alonzo emphasizes the importance of being able to talk about race, understand different experiences that different races go through, and make change. He wants people to understand and DO something about it. If we deny the conversation, we deny the humanity. "I don't know how I would feel if I had a party and a bunch of people came to my party and didn't know my name. And here's what I mean by that; Martin is not his name. Harriet Tubman is not her name. Frederick Douglass is not his name. I could go on and on and on and on. So how about you honor these people by, at a minimum, learning what their real name is? How about that's my contribution. You can have the party, but at least know the name on the invitation." At minute 36:20, Alonzo highlights the importance of understanding the past and knowing the truth behind Black History, in order to make the present better. Alonzo shared a lot of valuable information about how to address and be prepared to talk about taboo topics. He also gave a lot of helpful tips and insights for all of us, so make sure you stay tuned! Don't forget to connect and follow Alonzo through his website https://www.alonzokelly.com/, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and on LinkedIn. Check out his Youtube Channel! I hope you liked today's episode. Please don't forget to subscribe on all podcast platforms and while you're there, please don't forget to rate and review! I truly appreciate and love you, and can't wait to see you in the next episode! Check out Anxiety at Work: A Guide for COVID-19 and Beyond Download Virtual Teams During COVID-19: Mindsets + Values for High Performance Freebie Watch my TEDx Talk on Leveraging Your Now to Get Your Best Next P.S. Please don't forget to tag me on Instagram @theannaoakes and connect on LinkedIn to share your big takeaways and for more Build High Performing Teams updates. I'll see you there! Peace & Progress, Anna
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Stay Put
Jul 6, 202000:14:08Tap to summarizeDO NOT QUIT YOUR JOB! I can't tell you how many people reached out to me each week that are asking questions like: · "Is this what I should be doing with my life?" · "Isn't there something better than this?" · "I feel like I could be doing more." · "I feel like my values could be aligned to the organization better?" These questions are what motivated my TEDx talk. To talk to the change-maker, that INTRApreneur. That someone who is fully capable of doing so many good things AND chooses to work within an organization. Enjoy this solo episode where I share why it's important to stay put, maximize your impact and get ready for your "best next!" Please don't forget to subscribe on all podcast platforms and while you're there, please don't forget to rate and review! I truly appreciate and love you, and can't wait to see you in the next episode! Check out Anxiety at Work: A Guide for COVID-19 and Beyond Download Virtual Teams During COVID-19: Mindsets + Values for High Performance Freebie Watch my TEDx Talk on Leveraging Your Now to Get Your Best Next P.S. Please don't forget to tag me on Instagram @theannaoakes to share your big takeaways and for more Build High Performing Teams updates. I'll see you there! Peace & Progress, Anna
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Anti-Corporate or Pro-Humanity?
Jun 30, 202000:17:24Tap to summarizeJust the other day, I got asked by a client "to tone down my anti-corporate messaging". Yikes. And I was a little taken aback. In fact, they said they watched my TEDx talk, which is about leveraging your job now and letting that take you to your best next, whatever that is. This was one of the things that made them think that. So this is not a defensive rant, guys, you can watch my TEDx talk and search by my name: Anna Oakes. My talk is about leveraging your now to get to your best next. Feel free to listen to it yourself. But here's the thing, guys, this isn't a defense, this is an explanation. I'm not anti corporate, I'm pro humanity. So after 20 years in corporate, I realized after I left that I was an intrapreneur for pretty much that entire 20 years. I was even more ready to be an entrepreneur. I did not leave corporate America because I hated it. I left corporate America because I felt like that's what this season of my life was calling me into. I might go back to it someday. In fact, it's my life's work to restore humanity into our work and in our workplaces. I don't want people to leave. Not everybody's meant to be an entrepreneur. I want people to stay within organizations. I want those change agents to get busy. Let's dive in. I hope you liked today's episode. Please don't forget to subscribe on all podcast platforms and while you're there, please don't forget to rate and review! I truly appreciate and love you, and can't wait to see you in the next episode! Check out Anxiety at Work: A Guide for COVID-19 and Beyond Download Virtual Teams During COVID-19: Mindsets + Values for High Performance Freebie Watch my TEDx Talk on Leveraging Your Now to Get Your Best Next P.S. Please don't forget to tag me on Instagram @theannaoakes to share your big takeaways and for more Build High Performing Teams updates. I'll see you there! Peace & Progress, Anna
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What is an INTRApreneur?
Jun 23, 202000:31:07Tap to summarizeI want to talk to you about intrapreneurs, I get this question asked a lot, "What is an intrapreneur?" A lot of people ask me if I am an intrapreneur, everybody wants to know, so here we go. I have a little bit of knowledge about what an intrapreneur is. In today's episode, I'm going to tell you why I am passionate about it, how I got to this topic, and then how I support the work of intrapreneurs. Okay, so a definition of an intrapreneur is someone who displays entrepreneurial traits and chooses to work within an organization. So that could be a for-profit company, non-profit organization, hospital, church, school, startup, any of those things. That's an organization, whenever two or more people are gathered together around a common cause. Intrapreneurs are in any system, they're in any organization. If you are someone who wants to own your time, talents, and voice within that system, and use that to create change to work against the status quo, then you're probably someone that I would identify as an intrapreneur! I hope you liked today's episode. Please don't forget to subscribe on all podcast platforms and while you're there, please don't forget to rate and review! I truly appreciate and love you, and can't wait to see you in the next episode! Check out Anxiety at Work: A Guide for COVID-19 and Beyond Download Virtual Teams During COVID-19: Mindsets + Values for High Performance Freebie Watch my TEDx Talk on Leveraging Your Now to Get Your Best Next P.S. Please don't forget to tag me on Instagram @theannaoakes to share your big takeaways and for more Build High Performing Teams updates. I'll see you there! Peace & Progress, Anna
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Emotions at Work with Dr. Kurt Nelson
May 26, 202000:55:19Tap to summarizeEmotions at work. I swear, when I said that half of you cringed, either because of your own emotions or the emotions of people that you have had to deal with. And look, as someone who has been a coach and worked with 2 individuals to 20 individuals on conflict resolution, communication, productivity and mental health in the workplace...emotions are something that are either going to hinder or help a person or a situation. I am passionate about helping you make sure that your emotions, or the emotions of other people actually help the situation and not hinder it, so I am introducing Dr Kurt Nelson to you. He's an amazing guy, he works with behavioral science and helps companies and people improve with that. This is going to be a great episode where we dive into how we can leverage emotions, use that for more powerful connection and performance. So get your notebook and take notes! And as always guys, sending you peace in progress on your journey. "Well I think one of the very first things that we have to take into consideration that we know implicitly but sometimes we just forget, is that humans are emotional creatures. We really come at things from an emotional perspective as opposed to a rational perspective, and in business we often overlook that." At minute 7:15, Dr. Kurt talks about how our emotions often drive us in the workplace and how we tend to overlook that, trying to rationalize without factoring our feelings to the situation. "I think the mindset is really allowing that emotion to be there, recognizing it. And then, understanding do I act upon that emotion or do I not? Then it's taking a pause and allowing ourselves to catch ourselves. There's a lot of great work and you can talk about meditation or mindfulness, but it is a really good technique, or tip to understand to have us look at how our mind works. Mindfulness training is really looking at what are the thoughts that I'm having, and why are they there because our mind is always filled with thoughts and it's really hard. Our mind has to stop having those thoughts. " At 21:18, Dr. Kurt emphasizes the importance of connecting mindfulness and meditation to your emotions and how there is power in pausing to reflect on what you are both thinking and feeling in the moment. "We cannot separate the emotion from the rational and we shouldn't go on either spectrum. I find that journaling is a really powerful way of being able to collect that data on your day. If you're very purposeful about identifying what happened today, how did I respond, how did I feel, then over the course of a week, a month, a year, you can look back and start tracking some of that. It's really powerful to see the trends and the patterns that you have, and we are habitual creatures by nature, we respond to triggers." At minute 39:26, Dr. Kurt encourages us to write our emotions down in a journal so we can identify patterns or triggers that cause us to feel a certain way. Dr. Kurt Nelson shared a lot of valuable information about embracing our emotions at work. He also gave a lot of helpful tips for all of us, so make sure you stay tuned! Don't forget to connect and follow Dr. Kurt Nelson through his website http://www.lanterngroup.com/, Twitter, Instagram, and on LinkedIn. Check out the Behavioral Grooves Podcast and the Weekly Grooves Podcast! And if you have any questions for Dr. Kurt, just send an email to kurt@lanterngroup.com. Go follow him now! I hope you liked today's episode. Please don't forget to subscribe on all podcast platforms and while you're there, please don't forget to rate and review! I truly appreciate and love you, and can't wait to see you in the next episode! Check out Anxiety at Work: A Guide for COVID-19 and Beyond Download Virtual Teams During COVID-19: Mindsets + Values for High Performance Freebie Watch my TEDx Talk on Leveraging Your Now to Get Your Best Next P.S. Please don't forget to tag me on Instagram @theannaoakes and connect on LinkedIn to share your big takeaways and for more Build High Performing Teams updates. I'll see you there! Peace & Progress, Anna
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Leveraging Your Varied Experience For Career Success with Connie Steele
May 19, 202000:49:18Tap to summarizeAlright, alright, alright friends! We've got Connie Steele joining us today and I feel like we just dropped a free masterclass on how you can own your career and make an impact where you're at. Connie Steele is the co-founder of Flywheel Associates. She also has a lovely podcast and an online resource called Strategic Momentum so check them out! Their website is stocked with all amazing resources for you so please check that out. But we really wanted to spend time talking to the individuals within organizations who want to leverage where they're at right now, and they want to grow, they want to learn, they want to test. They want to put together a plan to get to their best next, and so we're talking to you on how to do that. How do you work within a system and move your ideas forward, how do you move ideas more without hearing people win a championship? So, there is power in being a generalist There is power in being that intrapreneur, somebody who wants to maximize their impact right where they are and get to their best next. So, enjoy this episode and as always guys, I want you to pick one thing that you're going to try, so that you get different results, better results that you're getting today. Enjoy! "Everything is perpetual beta. If you think about your business or even your own work life or personal life, things are in a perpetual beta because of the way the world is now and in particular with COVID. Things are even more strange but that doesn't mean you're not setting a specific goal or objective. You could identify that big picture goal, but to me what it comes down to is, you're breaking that down into smaller achievable objectives or milestones that you can hit." At minute 14:50, Connie shares that right now, during the COVID-19 pandemic, that everything is in beta mode which gives us even more of a reason to pursue our goals. It is also important to make sure those goals are measurable! "Everything you do becomes a lesson for you to take somewhere else. I don't think I had that understanding myself until later on in my career. When I reflect back on those times where I thought, "Well, maybe I didn't move as far as I wanted to or didn't accomplish in the way that I wanted to or I had these really challenging situations." It dawned on me, it's because of those incredibly difficult circumstances, or people that now I know how to better address it. You know in anything going forward but had I not gone through that experience. It's easier to actually problem solve and problem solve, much more dynamically because you have to do that today. " At 26:19, Connie emphasizes the importance of learning from every circumstance in order to uplevel and get better in life and in the workplace. "For anybody who is a leader, you have to know how to manage those dynamics because a company has been around people. If you don't understand the natural behavior of people, their wants, their needs, their interests, their behavior. Again, their behaviors now are more of a mash up. They're context switching. They're looking at different interests. If you can't relate to that I don't know how you're gonna be able to get the best outcome. So I think that's really important." At minute 37:30, Connie emphasizes the importance of understanding the natural behaviors of people in your workplace in order to manage all varied dynamics. Connie shared a lot of valuable information about how to leverage your experience for career success. She also gave a lot of helpful tips for all of us, so make sure you stay tuned! Don't forget to connect and follow Connie through her website https://www.strategicmomentum.co/, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, and on LinkedIn. Check out her Youtube Channel! And don't forget to listen to the Strategic Momentum Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, and Spotify. Go follow her now! Here are links to the books we mentioned in this episode: The ONE Thing by Gary Keller Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein I hope you liked today's episode. Please don't forget to subscribe on all podcast platforms and while you're there, please don't forget to rate and review! I truly appreciate and love you, and can't wait to see you in the next episode! Check out Anxiety at Work: A Guide for COVID-19 and Beyond Download Virtual Teams During COVID-19: Mindsets + Values for High Performance Freebie Watch my TEDx Talk on Leveraging Your Now to Get Your Best Next P.S. Please don't forget to tag me on Instagram @theannaoakes and connect on LinkedIn to share your big takeaways and for more Build High Performing Teams updates. I'll see you there! Peace & Progress, Anna
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What Empathy at Work Truly Looks Like with Alain Hunkins
May 12, 202000:47:07Tap to summarizeAlright peeps in today's episode we're talking about a concept that I see leaders and employees struggle with a lot and it's the concept of empathy. It is a strength for some, yet it is confusing to others. My guest today, Alain Hunkins, is the best selling author of Cracking the Leadership Code, and he and I really dive deep, as people who have been working with leaders, facilitating training, and coaching for over 20 years each. We really gathered together to talk about how we define empathy, and how we work with a concept like holding space. It is one of the most powerful tools we can do because it involves being present and being grounded. Those are two mindsets or mentalities that I believe leaders, whether that's by title or by influence, need more of: empathy and the ability to hold space. We also delve deeper into some of the concepts of the book he's written. Alain also has over 10 years of blog writing on his website too so please check out this episode and really consider how you can leverage your strengths to demonstrate empathy and hold space for others in a way that's most authentic to you. Until next time, sending you guys peace and progress! "As I look at my life, I saw a common thread. It is always easier to see the thread when you're looking backwards, and you're living it out. The thread has always been the fact that I've always been really fascinated by people. Why do people do what they do and specifically why is it that certain environments seem to support people's thriving and other ones don't? So that has always been really interesting to me. " At minute 4:38, Alain shares a common thread he has discovered in his life, which is a love for people. He has always had a fascination with motivation and environments and how the two have intertwined together. "Part of that is going to be, can you be an accountability buddy? You can be as formal or informal as you want. But the goal here, ultimately, is can you publicly declare to them, what your intentions are? And then, can they help you support you to follow through? There are so many things that we can benefit if we ask other people for support, instead of trying to go it alone." At 20:06, Alain talks about the importance of finding a group of people who will support you and hold you accountable in achieving your goals. There is also power in publicly declaring your goals and speaking them into existence! "The biggest thing you can do to grow your empathy and frankly, as a leader, is to start listening with purpose which is very different from just hearing people to interrupt them, or to give them advice. We talked about holding space, parking your agenda, and putting that other person's agenda front and center to listen, with the goal of trying to understand them and to see reality, the way they see it, feel it the way they feel it, so you can understand what's going on." At minute 38:40, Alain emphasizes the importance of listening in order to gain empathy with those around you. Put your own agendas aside so you can really understand what the person is thinking and feeling. Alain shared a lot of valuable information about how to increase empathy and how to implement it in the workplace. He also gave a lot of helpful tips for all of us, so make sure you stay tuned! Don't forget to connect and follow Alain through his website https://www.alainhunkins.com/, Twitter, and on LinkedIn. Check out his TEDx Talk "The Basic Truth Most Leaders Neglect." And don't forget to grab his book called, "Cracking the Leadership Code." Go follow him now! I hope you liked today's episode. Please don't forget to subscribe on all podcast platforms and while you're there, please don't forget to rate and review! I truly appreciate and love you, and can't wait to see you in the next episode! Check out Anxiety at Work: A Guide for COVID-19 and Beyond Download Virtual Teams During COVID-19: Mindsets + Values for High Performance Freebie Watch my TEDx Talk on Leveraging Your Now to Get Your Best Next P.S. Please don't forget to tag me on Instagram @theannaoakes and connect on LinkedIn to share your big takeaways and for more Build High Performing Teams updates. I'll see you there! Peace & Progress, Anna
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A Philosopher's Take On Performance with Deb Helfrich
May 5, 202001:21:25Tap to summarizeYou guys. This episode is so good! Alright, you're gonna join me for this conversation. Deb and I got to know each other on LinkedIn, which is where I find a lot of my network expanding over the past ten plus years. Deb was in corporate as an HRIS, which is more of the IT side of HR technology data, working for fifteen to twenty years. Now she's out on her own under the consulting business called Insights Occur. I love her mentality. She says she is all about love and logic intertwined. You're gonna really enjoy her energy but here's the value in this conversation. Deb really considers herself a philosopher and she is doing this work herself to think clearly and also encouraging other people to do the same. There are many parallels in this episode on how you can take her advice and mentality as a philosopher to both improve your own career and improve the performance of your team. There are deep insights for us individually and collectively and I challenge you to listen, pause when you need to and do that individual reflection. You may even need to listen more than once. So, this podcast episode is my gift to you. I hope you find at least a nugget of something that you can implement here. Do not leave this overwhelmed, write down all of your nuggets, and then pick one at a time. This is one of those episodes where it's heavy lifting. We're talking about a lot, but I know you can do hard things and so can I. Let's get to it! "It comes down to one phrase that I've coined life-centric. We are managing the leaders or managing people as widgets, as we're factory-farming humans in corporate cubicle captivity." At minute 11:55, Deb raises an awareness that most workplaces view their employees as machines or widgets, rather than people. She stresses the importance of bringing humanity back into the workplace. "I am saying to the leaders that they are going to have to pivot their thinking…You used to be managing against past results and improving them. COVID-19 has built a world of entirely new questions. Now, if you're trying to solve the old questions, you will not be around much longer. And you know I have no predictions on when your corporation will self extinct. But if you don't put keeping people alive first your customers are going to desert you." At 28:33, Deb encourages leaders to think of the people in their organization first and foremost during this major pivot due to the Covid-19 pandemic. This pandemic has brought entirely new questions to the forefront of our minds. "View your employees as consultants who you want to rotate, not somebody in one stream late in one vertical. Some people will want to think like that and their brains will work like that. But again, maybe 20% of the workforce should be constantly consultants. Your business should think of them as internal consultants that you rotate around. They're getting bored." At minute 38:42, Deb shares insight about using your employees as consultants in your business and rotating their roles to keep them engaged and innovative in the workplace. Deb shared a lot of valuable information about how to think as a philosopher and make life-centric decisions. She also gave a lot of helpful tips for all of us, so make sure you stay tuned! Don't forget to connect and follow Deb through her website Insights Occur, Twitter, and on LinkedIn. Check out her Youtube Channel and her New Webseries #DeeperwithDeb. Go follow her now! I hope you liked today's episode. Please don't forget to subscribe on all podcast platforms and while you're there, please don't forget to rate and review! I truly appreciate and love you, and can't wait to see you in the next episode! Check out Anxiety at Work: A Guide for COVID-19 and Beyond Download Virtual Teams During COVID-19: Mindsets + Values for High Performance Freebie Watch my TEDx Talk on Leveraging Your Now to Get Your Best Next P.S. Please don't forget to tag me on Instagram @theannaoakes and connect on LinkedIn to share your big takeaways and for more Build High Performing Teams updates. I'll see you there! Peace & Progress, Anna
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A Royal Marine's Take On Building High Performing Teams with Roderic Yapp
Apr 28, 202000:55:26Tap to summarizeHello! I am very excited to give you guys exposure to Roderic Yapp today. He's a former Royal Marines officer, an accredited coach and specialist in developing resilience and leadership skills. We touch on his TEDx talk that he gave a few years back on adaptive leadership techniques but we also just focus a lot on the tactical skills to individually and collectively move towards high performance. We also talk about maintaining your team in that zone of hyper performance because it's easy for humans to get distracted, for ego to take over, for other things to happen. Sometimes high performing teams are no longer an asset to the organization and can instead be a hindrance. So please enjoy this episode, connect with Roderic Yapp, and take notes! "I think the key principle of leadership is creating absolute clarity. Most of the time in organizations people assume that clarity exists, but more often than not, it doesn't. So one of the things that I get leaders to focus on is vision. What is the team vision? What is it we are working towards here? You know, what's the mission statement or the vision of the organization? Or what's the aim? What are we ultimately trying to achieve as a group of people, because if you don't have that clarity, people will be working on things that they want to be doing, rather than things that they need to be doing." At minute 5:42, Roderic emphasizes the importance of a leader bringing clarity to the team in order to eliminate uncertainty and get your team back on track towards the organization's vision and goals. "I think a lot of teams call themselves teams, but in actual fact they kind of work in groups, they don't sort of lean in to support each other when one of the individuals is kind of struggling. And that's one of the things that I really look for: how do people interact with each other when a member of their team isn't doing potentially as well as they could be?" At 29:56, Roderic encourages teams to pull together during tough times. Even when one team member is having a bad day or going through a stressful season, how your team handles difficult times will determine the strength and longevity of your team's high performance. "In the military, if you receive an order that you believe to be unlawful, you have a duty to turn around and say, "No, I'm not going to do that." Because the classic line of, "I was told to do it" doesn't actually devolve you of any responsibility. And I think it's worth reminding yourself of that if you find yourself under any pressure from a leader or an organization and you think there's an integrity issue at play there. Then you have an actually bigger responsibility to the organization to do something about it." At minute 37:26, Roderic shares insight with us from his time in the Royal military about having integrity in your work and taking responsibility for the organization. Roderic shared a lot of valuable information about how to live with clarity and integrity when moving towards high performance. He also gave a lot of helpful tips for all of us, so make sure you stay tuned! Don't forget to connect and follow Roderic through his company Leadership Forces and on LinkedIn. You can also check out his TEDx Talk on Double-loop learning: a case study from the front-line. Go follow him now! I hope you liked today's episode. Please don't forget to subscribe on all podcast platforms and while you're there, please don't forget to rate and review! I truly appreciate and love you, and can't wait to see you in the next episode! Check out Anxiety at Work: A Guide for COVID-19 and Beyond Download Virtual Teams During COVID-19: Mindsets + Values for High Performance Freebie Watch my TEDx Talk on Leveraging Your Now to Get Your Best Next P.S. Please don't forget to tag me on Instagram @theannaoakes and connect on LinkedIn to share your big takeaways and for more Build High Performing Teams updates. I'll see you there! Peace & Progress, Anna
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