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Mar 13
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129: Building a Better Team with Bennett Bratt

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Bennett Bratt says: "Teams are the dark matter of organizations. We just don't see them very well... but we see the effects of them."

Ben Bratt identifies critical elements of great teams to help get strategic view on how to build your team’s strengths and confront your team’s weaknesses.

You’ll Learn:

  1. The 16 variables of a great team
  2. Why 80% of the teams you’re on are not effective – and what to do about it
  3. An approach to creating an open discussion of the key strengths and weaknesses of your team

About Bennett

Bennett Bratt’s passion is engaging teams and transforming people-related systems. In his current role as the Principal and Founder of The Team Effectiveness Project, Ben’s quest is to unlock the true power of teams, leaders, and communities.  His Team Elements™ approach helps teams de-mystify their team experience and take positive ownership for their current situation and path forward in truly inclusive way.

Over 20+ years, Ben gained global experience and broad leadership expertise at T-Mobile, Sun Microsystems, Ford Motor Company, and Silicon Valley start-up company Model E. He earned graduate degrees in Political Science from Tulane University and in Counseling from Michigan State University.

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Jan 18
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107: Stay Interviews with Dr. Beverly Kaye

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Dr. Beverly Kaye says: "Ask for what you want in a way that a manager has a hard time saying 'No.'"

Dr. Beverly Kaye discusses how to get great employees to stick around with “stay interviews” and more…whether the great employee is you or your direct reports!

You’ll Learn:

  1. Why should conduct a stay interview instead of an exit interview
  2. How to ask your manager for what you really need to stay
  3. The top reasons employees stay or go

About Beverly

Founder and Chairwoman of Career Systems International, Dr. Beverly Kaye is an international bestselling author and a leading authority in the world of modern workplace performance. She has dedicated her life’s work to helping individuals and organizations grow in a workplace that fosters greater commitment, fulfillment, and humanity.

Beverly Kaye and the CSI team provide cutting-edge and award-winning talent development solutions primarily to Fortune 1000 companies. Her work and research are distinguished and widely recognized for helping others discover greater meaning in their work and gain greater control over their career destinies. Dr. Kaye completed her graduate work at MIT’s Sloan School of Management and holds her doctorate from UCLA.
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Nov 04
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081: Lessons from Thousands of Employee Observation Hours with Dave Nevogt

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Dave Nevogt says: "Make your beliefs known and take a stand... Stand for something; show what you know."

Dave Nevogt’s company Hubstaff earns its revenue from observing how people work. Here’s what he has learned about workers’ best practices along the way.

You’ll Learn:

  1. Two questions to ask yourself before handing over your deliverables
  2. One quick trick to get 1,000 LinkedIn connections in 60 minutes
  3. An improved approach to initiating tasks that delights managers and stretches employees

About Dave
Dave Nevogt is the co-founder of Hubstaff.com which helps virtual teams communicate better through automatic time tracking and activity tracking. He’s been running online businesses since he was 23, and now manages a team of 30 remote employees. Dave has been honored as one of Indianapolis’s top 40 under 40 entrepreneurs, and focuses on teaching others to manage remote teams. His writing can be found here.

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Oct 19
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074: Building Championship Teams with Thomas Mangum

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Thomas Mangum says: "Be willing to do something that you've never done before to create results that you've never had before."

Inspiring team-builder Thomas Mangum shares what it REALLY takes to have a championship team.

You’ll Learn:

  1. The three key ingredients of a championship team.
  2. The basic two-part equation for modeling champions.
  3. How to turn breakdowns into breakthroughs.

About Thomas
Thomas draws on over 30 years of experience helping leading companies build championship teams that win.
His client roster includes Boeing, Cisco, Oracle, Sony, Shell, DuPont, Northrop Grumman, Liberty Mutual, Johnson & Johnson, Volkswagen, Bose and many more.
As a dynamic speaker, a memorable facilitator, and provocative coach, he draws on diverse experiences as an entrepreneur, military interrogator, and radio show host. Thomas is known for his team-building training that he brings to world-class brands across the globe.

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Sep 12
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059: Growing People with Jeff McManus

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Jeff McManus says: "I can choose to spend the time in preventative maintenance, and do that, and invest in my people, or I can do it in the end when I start having a lot of drama."

Director of Landscape Services at Ole Miss (and author), Jeff McManus offers fresh insights on “growing people.”

You’ll Learn

  1. A powerful storytelling approach to connect your team to a larger purpose
  2. How to massively stretch the impact of your learning & development dollar
  3. Why you might not want to fire that underperformer just yet

About Jeff
Jeff McManus grows things.  As the Director of Landscape Services at the University of Mississippi, he grows plants….he grows people….he grows ideas.  Taking his grounds staff, affectionately known as “weeders”, and developing them into “leaders” has been a joyous challenge that reaped acres of rewards in the form of national recognition by the Princeton Review, PGMS, Newsweek and every faculty, staff, student and visitor who has walked onto the Ole Miss Campus.  Building on that momentum, Jeff has designed a professional development plan for his Weeders called Landscape University – a replicable training program that promotes the individual’s innate ability to GROW.

Jeff has spoken at Caterpillar Inc, the Biltmore Estates, Leadercast, SRAPPA, Trent Lott Leadership Institute as well as the SEC Ole Miss Athletics.  He has also worked with Memphis University, the University of Tennessee, the University of Georgia and private firms in developing their own training programs.

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