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This Is Horror PodcastNick Cutter and Andrew F. Sullivan on The Handyman Method, Successful Collaborations, and Story PacingIn this podcast, Nick Cutter and Andrew F. Sullivan talk about The Handyman Method, successful collaborations, story pacing, and much more. About Nick Cutter Nick Cutter is the author of the critically acclaimed national bestseller The Troop (which is currently being developed for film with producer James Wan), as well as The Deep and Little … Continue reading2023-08-071h 21
David Burkus PresentsCreate A Sense Of Belonging At WorkA sense of belonging on a team is crucial for its success and productivity. Belonging is that sense of acceptance and inclusion when people feel they can bring their authentic self to work. When team members feel included and valued, they are more likely to be engaged, motivated, and contribute their best work. And on a diverse team, belonging determines how much the team taps into diverse perspectives, opinions, and ideas. As a leader, you encourage that sense of belonging through the habits, norms, and behaviors that you model and that get mimicked by the rest of the team.2023-07-1711 minDavid Burkus PresentsHow To Make People Feel HeardOne of the most common complaints among disengaged employees is about not feeling heard, not being seen or recognized for what they do, who they are and what they are experiencing. As a leader, a lot of this frustration may stem from you. When people approach you with their problems and you jump right to give advice, you may feel you’re helping their problem…but you’re not helping them feel heard. And if they don’t feel heard, they’re not really hearing your advice anyway. Other times people speak up to share a new idea and get met wi...2023-07-1012 minDavid Burkus PresentsHow To Avoid Burnout At WorkDemands at work have been piling on in recent years. Including the demand on employees to continue to do more with less. And those demands come with a lot of potential burnout at work. Burnout at work is a series problem for most organizations. Burnout can lead to decreased productivity, increased absenteeism, and even physical and mental health issues.
It’s incumbent on every leader to be aware of and attempt to avoid burnout on their teams. But burnout isn’t always caused by asking too much of employees. Being overcapacity can be one elem...2023-06-2611 minDavid Burkus PresentsHow To Get A Team AlignedSo much of the struggle of working on teams comes down to one key task: getting a team aligned. Aligned teams lead to better engagement, performance, and retention. Getting and keeping a team aligned is a key task for leaders at all levels. But recognizing the importance of alignment is a lot easier than actually getting everyone on the same page.
Team alignment means everyone contributes toward a shared goal, understands their assigned tasks, and sees how their work fits into the team's work. But teams are composed of people and people bring their...2023-06-1912 minDavid Burkus PresentsBuilding A Culture Of Trust On A TeamTrust is the foundation of any successful team. Without trust, team members will not feel comfortable sharing their ideas, taking risks, or admitting their mistakes. Building a culture of trust on a team is crucial for achieving better results, higher levels of engagement, and less stress.
But first, we need to confront a brutal truth up front: trust alone is not enough. What teams need is a culture of psychological safety. When team members feel safe to express their opinions and ideas without fear of judgment or retribution, they are more likely to take...2023-06-1210 minDavid Burkus PresentsThe Surprising Benefits of Conflict in the WorkplaceConflict in the workplace is often seen as negative, but it can be productive if managed well. In fact, lack of conflict on a team is the real negative. When teams lack conflict, it means that either everyone on the team thinks alike or those who think differently are too afraid to speak their mind. Healthy conflict increases communication, trust, teamwork, and innovation.
In this episode, we will explore four surprising benefits of conflict in the workplace. And we’ll discuss how leaders can create a safe space for sharing diverse perspectives and model respectful debate to le...2023-06-0611 minDavid Burkus PresentsWhat Makes a Team Smarter?One of the most fascinating concepts in the study of teamwork and collaboration is the concept of collective intelligence—the idea that when teams collaborate exceptionally well, they tap into a reservoir of knowledge and abilities that exceed the sum of each individual’s capability. Research led by Anita Williams Wooley helped solidified this theory with evidence that some teams truly did perform better than merely the average of the individual team member’s abilities.
Perhaps more surprisingly, teams who managed to achieve collective intelligence did so on a variety of tasks—even tasks for whic...2023-05-3011 minDavid Burkus PresentsWhat Science Tells Us About Motivating Your TeamKeeping a team motivated is the one of the most important aspects of a leader’s job. It’s also one of the most misunderstood aspects of a leader’s job. Many organizations still equate “motivating your team” with “designing the right incentives.” But more than four decades of research into self-determination theory have revealed the limits of these types of extrinsic motivators and offers a wealth of insight into intrinsic motivation and how leaders can leverage it.
But even when expanding their perspective on motivation, many leaders still suffer from the misunderstanding of a binary choic...2023-05-2213 minDavid Burkus PresentsWhat Makes Employees Happy At Work?As long as people remain the center of organizations, attracting, retaining, and motivating those people—keeping them happy at work—will be one of the most important elements of a leader’s job. Work is central to our lives. For most adults, work occupies the majority of waking hours. And being happy at work can make a big difference in whether those hours are a drain or not. And, by extension, whether those hours are productive or not.
But that job as become more and more difficult over time.
In recent years some of the circum...2023-05-1511 minDavid Burkus Presents5 Habits Of High-Performing TeamsThe world runs on teams. Jobs that could have been solitary at one time or another happen more efficiently and at higher quality because we work in teams. The number of teams we form, and the size of those teams has increased exponentially since our ancestors formed teams to chase down prey.
And so has the importance of building teams that perform well together.
You’ve probably felt what it’s like to be on a high-performing team. You feel energized. Your brain is on fire with great ideas, and conversations with the team spur on e...2023-05-0811 minDavid Burkus PresentsWhy Great Teams Embrace Failure (and How to Do It)Failure is feedback. And that maxim is nowhere more true than on teams. When individual team members or the whole team experiences a failure, how they respond can be the difference between a team that continuously improves and enhances performance, and a team that falls apart.
And research backs this up. One of the first studies of psychological safety focused on how teams responded to failure. Amy Edmondson examined the teams of nurses on various wards of a hospital and found that the teams with the highest rated leaders had a higher than average rate of reported...2023-04-3009 minDavid Burkus Presents4 Common Mistakes Managers MakeManagers make the difference. Senior leaders set strategy. But middle managers and front-line managers make the difference in whether that strategy gets executed…and in whether or not people are engaged and motivated in an organization. According to Gallup, 70% of an individual employee’s engagement is determined by the manager of her team. In turn, this means that managers have a significant impact on an organization’s success or failure.
In this episode, we will discuss the four common mistakes managers make and how to avoid them.
0:00 Introduction
1:23 Talking First
3:30 Avoiding Confli...2023-04-2410 minDavid Burkus Presents5 Simple Ways To Become A Great LeaderWhen you start out your career, you’re most often an individual contributor. And in that role your knowledge and skills are most important. But if you do that role well, you’ll likely be asked to consider becoming a leader. And in leadership, the methods you relied on to be a great employee don’t often help you become a great leader. Those skills will rarely help encourage and coach others to be great employees. Being a great leader requires a new toolkit.
As Marshall Goldsmith often says “What got you here, won’t get you there.”2023-04-1710 min
Artful Living PodcastWays to Add Character to a Cookie Cutter HomeOne thing "cookie cutter" homes usually lack is a sense of individuality and character. In this episode, we share 20+ ways to add character to a cookie cutter home, to create a space that's unique and elevated beyond builder grade. Please give us a rating and review if you enjoy the podcast! Art de AvaloWakened CollectiveConnect with us on IG:@artfullivingpodcast@life_simplified@diggingupdavid2023-04-1423 minDavid Burkus PresentsHow To Be A Great Team PlayerOur world requires collaboration. Just about every job now requires collaborating on teams and every employee’s calendar is full of evidence of collaboration. In one study, up to 85% of participants’ work weeks were spent working in direct collaboration or a result of collaboration with a team.
But it can be difficult to collaborate with people whose perspectives, preferences, and personalities are different from our own. Still, getting what you want from your work and career requires being a great team player. And if you want to be a leader, you’ll need to be a great team p...2023-04-1011 minDavid Burkus Presents3 Keys To Good TeamworkTeams are how work gets done most of the time. In a knowledge work economy, up to 85% of an average employee’s time is spent in collaboration with other people—on one team or on multiple teams. And that makes effective collaboration and good teamwork a top tier skill. Whether you’re currently a leader or looking to become a leader, focusing on developing your teamwork skills—and the level of teamwork on your team—is one of the highest returns on effort you can experience.
In this episode, we’ll outline 3 keys to good teamwork and offer a few...2023-04-0311 minDavid Burkus PresentsBuilding A Positive Team CultureTeams are a central part of our work experience. Jobs that could have been solitary at one time or another happen more efficiently and at higher quality because we work in teams. The number of teams we form, along with the size of those teams, has increased dramatically in recent decades.
And much of a team’s performance comes down to its culture. Yes, the talents and skills of individuals matter. But without a positive team culture, those same individuals will fail to achieve the level of performance they’re capable of. The common set...2023-03-2709 minDavid Burkus Presents4 Ways To Build Inclusive TeamsAt the core of teamwork is the need to solve problems. And when generating solutions, the more diverse a team you have, the more ideas you can generate. Sort of. The rationale behind diversity being a strength on teams is solid. When you’ve built a team of various perspectives, experiences, skills, and abilities, each person brings that variety into discussions and more diverse ideas get generated. More ideas mean a better chance of finding the perfect solution.
But that’s not always what happens.
It turns out that diversity alone is not enough to turn...2023-03-2008 minDavid Burkus Presents4 Keys To Effective Team CommunicationCommunication is what makes a team a team. Otherwise, it’s just a group of individuals working away at their desks, handing work up to some unnamed boss. In reality, people don’t work in a vacuum. And much of one individual’s work requires coordinating with one or more teams. Effective team communication makes individuals and teams dramatically more productive.
But unfortunately, a majority of employees say poor communication is the reason they’re falling behind and missing deadlines. That means, as a leader, one of your primary responsibilities is helping the team communicate and collaborate effectiv...2023-03-1309 minDavid Burkus PresentsCelebrate Small Wins On TeamsProgress is a powerful human motivator. But unfortunately, many teams mark progress only when projects are complete or big milestones are crossed. They don’t often celebrate small wins that build up to those big completions.
But recent research suggests that small wins celebrated regularly are a more potent way to keep teams engaged and motivated. In a landmark study from Teresa Amabile, participants were most energized and motivated not in the aftermath of a big celebration, but when they had little breakthroughs—when they found small wins to celebrate.
In this episode, we’ll outlin...2023-03-0607 minDavid Burkus PresentsWhat Makes A Psychologically Safe Team?One of the most consistent findings in organizational behavior over the last decade has been just how significantly team performance is affected by psychological safety. A psychologically safe team is one where team members feel comfortable being themselves, expressing their ideas and opinions, and taking risks without fear of being punished or ostracized. Teams with high psychological safety learn faster, communicate better, and hence collaborate more effectively.
At its core, psychological safety is marked by a sense of mutual trust and respect. And these are two different things. Trust is how much teammates feel they can share...2023-02-2709 min
The ShiftShapers PodcastEP #440: Selling With Authentic Persuasion — with Jason CutterIn this week's episode, we welcome Jason Cutter, an expert in sales and author of the book "Selling with Authentic Persuasion." He shares his insights on the intangibles that make a difference in sales, including the importance of follow-ups, pausing, and understanding the fear that customers may have. Jason also provides valuable tips on how to build value and overcome objections in the sales process. Don't miss out on this opportunity to learn from an experienced professional in the field and gain a new perspective on sales success.What You’ll Learn From Th...2023-02-2022 minDavid Burkus PresentsWhat Makes A Team Great?Work is teamwork. And it’s no secret that some teams truly are greater than others.
A recent meta-analysis combined research conducted on over 200,000 teams in a variety of industries in order to answer that question. Across 274 dimensions of performance and over half a million individual team members, the researchers found that, in most fields, performance differences of teams followed a power-law—with a small number of high-performing teams achieving most of the results. In other others, high performing teams didn’t just perform a little better, they performed up to ten times better than normal teams.
W...2023-02-2010 minDavid Burkus PresentsHow To Foster Collaboration On TeamsAs the world grows increasingly more complex, so will its challenges—both globally and for any given organization. To solve bigger and more complex problems, you need a bigger and more complex team. And to do that, you will need to foster collaboration in the workplace. But the enhanced need for collaboration brings a paradox.
According to a recent study summarized in Harvard Business Review, team success requires teams to be larger, more diverse, more virtual and more specialized. But those same four characteristics make it hard for teams to get anything done. Increased diversity, in and of...2023-02-1310 minDavid Burkus PresentsHow To Build Trusting TeamsLearning how to build trust at work is critical if you’re going to be successful as an employee, a manager, or an effective leader. If you don’t have trust, it’ll be more difficult to communicate and coordinate with your peers or colleagues. If teams lack trust, it’s difficult to achieve true collaboration and create performance greater than the sum of each individual’s talent.
A team isn’t a team without trust. Without trust, it’s just a group of people who share the same boss—who they probably don’t trust either.
But with high...2023-02-0610 minDavid Burkus Presents6 Leadership Myths That Are Ruining Your TeamWe all arrive at leadership with certain preconceptions about what makes a successful leader.
Sometimes we form an idea of what great leaders do based on historical leaders or modern-day leaders who are always getting media attention. Other times we form a picture of great leadership based on our own past experiences—both leaders we’ve worked under and even what attributes got us promoted into leadership. But those are often anecdotes.
And the plural of anecdote is not data. When you look at the data on effective leaders, pretty quickly you notice that some of th...2023-01-3010 minDavid Burkus Presents5 Challenges All Teams FaceTeams face a lot of different challenges. Leading a team involves leading through many challenges. You’re given performance objectives. You map out a plan of execution with your team. But pretty quickly, you will run into challenges—both seen and unseen. And while most of these challenges are unique to the work being done and the team doing that work, some challenges are universal for teams.
These challenges all teams face are less about the work and more about teamwork and collaboration. That’s what makes them so common. But because they’re so common, they can be a...2023-01-2309 minDavid Burkus PresentsDeveloping Emotional Intelligence As A LeaderWe’ve known about the importance of developing emotional intelligence as a leader for some time now, but there are still some misconceptions about exactly what emotional intelligence is (or is not) and how to increase it. Emotional intelligence isn’t just about having “soft skills.” And it’s not a set of mindfulness practices.
Emotional intelligence is the ability to recognize and control your own emotions and recognize and empathize with the emotions of others. Leaders with high emotional intelligence find their teams have better discussions and make better decisions. Emotionally intelligent leaders give better feedback and are bet...2023-01-1610 minDavid Burkus Presents5 Questions Leaders Should Always Be AskingLeaders don’t need to have all the answers.
That sounds counterintuitive. There is a lot of pressure on leaders to have the right answers and to solve problems that team members can’t solve on their own. In fact, most leaders were promoted into a leadership role because they had many more of the right answers than others in the organization. And the further up the hierarchy you go, the bigger the problems and bigger the expectations for answers.
But the more complex work gets, and the more complex problems get, the harder it is t...2023-01-0908 minDavid Burkus PresentsHow To Motivate The UnmotivatedMotivation can vary wildly on a team. At any given time, a few people might be highly motivated, while others are totally unmotivated. Ideally, there are times where everyone is motivated at once, but sadly there may be times when everyone is demotivated or burnt out. All this means that an inescapable part of a leader’s job is to motivate the unmotivated.
The good news is that leaders don’t have to rely on raw charisma or the inspirational words of a halftime speech from insert-your-favorite-sports-movie-here. Instead, motivation is less about the qualities of the leader and...2023-01-0209 minDavid Burkus PresentsHow To Motivate Your Employees As A LeaderOne of the core tasks of team leaders is keeping motivation and inspiration high. This doesn’t mean all great leaders are charismatic and inspiring. In fact, the opposite is often true. Motivating employees isn’t about what you say to them, it’s about understanding what they’re seeking from work.
And while understanding the unique desires of each team member might take a while, there’s a proven model for understanding human motivation that just might help you uncover your team’s motivation mysteries faster. In the mid-1980s, researchers Edward Deci and Richard Ryan outlined a m...2022-12-1909 minDavid Burkus PresentsHow To Build Resilient TeamsTeams today are asked to do more and more with less and less. The demands on their time have only increased. And so has their uncertainty. That leads to a lot of stress, potential setbacks, and failures. Overcoming these obstacles requires building a resilient team.
And that starts with understanding what a makes a resilient team. Resilience isn’t toughness. Resilience isn’t about continuing to take punches. It’s not about bouncing back. It’s about the ability to bounce forward. Resilience is the ability to assess, adapt, recover, and grow from challenges.
In this epis...2022-12-1210 minDavid Burkus PresentsWhat Cover in a Team's Weekly MeetingOne of the great mysteries of the modern workplace is that we still assess performance on an individual level, when so much of one’s ability to produce results depends on their team. Work is teamwork. Which means that how well a team communicates and collaborates has a significant impact on how well individuals perform.
As a team leader, that makes coordinating collaboration a key part of your role. And the tool most team leaders use for coordination is the team’s weekly meeting. This is where teammates “work out loud” and communicate not just their status update...2022-12-0510 minDavid Burkus PresentsThe Secrets to High-Performing TeamsHigh-performing teams didn’t just perform a little better, they performed up to ten times better than normal teams.
And the explanations for it hint at more secrets. High-performing teams don’t get these results because they act a little different. They do several key things totally differently. In this episode, we’ll outline four secrets that high-performing teams know that normal teams tend to lack.
0:00 Introduction
1:28 Work Out Loud
2:37 Understand Differences
4:02 Build Trust
5:13 Reinforce Purpose
6:54 Conclusion
And while purpose gets reinforced on a regular basis, all of these...2022-11-2807 minDavid Burkus Presents5 Skills Leaders Need To DevelopAnyone can be placed in a leadership role. In most organizations, the reward for being an outstanding individual contributor is to be promoted into leading a team of other individual contributors. But those leaders often find that the skills that made them great employees aren’t as helpful when leading great employees (or even mediocre ones). As Marshall Goldsmith famously says, "what got you here, won’t get you there."
Being successful as a leader requires developing a certain set of new skills. These skills that may or may not have been a part of any "leadership train...2022-11-2109 minDavid Burkus PresentsHow To Develop Leadership SkillsLeaders are constant learners. Or rather, good leaders are constant learners. And aspiring leaders need to be consistent learners as well. Growing into a leadership role requires you to develop leadership skills. And growing from a new leader to a great leader requires you to continue to develop your leadership skills.
But development is often one of the first activities sacrificed by the needs of the moment. New problems to solve and new tasks to complete steal time away from developing your leadership skills. But many of those “urgent” activities also present opportunities to practice your leadership skil...2022-11-1408 minDavid Burkus Presents4 Powerful Team Building ExercisesThe vast majority of work today is done in teams. And that makes collaboration and teamwork all the more important. But we have a tendency to think of team building exercises as one-and-done events—ropes courses or personality tests that happen every so often, usually if there’s extra budget that needs to be spent before the end of the fiscal year.
But team building isn’t an activity, it’s a habit. Team building happens every day as norms of behavior are established. Team building exercises, if they’re to be truly meaningful, need to take this reali...2022-11-0709 minDavid Burkus PresentsHow Teams BondHave you ever worked for a team of strangers?
Not literal strangers. Outside of maybe being an extra on a film set, it’s highly unlikely you showed up for work day after day not knowing anyone. But a team of strangers meaning a team that just refuses to bond or hasn’t been given a chance to bond. It’s draining to work on a team that just doesn’t connect with each other.
How teams bond has a dramatic effect on how well they work. Research shows that team bonding significantly enhances the performan...2022-10-3110 minDavid Burkus PresentsFeel Stuck At Work | 6 Tactics To Get Unstuck in Your CareerEverybody feels stuck at work from time to time. You feel like you don’t enjoy doing the work. You feel like you’re not growing, or like you’re not challenged anymore. According to a study by Oracle, more than 75% of people feel “stuck” personally and professionally. That’s led directly to a phenomenon called “quiet quitting” — what we used to call disengagement. Too many people have already quit but keep showing up for the paycheck.
And when you think about getting unstuck in your career, you might default to looking for new work. But there’s an alternative. Yo...2022-10-2411 minDavid Burkus Presents4 Types Of Bad BossesThere are a lot of bad bosses out there. In a recent survey, the majority of workers reported they either had worked or currently work for a micromanager. And micromanagers aren’t the only types of bad bosses out there. So, it’s safe to assume a significant percentage of bosses are…less than ideal.
But here’s the uncomfortable truth about bad bosses. Most of them don’t know they’re bad. Most of them don’t think they’re bad. And in fact, most of them aren’t bad. They just need to shift their style a little bit...2022-10-1708 minDavid Burkus Presents4 Ways To Improve Your Communication SkillsTeamwork requires communication. Communication is the lifeblood of a team. It’s how leaders and teams coordinate what needs to be done, who needs to do it, and how all those various tasks fit into the broad whole of collaboration. As a leader, communication skills are arguably the most important skills to develop. And if you’re an aspiring leader, you’ll need to improve your communication skills before you even find yourself in a leadership role.
In this episode, we’ll outline four ways to improve your communication skills and hence 4 ways to grow in your ability...2022-10-0908 minDavid Burkus PresentsHow To Make New Employees Feel WelcomeOnboarding has become a rather sterile term. It began as a recognition that how employees start in a new company, or a new role, can have a dramatic effect on their performance, engagement, and even their tenure. But gradually more and more demands started to be added to the process—legal requirements, mandatory trainings, pages after pages of employee handbooks. And without warning what started as a cause for celebration turned into a cascade of contract signing.
But a growing body of research suggests that what employees truly need to for successful onboarding is to prioritize connection to...2022-10-0309 minDavid Burkus Presents5 Tricks To Stay Motivated At WorkIt’s difficult to stay motivated at work in almost every job. In some ways, fading motivation is inevitable. Research on flow states and eustress suggest that humans are highly motivated when there’s a perfect balance between the skills they have and the demands of the job. But getting into that balance is tricky.
When you’re starting a new job, the demands are high and your skill levels are likely not suited to it. You’re overwhelmed. But as you grow and develop in the role you grow toward that balance of being challenged, but challenge...2022-09-2510 minDavid Burkus PresentsAre You A Micromanager?Do you know if you’re a micromanager as a leader? Do you know if your people consider you a micromanager? The tricky thing about micromanagement is that its universally frowned upon, but not universally defined or acknowledged. In other words, everyone agrees micromanagers are bad—but no one is willing to admit they are one. A recent poll found that 55 percent of employees surveyed believed their boss was a micromanager. If the majority of people believe they’re being micromanaged, there’s a good chance most bosses have micromanager-like tendencies.
So, are you a micromanager?
In thi...2022-09-1209 minDavid Burkus PresentsHow To Step Down From A Leadership PositionIf you’re doing your job well as a leader, then you’re going to grow your team and yourself. That means that people are going to grow out of your team into new roles on new teams. And one of those people will eventually be you. You’re going to grow out of that leadership role.
But how well you handle the transition—how well you step down from a leadership position and enter the new one—is going to have a big effect on your future leadership.
In this episode, we’ll outline how to step d...2022-09-0511 min
Don’t Sell the FarmEp. 17 - Evangelist Micah WrightI sat down with Evangelist Wright to discuss his life and ministry. This episode is hilarious and fun. Evangelist Wright gives some great insight into discipleship and ministry with a great sense of humor to carry you through. Enjoy this episode. 2022-09-031h 58David Burkus PresentsWhy Leaders FailJohn Maxwell famously said, “everything rises and falls on leadership.”
Although research offers a more nuanced picture.
For an organization to succeed, it takes a variety of contributions from talented individuals at all levels. But when leaders fail, the whole organization can indeed fall.
In this episode, we’ll review several reasons why leaders fail. Failure is feedback. Failure is a great teacher. And for current and aspiring leaders, the failures of leaders past can be a great teacher at discounted tuition. It’s popular and easy to study successful leaders, but you learn a lot mor...2022-08-2912 minDavid Burkus PresentsIntroverts Are Great LeadersThere is a misconception about leadership that just won’t seem to go away. It’s the commonly held belief that the best leaders are charismatic and inspiring and hence, the best leaders are highly extroverted. Too many people still seem to believe that extroverts make better leaders than introverts. In a survey of senior corporate executives, 65% viewed introversion as a barrier to leadership. And in what I am sure is a total coincidence, that same percentage is also the number of extroverts in senior leadership roles.
But introverts are great leaders too. Introverted but well-regarded leaders incl...2022-08-2208 minDavid Burkus PresentsThe Future of TeamworkThe future of work is teams. That’s a trend that’s been around for a long time.
Jobs that could have been alone at one time or another happen more efficiently and at higher quality because we work in teams. The easy problems in work and in life that could have at one time been solved by a lone genius are gone. Only complex problems that require creativity at the team level remain.
So, if the future of work is teams, it’s worth examining the future of teamwork. And here, there are several trends...2022-08-0809 minDavid Burkus PresentsHow To Build A Team CultureCulture is a huge factor in the success or failure of a team. There are cultures so focused on performance and talent that they leave everyone drained. And then there are cultures where individual members, no matter how talented, put the needs of the team over their needs and, as a result, everyone wins.
But there’s a lot we misunderstand about culture. When you hear many people describe their culture, they point to easily observable elements like symbols, slogans, dress code, foosball tables, or free food. But going all the way back to Edgar Schein’s init...2022-08-0110 minDavid Burkus PresentsHow Great Teams CommunicateTeamwork is impossible without communication. Teams have to share information; they have to share ideas. Without communication, teams can’t coordinate tasks. They can’t help each other; they can’t do anything other than work alone in silence.
Since communication is so vital to teamwork, it’s no surprise that the quality of communication affects the level of performance of a team so strongly. There’s a big difference between communication on an average team and communication on a high performing one. So, it’s worth examining what high performing teams do differently in terms of communicatio...2022-07-2507 minDavid Burkus PresentsHow To Communicate Effectively At WorkCommunication is the lifeblood of any relationship. And that’s especially true for the leader-teammate relationship. How well leaders communicate with their subordinates affects how motivated and productive they are. And how well leaders communicate with their entire team affects how the team members communicate with each other…as well as how motivated and productive they are.
So, if you want to be effective as a leader, you’ll need to communicate effectively at work.
But a big obstacle to achieving that is misunderstanding the nature of communication itself. Effective communication isn’t one problem to solve...2022-07-1810 minDavid Burkus PresentsTwo Types of Trust on TeamsTrust makes a massive difference on the performance of teams. And that fact has been found in research on teamwork over and over. For example, a 2011 study of nearly 200 teams from the United States and Hong Kong, found that when trust went up, so did performance. In a way, trust on a team acts as a social lubricant. When teams trust each other, the social frictions are reduced, which makes it easier to collaborate and easier to share one’s true perspective on any challenges the team faces.
Without trust, people hold back their brilliance. They don’t sha...2022-07-1110 min
David Burkus PresentsHow To Think Strategically As A LeaderThere’s a lot to think about as a leader. There are goals to pursue. There are people to manage. And every day new problems arise that make pursuing those goals or supporting those people more difficult. Amid all these demands, it can be difficult to think any more deeply than just reacting to the moment.
Leaders know they need to think strategically, but often don’t know how to find the time to do so.
But strategic thinking isn’t about carving out large blocks of time to ponder problems. Instead, often it’s about re...2022-07-0509 minDavid Burkus PresentsHow To Create A Teamwork CultureTeamwork may indeed make the dream work, but teams that lack a teamwork culture can be a nightmare. Pick your sport, and you can find a professional team that focused on acquiring talented players but failed to get the results their bulging salary budget should have brought. And the reason teams of star players fail more often than they should most often comes down to culture. Or at least, that those star players don’t want to be part of a team-oriented culture. Instead, they want to shine on their own.
The same is true of many or...2022-06-2710 min
Don’t Sell the FarmEp. 16 - Pastor Jack Miller"The only way I can describe it - It was the best of times. It was the worst of times." - Jack Miller.
He felt called to serve as a missionary himself and answered the call to go to Africa. In this interview, he shares his thoughts on his time as a missionary, the challenges he faced, and the people he met. He talks about the challenges of being a missionary, how he met God and started his ministry, and how he impacted the lives of people all over Africa.
What is it like to...2022-06-191h 40David Burkus PresentsHow To Conduct Stay InterviewsIn a time when most organizations are struggling to attract and retain talent, one simple intervention can help reduce turnover dramatically. Despite their infrequent use, stay interviews are a powerful tool for helping managers keep top talent on their team and keep everyone engaged. In one study, conducting stay interviews in the burnout filled halls of a hospital was found to reduce turnover by 40 percent.
Stay interviews are modeled after exit interviews—a common practice in large organizations where departing employees are interviewed about their experience by someone from Human Resources (or occasionally their manager). But exit in...2022-06-1308 min
Why Customers Leave with David AvrinJason Cutter Interview - Authentic Persuasion in SalesHow does a marine biologist with secret clearance through the US State Department become a top expert and trainer on sales strategy and scalability? Well, my guest today on the podcast is Jason Cutter. He's the author of Reasons Not To Focus on The Sales Experience, along with other books. We're going to talk about using authentic persuasion to go from order-taker to quota-breaker.You can find Jason Cutter at:https://www.linkedin.com/in/jascuthttps://www.jasoncutter.com/http://www.cutterconsultinggroup.com/2022-06-0734 minDavid Burkus PresentsHow To Conduct An After Action ReviewFailure is inevitable. Projects fall apart. Clients leave. Sometimes circumstances outside of the team’s control doom them to failure. But every failure creates an option. Teams can take the loss at face value. Or learn from it and get better.
Reflection on failure can be a powerful growth tool for individuals and teams. In one study, having participants spend just 15 minutes a day reflecting on their work increased performance by 20 percent compared to just spending the same 15 minutes working. And for teams, the benefits compound.
So, in this episode, we’ll explore how to refl...2022-06-0608 minDavid Burkus PresentsHow To Get A Leadership PositionYou don’t need a title to be a leader. But, it helps.
And for many aspiring leaders, getting noticed and seen as a potential new leader in an organization can be difficult. There are ways to demonstrate leadership skills outside of a formal leadership role, but those skills won’t necessarily bring the position unless noticed. Some organizations have “high potential” programs to identify and develop new leaders, but others don’t—and instead rely on individuals to prove themselves by creating their own development program.
To help with your personal development program, in this article...2022-05-3109 minDavid Burkus PresentsHow To Rebuild Trust On A TeamOne of the biggest factors in helping a team collaborate optimally is the level of trust on the team. The extent to which team members feel safe to express themselves, believe their colleagues will deliver on promises, and trust their leader to lead can have a massive effect on their ultimate performance.
And as we know from research, trust is a reciprocal process. When one person acts with trust, the other feels trusted and responds with greater trust. But that virtuous cycle can turn into a vicious one when trust is broken. When trust is broken, either...2022-05-2408 minDavid Burkus PresentsHow To Lead Creative TeamsCreativity is a team sport. It’s been that way for a long time. But the level of teamwork required to solve problems and find innovation has increased over the last decade and even century. Most of the simple problems of the world have been solved, and the ones that remain are too often too complex to be solved by any lone, individual genius.
But not all teams fair equally when it comes to creative tasks, because many team leaders are better prepared to lead teams where the work is simple and easy to define. When reaching te...2022-05-2409 minDavid Burkus PresentsHow To Fire An EmployeeIn this episode, we’ll outline how to fire an employee in a way that is specific, but humane. Research suggests that the boost in productivity from releasing a poor employee is larger than the boost gained from hiring a star player. And sometimes it’s not even about releasing a poor performer, there’s economic or industry specific reasons for having to lay off valued teammates—and it must be done gracefully.
0:00 Introduction
1:21 Do It In Person
2:31 Bring A Third Party
3:31 Lay It All Out
4:44 Offer Help, if applicable
6:03 Be Available Afterwar...2022-05-0910 minDavid Burkus PresentsHow To Build Team AlignmentTeam alignment can make or break the success of any team. But many leaders struggle with how to build team alignment and so just assume that smooth running meetings and responsive teammates means team alignment. But that can be a big mistake, because even a small misalignment in the beginning can compound and create a devastating project breakdown.
Team alignment is a bit like the flight plan created by airplane crews before takeoff. Being a few degrees off course when leaving New York for Los Angeles might not seem like much, but over time those few degrees...2022-05-0208 minDavid Burkus PresentsHow To Love Your Job AgainAccording to the Gallup organization, only about 20 percent of adults report being highly engaged in their job. In the United States, the number rises slightly to about 30 percent. But that is still 7 out of 10 people who are missing out on an essential element of a positive working life.
And for many of this unsatisfied majority, the easiest solution seems to be quitting and trying again at another job. But there’s a lot more methods to attempt before going that route.
In this episode, we’ll outline how to love your job again through four prove...2022-04-2509 minDavid Burkus PresentsHow Leadership Influences Organizational CultureIn this episode, we’ll outline the six ways leaders influence organizational culture. Leaders and researchers have engaged in a constant dialogue about the importance of culture, the ways to build culture, and the differences between a positive and toxic culture. But surprisingly little has been said about how leadership influences organizational culture.
It’s not that no one talks about it.
It’s just that most attempts at building a positive culture focus on visible artifacts or perks and benefit programs. But culture isn’t a foosball table in the office and it’s not your fl...2022-04-1810 minDavid Burkus PresentsHow To Ask For Help At WorkThere aren’t a lot of jobs left that people can do in complete isolation. There aren’t a lot of problems left that can be solved by lone geniuses. Performance is a team sport, one that requires we help each other.
You shouldn’t be hesitant to ask for help, and you can’t escape having to ask for it. So, in this episode, we’ll outline how to ask for help at work in a way that boosts your chances of getting it.
0:00 Introduction
2:00 Don’t Fear Rejection
2:47 Be Specific
3:39 Ask One Pers...2022-04-1109 minDavid Burkus PresentsHow To Demonstrate Leadership At WorkJust because you don’t have a title, doesn’t mean you’re not a leader. But if you want to someday gain that title, and the position of team leader or manager, then there’s a dilemma you’ll have to reconcile. You’ll have to be able to demonstrate leadership at work to the people who make promotion decisions, without having had a leadership role to point to.
But working on any team creates leadership moments that you’ve probably seized upon in the past, you just may not have known about them. Or, you may not have r...2022-04-0408 minDon’t Sell the FarmEp. 15 - Pastor Angel Morales - Part 2 of 2Pastor Angel Morales part 2.2022-04-011h 33Don’t Sell the FarmEp. 14 - Pastor Angel Morales - Part 1 of 2This was a really awesome conversation that Aron and I had with Pastor Angel Morales. We did a deep dive into his testimony. He goes into a number of topics and the way that it all relates to his conversion moment.2022-03-311h 08David Burkus PresentsHow To Deal With Toxic LeadershipBad bosses are a sad reality of working life. Hopefully, you’ve never had to deal with toxic leadership. But if you’re reading this, you probably have. It seems like toxic leaders are far too common in organizations of all sizes. So in this episode, we’ll outline six ways to deal with toxic leadership—and we’ll save the most obvious tactic (leaving) for last.
0:00 Introduction
1:33 Set Boundaries
2:52 Document Actions
4:10 Build Support
5:06 Avoid Drama
6:15 Step Up
8:12 Leave
9:31 Conclusion
//DO YOUR BEST WORK EVER
If you liked this...2022-03-2810 minDavid Burkus PresentsHow To Manage High PerformersHigh performing talent can make or break a project’s success—or an entire organization’s success. Recent research suggests that high performers aren’t just a little bit more productive, they are drastically more productive than average. One study found high performers created 400 percent more value than their average counterparts.
But it’s not enough to merely attract high performers and set them loose. Even the best employees need support and supervision from their leaders.
In this episode, we’ll outline how to manage high performers with six tactics any leader can apply that make a big d...2022-03-2110 minDavid Burkus PresentsHow To Measure Employee EngagementEmployee engagement has been a hot topic for several decades. And for good reason. Business teams with highly engaged employees have a 59 percent lower turnover rate than those with less engaged staff. Highly engaged teams are 17 percent more productive. Engaged teams receive 10 percent higher customer reviews. And yes, businesses with engaged employees have higher profit margins than non-engaged competitors.
But getting employees to feel engaged is no small feat. Even how to measure employee engagement can be a difficult question to answer for many leaders. But there are good reasons to try. Measuring employee engagement helps identify cu...2022-03-1411 min
DOCUMENTED. Miracles Happening TodayI'M READY- featuring David Cutter"I'M READY" were two words that David spoke that would change the entire trajectory of his life. After a lifetime of scrambling to maintain his front, ignoring the endless conviction church brought, and desperately longing to be "normal" amongst his peers, David got what he wished for. He graduated high school early with an Associates degree in Computer Networking and was finally free from the boundaries and restrictions his parents demanded. He had many plans for his future. No one would imagine this intelligent young man, head of the college republicans future included METH addiction and Prison. Listen to...2022-03-072h 27David Burkus PresentsHow To Deal With A Difficult EmployeeDealing with difficult employees is unavoidable. But the good news is that taking the time to deal with a difficult employee can have a dramatically positive effect on the team. According to Harvard Business School professors Michael Housman and Dylan Minor, the productivity boost gained from removing toxic employees is greater than any boost gained from adding a star performer.
In this episode, we’ll lay out a five-step process to help deal with a difficult employee.
0:00 Introduction
1:57 Identify The Problem
3:46 Examine It Closer
4:51 Give Direct Feedback
5:45 Explain The Consequences
6:55 Doc...2022-03-0710 minDavid Burkus PresentsHow To Build A Positive Team CultureMost leaders agree on the importance of building a positive organizational culture. Positive organizational cultures come from the accumulation of positive team cultures. Most employees’ experience of work is really the experience of working with the teams they serve on. So, teaching team leaders how to shape team culture will have the largest impact on creating a positive organizational culture overall.
In this episode, we’ll review four actions team leaders can take to build a positive team culture.
0:00 Introduction
1:47 Foster Connection
3:14 Show Empathy
4:19 Offer Help
5:38 Encourage Candor
7:15 Conclusion
Th...2022-02-2808 minDavid Burkus PresentsKeep High Performers MotivatedIn this episode, we’ll review five methods leaders can use to keep high performers motivated and achieving.
0:00 Introduction
1:10 Sharing Meaning
2:30 Building Connection
3:53 Creating Safety
4:56 Giving Autonomy
6:11 Providing Growth
7:30 Conclusion
What all five of these methods have in common is that they require a mindset shift. Just as organizations need to recognize that high performers don’t need organizations as much as organizations need them, smart leaders recognize that high performers don’t “work for” them. Instead, high performers—and all their people—work with them. Leaders’ core job is to get their...2022-02-2108 minDavid Burkus PresentsHow To Think More CriticallyCritical thinking is one of the most critical skills for leaders. When it comes to making decisions, crafting strategy, or even just solving smaller problems, leaders are called on to think more critically than those they lead. And as the world becomes more complex, thinking critically has never been more important.
In this episode, we’ll outline four ways leaders can think more critically.
0:00 Introduction
1:17 Borrow Diverse Brains
2:32 Question Your Assumptions
3:45 Find The Right Question
4:41 Consider The Implications
5:48 Conclusion
When you consider all four tactics listed above, you st...2022-02-1407 minDon’t Sell the FarmEp. 13 - Pastor Tim Miller - Part 2 of 2Pastor Tim Miller gets into his discipleship experience. From local band ministry to pioneering a church, Pastor Miller describes the intricacies of having faith for converts. He talks at length about how much God wants people to be saved. This episode will encourage your faith for converts.2021-11-0455 minDon’t Sell the FarmEp. 12 - Pastor Tim Miller - Part 1 of 2Pastor Tim Miller came in and sat down with us for a deep dive into his testimony. We talk about "church-kid" dynamics, the incredible discipleship vision of Pastor Wayman Mitchell and Pastor Greg Mitchell, and the old concert venue. This is a packed episode with a lot more to look forward to in part 2.2021-10-2159 minDon’t Sell the FarmEp. 11 - Pastor Roman GutierrezWe sat down with Pastor Gutierrez and discussed life after Christ! Many have heard and been impacted by his testimony: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXXcv2xuLzE, but Aron and I sat down with Pastor Gutierrez to discuss what life has been since he met Jesus. He goes into depth and opens up details about his life in the ministry, and gives insight to help the aspiring disciple. What a great episode! 2021-10-0749 min
Don’t Sell the FarmEp. 10 - Pastor Tom Payne - Part 2 of 2Tom Payne gets into his insight as a missionary, pastor, and father. This is a must listen episode!
Book Links:
https://www.amazon.com/Zacharias-Tanee-Fomum/e/B00HYY7N1Y
https://www.amazon.com/After-Flood-Bill-Cooper/dp/187436740X2021-06-0747 minDon’t Sell the FarmEp. 9 - Pastor Tom Payne - Part 1 of 2We had Pastor Payne from Perth Western Australia on the show. In part one, Pastor Payne talks about his conversion to Christ, discipleship, and early days in ministry. It's a great listen that will inspire you to press in for converts! We hope you enjoy part one of our two part conversation with Pastor Tom Payne.2021-05-2247 minDon’t Sell the FarmEp. 8 - Pastor Jesse Morales - The Concert MinistryToday on Don’t Sell the Farm, Pastor Jesse Morales talks about the value of the long-standing Concert Ministry. He gives helpful advice to the would-be concert ministry leader and discusses the myriad benefits of building and maintaining a healthy concert scene.
Please email us your questions for our next guest, Pastor Tom Payne at dontsellthefarmph@gmail.com!2021-05-1245 minDon’t Sell the FarmEp. 7 - Evangelist Glen PuglieseToday on Don't sell the farm, Evangelist Glen Pugliese from El Paso, Texas gives his salvation testimony, discusses what its like to be a prodigal father, and shares what God has done to bring him into deliverance ministry.
In this episode, Evangelist Pugliese makes reference to his April 7th 2019 sermon called Not in the Script. That sermon can be found at this link.2021-04-2149 minDon’t Sell the FarmEp. 6 - Evangelist Kris Hart (with special guest Caleb Hart)Today on Don't Sell the Farm, David and Aron speak to Evangelist Kris Hart. Kris relives his testimony and conversion experience, discusses God's miracle provision, and speaks on the office of the evangelist.
Please email us at dontsellthefarmph@gmail.com! Check out our social media pages: @ph1970podcast on Instagram and Twitter.2021-04-1453 minDon’t Sell the FarmEp. 5 - Pastor Diego GalvanPastor Diego Galvan relives his epic adventures dealing with the Mexican Drug cartels in Tijuana. A must listen episode as Pastor Galvan bring his experiences to life. These stories will encourage your faith in God’s divine providence.2021-04-0355 minDon’t Sell the FarmEp. 4 - Pastor Steven CiaccioPastor Steven Ciaccio from Prescott, AZ came on to talk about his time Pioneering in Denver, taking over a work in Twenty-Nine Palms, and assisting in Prescott.2021-03-191h 04Don’t Sell the FarmEp. 3 - Pastor Pat LuceroPat Lucero pioneered in Denver, was a missionary in China, and now is the Assistant Pastor in Gallup, NM. 2021-03-0547 minDon’t Sell the FarmEp. 2 - Evangelist JW BallingerEvangelist JW Ballinger comes on the podcast and answers your questions.2021-02-261h 16Don’t Sell the FarmIntroduction to Don’t Sell the FarmAron and David give their testimonies and what they hope listeners will gain from this podcast.2021-02-1959 min
My SGV PodcastDavid Cutter - Finding self expressionSend us a textDavid Cutter comes from a lineage of great teachers and brings the artistry of playing the piano to his students. After years of formal instruction, performance experience and hard work, he has learned many of the secrets to playing the piano and he shares this rich oral tradition with his students.Over the last seven years David has gone back to studying classical music, working from the Well Prepared Pianist Curriculum. For almost three years he studied privately with Well Prepared Pianist author, composer and Steinway Artist, N. Jane Tan.2021-01-0656 min
Hacks on Tap with David Axelrod and Mike MurphyCoward in Chief (with Stephanie Cutter)Axe and Murphy are joined by Stephanie Cutter, a longtime Democratic operative who most recently produced the 2020 Democratic National Convention. They discuss the Atlantic’s reporting that Trump made disparaging remarks about the military, how the Trump campaign squandered its huge cash advantage, and what the Biden campaign must do in the lead-up to the first debate.
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The Box Cutter PodcastA Place Called Space - Episode 8 with David HuntsbergerThe Box Cutter is a podcast dedicated to the Disney show Out of The Box. Each episode, we will break down and analyze an episode of Disney's Out of The Box to see if it still holds up. Host of the Space Cave and well known comedian, David Huntsberger, embarks with Daniels to explore the season 1's A Place Called Space.
This is a passion project made to bring light to a show that needs more recognition, any and all comments are welcome; I want to improve this podcast and make it the best I can solely make it.
Space...2020-08-2944 min
GurtyBeatsChasing - Instrumental by David Cutter Music & GurtyBeatsChasing - Instrumental by GurtyBeats & David Cutter
David Cutter:
https://soundcloud.com/dcuttermusic2020-04-2202 min
Classy Bird Talk"Cookie Cutter Christian" Episode 8What does it mean to be "Cookie Cutter"? Find out on this episode.2019-05-2045 min
Locked Inn**LockedINNterview w/Noah Cutter**Max and Dave are joined by Island Fights Fighter, Noah Cutter, and his upcoming match at Island Fights 50. Stay #LockedInn With are sponsors Richie Veit @ Pep-Boys Daytona Fit Meals Follow us! Twitter - @Locked_inn @Max @Dave Facebook & Instagram & patreon. Call or text us! (386) 516-0495 Get your T-Shirts here!2018-09-2809 minThis Is Horror PodcastTIH 218: Craig Davidson on Pseudonyms: Craig Davidson vs. Nick Cutter, The Saturday Night Ghost Club, and Writing Supernatural and Human VillainsIn this podcast Craig Davidson talks about pseudonyms: Craig Davidson vs. Nick Cutter, The Saturday Night Ghost Club, writing supernatural and human villains, and much more. About Craig Davidson Craig Davidson is a Canadian author of short stories and novels, who has published work under both his own name and the pen names Patrick Lestewka and … Continue reading2018-07-261h 16This Is Horror PodcastTIH 217: Craig Davidson on Nick Cutter, Mid-Career Writers, and Creative BurnoutIn this podcast Craig Davidson talks about Nick Cutter, mid-career writers, creative burnout, and much more. About Craig Davidson Craig Davidson is a Canadian author of short stories and novels, who has published work under both his own name and the pen names Patrick Lestewka and Nick Cutter. His fiction as Craig Davidson includes Rust … Continue reading2018-07-2359 min