Chad Littlefield is the co-founder and Chief Experience Officer of We and Me, Inc. (www.weand.me)—an organization that creates tools and facilitates experiences that build trust, strengthen relationships, and unify your team.

Forbes calls him a “global expert on asking questions that build trust and connection in teams.” He is a TEDx speaker, author of the Pocket Guide to Facilitating Human Connections, and his new book Create Conversations that Matter, now a #1 Amazon Bestseller.

Chad has led workshops, trainings, retreats, and interactive keynotes at JetBlue, Starbucks, Conscious Capitalism International, Johnson & Johnson, Penn State, George Mason University, Typeform, Goodwill, and dozens of conferences.

Listen in to this episode to learn why a feeling of belonging and trust is needed within your company’s culture and how it ultimately drives performance once created.

* – What leads to extended smiles at work

* – Everyone you will ever meet, knows something you don’t

* – How Chad got into this profession

* – Topics HR would not approve of

* – Teaching guidelines for discussing difficult topics

* – How misinterpreting leads to a better understanding

* – Why you learn more when you teach

* – The most overlooked elements of trust

* – The importance of psychological safety

* – The secret recipe to create trust within organizations

* – Creating business that elevate humanity and not just turn profit

* – Life Purpose: To eliminate small talk

* – How to create conversations that matter

* – The difference between engage and connect

* – Why people are afraid of risk

* – Be 25% a kid

Book

Ask Powerful Questions, Create Conversations That Matter – By Will Wise

Explanations on how the questions we traditionally ask are virtually meaningless when it comes to establishing connection.

Website

https://weand.me

Sam Richards Ted Talk: A radical experiment in empathy

Quotes we discuss:

Teaser

39:33- 40:55 – Activities to connect and engage in your organization

FULL TRANSCRIPT:

Chad Littlefield

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Ideal listener for luminary business podcasts. TEST

Todd Staples

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Well before I even answer that want to make sure we have hinted at it. And that’s the whole purpose of us being on the thruway here’s we are we are doing two for one, right, we’re gonna. This is what would be the scrimmage podcast and the luminary business podcast.

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Yes, so

00:20

Much more focused on making it ideal for scrimmage. And if it works for luminary business as a separate thing. Awesome. So, Derek. You probably answer best. There’s a couple different segments of ideal listener.

Derek Lundsten

00:33

There’s two categories of ideal listeners that I would say actually more than two but there’s a variety. So one is

00:40

Employees just broadly speaking, and that could be of a large company. It could be a small company could be an entrepreneur could be anyone, but anyone who’s looking to really

00:49

Change the context right for how work is being done in terms of allowing a new culture to to rise, that is based on you know values driven alignment between

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