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Jessica Potts, High Performance and Leadership Expert
In this episode, Roxanne chats with Jessica Potts about harnessing natural talents, understanding strengths and weaknesses, and the global productivity crisis. They explore the importance of management skills, community, and alignment in a workplace. The discussion also covers organizational values, feedback, and the concept of "mature directness".
Hiring and creating a great team of employees is more challenging than ever! Reading between the lines on a well drafted resume, meeting with the seemingly perfect candidate and deciding on personality vs. skillset is a daunting task.
On this episode of Authentic Living with Roxanne, we are joined by Jessica Potts. Jessica is a recovering government worker, who now spends her time with a wide range of public and private sector clients as president of Inspired Strategy Group Inc.
Jessica’s company specializes in building high-performance leaders and teams, sustaining employee, stakeholder, and community engagement as well as facilitating strategic processes.
Known for her energy, optimism and strong belief in pursuing the things you are most passionate about, Jessica's life's purpose is summarized simply as "seeing you at your best".
Authentic Touch Points:
My "AH HA" moment. 3:40
Everybody has talent. 7:25
My beginning. 20:50
Projects and processes. 28:55
Trust within the team. 33:15
The “emotional bank account”. 40:55
Hire attitude and train aptitude. 47:30
Join me to hear Jessica share her methods and ideas to designed to help you create your “dream team”.
Links:
Jessica’s email: [email protected]
Jessica’s website: http://inspiredstrategy.ca
Gallup Workplace: https://www.gallup.com/workplace/212033/attract-hire-top-talent.aspx
Patrick Lencioni's Books: https://www.tablegroup.com/books/
Roxanne’s LinkedIn profile:https://www.linkedin.com/in/roxannederhodge/
Roxanne’s email: [email protected]
Chat with Roxanne: https://roxannederhodge.com/chat/
Roxanne’s previous podcasts: https://roxannederhodge.com/blog/
(0:00) Introduction and background of Jessica Potts
(5:29) Harnessing and applying natural talents: Discussion and personal experiences
(8:35) Understanding Gallup's definition of strengths and weaknesses, and the analogy of talents
(11:28) Addressing the global productivity crisis, value in work, and alignment with personal values
(14:46) The underestimated importance of management skills and understanding the intention behind actions
(20:23) The role of community, learning from team successes and failures
(27:03) Importance of alignment and purpose in an organization, rise of purpose-driven workforces
(31:06) Identifying organizational values, dealing with challenges, and building trust within a team
(38:07) Continuous feedback, post-mortem of events, and managing resistant employees
(44:58) Concept of "mature directness", hiring challenges, and cost of high turnover
(52:13) How to connect with Jessica Potts and Inspired Strategy Group, closing remarks from Roxanne Derhodge
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By Roxanne Derhodge
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In this episode, Roxanne chats with Jessica Potts about harnessing natural talents, understanding strengths and weaknesses, and the global productivity crisis. They explore the importance of management skills, community, and alignment in a workplace. The discussion also covers organizational values, feedback, and the concept of "mature directness".
Hiring and creating a great team of employees is more challenging than ever! Reading between the lines on a well drafted resume, meeting with the seemingly perfect candidate and deciding on personality vs. skillset is a daunting task.
On this episode of Authentic Living with Roxanne, we are joined by Jessica Potts. Jessica is a recovering government worker, who now spends her time with a wide range of public and private sector clients as president of Inspired Strategy Group Inc.
Jessica’s company specializes in building high-performance leaders and teams, sustaining employee, stakeholder, and community engagement as well as facilitating strategic processes.
Known for her energy, optimism and strong belief in pursuing the things you are most passionate about, Jessica's life's purpose is summarized simply as "seeing you at your best".
Authentic Touch Points:
My "AH HA" moment. 3:40
Everybody has talent. 7:25
My beginning. 20:50
Projects and processes. 28:55
Trust within the team. 33:15
The “emotional bank account”. 40:55
Hire attitude and train aptitude. 47:30
Join me to hear Jessica share her methods and ideas to designed to help you create your “dream team”.
Links:
Jessica’s email: [email protected]
Jessica’s website: http://inspiredstrategy.ca
Gallup Workplace: https://www.gallup.com/workplace/212033/attract-hire-top-talent.aspx
Patrick Lencioni's Books: https://www.tablegroup.com/books/
Roxanne’s LinkedIn profile:https://www.linkedin.com/in/roxannederhodge/
Roxanne’s email: [email protected]
Chat with Roxanne: https://roxannederhodge.com/chat/
Roxanne’s previous podcasts: https://roxannederhodge.com/blog/
(0:00) Introduction and background of Jessica Potts
(5:29) Harnessing and applying natural talents: Discussion and personal experiences
(8:35) Understanding Gallup's definition of strengths and weaknesses, and the analogy of talents
(11:28) Addressing the global productivity crisis, value in work, and alignment with personal values
(14:46) The underestimated importance of management skills and understanding the intention behind actions
(20:23) The role of community, learning from team successes and failures
(27:03) Importance of alignment and purpose in an organization, rise of purpose-driven workforces
(31:06) Identifying organizational values, dealing with challenges, and building trust within a team
(38:07) Continuous feedback, post-mortem of events, and managing resistant employees
(44:58) Concept of "mature directness", hiring challenges, and cost of high turnover
(52:13) How to connect with Jessica Potts and Inspired Strategy Group, closing remarks from Roxanne Derhodge