If you have ever tried to build a team from the ground up, then you know first hand the difficulties and challenges you can face.  And in today’s business environment building a team can even be more challenging as more and more teams are some combination of remote and in office a “hybrid” if you will.  What are the principles when trying to build a new team?

On this episode of A New Direction Chief Potential Officer of Kevin Eikenberry group, Kevin Eikenberry is listed as one of the Top 30 Leadership Professionals by Global Gurus joins us, as well as co-author Wayne Turmel cofounder of the Remote Leadership Institute.  Kevin and Wayne help us understand that there are many components and questions that you should be asking before you build a team.

For example: Have you considered the culture?  What is that going to look like for the team?  What does bringing on a new team member do to the team?  How do you get everyone to buy in?  How are you going to execute your plan?  What about communication?  Collaboration?  Cohesion?  How is that going to look?  There simply is more to the story than just building a team.

Then you may have to ask yourself, what if you have an existing team and you want to alter the culture?  Maybe you have new leadership?  Maybe it’s a merger?  Now what do you do?  What questions should you be asking?  What are the roles of leadership?  What role does everyone else play in creating this new culture?

Clearly attempting to create a new team is not going to be easy in a hybrid world.  But Kevin and Wayne will help us sort it out.  If you would like to have the questions that Kevin and Wayne ask to help you design your team you can click on over to https://longdistanceteambook.com/questions

Kevin Eikenberry and Wayne Turmel‘s book “The Long-Distance Team: Designing Your Team for Everyone’s Success” is a guide, and practical tool kit for anyone who wants to build a new team, or having to redesign an existing team.  

The questions that the author’s ask in each section of the book are thought provoking and really help those in leadership and beyond come to grips with those areas in building a team that are often overlooked and ignored.

The Long Distance Team has been written certainly with the remote/hybrid in mind.  But after I read and outlined the book, I have found that the practical principles are so sound and solid, that these questions and suggestions can be applied to any team regardless of remote or in the office.

I really enjoyed this book and have taken to heart the lessons and will be applying them to my current work in redesigning a current team that will be going through a leadership transition.

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Burnout is a word that we are using more frequently. It is because it is showing up more frequently and in a variety of different ways. It can be argued that some of the “quiet quitting” that we are witnessing is partially a result of burnout. The fact is that burnout takes a physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual toll on your employees. 

There is a tendency to blame.  Many organizations and business want to claim that the employee is lazy, unmotivated, disengaged.  However, the employee may not see it that way.  Why?  Because they don’t even know they are burned out. Here is what we do know, that if employee has purpose in their work, are motivated and engaged you have higher productivity and efficiency. So what can you do? First, we can take responsibility where we can take responsibility.  The fact is that businesses do contribute to employee burnout which world wide costs nearly $1 trillion dollars!  The problem, like the employee they don’t even know their contribution to burnout. So let’s put a damper in burnout, and get Fired up! and on this episode of A New Direction Dr. Mia Russell from Johns Hopkins University joins us to help you transform your team from burnout to Fired Up!

Fired Up!: A guide to transforming your team from burnout to engagement by Drs Mia Russell and Girvin Liggans is a powerful look at the symptoms of burnout, the factors that play a roll in burnout, how businesses and leadership affect burnout, and gives a framework to help businesses reduce burnout and increase performance.  The book is powerful and makes no apologies that this is going to take work to do.  Drs. Russell and Liggans have done the research and they have created a solution to help your team become more engaged, more motivated, and improve performance.  You can learn more or contact Dr. Russell for your company by going over to www.thinkfiredup.com.  Are you ready to transform your team in your organization?  Then you are ready to get them Fired Up!

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Now probably more than every the issue of teams has become in question.  Before the pandemic when everyone worked in the office, it was much easier to be a team since we were all sitting in the same room and face to face.  But today with the hybrid of people at home and at work teams have become…well…let’s just say a bit more difficult.  Thankfully Leo Bottary is with us on this episode of A New Direction to help understand that whether we are remote or in the same room, or some combination we can still build high performance teams.  How?  Well as Leo Bottary says best…”The Power of ‘WE’ starts with ‘ME'”.  Are you “all-in”.  because that is who it begins with…YOU!

Leo Bottary’s latest book is entitled “Peernovation: What Peer Advisory Groups Can Teach Us About Building High-Performance Teams”  The book is a beautiful complement of research, experience, and practical application.  The forward is by Jeffery Hayzlett and starts the book off right understanding how we often live so disconnected that we have to intentionally get reconnected if we are truly going to be successful.  Peernovation points out 5 factors that contribute the most high performance teams:

The book is an outstanding read, you will love the show!

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Linda Craft and Team, REALTORS…for more than 35 years they have given thousands of client from all over the world legendary customer service.  Always finding ways to serve their clients and community better Linda Craft & Team, REALTORS use the latest technology to help home sellers and home buyers with their goals.  Located in the Greater Raleigh Research Triangle Park of North Carolina they can help you where ever you live.  Click on over to www.LindaCraft.com

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Have you ever been around someone you are trying to avoid?  Or maybe it is someone that you feel like you just cannot get along with?  Maybe you believe there is someone out to get your job or get you fired?  Maybe it is your boss or manager that you feel like you have to walk on egg shells around because you just “know” they are out to get you?  And any one of these feelings translates into your shoulders creeping up to your ears, your heart rate increases, you have these horrible imaginary conversations with yourself.   And at the end it all may say something like, “I’ll show them!”.  Welcome to the “Judger Mindset”  our mindset that takes down the spiral path and pit of self-destruction.  Nothing gets accomplished, we get more and more skeptical and we wallow in our pit.  What if I told you there was a way to get out? What if I told you you can change! There is and this is were you have to employ your Question Thinking ™, start asking switcher questions and get into the Learner Mindset.

In this episode of  A New Direction we are blessed with the presence of Clinical Psychologist and Coach to the Fortune 10 Dr. Marliee Adams PhD and her best selling book Change your Questions Change Your Life:  12 Powerful Tools for Leadership Coaching and Life.  This book is a game changer for everyone!  Seriously, Change Your Questions Change Your Life gives you tools to help you take control of those immediate reactions you have to different people and situations and helps you start developing questions to switch you from having a Judger Mindset so that  you can rationally and calmly through the asking of the right question come up with not only better answer but better results.  Change Your Questions Change Your Life is perfect to better develop yourself, teams, leaders, and coaches.  When you purchase your copy you can enter in a code to get your free “choice map” that can help you navigate from Judger, to Switcher questions so you can get to the Learner Mindset.  Read set Get your Copy Here!

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Linda Craft & Team, Realtors, for 35 years they have created relationships that last a life time, that is why when it comes to real estate they are known as the “legends of customer service”.  The know that your home is personal.  It is part of your legacy of life.  And they want to get to know you so that they can sell your home in the way it should be sold, and help you buy the home to start your next chapter of life.  Why not click on over to www.LindaCraft.com

Don’t forget you can listen to AND on The Oak 93.5 fm in Raleigh?  What?  You say you don’t live in Raleigh?  No problem you can stream the show every Thursday at 4 pm EDT and Sunday mornings at 10 am EDT by clicking here OAK 93.5  Tell your friends!

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So you are a leader.  Maybe you are a team leader, or perhaps an owner, a manager, or maybe you are an entrepreneur and you are your own boss.  The fact is you are doing the best you can to lead.  You are challenged by the everyday busyness.  It seems like you are putting one fire out, and another ember starts and boom!  Another fire needs to be put out.  You have caught your self feeling busier and busier, you are feeling overwhelmed, the emails keep piling up, you cant catch up.  You are so caught up dealing with the day to day, minute by minute hassles that you know you are losing sight of the big picture.  Sound familiar?  So what do you do?  Well if you are like most people you probably cut out something you really need like sleep.  There is another answer.  And it flies in the face of conventional thinking.  It is counter intuitive.  You can even say paradoxical.  The answer:  Slow down to Speed Up.

Dr. Liz Bywater joins us on this episode of A New Direction with her book, Slow Down to Speed Up: Lead, Succeed, and Thrive in a 24/7 World.  It may not make sense when you first hear it, but then as Dr Liz Bywater starts explaining why it works it comes to make sense that in reality slowing down will actually allow you to be more effective, more efficient, and more successful as a leader.  Slow Down to Speed Up is like having a complete tool box that has practical applications and exercises you can do look at why you do what you do, learn about the real you to be most effective, and give you the tools and techniques so that you can truly be the leader you always knew you could be.  Slow Down to Speed Up is a great book, short read, and a game changer for anyone who wants to grow in leadership and be more successful.

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Enlign Business Brokers and Advisors:  We are so grateful to them for their support of A New Direction.  They are internationally recognized as the leading experts when it comes to selling businesses.  If you are a business owner at some point you are going to want to sell your business, and you are going to want the highest market value and you will want it done with complete confidentiality…and that completely describes Enlign Business Brokers and Advisors.  You can learn more by going to www.ENLIGN.com

Linda Craft & Team, REALTORS, for 35 years they have the world wide reputation of having legendary customer service in the real estate space.  They have helped people all over the world either find the right real estate professional to help sell their home, or find their next home.  And if you live in the Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill area you can stop by and learn first hand about why people choose Linda Craft & Team as their real estate expert.  Head on over to www.LindaCraft.com

Also make sure you check us out on The Oak 93.5 where you can listen to A New Direction Thursdays 4 pm EDT and Sunday mornings at 10 am EDT.  Just click on over to www.OAK935.org and LISTEN HERE!

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It doesn’t matter if it is a sport, a for profit business, a non-profit business, or even a family when it comes to developing a “high performance team” there seems to be some commonalities.  The first is we are all pretty aware that all teams go through pretty much the same phases, from forming to storming, to norming, to performing.  But how we get teams to successfully transition through these phases requires a some tools or maybe some hacks to get through them.

Please welcome Omar L. Harris.  He is an entrepreneur, expert on high performance teams, and a certified strengths finders coach.  And he has written Leader Board: The DNA of High Performance Teams, in what I call the compiled “best of” collection of books synthesized them and created a practical guide to helping you develop your team into a high performance team.  Leader Board starts with Sam a.k.a coach who is under a tight deadline to promote an anti cholesterol medication for a pharmaceutical company and takes you through the challenges that it takes to get a team to from initially forming to the final performance in front of thousands of people.  Then Omar Harris breaks down each element in what calls Team Performance Acceleration Principles (TPAPs). Where every book such as Good to Great, 7 habits of highly effective people, 5 Dysfunctions of a Team, Gallup Strengths Finder, Irrefutable laws of leadership and more is broken down and practically and applicably applied.

Omar L. Harris has created a book for everyone.  From starting a team to tweaking your team, to working in the midst of an old team.  Whether you are an owner, manager, consultant, or team member Leader Board will enlighten you, encourage you and inspire you.

Thank you Enlign Business Brokers and Advisors for being a sponsor of A New Direction we are so grateful for their support.  Internationally recognized as the leaders in helping people sell their business they are truly the experts.  So when you are ready to sell your business start with the “real Deal” team, start with Enlign Business Broker and Advisors and you can learn more by going to Enlign.com

And thank you Linda Craft & Team, REALTORS for more than 34 years they have helped people all over the world in the selling and buying of their home.  If you are looking for the best expert to help you, call on the real estate experts that really know the “ins and outs” of real estate, the legends of customer service…Linda Craft and Team, REALTORS…go to www.LindaCraft.com

This weeks t-shirt shout out goes to the newly reopened and former Stockyard Cafe, now under a new name and ownership the “Salebarn Cafe”  still serving great food in Wahoo Nebraska.

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Success is a funny word. It can mean so many different things depending on who you ask and what day of the week it is. However, if we were to look at success as improvement upon what ever it is you are, whether that be your life, your career, or your business, then there are certain principles that apply regardless of your overall definition of success.

Enter John Foley. He may be a highly sought after speaker and author, but he also flew as one of the Blue Angels, the U.S. Navy’s most elite flying demonstration team. In his world success was defined in multiple ways, making sure you land being the most primary ways of defining success. Through out his career as a Blue Angel John discovered specific principles that lead to not only what makes individuals, teams, and businesses successful, but what makes them elite.

In this episode of A New Direction John Foley and I discuss his book Fearless Success. You will learn of his story from the time he was a child and seeing his first Blue Angel performance to becoming one of the Blue Angels and how that experience has translated into a practical guide to helping people become more elite and successful in their lives, careers, and business.

Fearless Success is a took book that I believe is indispensable for any person regardless of your station in life. And if you will purchase Fearless Success from his website, he has a special offer just for A New Direction Listeners so CLICK HERE!

Thank you to our sponsors Enlign Business Brokers and Advisors. Internationally recognized as the leaders in business brokerage, when you want to sell your business with complete confidentiality, contact our friends at Enlign Business Brokers and Advisors. Just click on www.ENLIGN.com

And Linda Craft & Team, REALTORS find out why they are the legends of customer service when it comes to real estate. Located in Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill North Carolina they can help you find the best professional anywhere in the world. Just head on over to www.LindaCraft.com

This weeks t-shirt shout out goes to Tony Fink Real Estate Expert with Linda Craft & Team, REALTORS. A Notre Dame graduate it was the perfect shirt today to wear with a Golden Helmet Blue Angel and the “Golden Domers” motto “Play Like a Champion Today”. Thanks Tony for the t-shirt.

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It is has happened to most all of us. You start your job so excited. You work like crazy to impress your boss…and then something happens. The intensity is gone. The desire to put forth the effort wains. Then there are those types of industries, oh, let’s say housekeeping where many people are not excited to do their job. What do you do? If you were the manager what would you do?

Welcome back to A New Direction Ralph Peterson. Ralph has been there, he has managed one of the most non-desirable industries, namely, housekeeping. He has supervised housekeeping managers, he has owned housekeeping companies and now consults businesses all over the world. Who better to understand how to manage people when they do not want to work.

Managing When No One Wants to Work is a delightful, insightful fun read. These are a number of stories that will help you in a variety of situations when it comes to managing when no one wants to work. At first glance you as an employee may be thinking, “Another book on how to fire people”…WRONG! This is a book on how to inspire people back to work. In Managing not work you find that often times the reason why people do not want to work is because of what the manager is doing. OUCH! Ralph’s interview will make you laugh and make you think, but most of all it will inspire you to change.

Special Thanks to our sponsors. Our core sponsor partner Enlign Business Brokers and Advisors. Internationally known so when it comes to selling your business start and end your deal with the real deal team of Enlign Business Brokers and Advisors. You can find all the information by going to www.ENLIGN.com

And to Linda Craft & Team, REALTORS. If you are thinking about coming to the Research Triangle Park (Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill) then start by calling the local experts. For more than 30 years the Linda Craft Team has been providing legendary service to helping people sell and buy their home. You can learn more by going to www.LindaCraft.com

And our t-shirt shout of the week goes to 5K the Hard Way. If you are looking to challenge yourself, get in better shape, get a little muddy, and experience amazing comradely, check out 5K the Hard Way. And we thank them for supporting A New Direction.

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I have read and heard it said from numerous coaches and experts, “the only thing you can control is your attitude and your effort”. My guest on A New Direction Rick Miller would add one more to those two true statements…Being Chief, because after all it is a choice, not a title.

Rick Miller is an author true of the book Be Chief: It’s a Choice, Not a Title, but Rick Miller’s experience of turning companies around such as AT & T, and Lucent Technologies (just name two) proves that this is more than just a title of a book…it is the reality that each one of us possess the power to “Be Chief“. It matter not what your title is, or what your job is, or what level you are, or how old you are, or how much knowledge you have accumulated…the fact is you have the power within you to be chief.

In Episode 28 of A New Direction Rick Miller literally gives away the secrets to being chief. If fact if you go to www.bechief.com you can take the quiz to help you find your power compass to determine your direction, helps you understand how your values when aligned make you more powerful, and also provides us with some inside secrets such i3k. Wait, what? i3k is a an elegantly powerful and simple tool when it comes to people that you hire. Okay, I will let the cat out of the bag…intelligence, integrity, intensity, and kindness, but you will need to listen to how to apply these back to you and your business.

This episode is powerful you will want to listen to it over and over again. No matter who you are there is something here for you! It will inspire you, motivate you, and if you apply what Rick Miller is saying it will in fact change you!

The book “Be Chief: It’s a Choice, Not a Title, is available for sale in your favorite format and available at every book store so if they do not have it on the shelf just ask for it. Here is the real beauty of this book…every dollar that Rick makes from the book is being donated to “Children with special needs” by purchasing Be Chief you not only will be helping yourself, you will be helping others as well…and that does make you powerful. So listen to the show and invite your friends to listen as well.

We also need to thank our sponsor partner Enlign Business Brokers and Advisors. Owner Jeff Snell and his associates are the real deal and the real deal business team. When it is time to sell your business, sell it for the most money, and with the utmost confidentiality then you need to look no further than Enlign Business Brokers and Advisors. They have literally helped thousands of people with the buying and selling of their business. You have no need to look anywhere else get more information at www.ENLIGN.com and tell them you heard about them on A New Direction with Jay Izso.

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When I say the word manage, what is the first thing that comes to mind?  How about when you hear the word management?  What do you envision when you hear the word “team”?  Now let me ask you this question:  Do your managers behave like a team?  Are they efficient?  Are they willing to change?

In episode 19 of A New Direction Author and consultant Ed Muzio has a new book entitled Iterate.  Wait, wait, wait.  Don’t let the title disturb you.  This is a book on how to literally transform your business into the agile business it should have been all along.

Rather than focusing on titles and org charts, this book focuses on the behaviors necessary to have a more successful, more productive, more efficient, collaborative team environment.  Sounds like Utopia right?  Well, in Ed Muzio‘s book Iterate he has broken it down step by step, even including activities and an appendix hot transform your business, and even how to turn your regular meetings into productive, interactive, gatherings that have purpose, meaning and action.

BONUS:  When you purchase Iterate you also will be given a code where you have special access to watch videos and gather other resources.

I am telling you this book is a game changer whether you are the CEO, COO, Manager, Supervisor, Coach, Consultant, and employee.  Iterate is book you will want to read over and over again and implement in your business.

Again, we need to thank our sponsor of A New Direction Enlign Business Brokers and Advisors.

ENLIGN Business Brokers and Advisors have helped literally thousands of clients in the sale and purchase of businesses.

Are you a business owner? At some point you are going to need the services of an experienced business broker.

Selling your business is a big decision.  Make sure you build your ideal team starting with the experts at ENLIGN Business Brokers and Advisors.

Learn more online at ENLIGN.com …

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