Teamwork - A Better Way

How has the "Great Resignation" impacted your top performers? Many of them are aspiring for greater opportunities, development and growth. Hosts Christian Napier and Spencer Horn are joined by special guest Heath D. Barnes on the Team Work a Better Way Podcast session. Heath shares his experience on how to keep your people engaged.

How do you get your team unstuck and increase your innovative mojo? Christian Napier and I discuss the Einstellung effect presented in the Inc. Magazine article "Want to Be More Innovative and Creative? Science Says Avoid the Dreaded Einstellung Effect" We share three ideas you can use right now!

Hosts Spencer Horn and Christian Napier discuss the challenges facing CEOs and executives to develop and retain talent. Spencer offers recommendations to help CEOs find time and prioritize developing their direct reports.

Hosts Spencer Horn and Christian Napier discuss the Rose Bowl-bound University of Utah football team. Coach Kyle Whittingham created a culture of identity that enabled the team to develop the traits needed to overcome incredible adversity and claim its first Pac-12 championship.

Spencer Horn and Christian Napier focus on how teamwork has changed in the last 18 months, and discuss innovations from the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games

Hosts Spencer Horn and Christian Napier talk about the wonder of Italian food and take a counter-intuitive look at conflict in teams (recorded 23 April 2021).

Chapters:
00:00 PG | Eataly!
05:47 Q1 | Changing the perspective of conflict
13:27 Q2 | Mining for conflict
21:13 Q3 | Preparing for conflict
29:36 Q4 | Reasons for conflict
36:29 OT | The conflict curve
44:40 2OT | Assessing your conflict mode / hooks 

Dr. Matthew Nielsen, Clinical Psychologist and winner of the Air Force Psychologist of the Year Award, Air Force Surgeon General Research Award and many other honors, joins hosts Spencer Horn and Christian Napier to discuss ways people can build psychological flexibility during challenging times (recorded 5 April 2021).

Chapters:
00:00 PG | Welcome Dr. Nielsen!
06:13 Q1 | The pandemic within the pandemic
12:26 Q2 | A flexibility and change mindset
17:09 Q3 | Stress self-assessment
23:55 Q4 | Techniques for relieving stress
31:06 OT | Exceeding your resiliency threshold
37:04 2OT | Finding the positive

Hosts Spencer Horn and Christian Napier continue their conversation about strategies for understanding and dealing with a year of grief (recorded 23 March 2021).

Chapters:
00:00 PG | Spencer hikes Coyote Gulch!
06:51 Q1 | Hardship as a catalyst for change 
13:50 Q2 | The ability to choose - Viktor Frankl
22:41 Q3 | The blame self-assessment
29:26 Q4 | The space between stimulus and response
38:00 OT | Challenged to change ourselves
48:36 2OT | A lesson from history

One year ago today, hosts Spencer Horn and Christian Napier recorded the first episode of the Team Performance - Winning Ways for Uncertain Times podcast. They look back at the year that has transpired, the incredible toll a year of pandemic has wrought personally and professionally, and strategies to manage the grief so many of us are experiencing (recorded 17 March 2021).

Chapters:
00:00 PG | It's been one year already!
06:30 Q1 | Put on your mask and cape
14:17 Q2 | The Kubler-Ross Grief Cycle
23:26 Q3 | The cost of grief 
31:26 Q4 | Do not picture a red bicycle
38:15 OT | A counter-intuitive approach
44:04 2OT | Learned optimism

Hall of Fame speaker, author and leadership expert joins hosts Spencer Horn and Christian Napier and dives into the motivation and incredible process for writing "The Promise To The One" and announces the formation of The Promise Institute (recorded 24 February 2021).

For more information about Jason Hewlett and the impactful work he is doing to help individuals and organizations, please visit https://jasonhewlett.com/

Chapters:
00:00 PG | Welcome Jason!
06:12 Q1 | The post with 150 million views
13:02 Q2 | Aligning your personal and professional life
19:43 Q3 | Driving self-introspection
25:59 Q4 | Convincing the seasoned skeptic
33:15 OT | To be considered an author
41:35 2OT | The Promise Institute