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Lydia Peterson, Executive Director for Environmental Health and Safety at V2X, shares her extraordinary leadership journey from Power Rangers auditions to managing 300-person teams in Kuwait, revealing how relational capacity transforms leadership effectiveness.
 
 • Learning that relational capacity is good currency for collaboration and team building
 • Pivoting through multiple career transitions from martial arts to military to corporate leadership
 • Finding your voice and courage as a leader, regardless of physical stature
 • Making small adjustments that dramatically improve team loyalty and productivity
 • Balancing business needs with caring for people's individual motivations and circumstances
 • Understanding that effective leadership requires both learning to follow and developing your own style
 • Building credibility by communicating ideas and owning mistakes
 • Creating succession plans by developing team members to step into higher roles
 
 If you want to develop stronger leadership skills, focus on building relationships first. The investments you make in understanding and caring for your team will directly translate to improved business results and personal growth.

Included are some of the books mentioned in this episode with Lidia:
The Heart of Change: Real-Life Stories of How People Change Their Organizations: Kotter, John P., Cohen, Dan S.: 9781422187333: Amazon.com: Books

Our Iceberg Is Melting: Changing and Succeeding Under Any Conditions: Kotter, John, Rathgeber, Holger: 9780399563911: Amazon.com: Books

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In this episode we continue our discussion from our previous episode where we started the discussion on the excellent book, by Patrick Lencioni, titled, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable.

We review the Five Dysfunctions and what to do to avoid the hazards in how your direct team's behaviors can be destructive to the team culture and result in poor, or reduced performance.

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable: Patrick M. Lencioni,Patrick Lencioni: 9788126522743: Amazon.com: Books

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In this episode we review the key points from Patrick Lencioni's book The Five Dysfunctions of a Team. We discuss some of the traps new leaders can fall into when trying to be Servant Leaders. We review Lencioni's pyramid/triangle with the five behaviors critical for a well-functioning team.

We share some of our stories about young leaders that made the mistake of thinking Servant Leadership means not rocking the boat and not holding teams accountable when necessary.


The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable, 20th Anniversary Edition: Lencioni, Patrick M.: 9780787960759: Amazon.com: Books

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Join us in an engaging discussion, with Mike Sweeney, on Leading High Performance Work Teams.

Mike is an executive coach, a team development expert, and a learning & development nerd. He is an organizational psychologist by degree and has spent years studying and practicing the keys to great leadership. His diverse background helps him discover and optimize patterns of organizational behavior to help leaders and teams improve performance – giving him the ability to tease out the principles that work everywhere.


https://www.sabercoaching.com/leadershipedge

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Join us and our guest Alex Aranda, an HR and Operational Excellence Professional, in our discussion on what leader routines/habits are needed to create and sustain a positive work culture. Our dialogue includes actionable steps by leaders that can get implemented today. We review what important routines will take your leadership and your team to the next level!

Reference Information we touch on:

Change Management:
Amazon.com: The Wheel of Sustainability: Engaging and Empowering Teams to Produce Lasting Results eBook : Lawrence, Adam T.: Kindle Store

The Socratic Method:
Socratic Method (youtube.com)

This tool will help improve your critical thinking - Erick Wilberding (youtube.com)

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Why is Leadership Standard Work critical to sustaining improvement and a positive culture? What is Leadership Standard Work? We kick off season 2 of our podcast with a focus on three important systems that leaders need to have strong Leadership Standard Work for. Join us in the conversation as we explore leadership through these two lenses!

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We share thoughts on the importance of quality training within a High-Performance Work Team. Why is it important and what are the aspects of "Quality Training". We pull back the curtains on key elements of instructing and some of the traps we see teams fall into when selecting the trainers for the team. We touch on the topic of Training Within Industry and how powerful the method can be when used to train people. Additionally, we connect the importance of training with what inspires and motivates people at work through Autonomy, Purpose and Mastery.

As leaders, we owe it to our team to develop a great training program for them!

Training Within Industry 1944 Video (youtube.com)


This video was referenced as Autonomy, Purpose and Mastery by Daniel Pink: RSA ANIMATE: Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us (youtube.com) 

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Our guest for this Episode is Kyle Goodbred, one of our podcast listeners. Kyle provides an excellent perspective on the challenges that young leaders encounter in the world and gives some excellent advice to other developing leaders.

Kyle is a Submarine Warfare Officer and Submarine Tactics instructor for the U.S. Navy. He is also earning his Master’s, in Engineering Management, from Duke University. Join us and Kyle as we share stories and perspectives on Leadership!

The following are some of the books we refer to in the discussion.

It's Your Ship: Management Techniques from the Best Damn Ship in the Navy, 10th Anniversary Edition: Abrashoff, Captain D. Michael: 8601234621669: Amazon.com: Books

Amazon.com: The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable (Audible Audio Edition): Patrick Lencioni, Charles Stransky; introduction by Patrick Lencioni, Random House Audio: Audible Books & Originals

Amazon.com: The First 90 Days, Updated and Expanded: Proven Strategies for Getting Up to Speed Faster and Smarter (Audible Audio Edition): Michael Watkins, Grover Gardner, Gildan Media, LLC: Audible Books & Originals


The Elegant Solution: Toyota's Formula... by May, Matthew E. (amazon.com)

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We discuss how important it is to have a team that understands that conflict is healthy and necessary with great teams. We define what type of conflict is good conflict and which is not good conflict. We also touch base on some examples and how you can help guide your team and set the right environment for team members to get comfortable with positive conflict.

In this episode we also chat about a great book that speaks about Conflict within a team and the importance of it.

Amazon.com: The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable (Audible Audio Edition): Patrick Lencioni, Charles Stransky; introduction by Patrick Lencioni, Random House Audio: Audible Books & Originals

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Join us on our continued discussion on High Performance Work Teams. For this episode, we bring a great guest to join us, Gary Beaudette. We talk about some of the mistakes leaders make when working towards building HPWTs. We also take a look at what advice leaders can benefit from and continue building on what the leader's role is for HPWTs.

Gary, is the CEO of Beaudette Consulting Inc. He is a lean manufacturing business consultant, curriculum design expert, and executive coach.  He is a Six Sigma Master Black Belt as well as an Agile Project Management Professional. 

Gary has developed an Operational Excellence Training and Implementation System called USE SOILS, which is built on the foundation of High-Performance-Work Teams (link to book Use Soils for Growth on Amazon https://a.co/d/eWr4Rpp)

Gary’s Website: www.bcilean.com 

Team Kata: The Habits of Continuous Improvement, Your Guide to Becoming a High Performing Team: Team Kata: Miller, Lawrence M: 9780989323277: Amazon.com: Books

For Personal Core Values: https://www.seityhealth.com/
 

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