the UNCOMMODiFiED Podcast

In this UNCORK episode with Jon Wagner (Virtual Team Pioneer & Author), we tuck into a conversation about Making Virtual Teams Much More Human. We explore the importance of Personal and Professional Community, Connection, Collaboration, and the Human Systems that create, enhance, and sustain them.

Jon shares 11 Key Principles that his years of research and experience showed him will create an effective Virtual Team. Along the way, we ask and answer the following questions:

How has your sense of mission driven and shaped you and your work over the past 40 years?

How have you used and applied your formal education (as an Engineer and in Cross-Cultural Psychology) to drive and shape your work with Human Systems?

Why are personal and professional community, connection, collaboration, and relationship (virtual and in-person) crucial to people, organizations, and you personally?

How do we use technology to assist or even enhance community, connection, and collaboration? When is technology not enough?

How do we build trust with individuals and teams (virtual and in-person)

What does it mean to work "cross-culturally" to you? How do we do this well personally and professionally?

What is "Friendship Force?" What is their story? Why is it such a powerful movement? Why are you so passionate about it?

Tim Windsor

PRODUCER: Kris MacQueen

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A recent conversation with a Client inspired me to explain that my experience has shown me that Transition Planning, NOT Succession Planning is a much better way to say it, see it, understand it, and really feel it.

WHY?

Because words matter and have an immediate and lasting emotional impact, especially when talking about people's lives, identities, intrinsic value, future, and legacy.

And, it's a HUMAN THING, not just an organizational thing.

Join me for a coffee in my backyard, and let's meditate on this idea together.

Please overlook the rawness of this recording and hear the provocation of this mini NITTY-GRITTY episode recorded on my iPhone.

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This was a thought-provoking and practical conversation with leadership and team trainer, facilitator, coach, consultant, and my business partner Amanda MacDougall.

In this conversation, we explore this provocative question ... if you are giving or receiving an opportunity to become a Manager, a people Manager, is that just a Fantastic Promotion or is it ultimately a Fundamental Career Change?

Your answer and understanding about this transition and transformation will make or break you and others.

Amanda uses her years of practical experience and research and the results of her recent LinkedIn Survey to respond to and explore these questions:

AMANDA'S CHECKLIST

Checklist for Deciding to Become a Management Professional:

You love working with people (culture)

You are drawn to thinking more broadly than your own work (strategy)

You are ready to set aside technical details in your day to day work

You have good communication skills

Monitoring, measuring, and tracking are fun! (workflow management)

People come to you for support or advice (leadership)

Collaboration is a skill in your toolbelt

You routinely take initiative and don't wait for direction

Are you ready to shift from being one of the "gang" to setting the example? (Personal accountability)

You have talked to people who are in the role you aspire to – what does it take to succeed in your role? Open yourself up to reflection and feedback – because that is what you get in management!

What to do When you land in a management position:

Make your "FROM .. TO" list

Create your leadership philosophy

Build community – it's lonely in the middle

Additional Thoughts for Organizations 

Review the employee checklist above with prospective managers

Be honest with yourself and with prospective managers on requirements – are they people leaders, or workflow managers?

Determine what skills are actually required to be successful and hire for those skills – long-term or strong technical individual contributors may not be the best managers.

Approach people management training as you would any other technical training requirements

Be clear on expectations, time requirements for people and leadership skill development

Ensure transparent support for employees considering management, clarifying the unique requirements and shifts required to move into management

Think about "off-ramps" if the move to management turns out not to be a good fit that honours everyone in the process.

Tim Windsor

PRODUCER: Kris MacQueen

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A recent conversation with a Network of Consultants and Coaches that I connect with inspired me to explore this question - Work-Life Balance, Myth or Manageable Expectation?

Join me for a coffee in my backyard, and let's ruminate on this idea together.

Let me challenge you to consider the mental image that immediately comes into your mind when you think of this subject. And share some strategies that I use to establish a healthy rhythm in my own life.

Please overlook the rawness of this recording and hear the provocation of this mini NITTY-GRITTY episode recorded on my iPhone.

Tim Windsor

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This UNPEDDLING Conversation with a 3rd Generation Car Guy, Craig Kieswetter, tucks into how to Sell Well in an industry with a problematic selling image.

Chris, Craig, and I explore these questions together:

How do you "Sell Well" in an industry with a problematic selling image?

What are you and your team doing to break the negative "car salesman" image?

What is your best advice to someone who wants to get into the business and sell professionally and well?

The best lesson you learned from your Grandpa, from your Uncle and your Dad.

Where do you see the auto industry going in terms of the selling process? And what is your hope for the future in the car selling industry?

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The UNCOMMODiFiED are undeterred and undenied. You can’t stop them, push them down, or hold them back.

They won’t let you or any force of nature deny them the fulfillment of their predetermined and possibly predestined preferred future. So come hell or high water, diabolic demons (theirs or yours), or raging seas; they are getting there, wherever there is, preferably with you, but without you, if that’s what it takes.

The Undeterred and Undenied have unusual rigour and will ultimately be rewarded, even if that reward is subtly or substantially different than they expect it to be when their forecasted future becomes their present moment reality.

Roll up your sleeves. Get ready to be challenged and encouraged by what over 30 years of collaborations and collisions with the Undeterred and Undenied have taught me.

Get ready to discover and practice the 12 Characteristics, the 12 qualities, the 12 positive predispositions of the Undeterred and Undenied.

Tim Windsor

PRODUCER: Kris MacQueen

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This was a candid and compelling conversation with transformational leadership coach and author Dave Loney.

Dave and I dive into the deep and dangerous waters of our genuinely authentic personal and professional selves.

In those sometimes murky and sometimes clear waters, we navigate and investigate these ideas and ideals:

Get your wet suit on, strap on your air tanks and don your mask. It’s time to jump into the sea of authenticity.

Tim Windsor

PRODUCER: Kris MacQueen

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This was a provocative and punchy conversation with storyteller, photographer, and humourist - Tom Vogel – one of the most UNCOMMODiFiED people I know.

Tom and I gibber and jabber about the essence and power of a great story … about what makes the best "story"... whether conceived in the mind and communicated by voice or captured by the camera?

Along the way, we rife on ruminate on the mystical power of Vocation and Calling not just Career and how we sometimes Feel like criminals when people pay us to do what we love to do.

We remind ourselves of the honour and opportunity we all have to "call out life from people and things"

The birth of our GIFTS.  The Magical Impact of our Mentors.  And the wisdom and wonder of capturing the beautiful brokenness of the fractured life and light that surrounds all of us.

And along the way, Tom teaches us his "secret" to capturing the moment and being captivating in the moment.

Buckle up your seatbelt and let's ply Tom with some sips of coffee and straightforward questions and find out exactly what the hell he's all about!

Tim Windsor

PRODUCER: Kris MacQueen

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It may be time to admit that sometimes you're just a symptom soother and not really a problem solver at all?

Discover the simple secret to being a world-class problem solver. Challenge yourself not just to be a "pill pusher" when you really need to be a "skilled surgeon."

Please overlook the rawness of this recording and hear the provocation of this mini NITTY-GRITTY episode recorded on my iPhone.

Tim Windsor

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In this UNPEDDLING episode, Chris and I have a conversation with Lisa Genovese, the President of BottomLine.

We explore the world of Market Research and ideas and insights that will show you:

What can help you, your company and your brand be "scrappy" and "punch above your weight" as an "underdog" in your Market.

What the best way to seek "feedback and opinion" from your customers is? And if you hire someone to help you do this, what is the most critical thing you will need to believe about them?

How to start the process of getting market research?

What are the most critical aspects you need to pay attention to when reviewing research documents and information?

How to use Market Research used in your Sales Strategy?

and, How to use your Market Research to "UNPEDDLE."

Tim Windsor & Chris Windsor

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PRODUCER: Kris MacQueen

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