A few years ago, Google ran an experiment to see if managers were really necessary, or were they useless (as they hoped to prove). Interestingly, they found that not only were managers needed, but then they ran the opposite experiment to find out what makes the best managers. Listen in for the 10 characteristics of the best managers.

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Employees are both a profit center and a cost center: profit center in that they help bring in revenue, and a cost center in that it costs money to have employees in terms of payroll, benefits, etc.  However, did you know that there may be somewhat hidden and indirect costs associated with employee turnover, lack of employee engagement, productivity, absenteeism, and more?  Listen in as Dawn Shuler shares some shocking statistics on how much money you could be leaving on the table.

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From Gay Hendricks’s book, The Big Leap, we are all wired with internal thermostats that tell us how high we can go in relationships, career success, health, and happiness. Problems occur when we start to hit the upper level of those thermostats, hence, an Upper Limit Problem.  Learn the 4 hidden barriers that create our upper limits and how we can see upper limits affecting our daily lives.  Great for individuals and for leaders and managers to be able to spot in their team members and employees.

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Sylvia Henderson, CEO of MindTeam Solutions

In the last few People Thrive, Companies Thrive podcast episodes, Dawn has been talking about the power of teams, being well-rounded, creating a strengths-based culture, and being positive. Today, she brings it all together in a conversation with fellow CEO, Sylvia Henderson of MindTeam Solutions.  Today’s topic: the innovative Idea MindTeam™ platform that enable staff to solve problems, implement ideas, and live the core values of the organization.

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In today’s episode, Dawn Shuler reveals the fascinating research on positivity, including in corporate teams, from the book Positivity by Barbara Fredrickson, PhD.  You might be surprised at how much of an impact positivity can have on high performing teams (and the lack of it on poor performing teams).

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Why do you want to create a strengths-based culture? Because a strengths-based workplace is transformational; it’s a culture that focuses on continual growth and improvement among everyone in the organization… and sets that organization up for the future.  Listen in as Dawn talks about the 6 elements of a strengths-based culture and how focusing on strengths actually increases revenue and decreases expenses.

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As Abraham Maslow once said, “If all you have is a hammer, then everything looks like a nail.” That’s the danger of single-facet thinking.  If you imagine an organization as a three-legged stool, what happens if you only focus and build one leg?  It falls over.  Listen in to today’s episode as Dawn Shuler illustrates the three legs needed and examples when an organization does not value all three.

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Most of the time I talk about a company’s core values, but individuals have their own set of values as well.  Listen in to today’s episode for a powerful, yet simple system to determine your values – and how best to communicate and connect with others, especially when you know and understand their values – and how they might be different from yours!  (And get your free personality report!)

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In running a business (or a department or a team or whatever), you get signs in the form of suggestions, recommendations, trends, unexpected obstacles, unplanned opportunities… if you don’t pay attention, you might find yourself down the road unhappy with where you want to be.

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What if we created a strengths-based culture? Strengths-based work? Strengths-based teams? Listen in to today’s episode as Dawn Shuler shares what is possible by focusing on your strengths, rather than your weaknesses.

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