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Team Management Episodes

April 2, 2025

Skills Coaching: How Can Teams Learn from Failure

We regularly hear leaders in organizations and teams say  we are a learning culture, we always learn from our mistakes. Yet, are we learning only when we are putting out fires and we come to the rescue? Do we have a system to learn...

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Feb. 20, 2025

Skills Coaching: How to Build a High Performing Team

What makes a great team? You can have a team of superstars, the best of the best, yet for some reason, the productivity is down, constant fighting occurs, the quality of the product is not the best.  Think about your favorite sport team. Yes,...

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Feb. 18, 2025

Skills Coaching: 5 Team Mistakes to Avoid

You are probably a member of a team or leading a team. Are you in a team doing work together or are you in a group of inviduals doing work? If you are a member of a team, you are all by definition, working together towards a common goal. So if...

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Feb. 6, 2025

Skills Coaching: 5 Cs Approach to Join a New Team

If you are entering a new team or managing a new team, it can be quite intimidating especially if you are the new person. In this episode, you will learn about the 5Cs framework: Connect, Communicate, Collaborate, Create and Correct.    For...

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Oct. 15, 2024

How to Find Optimal Performance: Rich Diviney

Do you know what makes an individual thrive in a challenging situation? It is not physical ability or technical skill. The secret may be on using the right combination of attributes.  What are attributes and why can we use these to maximize our...

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Dec. 26, 2023

Soft Skills Coaching: How Can My Team Become More Agile?

How do I  help my team become agile?   Hello and welcome to episode 100 of the HSS.  If this hapesn to be the first episode you lsten to, in each episode I discuss a difefernt essential skill with the help of an expert. I have...

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June 13, 2023

Team Coaching: Dr Krister Lowe

This episode is a podcast collaboration with the Team Coaching Zone Podcast .   Dr. Krister Lowe is Co-founder and Chief of Innovation at www.6TeamConditions.com. He is the pioneer of the Team Coaching Zone Podcast and the Co-Editor of The...

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April 11, 2023

Creating Leaders: L. David Marquet

When we think about leaders we think of those who have just the right answer to every situation, those who can move crowds, who can make or break a team. But what if we are looking at leadership the wrong way? Is a leader a creator of followers or is...

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Dec. 14, 2022

Skills Coaching: Making Tech Teams Powerful with Hari Haralambiev

What makes a tech team successful? The great teams and the really good team members integrate their non-technical skills to ensure they deliver good products. To talk more about this, I invited Harry Haralambiev and he's a teamwork and soft skills...

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June 7, 2022

Virtual Team Management: Hasnain Rizvi

-------- As remote work becomes a new kind of normal, we cannot assume that the same skills to manage a team in an office will apply for virtual teams. As a worker, you have the ability to work from the comfort of your home. As a manager though, how...

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July 6, 2021

Authenticity and other Attributes: Rich Diviney

Today our focus will be not on the concept of skills but attributes. If you are a frequent listener of this podcast you know I really enjoy talking with current and former members of the military because they have great insights learned on the field...

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March 11, 2021

Team Building: George Randle

Forming teams is certainly not an easy  task and there is no easy formula to follow. There are many books addressing how to recruit and improve teams with very different approaches. One of the recent books I read on the topic fascinated me...

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Nov. 11, 2020

Team Management: Heather Younger, J.D.

Heather Younger is a Juris Doctor turned Motivational Speaker and author who has dedicated her career to the study of management and leadership. She is the host of the Leadership with Heart Podcast and author of the book The 7 Intuitive Laws of...

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