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Skills Coaching: How Can Teams Learn from Failure

April 2, 2025
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...
Skills Coaching: How Can Teams Learn from Failure

Skills Coaching: Making Tech Teams Powerful with Hari Haralambiev

Dec. 14, 2022
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...
Skills Coaching: Making Tech Teams Powerful with Hari Haralambiev

Team Building: George Randle

March 11, 2021
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...
Team Building: George Randle

Virtual Team Management: Hasnain Rizvi

June 7, 2022
-------- 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…
Virtual Team Management: Hasnain Rizvi

Skills Coaching: 7 Sins of Teams

May 28, 2025
You may have been intrigued by the title of this podcast and it was originally going to be called team mistakes but then I thought that these are not just mistakes these are things we do deliberately out of our own self inter...
Skills Coaching: 7 Sins of Teams

How to Become a Badass Agile Coach: Bob Galen

May 28, 2024
Making teams, especially tech teams, work together effectively may not be something that just happens naturally. Sometimes it requires some coaching. In the world of adopting agile ways of working, agile coaches are a key part of an organization to.…
How to Become a Badass Agile Coach: Bob Galen

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

Dec. 26, 2023
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...
Soft Skills Coaching: How Can My Team Become More Agile?

Team Coaching: Dr Krister Lowe

June 13, 2023
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...
Team Coaching: Dr Krister Lowe

How can I increase my Value in a Team?

Dec. 14, 2023
This season I am officially lunching coaching opportunities for us to work together so you can master skills we discuss here, become a high performer in your career and lead ahigh performing team.  To get the details first of these limited...
How can I increase my Value in a Team?

Skills Coaching: 5 Cs Approach to Join a New Team

Feb. 6, 2025
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...
Skills Coaching: 5 Cs Approach to Join a New Team

Skills Coaching: 5 Team Mistakes to Avoid

Feb. 18, 2025
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...
Skills Coaching: 5 Team Mistakes to Avoid

Skills Coaching: How to Build a High Performing Team

Feb. 20, 2025
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,...
Skills Coaching: How to Build a High Performing Team

Find your One Sentence: Mimi Goss

June 25, 2024
Communications are so tricky. When I ask people and teams I work with what skill do you want to improve on I often hear, "I want to be a better speaker or a writer." The thing is, when we try to become that person we think we should use eloquent lon…
Find your One Sentence: Mimi Goss

How to Build Resilience: Dr. Marie-Hélène Pelletier

Nov. 19, 2024
Bad situations are expected  at any point, that’s a given, so how do we manage to deal with them effectively? At work, how do we help our teams become resilient? Today you will learn specific strategies on that with Dr. Marie-Hélène...
How to Build Resilience: Dr. Marie-Hélène Pelletier

Skills Coaching: How to Prioritize Effectively

April 28, 2025
When everything is a priority, nothing is a priority. You may have heard of this quite often yet we seem to neglect this in or daily lives and at work in our teams since you probably are in a constant state of putting out fires. In this episode, you…
Skills Coaching: How to Prioritize Effectively

Skills Coaching: How to Create a Team Contract

May 12, 2025
When you hire someone for your organization, you would have a contract that specifies scope of the work, what needs to be done to get the task done. In your company you also have the rules to abide to, where to do timesheets,...
Skills Coaching: How to Create a Team Contract

Creating Leaders: L. David Marquet

April 11, 2023
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 i…
Creating Leaders: L. David Marquet

How to Coach and Lead with Agility: Lyssa Adkins

June 4, 2024
If you are a frequent listener you knoe I have had a few epsiodes about coaching on this show, especially agile coaching. I think as managers especially in the IT world, knowing that is takes a different skill set to be a good coach is essential...
How to Coach and Lead with Agility: Lyssa Adkins

Team Management: Heather Younger, J.D.

Nov. 11, 2020
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...
Team Management: Heather Younger, J.D.

Agility: Dr.Jeff Sutherland

July 20, 2021
This week’s interview was one I had wanted to do for a long time. I work as Product Owner working closely with software developers creating apps at a military organization. We use the Scrum framework, which is one of the multiple agile approaches...
Agility: Dr.Jeff Sutherland

Blog Posts

How to Have a Great Team

Dec. 12, 2024
“Interpersonal skills have always been important in working successfully in groups within organizations, but these findings indicate they will continue to be important—perhaps even more important—in the electronically connected fut…
How to Have a Great Team

Signs of a High Performing Team

Aug. 29, 2024
'A team is not a group of people who work together. A team is a group of people who trust each other.' – Simon Sinek No matter if you work on-site or remote, and regardless of your role, you probably are a member of a team. Do you consider yo…
Signs of a High Performing Team

100 Episodes!

Dec. 26, 2023
    We have reached 100 episodes! This journey started in 2020 and since then, I have conducted over 50 interviews, reached listeners in over 70 countries. Thank you for listening and suppor…
100 Episodes!

Break Time and Some Lessons on Relationships

Aug. 8, 2024
It has been a few weeks since I emailed you but I was on a little break. Well, not really, as summer has involved a lot of driving kids to camp, working with various tech teams launching new initiatives, speaking at conference, and finishing my last…
Break Time and Some Lessons on Relationships

End of Year Recap

Dec. 29, 2024
It's the end of 2024 and this is usually the time we get to review what have we learned and what have we achieved. This week, I want to focus on doing a recap of key lessons learned through the podcast this year.  Artificial Intelligenc…
End of Year Recap

How To Become A Brief Communicator + Arguing About Agility

July 2, 2024
One of the things I say to clients is communicate your best. So when you go into a room, ... one of the tricks I suggest is think of a favorite person in your life, whether it's a grandparent or a mentor, or perhaps you had a horrible life and you d…
How To Become A Brief Communicator + Arguing About Agility

How To Coach For Uncertain Times

June 6, 2024
    We are in an age of acceleration. Everything is accelerating. Every graph you look at these days looks like things are bumping along, bumping along, bumping along, and t…
How To Coach For Uncertain Times

Keep It Simple

Feb. 29, 2024
By: Yadi Caro   “To be successful in writing, use short sentences” - Ernest Hemingway  People tweet (or do we call it X'ed now?), write photo captions and are constantly communicating through the written word, but these mess…
Keep It Simple

Making the Case for Soft Skills

Feb. 18, 2024
By: Yadi Caro   Dealing with conflict between co-workers and managers costs companies about $359 billion per year or at least 3 hours a week per each worker. Bad team communications cost companies at least US12k a year.  On the other han…
Making the Case for Soft Skills

On Lean Leadership

June 20, 2024
Traditional managers often don't want to hear bad news and people often get punished as the messenger or if you've made a mistake. By its definition, a lean leader wants to hear about these problems and they want to have a bias for action and solve …
On Lean Leadership

Starting a New Job? Here is Your Checklist

April 3, 2024
By: Yadi Caro    Last week I wrapped up my time supporting a very important military organization, where I was tasked with introducing agility to the IT department.  I enjoyed this job a lot! I had to put into practice all of the sk…
Starting a New Job? Here is Your Checklist

Working Remote and Keeping Connected

April 11, 2024
"We believe that you do need to get together to build social bonds. Our belief, though, is that you don’t need to get together every single day to sit next to each other on a Zoom call in an office and commute back and forth to get that benefi…
Working Remote and Keeping Connected

Agility as a Mindset

Feb. 22, 2024
I am a huge fan of agile!  Agile is an organizational approach to managing software which was conceived 23 years ago by a group of software developers as an alternative to deliver products faster and adapt to change quickly.Instead of taki…
Agility as a Mindset

Are You Really Listening?

Jan. 25, 2024
By: Yadi Caro   This week I was working with my team and we had some minor conflict in terms of communications. I stated for what I thought was the 5th time what we had planned, but then my team member said 'That's not what you said earlier!'…
Are You Really Listening?

Giving Feedback is Great, Receiving Feedback Sucks

Sept. 12, 2024
"Giving feedback is worthless. It's actually not quite worthless. It's worth something for the person who gives it. But study after study shows that basically giving someone else feedback has very minute impact in their behavior. What you want is a …
Giving Feedback is Great, Receiving Feedback Sucks

Hardcore Soft Skills Lessons: How to Prioritize What's REALLY Important

Aug. 17, 2024
 When you think about how can we be more productive. It's really about being more present with what you're doing, because you can hit a golf ball better. You can cook spaghetti better. You can tuck your kids into bed better. There's a lot of th…
Hardcore Soft Skills Lessons: How to Prioritize What's REALLY Important

How to Have WorthWhile Meetings

March 21, 2024
If hearing the expression “let’s have a meeting” makes you cringe, you are not alone. I do love meetings though, but I love the GOOD ones. The ones where everyone gets to participate and collaborate. Those rare occasions when …
How to Have WorthWhile Meetings

Keys to Communicate with Influence

Oct. 3, 2024
Hope you are having a good beginning of the month. This month Hardcore Soft Skills podcast turns 4 years old, so its a great time to start a new season of the podcast with a new episode next week. In case you have not noticed, I have made some updat…
Keys to Communicate with Influence

Know Yourself

Feb. 8, 2024
By: Yadi Caro      Do you know the value you bring to your team? They hired you for a reason and after this lesson, you’ll be able to confidently recognize the strength of your skills. Conducting a self-assessment of …
Know Yourself

New Online Skill Courses!

Aug. 22, 2024
I received exciting news late last week. My 3 courses on "soft" skills developed in partnership with the production company Madecraft are all available now via various providers.  In each course I put together a collection of my experience, re…
New Online Skill Courses!

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Hardcore Soft Skills Podcast

Soft Skills are increasingly valuable for your career and your projects. In each episode, host Yadi Caro delves into a different "soft skill" featuring experts and people in highly technical fields who have used soft skills to succeed.

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