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The Performance Tools

Welcome to The Performance Tools Podcast, a bi-monthly podcast hosted by Doyin Adebayo, your Performance Advisor. It's a unique podcast designed for Business Professionals, Entrepreneurs, C-Level Executives, and Top-Level Decision Makers to help accelerate their learning in Leadership, Career Management, Human Capital Development, and Performance. Each episode runs approximately 60 minutes long or less. Listeners will get critical insights from in-depth conversations Doyin holds with some of the world’s top business leaders, best-selling authors, and thinkers.

Episodes

  1. 03/02/2023

    A Conversation with Tom Peters; One of America’s Best Management Thinkers

    Tom Peters is an American management consultant, author, and speaker, known for his groundbreaking contributions to the field of management theory and practice. He rose to prominence in the 1980s with his book "In Search of Excellence," co-authored with Robert H. Waterman Jr., which revolutionized the business world by challenging conventional thinking about organizational performance and success. Peters has since authored numerous other books and articles on management, leadership, and innovation, and is widely regarded as one of the most influential management thinkers of our time. His work has had a profound impact on how organizations approach management, and his ideas continue to shape the field of management today.  In this podcast, Tom Peters and I discussed the following:  Tom's career journey, challenges faced, and experiences that have helped Tom succeed in life and most importantly as one of the living management legends.  Leadership lessons and what the future of leadership looks like Tom's philosophy on the place of the human factor in business  Where his idea of Personal Branding came from in the 1990s- Tom started the idea around personal branding.  How professionals can stand out in the age of AI, Digitization, and all the buzz out there  Women's leadership- why the world of business needs to pay more attention to women because of their unique skills and talents and  How Tom reinvents himself.  #DoyinAdebayo #PerformanceTools #Podcast #TomPeters #LeadershipLessons #PerformanceAdvisor

    33 min

  2. 01/04/2023

    Success Factor: Lessons from High Achievers w/Ruth Gotian

    Dr. Ruth Gotian is the Chief Learning Officer and Assistant Professor of Education in Anesthesiology and former Assistant Dean of Mentoring and Executive Director of the Mentoring Academy at Weill Cornell Medicine. She has been hailed by the journal Nature and Columbia University as an expert in mentorship and leadership development. In 2021, she was selected as one of 30 people worldwide to be named to the Thinkers50 Radar List, dubbed the Oscars of management thinking, and recently won the Thinkers50 Distinguished Achievement “Radar” Award, ranking her the #1 emerging management thinker in the world to bridge theory and practice. She is also a semi-finalist for the Forbes 50 Over 50 list. In addition to publishing in academic journals, she is a contributor to Forbes and Psychology Today where she writes about ‘optimizing success’. Her research is about the mindset and skill set of peak performers, including Nobel laureates, astronauts, and Olympic champions, which she writes about in her book, The Success Factor. What does success look like for you and how would you define success? Certainly not the same as everyone else's but according to my guest, Dr. Ruth Gotian, she defined success as 'someone who moves the needle in their field.' She spent years researching the world's most successful people- including medical superstars like Dr. Anthony Fauci, astronaut Nicole Stott, NBA Champion Steve Kerr, and several Nobel Prize winners. In this podcast, Dr. Gotian shares the details of her many years of researching the world's most successful people- including medical superstars like Dr. Anthony Fauci, astronaut Nicole Stott, NBA Champion Steve Kerr, and several Nobel Prize winners.  She defined success as 'someone who moves the needle in their field' and there are four mindsets (not habits) common to all these high achievers.  These are  Intrinsic motivation Work ethic Strong foundation, and  Continuous Learning through informal learning.  We also talked about the following: Experiences that most shaped who Dr. Ruth Gotian is today The myths and misconceptions about success  Whether success is for everyone Whether success is learnable Ways To Redefine Success Now #DoyinAdebayo #PerformanceAdvisor #PerformanceToolsPodcast #DrRuthGotian #Podcast #TheSuccessFactor

    50 min

  3. 12/21/2022

    Unlocking Your Leadership Potential with Curiosity w/ Dr Diane Hamilton

    Curiosity has been a hot topic over the years because most of the breakthrough discoveries and remarkable inventions throughout history, from flints for starting a fire to self-driving cars, have something in common: They are the result of curiosity. Like other animals, humans are learning machines and that's why scientists referred to us as “informavores,” creatures who search for and digest information just as carnivores hunt for and eat meat. What Does Curiosity Have to Do with Leadership? I sat with Dr. Diane Hamilton, a sought-after expert in emotional intelligence and behavioral science with nearly four decades of real-world experience, she's the creator of the Curiosity Code Index® and the author of five books sold worldwide. She is a thought leader in the fields of leadership, sales, marketing, management, engagement, personality, curiosity, perception, and motivation and is known for increasing engagement, improving productivity and reducing conflict. Thinkers50 Radar chose her as one of the top minds in management and leadership. In this podcast, Dr. Diane Hamilton and I discussed the following: 1. What is curiosity and its significance 2. The link between successful leaders and curiosity. 3. How does curiosity translate into business results? 4. How organizations can foster a culture of curiosity and innovation where people are open and free to experiment with new ideas and concepts in order to unlock their full potential 5. Whether curiosity changes as we age and why we lose our childlike curiosity as we grow 6. What inhibits curiosity and how do we overcome the inhibitors of curiosity 7. How we can retrain our brain to develop curiosity #DoyinAdebayo #PerformanceAdvisor #PerformanceToolsPodcast #DianeHamilton #Podcast #UnlockingYourLeadershipPotential #Curiosity

    56 min
  4. Rethinking Competitive Advantage in the Age of Disruption with Dr Ram Charan

    12/16/2022

    Rethinking Competitive Advantage in the Age of Disruption with Dr Ram Charan

    Ram Charan is a world-renowned business consultant, author, and speaker who has spent the past 40 years working with many top companies, CEOs, and boards of our time.  In his work with companies including Toyota, Bank of America, Key Bank, ICICI Bank, Aditya Birla Group, Novartis, Max Group, Yildiz Holdings, UST Global, Fast Retailing (Uniqlo), Humana, Matrix, Ram is known for cutting through the complexity of running a business in today’s fast changing environment to uncover the core business problem. Ram has coached more than a dozen leaders who went on to become CEOs. He reaches many more up-and-coming business leaders through in-house executive education programs. His energetic, interactive teaching style has won him several awards, including the Bell Ringer award at GE’s famous Crotonville Institute and best teacher award at Northwestern. He was among BusinessWeek‘s top ten resources for in-house executive development programs. In the past, companies generally boasted of their greatest competitive advantage with the number of labour, capital, factories, land, physical assets, etc. Unfortunately, the rules of the game are changing and changing so fast and thanks to digitization. In this podcast episode, Dr Ram Charan , he provides an overview of how leaders — of both traditional and digital companies— can increase their chances of success in the digital age.  In this episode, we talked about how the tech giants (Netflix, Amazon, Alibaba and others ) have radically rewritten the rules of business. If you want to win, you need to learn to play a new game. He shares 6 rules and they're: Rule #1.  A personalized consumer experience is key to exponential growth. Rule #2. Algorithms and data are essential weapons. Rule #3. A company does not compete. Its ecosystem does. Rule #4. Moneymaking is geared toward huge cash generation, not earnings per share, and the new law of increasing returns. Funders understand the difference. Rule #5. People, culture, and work design form a “social engine” that drives innovation and execution personalized for each customer. Rule #6. Leaders continuously learn, imagine, and break through obstacles to create the change that other companies must contend with. #DoyinAdebayo #PerformanceAdvisor #PerformanceToolsPodcast #RamCharan #Podcast #RethinkingCompetitiveAdvantage

    47 min

  5. 10/14/2022

    Business Performance: How HR Can Help Organizations Succeed- Prof Dave Ulrich

    In a world of increasing change, there has never been a greater need to identify what HR professionals must be, know, do, and deliver to contribute more fully to their organizations. In this podcast, Dave Ulrich, a highly influential figure within Human Resources and Leadership who is also the Rensis Likert Professor at the Ross School of Business, the University of Michigan, and a partner at the RBL Group, (http://www.rbl.net). In this episode, we discussed the following:  Trends & evolving business realities that HR & HR professionals must contend with as a result of many ongoing crises- Covid-19, Social unrest, Recession, etc. The competencies needed by HR professionals to deliver personal, stakeholder, and business results Dave's view on Ram Charan's radical proposal of splitting HR into two strands Relevance of Ulrich-Model aka HRBP Model Automation & HR Employee Experience Dave's simple approach to performance management How Dave got into the HR profession And more... Some Notable Quotes In Performance management, the conversation is more important than the system" Dave Ulrich HR shouldn't focus on what the new trend in performance management or employee engagement is, but on how it positively affects business stakeholders. Dave Ulrich We should shift from workplace planning to "work task" planning; identifying tasks that align to business goals, and deciding the mode of hiring (Full-time/Contract/Technology)." Dave Ulrich #DoyinAdebayo #PerformanceAdvisor #PerformanceToolsPodcast #DaveUlrich #Podcast #HRStrategy #BusinessPerformance https://doyinadebayo.com

    1h 7m

  6. 09/28/2022

    Disrupt Yourself and Your Career with Whitney Johnson

    Whitney Johnson is an Executive Coach and Author of the critically acclaimed Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work. Whitney is Recognized as one of the world’s most influential management thinkers. A prolific speaker on driving innovation through personal disruption. She is a popular contributor to the Harvard Business Review and has almost 1.8 million followers on LinkedIn. According to Whitney, "Disrupting yourself is critical to avoiding stagnation and fast-tracking your personal and career growth. It involves stepping back from who you are today in order to slingshot forward into who you could be tomorrow." How do you make personal disruption happen in your life, career, and business in this chaotic world without burning yourself?  In this episode, Whitney and I discussed: What Personal Disruption is and Why you Should Care How to identify where you are on your career and life S-Curves How you can rapidly scale your S-curve(s) in order to reach the top of your career and achieve success. Best way to take the right risks in this chaotic world How to play to your distinctive strengths How to help your team identify their disruptive skills as a leader Whitney's story of how she successfully disrupted her career several times. #DoyinAdebayo #PerformanceAdvisor #PerformanceToolsPodcast #WhitneyJohnson #Podcast #PersonalDisruption

    59 min
  7. Leading Successful Organizational Change in an Agile World with Prof John Kotter

    09/09/2022

    Leading Successful Organizational Change in an Agile World with Prof John Kotter

    Here's the brutal fact: 70% of all change initiatives fail. In his international bestseller Leading Change, John Kotter revealed why change is so hard, and provided an actionable, 8-step process for implementing successful transformations. In this podcast with Emeritus Prof John P. Kotter- widely regarded as the authority on Leadership and Change Management- he shared many insights and perspectives with me. In this episode, we talked about: Why change program fail & what you can do about it The place of culture and leadership in transformation Dialogue around one of Kotter International’s clients who has seen the most significant impact in leading change as a result of applying Kotter's 8-step Model of Change How to manage the expectations of various constituencies that have an interest in an organizational change. Just one characteristic of today’s leaders among several others #DoyinAdebayo #PerformanceAdvisor #PerformanceToolsPodcast #JohnKotter #Podcast #ChangeManagement https://inselconsulting.com/

    1h 6m
  8. Bridging the Skills Gap: Insights from The Kraft Heinz CLO- Ekpedeme M Bassey

    08/31/2022

    Bridging the Skills Gap: Insights from The Kraft Heinz CLO- Ekpedeme M Bassey

    Bridging the Skills Gap: Insights from The Kraft Heinz CLO- Ekpedeme M Bassey It’s a red-hot marketplace. Today every single company executive is worried about skills. If you are in corporate L&D, this is the time to make a case to your executive team to start thinking about what skills are missing among your workforce. You need to drive skills development at scale. Bio Ekpedeme “Pamay” M. Bassey is Chief Learning and Diversity Officer for the Kraft Heinz Company, where she drives a culture of continuous learning, bold creativity and intellectual curiosity. https://www.linkedin.com/in/pamay/ https://my52wow.com/ Transcript (Abridged) Doyin: Pamay, kindly introduce yourself. Pamay: I am a lifelong-learner, I love big ideas and I love serving my community and those are some of my passions. I am the Chief Learning and Diversity Officer at the Kraft Heinz Company. Doyin: It is good to have you with us. To start with, we know that the pandemic has upended lives and work. Can you share with us the challenges you learnt during the pandemic period as it relates to work, learning and generally? Pamay: Every family, and organisation experienced the pandemic at an enormous amount. Due to this, we had to make learning virtual. We had to connect without the benefit of being in the same room or area. As a learning professional, I had to take all the courses in progress and plans we have for other organisations and form them into full virtual experiences. Certainly, it was a challenge, but my team and I decided to do things differently and we made everything into a virtual format. Personally, in times of crisis, you have to learn your superpower and determine your way through it. Decide who you want to be in that storm and that would guide the process of learning. Doyin: What should business executives focus on in helping the organisations deal with and also help their organisations emerge as a result of this pandemic? Pamay: I think that trying to focus on how to continue to produce, and how to adjust your routines to work effectively matters. One of the things we learn and would continue to learn is the importance of communication. The ability to be resilient, to determine how to practice resilience, decision making especially when you have incomplete information frankly how to manage your energy is important because we need to deliver as humans and organisations. Doyin: What is the skills gap and why should organisations care? Pamay: There are certain skills to help deliver in this world; every company, organisation or business. Research has it that there are not enough people with those skills to fill the jobs/roles. One of the aims of my company is that we champion great people and great teams are what drive the work. So, companies who are aiming to drive their aims, need people who are skilled to fill the gap. Doyin: We have identified skills and why should companies care? How about individuals? Pamay: I am passionate about helping people take ownership of their skills and development. People should care about the skills gap because it takes a belief and knowledge that you can embrace learning as your superpower and if you find yourself in a place where you are being disrupted even intentionally or unintentionally, you need to get skilled or a new job. People are looking for people who can step up into different roles to transform themselves professionally and continue to be lifelong learners. What you know today how valuable will it be tomorrow? As individuals, there is a huge opportunity if you are a learner and can embrace that. I will say I learned my way through growth and career to develop myself. Doyin: People/Scholars would also say that the short life of skill is between 1-5 years. How true or real is this when we look at it from what people do within our organisation essentially? Pamay: It looks real and if you make it very personal you think about the technology that you would use now and just like everyday c

    47 min

  9. 08/24/2022

    Top 7 Skills & Mindset To Get You Ahead in Learning and Development

    Bio Formerly the senior content manager at ATD for career development and host of the Accidental Trainer podcast, Lisa Spinelli writes about career development and pathways. She is the editor and main author of Teachers to Trainers (ATD Press) and is working toward her ACC accreditation with the International Coaching Federation as a career and transition coach. Currently, she is the director of content strategy at Degreed. Spinelli also volunteers her time outside of work coaching and assisting transitioning military service members and spouses as well as disabled entrepreneurs in their new career paths.  Transcript (Abridged) Doyin: Lisa is an extraordinary person. You are welcome to the Performance Tools Podcast. Thank you for honoring my invitation, Lisa.  Lisa: It is an honor. I have been called extra before.  Doyin: Tell us about your career journey.  Lisa: I started pretty much in journalism. I went on to travel to America to do journalism. Then, I met my wonderful Airforce husband. We started having babies and I decided to stay at home; freelancing and started doing content marketing and got into the realm of career development to help me become a coach. I just finished the program last year and I am still working towards my ACC/ICF credentials but also working on ATD development news and amazing podcasts.  Doyin: So, with the state of the world; pandemic, AI, Automation- tech and all that. How can Learning and Development professionals get ahead in their careers today putting in place all these realities around us?  Lisa: There is no area that has not been affected in the world. Everybody is being affected especially the pandemic. People are looking online towards their careers, workplaces, and hybrid and they have gone virtual. They are looking more at LinkedIn Learning, online academies where they can go into and develop their skills, especially if they are just starting off in this industry- talent development. It's a booming business I have seen, and I will caution people to do their homework on people who are running these academies and feedback from those who have gone through them. Nobody is stopping anybody from starting their own business online. But you really have to do your homework. There are great academies out there for learning and development professionals whether it’s through ATD or other academies out there. You can take these courses for a relatively cheap amount and build yourself a portfolio of skills. If you are in learning and development, you definitely need to have some sort of portfolio under your belt so that you can present it to somebody or organizations if you’re looking for a job or display your thought leadership on LinkedIn or your website so that people coming to you can easily see it. Portfolios and academies have really moved online. LinkedIn is also a wonderful platform to network, to showcase some thought leadership, and join groups in order to find people with commonalities. Networking is a human trait. If you live on a social network, you live longer, you feel better. Networking is always big and I love to meet people and get to know them.  Doyin: What are some trends you are witnessing when it comes to career development?  Lisa: There is this very big talk around big quit or great resignation happening in the USA. Many people call it a great inspiration. These people seem to be stretching themselves to see what is happening in the outside world. Sometimes, taking a career break has become a big thing. The tide is really slowly turning in career development that you can take a break to go do what you love- climb mountains, do yoga, etc.   Doyin: Would you like to share the top seven skills that learning and development professionals must have right now?  Lisa

    35 min
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Welcome to The Performance Tools Podcast, a bi-monthly podcast hosted by Doyin Adebayo, your Performance Advisor. It's a unique podcast designed for Business Professionals, Entrepreneurs, C-Level Executives, and Top-Level Decision Makers to help accelerate their learning in Leadership, Career Management, Human Capital Development, and Performance. Each episode runs approximately 60 minutes long or less. Listeners will get critical insights from in-depth conversations Doyin holds with some of the world’s top business leaders, best-selling authors, and thinkers.

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  • Creator
    Doyin Adebayo
  • Years Active
    2022 - 2023
  • Episodes
    9
  • Rating
    Clean
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    © Doyin Adebayo
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    The Performance Tools

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