Connected Teamwork Podcast

Hylke Faber, Carson Heady

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How do I build a high performing team that people want to stay part of? It’s about courageous connectedness. It goes beyond IQ and EQ. It’s about having team members be deeply connected to themselves, each other and their purpose together. In the Connected Teamwork podcast, we explore with leaders from all kinds of teams how to build deep connectedness by growing through the most challenging team moments.

May 19

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Keep it Zen Short and Simple. Connected Communication Practice #7. Silence is the sacred pause between stimulus and response where truth breathes. Our ego wants to fill this space: be seen, claim its stake. This gets in the way of really being in conversation with the other. Being brief requires us to consider what we really need to say. We practice WAIT: Why Am I Talking? We say what we need to say and then ask a question. What do you think? How does this land with you? Silence can be uncomfortable. Instead of filling it with yet another paragraph of our own making, we can choose Presence. Presence magnetizes deeper reflection, also in the other. This is how silence facilitates truth and togetherness.

31 min
Apr 28

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Share with Humility. Share in Chunks. Connected Communication Practice #6 It’s much easier to lose each other in conversation than to move together, especially when stressed. Sharing in bitesize chunks helps the other person stay on the same page with us. Chris Argyris’ Ladder of Inference tells us to share the facts, then interpretations, then opinions, then decisions and actions and to keep checking in with the other person along the way. How is this landing with you? What do you think? Asking simple questions throughout as opposed to doing a long monologue helps people to walk up the Ladder of Inference with you. And stay humble. Only share your opinion as opinion, not as fact. Stay curious about the other person’s perspective. Curiosity is the energy that brings us together and help discover what didn’t exist, at least not yet in our minds, before we started the conversation.

29 min
Apr 8

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Choose Altitude. Don’t Nosedive Choosing the level the conversation is an act of leadership. It can be a brave one if there are competing priorities. Important to mitigate the tendency to do a fly-over, and avoid the core issue, or nosedive into the details forgetting the larger context. We set a powerful altitude by asking ourselves: what is of service here and what do we need to talk about today? Sometimes altitude can shift during a conversation. Be guided by what is most important to speak about now. We are spending valuable human time. How do we best spend it? Keep a steady, purposeful leadership hand on the wheel, being of service, keeping the larger purpose in mind and integrating what is important to the people in the room.

29 min
Mar 10

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Connected Communication Practice #4: Connect before sharing Context and Content Building connectedness at the outset of any conversation provides the foundation from which to have the conversation. Without connection to each other as human beings, we tend to fall back into reactive patterns: overexplaining, overpreparing, not listening, avoiding the hard issues or just railroading over others. Establishing relationship at the outset creates safety. It sets both people up to let their guards down. Next is context. Share what you are wanting to speak about and ask the other person if they are willing to have this conversation now. Asking for the opt-in creates buy-in and collaboration. Connecting is like opening the door, setting context is explaining the room and content is getting into the room together.

30 min
Feb 4

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Share Your Authentic Truth with Deep Honesty and Kindness Holding back uncomfortable feelings and thoughts creates unrest, tension and distrust. How do we share our truth even when it is uncomfortable? Enter the practice of Authentic Truth Distillation. Notice what you are feeling and thinking. Don’t just blurt it out. Be aware of where you are in judgment and trying to control. Let that go. Pause: Postpone Action till Satya (truth) Emerges. Share your truth with deep honesty, kindness and humility. You don’t have the whole truth, only your perspective. Share it as such. Stuck in the middle of a conflict? Take a deep breath, pause. Maybe simply say: “I feel something about this I need to process.”

32 min
Feb 4

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Go to the Beach. Be in Appreciative Presence a 10 On a scale from 1 to 10 how present are you now? A 1 equals being totally distracted and a 10 is being totally here. Being present at work, in meetings, in life in general is a choice. Probably one of the most important choices we have as leaders and team members. Not being present, we likely feel stressed, maybe in some kind of judgment of the other and/or lost in completing a task and not seeing the bigger picture. Being present, we may experience a sense of groundedness and well-being, we recognize others as just like us, human beings with feelings and thoughts, and we become more connected to our purpose. From presence we create flow. Even if we are not quite sure what to say, we can always come back to choice number one: being present. From presence we see more clearly and insights and conversation flow more naturally.

32 min
11/12/2025

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The 1% Principle Connected Communication Practice #1 Who do you choose to be in the conversation no matter how the other person reacts? Enter the power of the 1% principle: focus on what you can control and let go of your attachment to what you cannot control, the 99%. Being grounded in our intentions, for example of being deeply honest, deeply kind and deeply of service, we stay more focused on what we are trying to achieve, not distracted by our ego validation needs. Being grounded in our intentions gives us the freedom to be ourselves. This gives us space to breathe, be honest and also to empathize. We don’t need to be right. We are willing to listen to the other person. Free from the need to be right, we gain the freedom of learning together.

31 min
10/22/2025

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Support & UpliftAppreciating others is the oxygen for relationship and performance. “I have some feedback for you.” When we hear this, we tend to have some anxiety. That’s why letting people know that we value them, that we have their back, is so important, especially when giving feedback. It reminds people that they are valued and have something to contribute. Even the hardest feedback needs to be given from an atmosphere of appreciation: I see your higher intelligence, potential, purpose and needs, and I want to help you realize more of it. When was the last time you appreciated someone else? Giving appreciation lights up energy in both the give and receiver. As the Buddha said: “If you light a lamp for somebody, it will also brighten your path.”

31 min

How do I build a high performing team that people want to stay part of? It’s about courageous connectedness. It goes beyond IQ and EQ. It’s about having team members be deeply connected to themselves, each other and their purpose together. In the Connected Teamwork podcast, we explore with leaders from all kinds of teams how to build deep connectedness by growing through the most challenging team moments.

Creator

Hylke Faber, Carson Heady
Years Active

2022 - 2026
Episodes

88
Rating

Clean
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Connected Teamwork Podcast