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[Previously Culture by Design] The leader is the #1 factor in determining organizational success. If you want to become an effective leader, you have three objectives: First, learn to lead yourself. Then, learn how to unlock the full potential of your team. Finally, build a business where culture is your competitive advantage and innovation is the status quo.

  1. 6 DAYS AGO

    What You Need to Know About Project Aristotle

    When Google set out to discover what makes a high-performing team in 2012, researchers expected to uncover a set of individual demographics, characteristics, or personality traits that made each team great. What they realized, however, was that it was the interactions of a team that determined its effectiveness. But while Google's Project Aristotle made the critical link between psychological safety and high performance, their research did little to teach leaders how to foster psychological safety on their teams. In this podcast episode, our hosts give you the practical tools you need to put Project Aristotle's findings into actual practice. Episode Chapters:01:28 - The Research Premise06:56 - The Findings12:40 - Psychological Safety as a Unifying Term15:55 - Project Aristotle's Shortcomings17:12 - Psychological Safety's Behavioral Mechanism23:56 - The L.I.V.E. Model for Teams 28:43 - The 4 Stages of Psychological Safety For the full learning experience, watch the episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/xLsOjAsUbZoOr download the episode resources: https://www.leaderfactor.com/resources/what-you-need-to-know-about-project-aristotle

    34 min

  2. AUG 27

    7 Things Psychological Safety Is Not

    If you want to implement a psychological safety initiative in your organization, you'll need to explain what psychological safety isn't. Why? Because your culture won't change unless it's built on a shared understanding. Psychological safety isn’t artificial niceness or a lack of accountability. Unless you clarify, stakeholders might think it’s a gimmick or dismiss it because of the baggage of the implied definition of the term. They'll need to know what psychological safety isn’t, along with what it is. On this week's episode of The Leader Factor, hosts Tim and Junior share the top 7 misconceptions of psychological safety and what to do about them. Episode Chapters(00:45) Start(03:53) Psychological safety isn't a shield from accountability.(05:06) Psychological safety isn't niceness. (06:30) Psychological safety isn't coddling. (07:55) Psychological safety isn't consensus decision-making. (09:45) Psychological safety isn't unearned autonomy. (13:28) Psychological safety isn't political correctness.(14:30) Psychological safety isn't rhetorical reassurance.  (16:26) Identifying The 4 Stages of Psychological Safety For the full learning experience, watch the episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/2cr1E4neXGIOr download the episode resources: https://www.leaderfactor.com/resources/7-things-psychological-safety-is-not

    21 min

  3. AUG 13

    What to Do With a Toxic Leader

    What are the HR best practices when it comes to toxic leadership? Should you coach the leaders? Or should you fire them? When it comes to toxicity, organizations often wait too long to get involved. Learn how to identify the symptoms of poor leadership and intervention strategies to preserve and protect your teams' cultural health. Episode Chapters:00:00 - Start00:40 - How common is toxicity in the workplace?04:07 - Toxicity is a spectrum of influence.11:48 - The definition of a toxic leader.13:55 - Identifying two types of toxic leaders.17:57 - Two organizational failure patterns.23:26 - Intervention strategies for both types of toxic leaders. ✅ Download the resources/slides from the episode: https://www.leaderfactor.com/resources/what-to-do-with-a-toxic-leader Or watch the video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/18zfabFNKBo

    35 min

  4. JUL 30

    Measuring Psychological Safety: What Most L&D Leaders Don't Realize

    Psychological safety is a cultural initiative that was made to be measured. It’s the best indicator of cultural health in your organization. Let’s talk about how to measure it effectively.  Every effective psychological safety assessment has these 5 things: (1) A valid, quantitative instrument.(2) Space for qualitative feedback.(3) Org-wide reports, team-level data.(4) Demographic data capability.(5) Built-in forward momentum.  Learn more about PSindex™: https://www.leaderfactor.com/psychological-safety-surveyWatch the episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/1ZM5ymESJ9gOr download the episode resources: https://www.leaderfactor.com/resources/measuring-ps-what-most-l-d-leaders-dont-realize

    32 min

  5. JUL 23

    Measuring EQ: What Most L&D Leaders Don't Realize

    Your career, business, and closest relationships are only as good as your emotional intelligence. And your ability to improve your EQ is only as good as your ability to measure it. Every effective EQ assessment has 5 things: (1) a valid, qualitative instrument, (2) multi-rater feedback, (3) real accountability mechanisms, (4) consideration of internal/external motivation, and (5) built-in forward momentum. In this episode of The Leader Factor, hosts Tim and Junior dive into an EQindex™ self-assessment sample report to discuss what to look for when evaluating emotional intelligence instruments and how to use an EQ assessment in a coaching scenario.  Watch the episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/ns1l3aQ37FILearn more about EQindex™: https://www.leaderfactor.com/eqindexDownload the episode resources: https://www.leaderfactor.com/resources/measuring-eq-what-most-l-d-leaders-dont-realize

    39 min

  6. JUL 16

    Psychological Safety: The Collective EQ of a Team

    Psychological safety is the collective emotional intelligence of a team. This relationship between emotional intelligence and psychological safety is the anatomy of culture in an organization, and both should be at the foundation of all development efforts.  In this episode, hosts Tim and Junior share what they’ve learned after years of programming and sequencing both psychological safety and emotional intelligence training in major organizations worldwide, and how you can improve both at the individual, manager, and organization levels. For the full learning experience, watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/pS-G4iF4BGE Or download the episode resources: https://www.leaderfactor.com/resources/psychological-safety-the-collective-eq-of-a-team

    38 min

  7. JUL 9

    EQ & Social Regard: Do you actually care about your team?

    As leaders, we need to develop the type of intent necessary to have healthy influence. We need to ask ourselves the question: Do I actually care about my team? And if so, is that evident in my behavior, values, and interactions?  If we don't account for the fundamental beliefs a person has about themselves and others, we can easily promote, support, and encourage leaders with manipulative tendencies. Emotional intelligence frameworks that can’t account for the motivation and intent side of influence are broken from the get-go. In this episode of The Leader Factor, Tim and Junior share The Spectrum of Influence framework, discuss influence's two failure patterns, and share 5 tactical behaviors to improve your social regard as a leader. For the full learning experience, watch the episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/uu6FLZtc4gEOr download the episode resources: https://www.leaderfactor.com/resources/do-you-actually-care-about-your-team

    46 min

  8. JUL 1

    EQ: Your Delivery System

    Humans in the workplace engage in millions of daily interactions. Some are effective, and some, well, aren’t. Your emotional intelligence (EQ) determines your ability to interact effectively with other humans. It’s your delivery system through which you share your knowledge, experience, and skills with others. If your delivery system is broken or inefficient, your influence won’t translate or make the right impact. This means that to achieve high performance, you don’t just need great technical skills (IQ), you need a great delivery system (EQ). Some organizations promote leaders and managers based on their technical skills alone. These leaders lack the interpersonal skills (EQ) they need to contribute effectively while contributing indirectly. In this episode, hosts Tim and Junior discuss why leaders and managers are obligated to improve their interpersonal skills and emotional intelligence, and how to get started. If you're a manager and you're moving from direct to indirect contribution, if your primary job, purpose, and stewardship is to contribute indirectly through other people, then you have to improve your delivery system. There’s no other option. For the full learning experience, watch the episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/l77Og1MR_v8Or download the episode resources: https://www.leaderfactor.com/resources/eq-your-delivery-system

    35 min
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[Previously Culture by Design] The leader is the #1 factor in determining organizational success. If you want to become an effective leader, you have three objectives: First, learn to lead yourself. Then, learn how to unlock the full potential of your team. Finally, build a business where culture is your competitive advantage and innovation is the status quo.

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