The OrgHealth Podcast

OrgHealth

Go under the surface on organizational health and on how to build a thriving culture in your leadership team—at the board and executive levels. In conversations with business coaches and consultants Jim Brown and Margot Thompson, you'll hear real life stories, get practical steps to implement on your team, and demystify the essential elements in every wildly successful company's culture: organizational health. With new episodes every Thursday and downloadable resources for each episode, The OrgHealth Podcast is here to help you grow and navigate your role as a leader.

  1. 04/02/2020

    Humble, Hungry, Smart Leadership Teams

    Hiring and firing are… expensive, among other adjectives. Pat Lencioni’s book, The Ideal Team Player, provides a simple but incredibly helpful framework that can help leaders find the right people to join their teams, and also works as a great tool for reflection and growth. In this episode, Jim and Margot discuss the model and share stories and tips for how you can use this tool not only to find the ideal team players, but to become the ideal leadership team.   What you’ll learn: The “Ideal Team Player” model [01:53]What does it mean to be a Humble team member? [03:34]What does it mean to be a Hungry team member? [04:53]What does it mean to be a Smart team member? [05:24]How to apply the three traits to ourselves  [08:52]How to spot when one or more of the traits are missing [08:39]How to use Humble, Hungry, Smart in hiring [14:48]How to use Humble, Hungry, Smart in team development [19:33]    - - -  Let us know if you have follow-up questions about this episode or other leadership team and organizational health topics! We will plan them into future episodes.    Subscribe for new episodes every Thursday.    Connect with the hosts:  Jim Brown’s LinkedIn – http://bit.ly/2Fqs9LU  Margot Thompson’s LinkedIn – http://bit.ly/2FvFJh2    Listen at:  Apple Podcasts – http://apple.co/2vwAY59  Google Podcasts – http://bit.ly/3ca0nT0   Spotify – http://spoti.fi/36xgtlp   Stitcher – http://bit.ly/2O6DCVo     As always, you can listen to more and read more at www.orghealth.coach, subscribe to our email list, or follow us on social media.

    24 min
  2. 03/19/2020

    How to Run Weekly Tactical Meetings Pt 1

    It's not surprising that leadership teams abandon weekly meetings—it's so rare to see teams running these meetings effectively! In this episode, Margot and Jim present the framework which leans on the Thematic Goal and gives leadership teams the ability to run productive, energized weekly meetings together in just 90 minutes. We'll take two episodes to cover this topic, so make sure you listen in for both!   What you’ll learn: What is a weekly tactical meeting? [00:00:57]What’s a thematic goal? [00:02:37]How do you run a tactical meeting? [00:04:17]What’s the “lightning round”? [00:05:07]How do you use the tactical meeting scoreboard? [00:05:41]How do you set the agenda for a tactical meeting? [00:08:20] Download a free tactical meeting scorecard template to fill and use for your leadership team at www.orghealth.coach/tools.   - - -  Let us know if you have follow-up questions about this episode or other leadership team and organizational health topics! We will plan them into future episodes.  Subscribe for new episodes every Thursday.    Connect with the hosts: Jim Brown’s LinkedIn – http://bit.ly/2Fqs9LU Margot Thompson’s LinkedIn – http://bit.ly/2FvFJh2  Listen at: Apple Podcasts – http://apple.co/2vwAY59 Google Podcasts – http://bit.ly/3ca0nT0  Spotify – http://spoti.fi/36xgtlp  Stitcher – http://bit.ly/2O6DCVo   As always, you can listen to more and read more at www.orghealth.coach, subscribe to our email list, or follow us on social media.

    11 min
  3. 02/27/2020

    Vulnerability & Leadership

    The paradigm shift in society and our workforce in the past twenty years means that using the old model of leaders presenting themselves as impenetrable, perfect, and having all the answers no longer works. Margot and Jim get very candid as they talk about the ways they are seeing vulnerability impact leadership teams and how leaders can enter into it more.   What you’ll learn: A common misconception about vulnerability [00:01:02]Where to begin with embracing vulnerability at the leadership level [00:03:01]Why a lack of vulnerability in leadership decreases effectiveness in our current corporate climate [00:04:42]A vulnerability exercise to do with your leadership team [00:08:04]Why it’s important for the whole leadership team to embrace vulnerability together — and how [00:10:18]The impact that embracing vulnerability can have on your team’s effectiveness [00:16:38]    - - -  Let us know if you have follow-up questions about this episode or other leadership team and organizational health topics! We will plan them into future episodes.  Subscribe for new episodes every Thursday.    Connect with the hosts:  Jim Brown’s LinkedIn – http://bit.ly/2Fqs9LU Margot Thompson’s LinkedIn – http://bit.ly/2FvFJh2  Listen at:  Apple Podcasts – http://apple.co/2vwAY59 Google Podcasts – http://bit.ly/3ca0nT0  Spotify – http://spoti.fi/36xgtlp  Stitcher – http://bit.ly/2O6DCVo   As always, you can listen to more and read more at www.orghealth.coach, subscribe to our email list, or follow us on social media.

    21 min
  4. 02/18/2020

    People-Focus vs Analysis-Focus, Part 3

    Correcting the imbalance on leadership teams is challenging, but possible. In the closing episode of our series on the dynamics of people-focus and analysis-focus, Jim and Margot share practical steps for how people-focus leaders can communicate their data to analysis-focus leaders, an exercise leadership teams can do to create better understanding of and value for each other's differences, and share some relevant examples. What you’ll learn: People-focus leaders in the C-suite don’t get the respect that analysis-focus leaders do, and they know it. It’s not a competence issue, but a wiring difference. [00:00:59-00:04:32]How can people-focus leaders communicate with analysis-focus leaders better, opening their eyes to see the insight being offered? [00:04:32-00:08:57]What could teams do together to improve communication and understanding both ways? [00:08:58-00:11:13]What’s one of the best ways to become better at communicating with a type that is different from you? [00:11:13-00:15:02]   - - -  Let us know if you have follow-up questions about this episode or other leadership team and organizational health topics! We will plan them into future episodes. Connect with the hosts: Margot Thompson’s LinkedIn: http://bit.ly/2FvFJh2 Jim Brown’s LinkedIn: http://bit.ly/2Fqs9LU As always, you can listen to more and read more at www.orghealth.coach, subscribe for email updates, or follow @orghealthcoach on social media.

    16 min

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Go under the surface on organizational health and on how to build a thriving culture in your leadership team—at the board and executive levels. In conversations with business coaches and consultants Jim Brown and Margot Thompson, you'll hear real life stories, get practical steps to implement on your team, and demystify the essential elements in every wildly successful company's culture: organizational health. With new episodes every Thursday and downloadable resources for each episode, The OrgHealth Podcast is here to help you grow and navigate your role as a leader.