With Great People: High-Performance Teams

Richard Kasperowski
With Great People: High-Performance Teams

With Great People is the podcast for high-performance teams. We interview the best team leaders in the world. They share tips for listeners to reproduce their success. Topics include the Core Protocols, Agile software development, Open Space Technology, team emotional intelligence, psychological safety, and more. Subscribe today and hear workshops, class segments, and interviews about awesome teams.

  1. Tito Jackson: How Adding More Cowbell Can Be the Prescription for Your Team's Fever

    09/27/2022

    Tito Jackson: How Adding More Cowbell Can Be the Prescription for Your Team's Fever

    In this episode, Richard interviews Tito Jackson. Tito is an entrepreneur, founder of Apex Noire, and a former City Councilor of the City of Boston. He tells us how to inspire cultural dedication to goals within your team and gives us a taste of his secret management sauce - Cowbell Fridays. When you finish listening to the episode, find Tito on Instagram or Twitter, or email him at tito@apexnoire.com. You can read the transcript of the entire episode at https://kasperowski.com/podcast-92-tito-jackson/.

    49 min
  2. Dr. Dave Cornelius: How Having Fun and Building Trust Makes Teams Resilient and Successful

    09/13/2022

    Dr. Dave Cornelius: How Having Fun and Building Trust Makes Teams Resilient and Successful

    In this episode, Richard interviews Dr. Dave Cornelius. Dr. Dave is a lean and agile catalyst leading and empowering others to achieve their best. He is the author of several books, including Belonging and Healing: Creating awesomeness for yourself and others and Deliver Value: Happy contributing people, Satisfied customers, and Thriving business. Dr. Dave is a founder of the 5 Saturdays Agile education outreach program that enables high school students to experience technology and business careers through an interactive summer workshop. He tells us how building trust among your team members will build trust among your clients and customers. When you finish listening to the episode, connect with Dr. Dave Cornelius on his website at https://davecornelius.us. You can read the transcript of the entire episode at https://kasperowski.com/podcast-91-dr-dave-cornelius/.

    29 min
  3. Jessica Kerr: How Some Shared Fun Time Increases Your Team's Productivity

    08/02/2022

    Jessica Kerr: How Some Shared Fun Time Increases Your Team's Productivity

    In this episode, Richard interviews Jessica Kerr. Jessica is a software developer, popular public speaker, and a symmathecist. She tells us about symmathesy and observability and how they make our world develop faster and more harmoniously.  When you finish listening to the episode, connect with Jessica on Twitter, visit her website at https://jessitron.com, or chat with her during her office hours at https://www.honeycomb.io/devrel/observability-office-hours/. You can read the transcript of the entire episode at https://kasperowski.com/podcast-90-jessica-kerr/.

    44 min
  4. Sally Elatta: Here Are 5 Factors That Will Guarantee Your Team's High Performance

    07/19/2022

    Sally Elatta: Here Are 5 Factors That Will Guarantee Your Team's High Performance

    In this episode, Richard interviews Sally Elatta, CEO and founder of AgilityHealth. Sally tells us how leadership is just another way of serving a team and how leading from a place of love keeps the team engaged and focused. She also shares with us the top 5 predictors of a team's high performance. When you finish listening to the episode, connect with Sally on LinkedIn and visit agilityhealthradar.com. You can read the transcript of the entire episode at https://kasperowski.com/podcast-89-sally-elatta/.

    19 min
  5. Andrea Ippolito: How to Bind Your Team With Friendship and Trust

    07/05/2022

    Andrea Ippolito: How to Bind Your Team With Friendship and Trust

    In this episode, Richard interviews Andrea Ippolito, CEO and Founder of SimplyFed. SimplyFed is an organization supporting families in feeding their babies. Andrea was a part of and led many teams, including as the Director of the Department of Veteran's Affairs Innovators Network and as a Presidential Innovation Fellow at the White House. She tells us how the sense of shared vision and friendship among team members brings the ability to communicate freely, even disagreements, and push the team forward faster and better. When you finish listening to the episode, connect with Andrea on Twitter and visit SimplyFed's website.

    25 min
  6. Lisette Sutherland: How to Build Strong Personal Connections in a Remote Team

    06/21/2022

    Lisette Sutherland: How to Build Strong Personal Connections in a Remote Team

    In this episode, Richard interviews Lisette Sutherland. Lisette is an author and keynote speaker, helping people work remotely successfully. She's also the founder of the online community Virtual Team Talk, the host of the Collaboration Superpowers podcast, and the founder and director of the Collaboration Superpowers consulting firm. Lisette tells us about the importance of personal connections in the workplace and how to foster them in remote teams. When you finish listening to the episode, check out Lisette's website, visit collaborationsuperpowers.com, and give a listen to her podcast. You can read the transcript of the entire episode at https://kasperowski.com/podcast-87-lisette-sutherland/.

    32 min
  7. Claire DeMarco: How To Bring Your Team To Perfection With the Core Protocols

    06/07/2022

    Claire DeMarco: How To Bring Your Team To Perfection With the Core Protocols

    In this episode, Richard interviews Claire DeMarco. Claire is the Director of Information Discovery Services at the Harvard Library. She led multiple high-performance teams, including the one that made Harvard University Libraries available to virtually anyone in the world. She tells us how the Core Protocols helped her teams to achieve successes and what to expect when these successes get noticed. When you finish listening to the episode, connect with Claire on Twitter, and check out her writings at medium.com. You can read the transcript of the episode at https://kasperowski.com/podcast-86-claire-demarco/.

    36 min
  8. Patricia Kong: How to Get From an Average to a Great Team With Emotional Intelligence

    05/24/2022

    Patricia Kong: How to Get From an Average to a Great Team With Emotional Intelligence

    In this episode, Patricia Kong comes back to the show and turns the tables on Richard, asking him questions. Patricia Patricia leads Enterprise and Leadership Solutions at scrum.org. She is a public speaker, coach, a co-author of The Nexus Framework for Scaling Scrum, and a co-developer of the Evidence-Based Management Framework.  Patricia recently invited Richard to scrum.org to present a webinar on core protocols for psychological safety and emotional intelligence. During this interactive session, some important questions remained open, so Patricia came to get her answers!  When you finish listening to the episode, connect with Patricia on LinkedIn, and visit scrum.org, where you can check out Richard's webinar.  You can read the transcript of the episode at https://kasperowski.com/podcast-85-patricia-kong/.

    56 min
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With Great People is the podcast for high-performance teams. We interview the best team leaders in the world. They share tips for listeners to reproduce their success. Topics include the Core Protocols, Agile software development, Open Space Technology, team emotional intelligence, psychological safety, and more. Subscribe today and hear workshops, class segments, and interviews about awesome teams.

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