#onethingseries: Tribes, Optimal Performance, & Compassionate Leadership w/ Christine Comaford
Don’t miss this leadership interview with Christine Comaford. Christine’s coaching, consulting, and strategies have created hundreds of billions of dollars in new revenue and company value for her clients. The potent neuroscience techniques she teaches are easy to learn and immediately applicable to help leaders see into their blind spots, expand their vision, and more effectively influence outcomes.
Christine was recently named one of the Top 50 Human Behavior Experts to Follow in 2017. She is also one of the Global Employee Engagement Influencers. As an entrepreneur, she has built and sold 5 of her own businesses with an average of 700% return on investment. She has served as a board director or an in-the-trenches advisor to 36 startups. Christine has consulted to the White House twice (Clinton and Bush), 700 of the Fortune 1000, and over 300 small and medium-sized businesses. She has repeatedly identified and championed key trends and technologies years before market acceptance, due in part to her work as a software engineer in the early days of Microsoft, Apple, and Adobe.
Christine is a leadership columnist for www.Forbes.com and she lectures at Harvard Business School. She has appeared on Good Morning America, CNN, CNBC, MSNBC, FOX Business Network, PBS, and CNET. And the Stanford Graduate School of Business has done two case studies on her unconventional rise to success as a woman with neither a high school diploma nor a college degree.
Her three bestselling business books are: Power Your Tribe: Create Resilient Teams in Turbulent Times, SmartTribes: How Teams Become Brilliant Together, and Rules for Renegades.
Her interview with TheSchoolHouse302 was incredibly insightful, all about building your tribe and much, much more.
- Christine identifies three critical areas that we are constantly craving as humans–Safety, Belonging, and Mattering. Listen to her breakdown these areas, including the 10 powerful questions you can ask to assess your own environment so that people are functioning at an optimal level.
- She talked about being open to learn by being still and finding silence. Paying attention to the Japanese concept of ma, the space between the noise that holds richness and value.
- She advises us to meditate. to slow down for inspiration and take control of our thinking, which is incessantly repetitive. Listen to her morning routine to make sure that you start your day off right.
- The one thing she said she wants to do is to be compassionate all the time, to meet people where they are and not where she may think they should be. Don’t miss it.
- She talks about the powerful work of Michael Singer and his incredible book, Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself. She also dives into the powerful, Outcome Frame, to help us understand what we truly want.
- Lastly, you can’t miss her emotional story about her mother and how she learned that stress can be controlled.
Christine’s interview is filled with practical advice for leaders and it really speaks to how we can behave and act to perform at higher levels and influence others to do the same. She reminds us to Power Your Tribe and build emotional resilience. To find out more visit: https://smarttribesinstitute.com/subscribe.
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#5thSunday: Year-End Reflection Infographic–R.E.F.L.E.C.T.
Every month at TheSchoolHouse302, you get a blog post with a leadership development model, a podcast with a leading expert, a “read this” with three book selections, and a review and reflection tool–all on a particular topic of leadership to help you lead better and grow faster. Posts are always blasted out on Sundays so that leaders can think and prepare for the week ahead.
In months when we have 5 Sundays, we also provide an infographic to help visualize and solidify the concept. This month, as we end our year, we want to R.E.F.L.E.C.T. on several powerful concepts to propel our success into the future of 2019. We hope you enjoy and Happy New Year.
As always, please like, follow, and comment. If you have topics of interest, guests you want us to interview, or books that we should read and recommend, please let us know that as well.
Joe & T.J.
As always, please like, follow, and comment. If you have topics of interest, guests you want us to interview, or books that we should read and recommend, please let us know that as well.
Joe & T.J.
#review&reflect: Teamwork
This is TheSchoolHouse302 monthly #review&reflect, wrapping up our focus on TEAMWORK.
Skills I need…
What skills do I need to master to create more effective teams?
Review: This month’s focus on teamwork was supported by a dynamic 5-point model that entails the key elements of effective teamwork: Prior Preparation, Shared Vision, Collaborative Spirit, Synergized Efforts, and Strong Trust. Each point of the model represents key aspects necessary for teams to be successful in achieving their goals and working together in harmony. Am essential function of the elements is that they build on one another and strengthen the overall function of the team as they work together to complete the teamwork model. For example, prior preparation is critical, but knowing what the team is preparing for through a clear and articulated vision guides all work. A simple question like, “does this decision drive us toward our vision?” gives your team guidance, courage, and support. The challenge for any team is to work as productively, efficiently, and as powerfully as possible. This model serves as a guide to ensure that all key areas of your team are intact and functioning at an optimal level.
Reflect: Each point of the model is critical for overall success and maximum effectiveness. While reviewing and considering each point, is there one that your team excels at and one your team needs to improve? For example, collaboration among team members is a necessity, but on its own collaboration doesn’t inspire creation; instead, collaboration is more of a function of your team, whereas synergy is the result of connectivity. We specifically separate the two in this TheSchoolHouse302 model because synergy is a byproduct of a highly functional collaborative team.
As a leader, are your teams synergized and creating incredible results?
How do I learn those skills…
What should I read to continually learn and grow if I want to lead highly successful teams?
Review: In our #readthisseries we featured the work of authors who we have found to demonstrate the TEAMWORK spirit. The three books we featured are:
Go Team by Ken Blanchard, Alan Randolph, and Peter Grazier
The Gold Standard by Mike Krzyzewski with Jamie K. Spatola
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni
You can’t miss our #readthisseries on teamwork. Watch it again here.
Reflect: Am I willing to learn and grow as a leader? Do I have a high functioning, transparent team, connected to all of the moving parts of the organization and to one another? As a leader, have you set a clear vision for those you supervise, your department, or organization?
Great leaders understand the power of reading, specifically reading books in context of a particular theme or idea to learn to lead better and grow faster. This month consider your team and how well they function. Based on the 5-point model, and using a 5-point scale, 1 being ineffective and 5 being highly effective, how well does your team do the following:
Who should I follow…
What does an expert have to say about teamwork?
Review: For our #onethingseries, we interviewed Joe Purzycki, former Vice Chairmen and COO of Barclaycard U.S., the 5th largest issuer of credit cards domestically. Before excelling in the boardroom, Joe was the first white man to be named head football coach of a historically black university.
Throughout this interview, Joe’s belief in people and the power of teams are clear. He reminds listeners that “…you can go fast alone, but you can go farther together.” It’s worth a second listen.
Reflect: Throughout the interview Joe discusses the power of trust to really build a great team in an award-winning organization. As a leader, how are you inspiring trust in your people? Who do you follow to learn to lead better through trust and empowerment?
That’s our #review&reflect for Teamwork. Take a look back to take a step forward.
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#readthisseries: Teamwork
You can’t miss this #readthisseries for books you need to read to lead better and grow faster. Teamwork really does make the dream work. Our model for teamwork is proven, and can take your team to the next level. These three books are perfect to get you leading better and growing faster in the area teamwork. Let us know what you think with a like, comment, or follow.
#onethingseries: Building Stronger Teams w/ Joe Purzycki
Failure only makes you stronger. ~ Joe Purzycki
Joe Purzycki was the Vice Chairman and Chief Operating Officer of Barclaycard, the 5th largest issuer of credit cards globally and the 9th largest issuer of credit cards domestically. Prior to joining Barclays, Mr. Purzycki was Executive Vice President of Chase Card Services and a member of the Card Services Senior Management Team. Mr. Purzycki managed the Business Development Segment, which was responsible for partnerships with companies like Disney, Amazon.com, Starbucks, and Sony.
Before his time in the executive office of some of the largest banks in America, and after receiving his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from University of Delaware, Joe went on to become the head football coach at Delaware State University and James Madison University. And with a decade of coaching experience, which includes an appointment as the first white man to be named head coach of a historically black university, Joe continues to thrive in the leadership arena.
Joe Pyrzycki has been inducted into the State of Delaware Sports Hall of Fame, the State of Delaware African American Hall of Fame, the University of Delaware Alumni Hall of Fame, the New Jersey Athletics Hall of Fame, and the University of Delaware’s Athletics Hall of Fame. Needless to say, Joe is an expert in the field of developing and winning with incredible teams and that’s why he joined us for a great conversation about teamwork…and much more.
- No matter the position, Joe reminds us that if you want to be a leader, you have to embrace a coaches mentality. He opens with a discussion on teamwork and the power of bringing people together. Joe acknowledges that “…you can go fast alone, but you can go far together.” His philosophy is grounded in the foundation that teams come together and move forward based on trust. Don’t miss as he retels his first days as the first ever white head coach of a historically black college in 1981. He describes the protests and how he, ultimately earned people’s trust.
- As someone who has created winning teams on the field and the boardroom, Joe describes how he has used the powerful work of Pat Lencioni and has hired The Table Group to help develop his own teams. He emphasizes the great work being done by Roselyn Torres of the Boston Consulting Group, and reinforces our need to anticipate change, develop diverse networks, abandon the past, and be courageous enough to explore new ideas.
- Purzycki tells our listeners that we need to be cognizant of our attitude and that we need to check our passion levels. He describes how to burn strong and burn slow with passion for greater success.
- Regarding what he still wants to accomplish in his lifetime, amid so much achievement, he talks about writing a book to help our great nation. He proposes a book about his experiences as the head football coach at an HBCU with the pure desire to give insight into how we might better unite as society. You can hear his disappointment in where we are in terms of a racial divide, and his belief that we truly can come together is inspiring. We’re buying that book, and it will be a #readthisseries selection.
- His answer to our #onethingseries personal growth question is incredible. He talks about how he lives a life of discovery, whether from great books or by surrounding himself around fantastic people. Don’t miss it.
- Joe used to think that losing is fatal and that losing is final. For years in the corporate world, he witnessed countless people suffer from the thought that failure was final. He shared how he truly learned that failure is really what we make of it and that he was inspired by the words of Nelson Mandela: “I never lose. I either win or learn.”
Life is discovery, you can’t stop learning. ~ Joe Purzycki
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