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Episode 93 - The state of working from home
The shift to working from home during the pandemic has significantly...
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Episode 92 - Transitioning to a senior leadership role
A successful transition to leadership calls for a significant...
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Episode 91 - Are you focusing on the right things?
Salience (or what we choose to focus our attention on) has a...
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Episode 90 - Yes, Chef! Lessons from the professional kitchen
Kitchens – like any professional environment – need...
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Episode 89 - Keeping the peace when taking on a new leadership role
If you’re taking over as team leader, you need to have...
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Episode 88 - How to resolve workplace conflict
Workplace conflicts can arise from the most unexpected...
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Episode 87 - The four key drivers of peak team performance in 2024
Teams need to have a deep understanding of how...
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Episode 86 - How to get more from your team conversations
Team conversations are more effective when there’s...
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Episode 85 - Harnessing the power of silence
Silence can have a profound impact on our...
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Episode 84 - Detoxifying masculinity
Teams that embrace challenges and are open to new ideas...
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Episode 83 - How to clear an innovation roadblock
Teams that embrace challenges and are open to new ideas...
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Episode 82 - Contracts for collaboration
Contracts are so often focused on preparing for the worst...
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Episode 81 - Healing toxic workplaces
Toxic workplaces can have a devastating impact on individuals'...
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Episode 80 - Meet a psychologically safe, high-performing organisation
Creating a psychologically safe and high-performing organisation...
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Episode 79 - What non-technical teams can learn from developers
While there are plenty of stereotypes around software developer...
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Episode 78 - How evolution affects groups of animals, including humans
The study of animal behaviour and evolution can provide a surprising insight...
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Episode 77 - Autonomy: striking the right balance
A workplace with autonomy isn’t a utopia where everyone does whatever they want.
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Episode 76 - Putting differences aside to improve local democracy
Local activism and community engagement can lead to significant changes in local politics...
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Episode 75 - Psychological safety: how are teams doing?
Lots of teams are struggling when it comes to implementing psychological safety – particularly in areas like straight-talking...
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Episode 74 - How LADBible became a force for inclusion
Working together as a team can help a brand successfully transition and mature.
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Episode 73 - Season 6 review: with a little help from AI!
Embracing diversity, giving people autonomy, and working towards shared values with clarity...
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Episode 72 - Agreeing to disagree
Disagreements can quickly escalate into a fight for survival, triggering a limbic response in the brain that can lead to destructive behavior. But none of us...
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Episode 71 - What Simon Sinek could learn about irony in teams
There are plenty of leadership “gurus” who can simplify complex topics. But how often do we consider the accuracy of their statements? Lots has been written...
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Episode 70 - Holding your values as you scale
There comes a time when a startup moves to a scale-up, where small ideas take off and before you know it, you’ve got a hit on your hands. But with the highs...
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Episode 69 - Lessons in leadership from Fiji’s COVID response
When you’re managing a crises, you need well-structured governance and communication framework...
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Episode 68 - Diversity and inclusion: lessons from West Africa
Building a diverse and inclusive culture is a complex challenge, especially in a geographically and culturally...
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Episode 67 - When building a community, shared silence can be golden
Creating a community around a shared interest or passion can lead to unexpected outcomes.
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Episode 66 - What will happen when AI joins your team?
AI has the potential to revolutionise collaboration and teamwork, but it has limitations and potential biases we need to watch out for.
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Episode 65 - The ups and downs removing the hierarchy from a team
Removing hierarchy and implementing self-management in an organisation can be challenging, but it...
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Episode 64 - What your team can learn from neurodiversity
Embracing neurodiversity can bring valuable perspectives, innovation, and organisational endurance to teams.
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Episode 63 - The growing need for clarity
Teams need to prioritise creating and maintaining clarity, especially during times of disruption and uncertainty.
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Episode 62 - Disaster relief, community engagement and being an asset not a liability
In times of crisis, community collaboration can be a powerful force for relief efforts.
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Episode 61 - Turning a group into a team – Season 5 review
With the challenges of hybrid working and resource constraints, team leaders need to create a shared vision...
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Episode 60 - Purpose, people and football
If you want to build a community asset that promotes teamwork, communication, and resilience, focus on the positives..
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Episode 59 - Bringing teams together around human-centred design
Innovation is a team sport and design thinking is a team activity. A great team involves multiple disciplines...
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Episode 58 - Building a thriving culture from the outside in
When companies put the customer at the heart of their business and empower employees to improve...
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Episode 57 - What is the data telling us about psychological safety?
The latest dataset from Squadify reveals how teams rate psychological safety. Juliet Hammond joins Dan and Pia...
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Episode 56 - Building communities, the surreal way
“I don’t fit in”. It’s something everybody feels, at least at some point. We're all struggling to find our place.
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Episode 55 - Why “culture fit” may not be what you want
Organisations think a lot about culture “fit”. But inclusivity strategist Marsha Ramroop believes people need to think more
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Episode 54 - A boarding school on the water – the unique team dynamics of yachting
Whether you’re facing off against pirates or catering for celebrities, life on board a megayacht is about teamwork...
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Episode 53 - A team approach to health
Teams need clarity in order to function. Without clear leadership or a shared goal, people can feel unheard...
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Episode 52 - Coming back to a team
We too often prioritise work over our own needs. This is compounded if you have a disability that might...
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Episode 51 - Leading teams of volunteers
Real transformation comes from more than just money. Jim Goddard believes that investing time, talent...
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Episode 50 - The four-day-a-week team
When you don’t have a good work/life balance, you can begin to lose your identity outside of work.
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Episode 49 - Connecting together in 2023
Is the balance of power shifting from employee to employer? Is AI in danger of reducing our willingness to...
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Episode 48 - The importance of place
The workplace needs a rebrand. Design lead Doug Shapiro asked himself...
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Episode 47 - Creating a movement
Communities need a common goal to work towards. And even with that goal in place, how can we galvanise people together...
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Episode 46 - Courage of teams
When we’re buried in our todo lists, we can lack the courage to take bolder choices.
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Episode 45 - What can we learn from other animals?
When Dr Beki Hooper began to study rhesus macaques, she found less-than-flattering similarities...
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Episode 44 - Team leadership at altitude
For mountain guide Tania Noakes, leadership isn’t about giving commands, but is about collaborating.
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Episode 43 - The power of inclusion
We all believe diversity, equity and inclusion to be important, but bridging the gap between...
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Episode 42 - Getting outside
What happens when you grow a company from the ground up, and are then asked to leave?
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Episode 41 - Building psychological safety: a how-to guide
Psychological safety is made up of a number of tiny interactions. Whether they be Slack messages...
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Episode 40 - How to hybrid: tips from a long-distance team
For the first time in over a thousand days of Squadify and forty episodes of the podcast...
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Episode 39 - Curiosity in teams
Effective dialogue is the one thing getting in the way of senior teams. Listening is a fundamental...
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Episode 38 - Building trust for when you really need it
Community policing runs on trust, no matter the location. That trust flows...
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Episode 37 - Season 3 review: head, heart and guts
Leadership is equal parts head, heart, and guts. Joining Dan and Pia to look back on an...
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Episode 36 - Breaking out of the box – neurodiversity and connection
Undiagnosed autism can feel like a constant struggle to understand, and to be understood.
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Episode 35 - Emotional intelligence in teams
Human beings are designed to connect. Lockdowns showed us how much we valued connection...
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Episode 34 - Engaging communities
When Becky Malby discovered that her local water provider was dumping raw sewage
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Episode 33 - Emergency room teams
Accident and emergency nursing involves managing and working with ever-shifting teams, with people
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Episode 32 - Leading healthy teams
Where do you go to half a fast-tracked career and make some quick cash? For Stephen Hunt...
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Episode 31 - Bringing our baggage to teams
We all carry our psychological histories on our backs, and the weight of those feelings...
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Episode 30 - Generative leadership in teams
There is a void of leadership following the pandemic, and everything feels uncertain.
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Episode 29 - Happiness in teams
If you look after your employees, your customers will be happier, and you’ll make more money.
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Episode 28 - Connecting to heal
Husband-and-wife team Kristy and James Thomas have both suffered profound and untimely loss...
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Episode 27 - Coaching challenging teams
Jackie Weaver became an Internet sensation in February 2022, when her handling of a parish council meeting...
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Episode 26 - Teams in disaster relief
Expertise can allow us to flourish in our comfort zones, but when thrust into a new environment...
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Episode 25 - Season 2 retrospective
Dan and Pia kick off season three with a look back at the previous season, with help from special guest Lucy Hovanec.
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Episode 24 - The Great Retention: how teams get people to stay
For Chief HR Officer Suni Lobo, psychological safety is key to teams feeling like...
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Episode 23 - Community teams
If one member of a team isn’t working towards the common goal, they won’t succeed.
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Episode 22 - Data from the heart
How do we create moments to reset? Just like a Formula 1 car pulling...
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Episode 21 - Individual identity in teams
Amid various models of team management, it’s important to remember that...
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Episode 20 - Critical team
Pia and Dan are joined by Martin Bromiley OBE, airline captain, charity trustee...
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Episode 19 - From the frontline of firefighting
Pia and Dan are joined by former corporate worker and now voluntary firefighter...
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Episode 18 - Building the right team culture
Dan and Pia explore creating safe cultures for people to thrive, with consultant Kevin Brownsey.
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Episode 17 - Teams in adversity: lessons from war and politics
Jim Molan spent 40 years in the army from the age of 17. Since retiring from the army in 2008...
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Episode 16 - Teams in the met averse
What is the future of remote team collaboration? Do we continue with Zoom meetings...
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Episode 15 - Mental health in teams
For over a year Chuck Anderson underwent a battery of tests to find out why he was feeling...
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Episode 14 - The jazz ensemble: the ultimate team?
Professional double-bassist Craig Scott of the Sydney Conservatorium joins...
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Episode 13 - Season 1 review and the conditions for success in 2022
In their first episode of season two, Dan and Pia explore the three Cs needed for success: clarity, climate and competence...
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Episode 12 - Compassion, Actually
When you help people help, you help people hope. Gillian Coutts, Country Director at Potential Project...
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Episode 11 - Diversity in teams
For global leadership consultant Sahera Sumar, "diversity is a fact, but inclusion...
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Episode 10 - Customer-centric teams
Customer-centric companies are laser-focused on providing great experiences for their customers.
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Episode 9 - Agile teams
Every member of a squad is of equal value, regardless of their department, seniority, or pay scale.
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Episode 8 - Teamwork on set
Actor Erik Thomson is no stranger to being part of a team, whether that be on the production set...
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Episode 7 - What teams can learn from sport
Sports teams have been evaluating their effectiveness for a long time, with the singular goal...
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Episode 6 - Bringing head and heart to teams
Lucy Hovanec is the General Manager of Delivery Phase Services at GHD, a 10,000 strong...
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Episode 5 - Clarity at speed
Google iterates in 30-minute increments, which is part of why this massive company is able...
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Episode 4 - Three things sales teams need to do to be more effective
This week, Dan and Pia are joined by Anna Britnor Guest, who has over 30 years of technology...
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Episode 3 - Psychological safety in teams
This week, Pia and Dan discuss psychological safety with Dr Jessica Tonissen...
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Episode 2 - Teams in a work-from-anywhere world
Empathic leadership is what's needed in a globally-distributed workforce, and replacing...
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Episode 1 - Why teams?
Dan and Pia speak to Rob Metcalfe – a former commando now leadership consultant and team...