Team Guru Podcast

Jason T. Smith is a very impressive chap. He has done not one or two but three related but separate things in the professional world that are very impressive. You’ll hear a little about Jason’s story along the way but you’ll also notice that he doesn’t want to get bogged down patting himself on the back about what he’s achieved. He’s already looking to the next big thing. A function of who he is, I guess. Through his career, Jason has noticed some fundamental flaws in the way we typically approach building a business and leading teams. Through trial and error he’s designed a better way. He’s turned things outside in and upside down. And he tells a fabulous story along the way.

Are you are a fully formed adult? Have you got your act together? Are you mature? Well developed? Easy to work with? This concept of fully formed adult is a simple one. But peel back the layers and it becomes a powerful tool for thinking about ourselves. My guest in this episode is Dominic Price. Dominic wrote a terrific, short article about the concept of fully formed adult that got my attention. What does it mean to be a fully formed adult? What are the traits, the elements, the themes.

In this episode we’re going to chat about something very close to my heart. Communication. It can be a tired, well-worn topic. But my guest today is going deliver some fresh insights about how to revolutionize communication inside your business. My guest for this conversation is Jen Jackson. She is the founder of Jaxzyn, a company devoted to improving how professionals talk to one another. We share a passion for what communication could be. Powerful. Engaging. Fun. Fresh. And we share a passionate dislike for what communication within organisations so often becomes. Rushed. Boring. Formal. It's jargon laden rubbish. Jen reveals what we can do to identify bad communication and how to re-think it. She believes we can create comms that makes people stand up and take notice and want to e involved. I hope you enjoy my conversation with Jen Jackson.

Today is a very special episode of the show. After four years we’ve finally reached our 100th episode. And we have a special guest. David Frizzell! David has a really unique story to share. He started his career as a teacher but ended up in the corporate world helping to create better teamwork through his company Team Guru. He has a lot of important ideas about how to make teams work better together. It's a simple idea but one that most companies are woefully bad at. Over the next hour David and I are going to talk about some of those ideas. And we’re going to reflect back on the last 100 hours of podcast episodes he’s created. I hope you enjoy this special episode of the Team Guru podcast.

Everybody hates meetings. Everyone has experienced sitting bored wondering why you have to be there. How have we let them get so bad? Why are they so bad? My guest this week has some answers.Donna McGerge is a speaker and consultant and the author of a brand new book The 25 Minute Meeting.

My guest is author and advisor extraordinaire Bryan Whitfield. Bryan has designed a series of beautifully simple concepts and models that help us organise our thoughts, develop our awareness, and focus our communication. Being a trusted advisor - a person who’s insight is valued an acted upon, is an incredible professional position to be in. And Bryan is going to help you get there.

If only life came with a set of instructions. What a great concept. I’m not sure we’d all follow them or if many of us would even read them. But it’d be nice to know they were there. But there not or perhaps, they we not, until now. Here at the Team Guru podcast I get a lot of books come my way. But the one belonging to Lisa Stephenson, my guest in this episode, jumped out at me from the moment I saw it. It’s title Read Me First. Is simple and intriguing. So I read it. And found inside I found a fabulous story, wonderfully written about a women piloting herself through life. And learning a bunch of heavy lessons along the way. Through the pages of her book, I could feel Lisa’s personality. Her tenacity, her intelligence, and her energy. And that’s exactly what I found when I chatted to her for this episode. Lisa has taken the lessons she has extracted from life. She’s made sense of them, and found a way to share them so we can make a little more sense of our own lives.

David has an announcement for our 100th anniversary special. We are going to record an episode featuring your questions! We're going to talk about everything from David's favourite guest, his most important lesson and how he puts the show together each week. Send your questions to David before March 15th to: Email: hi@teams.guru LinkedIn : https://au.linkedin.com/in/david-frizzell-0b171a3a Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/teams.guru/

In the first part of my conversation with Dr. Ron Ehrlich we talked about how unhealthy we have become. And he identified some of the main culprits behind those illnesses. He also did a good job of reigning in my frustration at te government authorities who are supposed to be protecting us from those causes. What it all comes down to according to Dr. Ron is that our health is our own responsibility. Growing frustrated isn’t going to do much to change things.

For decades Dr. Ron Ehrlich has made it his mission to help people to take control of their health. There are increasingly worrying signs about the state of our bodies. Rates of Cancer and obesity have reached near epidemic levels. Prescription drug abuse and autoimmune diseases debilitate or kill hundreds of thousands of Australians every years. Modern life has also taken a major psychological toll on all of us.

My guest in this episode is Darren Fleming and he can help you work it out. Darren has written a book called simply Don’t be a D!ck. Not only does he describe the type of behaviour that puts you into that category he also gives us some really simple, water tight guidelines that we can all follow to ensure that we do not act like a dick.

What is your digital strategy? Today on the show we’ve invited someone who has some answers. Anthony Stevens has the ability to simplify the complex. Anthony is a former partner in KPMG and founder and CEO of Digital Asset Ventures. He’s also the author of the new book Chasing Digital: A Playbook for the New Economy.

Today we’re going to talk about one of the most important skill a leader can have. Asking questions. My guest is Corrinne Armour. In her new book Corrinne mounts an impressive case that leaders who ask questions build fearless team cultures. A culture where people take accountability for their work, develop their ability to think and grow as professionals.

We have all experienced the gap that exists between strategy and execution. There’s a big difference between the big wigs that sit in a room and dream up the future and the people on the ground who are going to make it happen. In fact, you could present a case that the gap between strategy and execution is the dominant dynamic in most organisations.

Help is on the way. Rose Bryant-Smith and Grevis Beard are the authors of a new book Fix Your Team. The book is subtitled the tools you need to rebuild relationships, address conflict and stop destructive behaviours. It’s chock full of fantastic insights into the way teams work. And it reveals the common things that can go wrong – and the things we can do as leaders to fix them.

Today’s show is all about customer service. I've invited Jaquie Scammell onto the show. Jacquie is a customer service expert and she’s been plying her trade all around the world.

Michelle Gibbings spends a lot of time thinking about how to make more of our careers. n this conversation Michelle shares with us her thoughts about the way careers are changing but most importantly the things we can do to prepare ourselves for those changes.

This episode is interesting for a couple of reasons. We’re talking about workplace flexibility which has became an obsession for many of us. Our lives our full and we live in a time when expectations are very different from when the 9-5 was invented. If rigid workplace expectations were ever relevant those days are long over. The other reason this podcast is interesting is that for the first time ever I’m speaking with my wife. Sally Rayner is a general manager in a large resource company and has a global role spread over multiple time zones. She is also the mother to three children and it’s that reason that has inspired her quest to build a different kind of working life. We were invited to speak at an event sponsored by Women in Resources and Mining Queensland. The WINMARQ audience was really receptive to the discussion and I hope you enjoy it as much possible.

In this episode of the team guru podcast we are going to get down to the nitty-gritty of being a great leader. Scott Stein is the author of a brand new book called leadership hacks. It's a clever shortcut to boost your impact and results. These leadership hacks will make you a more impressive and effective leader.

Have you ever wondered what it’s like to be on a board. A serious corporate board. Alison Kitchen is the National Chairman of KPMG to join me for a conversation about her 35 years with that company.