With Great People: High-Performance Teams

Richard Kasperowski interviews Gil Broza. Gil is a mindset and leadership coach. He is well known for his books: The Agile Mind-Set and The Human Side of Agile. Recently, he authored a third book - Agile for Non-Software Teams, so our conversation went in that direction. We explore if it is possible for the managers - those well-known turf warriors and individualistic giants - to get together and perform as a homogenous team. When you finish listening to the episode, make sure to connect with Gil on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/gilbroza/?originalSubdomain=ca and visit his website at https://3pvantage.com, where you will find tons of free resources. Read the full transcript at kasperowski.com/podcast-32-gil-broza/.

In this episode, Richard talks about engagement. Who is responsible for keeping people engaged? How to do it? And how to bring the disengaged back into the circle? You can also read about this topic on Richard's blog at https://kasperowski.com/engagement-is-about-me-and-you/.

Richard Kasperowski interviews Linda Rising. Linda is an independent consultant and speaker with vast experience in telecommunications, avionics, and other industries. She is an author or a co-author of four books, including the Fearless Change: Patterns for Introducing New Ideas. Linda takes me on a tour of her eventful career and shares with me the lessons she learned along the way. When you finish listening to the episode, connect with Linda on Twitter at https://twitter.com/RisingLinda?lang=en and make sure to visit her website at www.lindarising.com. Read the full transcript at kasperowski.com/podcast-30-linda-rising/ ‎

In this episode, Richard introduces the Team Transformation Canvas, a new tool he created to help you transform your team. You can read more about it at https://kasperowski.com/team-transformation-canvas/. Read the full transcript at kasperowski.com/podcast-29-richard-kasperowski/ ‎

Richard Kasperowki interviews Rod Collins. Rod is the director of innovation at Optimity Advisors and innovation curator at Salt Flats. Rod and I talk about the collectivization of strategic leadership in the dynamic business environment of the 21st century. In the world of rapid innovation, we need all intellectual firepower we can get to discover things we had no clue existed! And that is where collective intelligence, or as Rod calls it, Wiki Management, kicks in. Connect with Rod on Twitter at https://twitter.com/collinsrod?lang=en and visit his page at https://optimityadvisors.com/about/leadership/rod-collins. Read the full transcript at https://kasperowski.com/podcast-28-rod-collins/ ‎

This episode is the first of a new series of solo pieces in which Richard will be sharing whatever he is thinking about at the moment related to great teams. Today we are talking about the necessity of rephrasing the 11th Core Commitment: "I will never do anything dumb on purpose". Read the full transcript at kasperowski.com/podcast-27-richard-kasperowski/ ‎

Richard Kasperowski interviews Jutta Eckstein. Jutta is an Agile coach, consultant, and trainer. She is the author of the books "Company-wide Agility", "Retrospectives for Organizational Change", and "Agile Software Development with Distributed Teams". Jutta and I chat about the importance of small rituals and striving to build great development teams. She then reveals to us the secrets of the Bossa Nova approach to business agility! Connect with Jutta on Twitter at https://twitter.com/JuttaEckstein or on LinkedIn at https://de.linkedin.com/in/juttaeckstein and visit her web-site at www.jeckstein.com. Read the full transcript at https://kasperowski.com/podcast-26-jutta-eckstein/ ‎

Richard Kasperowski Interviews Llewellyn Falco. Llewellyn is a technical coach specialized in rapid mob programming and in building remote teams. Llewellyn and I chat about the ways of growing, rather than engineering, successful teams. Llewellyn shares with us his insights about the importance of team chemistry, the ever-evolving team dynamics, and the paramount value of happiness at work. Connect with Llewellyn on Twitter at https://twitter.com/LlewellynFalco and check out his blog at http://llewellynfalco.blogspot.com/. Read the full transcript at https://kasperowski.com/podcast-25-llewellyn-falco/.

In this episode, Richard Kasperowski answers the questions! Back in March 2019, I was a guest on the radio show Morning Affair with Mark Bishop at 1030 KVOI-AM The Voice in Tucson, Arizona. We talked about team-building techniques in the IT industry, the importance of team building and challenges to it, and about my personal path in researching high-performance teams. Read the full transcript at kasperowski.com/podcast-24-richard-kasperowski.

This episode is an interview with Caitlin Walker. Caitlin is a specialist in creating the conditions for groups to collaborate, which is her modest way of saying that she is the world’s leading expert on Clean Language and Systemic Modeling. As Caitlin says during our conversation, "A really good team is rare. If you’re in one, celebrate it. They’re really precious. An exceptional team is such an amazing experience to be in. So don’t be so busy that you let it pass you by. ... Life and work don’t get any better than this.” You can email Caitlin at caitlin@trainingattention.co.uk and find her on LinkedIn at linkedin.com/in/caitlin-walker-6a11a8b/. Read the full transcript at kasperowski.com/podcast/podcast-23-caitlin-walker.