The Future Of Teamwork with Dane Groeneveld

Dive into the evolving dynamics of teamwork with Hillary Miller, Chief Learning Officer at Penn State Health. In today's conversation on The Future of Teamwork, show host and HUDDL3 CEO Dane Groeneveld takes audiences into optimizing teams to work their best while aligning individual identity with team values and purpose. Together, the two discuss how certifications and organizational development can affect teams and hierarchies while reinforcing the basic building blocks of communication as instrumental to creating lasting behavioral change. Key Takeaways[01:58 - 04:33] Meet Hillary Miller, Chief Learning Officer at Penn State Health[04:35 - 09:01] Starting with a lot of conversations to drive team performance and learning[06:18 - 09:01] Navigating the vast map of certifications and skills in healthcare[07:51 - 09:01] Organizational development in healthcare is more than clinical roles[09:05 - 10:07] Transcending institutional hierarchy and human dynamics[09:37 - 11:07] Discipline and desire, programs and products are important but shouldn't trump behavioral practices[10:14 - 13:17] Rewiring organizational perceptions about roles, a checklist for success[13:20 - 15:23] Technological boundaries: AI should not be your driver, it should be your co-pilot[15:24 - 17:59] How do you discover the organizational development (OD) function in a business[18:34 - 20:22] "You don't get into healthcare if you don't care about people" — cultures and subcultures, DEI, religion, and organizational values[20:26 - 23:42] Individual and team identities, the tough job of a leader to balance these[23:44 - 25:03] Leadership is managing expectations and understanding there is no 150%[24:40 - 27:22] Avoiding burnout, Hillary talks about being an Enneagram 8. It's not about people pleasing. It's about getting it right.[27:29 - 29:00] If people ask, "Why are we doing this?" we have missed the mark. Discussing the platform Crucial Conversations.[29:01 - 32:15] The book Conversational Capacity, the role of a leader to elevate, champion, and advocate for quieter communicators[32:18 - 34:32] A shift from HR to OD, a balancing act adding more organizational development professionals into the workplace[34:32 - 35:21] Learning about performance standards[35:23 - 37:19] Learning is moving to a higher priority in organizations, sometimes up to direct CEO reporting[37:23 - 38:18] How is learning being reinforced, and how do we know it is happening?[38:19 - 39:42] First-party, second-party, and third-party data[39:43 - 41:04] Building a program like this without an OD professional on staff, make connections[41:10 - 43:15] Teams That Work — Hillary's advice is to go back to the basics of communication[41:40 - 43:15] Do one thing really well and build on it[43:17 - 44:22] Connect with Hillary on LinkedIn

Today's The Future of Teamwork episode features a conversation with Andrew Sillitoe, performance coach and author of 'Managing the Mist.' Explore Andrew's journey from street hockey to professional leagues, and how he applies that history to his successes in business. With show host and HUDDL3 CEO Dane Groeneveld, Andrew delivers key insights on coaching clarity, designing effective training, fostering psychological safety, prioritizing mental health, and achieving distributed leadership for teams to thrive.Key Takeaways[00:00 - 05:30] Introducing Andrew Sillitoe, author of Managing the Mist, business psychologies, performance coach, and founder[00:48 - 03:41] Humble beginnings in street hockey to the professional leagues and applying that experience to business and advertising[06:28 - 07:34] How are we freeing teams to be healthier, better humans inside and outside work[07:32 - 09:34] Giving your team learning opportunities to wing it, looking back fondly on the autonomy offered working at Yellow Pages[09:36 - 12:31] What are you prepared to let go of short-term for long-term benefits[12:30 - 13:54] Coaching clarity and avoiding assumptions[14:00 - 15:57] Two benefits to coaching, a non-player perspective, considering the Eisenhower Matrix and prioritization[15:58 - 19:37] The differences between mentoring away from the game and coaching in the game[19:38 - 23:30] Six steps of how to design training[23:31 - 25:12] Finding balance with your team, looking for the best idea, not the boss's idea[25:20 - 31:10] Andrew's books about creating clarity and driving flow in teams, managing stress, and transformation (Managing the Mist, The Four Keys)[31:10 - 32:52] The vulnerability of sharing your story, a movement in wellbeing and navigating difficult times[32:53 - 36:24] A new generation of the workforce that prioritizes psychological safety, mental health, and constructive feedback[36:27 - 37:55] Mental health, physical health, and the routines that reinforce them (nutrition, rest, etc.)[37:58 - 40:31] Ikigai, the blue zones, and nutrition's role in flow[40:36 - 45:04] Distributed leadership and aligning vision so teams show up to tackle problems, tactical decision-making toward achieving objectives[45:06 - 46:36] A purpose statement doesn't have to be grandiose; make achievable objectives for your team[46:39 - 48:05] Clarity around purpose statements and distributed leadership

Join host Dane Groeneveld on The Future of Teamwork podcast for an insightful conversation with Abeed Janmohamed, a renowned business strategist. In this episode, they delve into the intricacies of mergers and acquisitions, the art of identifying your business's unique niche, and the innovative approach of sourcing talent from unconventional places. Dane and Abeed will share valuable insights and strategies to help your business thrive in today's competitive landscape, emphasizing the importance of a diverse and adaptable team in driving success.Key Takeaways: Dane Groeneveld, CEO of HUDDL3 Group, hosts The Future of Teamwork podcast and is joined by Abeed Janmohamed, founder and director of Volando, an M&A and growth advisory for technology businesses. They discuss values, culture, and people in growth environments. Abeed took a different route to get into M&A, starting in digital advertising sales and then moving to start-ups before transitioning to a central role in corporate development and partnerships. The speakers discuss the importance of team dynamics and cultural alignment when navigating complex deal structures. Understanding the people involved, whether on the buy or sell side, is key to achieving successful outcomes. Culture is critical to a company's success and cultural alignment is essential for growth, investment, and M&A processes. Ultimately, success comes down to people.When expanding into new markets and cultures, a strong company culture and value set is crucial. It's important for founders to recognize their strengths and weaknesses, as well as the strengths and weaknesses of their teams, and build teams accordingly.Understanding the type of business you are in is crucial for success. Businesses can be head-to-head, big fish in a small pond, or creating a new game. Each type has its own risks and benefits. Abeed discusses the importance of reassessing a company's culture and values to ensure they are still relevant and effective in current times. Abeed mentions the need to consider factors such as a shift in leadership, changes in the workforce, and evolving business environments. He believes that a strong culture and value set is crucial for business success and cites Ralf Specht's book, "Building Corporate Soul," as a resource on the topic.The conversation discusses the gig economy for professionals and fractional legal support, which is a business that provides commercial work for lawyers who want more freedom in their lives.There is a misconception that working with top law firms is necessary for growth and scale-up stages, but many professionals who had worked for these firms before and now have children or want more autonomy are still competent and could work on a project basis.The conversation also touches on the importance of corporate soul and attracting graduates or returning mothers to help build talent and capabilities.Abeed Janmohamed and Dane Groeneveld also discuss Volando, Abeed's tech business that helps other businesses take their tech to Europe.Where and how to find Abeed.

On today's episode of The Future of Teamwork, host Dane Groeneveld speaks with Chris Schembra, the best-selling author also known as The Gratitude Guru. Chris talks about 7:47, his organization focused on creating meaningful connections through dinner parties. He shares how that experience was impacted by COVID, and how it allowed 7:47 to pivot with still great success. Additionally, Dane and Chris discuss authentic networking, why gratitude will change you how interact with the world, and ways that businesses can show up to meet their imperfect human employees with empathy. Key Takeaways:Introduction to Chris SchembraHow Chris became the Gratitude GuruNetworking and remembering how people make you feelShared food and strength of mind, and the hurdles to togetherness"The world is ending" but you're going to be fineMarcus Aurelius, the stoics, and gratitudeThe beginning of the business, and creating connections98% of dinner parties were for client engagement purposesShifting to a remote strategy because of COVIDInventiveness and gratitudePreventing employee burnout, stress, loneliness, overwhelm, and anxietyEmployer-sponsored soul and emotional healthCombatting loneliness with curiosity and connectionMicro-shifts towards a more grateful attitudeGratitude interventions, and living in the presentAuthentic moments of gratitudeWitnessing theoryHiring humans, and showing up with empathyThe benefit appraisalThe good news if you're operating through a lens of ingratitudeAcknowledgment helps destigmatize ingratitudeListeners, answer this question!

Cat Lewis joins The Future of Teamwork host and HUDDL3 CEO Dane Groeneveld for a spirited conversation on helping companies adopt change management techniques that can align employees to a business strategy, while emphasizing the incentives for improving mental wellbeing, employee purpose, and inclusivity. Cat is the Founder and Director of Culture and Transformation, a company that helps leaders breed positive and productive work cultures through practices like strategic focus on how narrative impacts vision and purpose, the MAPs framework, and more.Key TakeawaysMeet Cat Lewis, author, founder and director of Culture & TransformationThe pros, cons, and range of vulnerable experiences of being a leader and CEORallying teams around company strategic visions, creating purpose and enjoymentFinding purpose in a remote and hybrid world, regular communication keeps everything movingHelping companies adopt new change management strategies, putting ideas to paperStrategy and narrative as they affect future vision and employee purposeChasing revenue and margin, metrics that don't always drive behavior changeMetrics-driven incentives and driving behaviors through storyMAP — Mission, Actions, and Plans as a framework for directionMore on strategy MAPs, illustrating a visual path to successExamples of actions companies take toward achieving plansThe Iceberg of Ignorance, research says only 5% of employees understand company strategyThe Iceberg of Ignorance, inviting people in to share the same informationInclusivity and removing organizational rigidity, how it affects succession planning and onboardingHelping teams center and come back to strategy and priorities, the power of regular communication and newslettersInclusivity and team habits, engaging with the narrative and providing security for the team"If you don't talk about the challenges you're facing, they're just going to make them up."The Little Monster story, mental health, and wellbeing in the workplaceTouching on the science of anxiety and listening to our bodiesRecapping Cat's experiences and talking pointsConnecting with Cat

Jeremy Barr joins The Future of Teamwork today to discuss his goal to affect three billion people worldwide by scaling value systems. Show host and HUDDL3 CEO Dane Groeneveld picks Jeremy's brain on all manner of workplace and leadership-related topics, like how to realign people's value systems, the effects of disruptive innovations in AI and automation, and how mapping systems can add clarity to employee and employer paths.Key TakeawaysJeremy's background in driving human success, his path toward impacting 3 billion people worldwideTracking towards 3 billion people affected by values systemsObservations as heuristics, asking questions and listening for verbal and non-verbal discoveryHow training and technology fit into Jeremy's content, mission, and scaling effortsRemaining impartial to the money and focusing on the human element of impacting founders' value systemsRe-aligning people's value systems when they're out of syncThinking about innovation and disruption, the side effects and cut jobs from increases in automationExpansion theory and displacement by automation, a conversation about why you should choose to drive automationBuying time to stay alive, the employee/employer dynamic, and providing mutual valueA great founder is a great leader, a great leader is a great human. Working with ambitious people.Jeremy's impact happens by leveling up leadership, enjoyment happens in quick and engaging experiencesIdentifying where you are going, gaining clarity, and evolving. Insights into human behavior.Setting baselines and practicing nonverbal communicationLong-term planning and thinking about divergences in employee and employer paths. The value of mapping systems.Make everybody aware that you're listening and then adding valueThe future of non-verbal communication as assisted and analyzed by AITracking impact, the value of data analytics in Jeremy's goals, adapting to the AI accelerator

Today's episode of The Future of Teamwork, hosted by HUDDL3 CEO Dane Groeneveld, features a conversation with Ralf Specht about finding the soul of a company and shaping your desired corporate culture by eliminating unwanted values and behaviors while ensuring your ideal culture remains in place. The two discuss Ralf's path from working in publishing, to becoming a startup founder, and his writing endeavors as an author. Ralf has written two books, 'Building Corporate Soul' and 'Beyond The Startup,' both focused on helping leaders build companies with soul. In this talk, Dane and Ralf cover why "soul" is so important to Ralf and the three levels of The Soul System for creating a company culture with a soul, happy and engaged employees, and a sense of belonging, that ultimately outperforms other companies.Key TakeawaysIntroducing Ralf Specht, author, consultant, and founderLoyalty between clients and agencies, an agency where both parties have equal rights and transparencyLeadership and accountability, collaboration and preventing internal competitionCollaborative organizations, designing the company to prevent competitionDiscussing the bare minimum of conducting surveys and collecting useful feedbackEvaluation and confrontation, discussing The Soul System and clarity around who you want to be as an organizationExamining LinkedIn, their values and transformation alongside acquisition by MicrosoftLanding on Soul, driving a culture that is in sync and discussing motivations for leaving companiesManifesting a positive outcome, discussing the quality of leadership and the impact on teamsFind Ralf online

In this episode of The Future of Teamwork, host and HUDDL3 CEO Dane Groeneveld speaks with the founder and creator of skillfoundry.io, Eric Wise. Together, these two discuss Eric's career path and the evolution of technology in business operations, with a special emphasis on learning and development. If you're curious about data queries and analytics, generative AI, and the effect of software on skills training, this is the episode for you. Join Dane and Eric for a fascinating conversation about strengthening your organization's onboarding philosophy, and encouraging a systematic method for empowering your team's development while creating and retaining loyal employees that go above and beyond.Key TakeawaysIntro to Eric Wise, Founder of skillfoundry.ioEric on bootstrapping his businessGetting started as an entrepreneur earlier before some life eventsGenerative AI and cost reduction, still not good enough to do a human's jobExperience and HallucinationsAccess to answers and questions, Stack OverflowWhere the responsibility falls for learning and development, and how companies and teams curate learningThe "Hire, Train, Deploy" movementLearning and development trajectories from day oneOnboarding knowledge and relationshipsAddressing a skills gap, hiring freezes, additive and transformative learningUnderstanding data queries and analysis, Python training programs and possibilitiesPathways to creating transformative workLearning together and bonding, loyalty to team and businessBuilding learning, culture, and communityLifetime value, thinking about the relationship between college institutions and missed opportunities in lifetime trainingLifelong learning for everyone, not just executivesPeer group learning, being dynamic to thrive in transformative businessesConnective tissue: Gaps between academic courses and job functions, partnerships between higher ed and businessesComputer science is one of the most dropped-out degrees, and the teaching hasn't changedBringing more technical talent to a world where businesses are adapting to AI, automation, and focused learning experiencesNot going to be replaced by AI, going to be replaced by someone who doesn't use AIEric's hope for the future of teamwork, and how to contact him

Today's conversation on The Future of Teamwork features Jeff Roberts, the founder of Innovation Vista and a longtime CIO turned CEO. During the interview, host and HUDDL3 CEO Dane Groeneveld discusses Jeff's background in the pharmaceutical industry, and how that translates to his work today helping organizations adapt and adopt the right technology to prioritize growth and efficiency. The two also discuss how difficult it is to execute strategy at scale, the merits of winning customer loyalty with disruptive, innovative products, and overall discussing the art of what's possible. Key TakeawaysMeet Jeff Roberts, CEO of Innovation VistaFractional and virtual work, expertise on-demand regardless of locationThe art of possible, opportunity for teams in riding the pace of change with advancing capabilitiesWorking through the software, tools, and processes that resulted from COVIDA cost to using the wrong tool, then replacing itHuman nature around job security and new waves of technology like automation and AITechnology as a teammate, treating AI like a junior employeeDEEP acronym, agile approaches and mindsets around technology adoption and team growthWorking with business leadership, talking about what is possibleThe complexity of AI and navigating the media hype around this new technologyEfficiencies with technology and AI from Apple CarPlay to routine automationIt's difficult to execute strategy, finding opportunities to scale strategy and partnershipsWinning customer loyalty, innovating and disruptingObjective framing for services organizations, assessments, and recommendation reportsA focus on top line rather than marginTechnology will become more affordable because of AIPrivacy and proprietary dataJeff's hope for the future of teams, leveraging AI intelligence to enhance human intelligenceConnect with Jeff

The workplace is one of the most important areas of a person's life to have psychological safety, connection, and community. On today's episode of The Future of Teamwork, host and HUDDL3 CEO Dane Groeneveld sits down with Geoffrey Roche to talk about these ideas and more in the healthcare industry. Geoffrey is the Director of Workforce Development for Siemens Healthineers and speaks about the importance of proving who you are to people to build trust within workplaces. Geoffrey also talks about the role of addressing culture-discrepant behaviors and using probing questions to gain alignment with core values. Listen in and learn about why Geoffrey is optimistic about a future with more focus, and organizations that stir up 'good trouble' for the benefit of building a better system.Key TakeawaysGeoffrey Roche and his background in workforce development for healthcare systemsThe children of nurses, the importance of their role as critical-care workersWhat is workforce development, and what does it mean in the modern era to create innovative, transformative solutions Engaging and supporting youth entering the healthcare ecosystem. DEI and the impact of dataConnection and community engagement are where transformation happensServing populations by setting up a system that enables a person to be transformedPublic service and the art of customer serviceIntentional efforts around partnering with community organizations to guide students into healthcare as a professionRelatability of talking to healthcare professionals, building trust with partner organizationsReverse mentoring programs and building new opportunities for intentional mentorship: "Prove to them who you are. You're there to help them."A new generation of leaders listening, mentoring, facilitating. Inclusivity and calling out leadership for not following values.The roots of 'Good Trouble' and Congressman John Lewis, inspiration in Geoffrey's journeyThe role of 'Good Trouble' in the workplace, creating psychological safety and accountabilityIn tense moments, words can be transformational, or they can tear people downGiving people a chance to be human and make mistakes: "Help me understand why you would say it that way."Systemic challenges in the workforce, having the right people serve as preceptors. "You can never spend too much on learning and development."Geoffrey's role and how often it interfaces with learning and development, learning and development should report to the CEO, not Human ResourcesLearning and development is strategic in healthcare, growing together and making the space for new mindsetsGeoffrey is optimistic about the future of focus on experience for employees, teams, and customers. Good Trouble around DEI efforts and state legislature and political issuesConnecting with Geoffrey