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Let's Talk Teams

Uptick

50 episodes

3 months ago

We couldn’t find the podcast on building great teams so we made our own to document and share what we're learning along the way. Let’s Talk Teams is a weekly show where we talk about leading, building, and contributing to great teams at work. Some episodes are a peek behind the curtain at the conversations we’re having at Uptick as our teams grow and adapt. Others will be interviews with managers or discussions about a recent blog post.

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We couldn’t find the podcast on building great teams so we made our own to document and share what we're learning along the way. Let’s Talk Teams is a weekly show where we talk about leading, building, and contributing to great teams at work. Some episodes are a peek behind the curtain at the conversations we’re having at Uptick as our teams grow and adapt. Others will be interviews with managers or discussions about a recent blog post.

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Episodes (20/50)

Let's Talk Teams

Chick-fil-A VP and author Mark Miller on getting out of the quicksand

Do you experience the feeling of swimming in quicksand as you deal with a million issues while leading your team? In this episode Chris and Mark Miller, Chick-fil-A's Vice President of High Performance Leadership, walk through 4 key choices leaders can make that will be game changers for you and your team.

3 years ago

37 minutes

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How to ask questions you would never (or could never) ask

How do we move away from mundane, boring and unproductive one-on-ones to having dynamic, meaningful conversations? In this episode Chris explains the steps to have conversations you might never have imagined with your team members.

3 years ago

12 minutes

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Leading 3 different perspectives on accountability in 1:1s

Different people respond to the need for accountability in very different ways. Some love it. Some hide from it. In this episode, Chris and Michael talk about 3 team member perspectives on accountability and how you can lead them effectively in your 1:1s.

3 years ago

8 minutes

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5 reasons you could be giving bad performance reviews. #5 – disconnected from results.

Performance reviews are hard, but the fact that not every area of evaluation is objective will make them harder, and even feel unfair to team members. In this episode Michael and Chris talk about ways to counter manager bias and make a review feel more balanced to the team member.

3 years ago

6 minutes

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5 reasons you could be giving bad performance reviews. #4 – lack of process

Whether you work for a company who has a review process or not, as a manager you can still give a great performance review to your team. In this episode Chris looks at some ways to serve your team well with a meaningful review process.

3 years ago

6 minutes

Let's Talk Teams

How conflict management skills from hostage negotiators helps your 1:1s

No one likes dealing with conflict, but managers have no choice but to enter in. In this episode Chris summarizes a recent Uptick blog post that details the conflict management skills hostage negotiators use to diffuse high stress situations. You can use these techniques in your 1:1s to improve your team's trust and cohesiveness.

3 years ago

10 minutes

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5 reasons you could be giving bad performance reviews. #3 – lack of preparation.

Whether you have one team member or 10, sometimes preparing for a performance review can seem like climbing Mt. Everest. But there are strategies you can use, as Chris points out in this episode, that can help you not just have better performance reviews, but better relationships with your team.

3 years ago

11 minutes

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5 reasons you could be giving bad performance reviews. #2 – lack of clear purpose.

Not understanding what the organization needs from reviews is a problem. But you also need to know what your team member needs in a review. In this episode Chris shares that it reviews don't need to serve one of the other, but can serve the team member, the manager and the organization.

3 years ago

9 minutes

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5 reasons you could be giving bad performance reviews. #1 – being too rigid

Why are we giving bad performance reviews? Why do they give both managers and team members sweaty palms? They're uncomfortable, and no one like them. In this episode Chris shares some of his experience of being too rigid, and give some input on how to make the experience useful for both managers and their team members.

3 years ago

6 minutes

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Why one-on-ones?

Everyone is doing one-on-ones, but do we really need another meeting? Can we replace them with other forms of communication? In this episode Chris revisits the "Why" behind one-on-ones, and how they can be the most important thing you can do to build a healthy, productive team.

4 years ago

12 minutes

Let's Talk Teams

How to be a consistent leader

It's simple, right? Uh...not really. In this episode Chris outlines 6 important keys to being a the kind of leader people want to follow – a consistent leader.

4 years ago

9 minutes

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How to have an effective skip-level meeting

Do you want to get to know your organization? Or would you like to tap into the knowledge and expertise of people you don't directly manage? Skip level meetings can be a great way to do that, if you're careful. In this episode Michael and Chris talk about some ways to make them safe and effective.

4 years ago

19 minutes

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How do you handle reorganization in a small company?

In small companies, everyone knows each other and the organizational chart tends to be flatter. So how do you handle change? At Uptick, we're going through that process now, and in this episode Michael and Chris talk about how they're handling the challenges.

4 years ago

19 minutes

Let's Talk Teams

Where to start when setting meaningful goals

What is a good goal? Why is it important, and what will inspire the team members to get behind it? In this episode Michael and Chris talk about their recent experience putting together goals for the Uptick team, while in the middle of building a new goals module for Uptick customers!

4 years ago

20 minutes

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Speaking the language of the people on your team

As much as we'd like everyone to communicate like we do, in order to make a real difference on our teams we need to learn how to communicate with our teammates in a language they can understand. in this episode Michael and Chris discuss the importance of adjusting our style to account for the needs of others.

4 years ago

16 minutes

Let's Talk Teams

Exchanging anxious questions with something actionable

When we're going 100MPH, we are often confronted with unanswerable, uninvited questions that only bring us stress. In this episode Michael and Chris talk about how to remove the anxiety of those questions by focusing on questions we can actually answer.

4 years ago

14 minutes

Let's Talk Teams

When "what we've always done" doesn't work anymore

Many of us build useful routines that help us accomplish our every day work. But we'll also continue executing those routines long after they were actually effective. In this episode, Michael and Chris discuss the importance of revisiting those routines.

4 years ago

14 minutes

Let's Talk Teams

Share what you can when you can with who you can

How much should I share with my team when speculative conversations are happening "behind the scenes"? In this episode, Michael and Chris discuss what, when and with whom you can share important issues while they're still in process.

4 years ago

17 minutes

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It's tempting to hire someone like me

We've been looking to hire some new people at Uptick, and we realized it's easy to look for people we can easily relate to – people like....us! In this episode Michael and Chris talk about how that to build an effective team, we need people with a multitude of gifts, abilities and personality types to round things out.

4 years ago

14 minutes

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People are smart. Be honest.

Sometimes managers feel like they're actually helping their team members by keeping them from the raw truth. But people are smart, and they often figure it out anyway! Chris and Michael discuss how the truth is best coming straight from your mouth, and how being honest with your team builds trust.

4 years ago

8 minutes