As a part 2 from our last episode with Dan Frey, Lydia Jourdain picks up the Team Performance conversation with an effective Assessment. Learn when and how to use this assessment to get a pulse on how your team is performing and if they aren't, what to do about it.

If you've never been on a productive team that performs at high levels, and felt the synergy of working on a purposeful goal with people that you trust, then you've missed out. As a team leader, you must create this type of environment. In this episode, Dan Fry outlines the "Maximizing Team Performance" tool and how you as a leader can get this flywheel whirling.

Skot Waldron is back for a second episode to continue our discussion about Influence, the 4 C's of establishing trust and walls of self-preservation. Discover the three questions to ask to determine what walls you have up, to begin the process of lowering them in order to establishing trust with the person on the other side of you.

How does a leader establish and maintain influence? Skot Waldron gives a practical tool to help you determine what might be keeping you from establishing trust and influence with those you lead. Listen as Skot describes the four "C's" of Influence and see which areas you need to strengthen in order to effectively lead the people in your care.

Christina Chicoraske is the Director of Statewide Training for the State of Oklahoma in the US. She and her team have implemented GiANT tools, specifically the 5 Voices, into their culture with 32,500 employees. She speaks about their roll-out process, how they got buy-in from the organization leadership team, what winning looks like and how it's going now.

What culture has not experiences the negative affects of gossip and drama? No matter if you're in a corporate setting, a non-profit or a mom and pop small-business, gossip and drama can bring down a culture. As a leader, we have to hold up a standard of going to the source and we must lead by example. Then, we must have an expectation of every employee adhering to a no-gossip policy. Todd Vinson shares a simple tool that is easy-to-understand, but difficult implement and maintain. But when you do, strong trust is built and relationships grow.

Kayla Armstrong, who is an expert at helping organizations navigate team dynamics, tackles the question of "What to do with an unmotivated or low performing employee". How do you know if it's time to invest more deeply into their development or is it time to let them go?

Edy Herrera has a single purpose. He is committed to being someone who helps people become healthy - with their goals and their purpose. He loves to build people up. He uses the GiANT content with clients and he shares the details of how he began his coaching career. This episode outlines what a leadership coach, who is certified in the GiANT content, does on a practical level. Be sure to listen to the end where Edy talks about becoming an "Alfred".

In this episode, we hear from a retired educator and a current executive leadership coach and consultant, Lindel Fields. He has been instrumental in creating world-class cultures and has the credentials of leading an organization that received the "Fortune's Top Places to Work" as well as "Top Places to Work for Women". It is the only public institution and one of two organizations in the USA to earn the Presidential Malcolm Baldridge Award for Performance Excellence while simultaneously receiving the "Fortunes Top Places to Work" award. Lindel shares three things he believes will touch the heart of your people.

We are back again with Keith Glover, a Catalyst within AHSG Staffing, and he is continuing his conversation about how AHSG has integrated the GiANT tools into their every day culture.

If you're ready to hear a real case scenario of an organization who is daily using the tools you've been introduced to here on the podcast, listen as Keith Glover of American Healthcare Staffing shares the how and the why of people development and the impact it's having with their people.

You've probably been called out before. It doesn't feel good, does it? Healthy Leadership requires empowering those you lead and calling them up to what they will be; what you know they can be. Calling someone out is deflating and demeaning; calling up is empowering! Our guest, Julliette Odhiambo works with young people and shares a simple tool that reminds leaders to challenge in a way that is respectful and empowering - all while leaving the person feeling valued.

There is a lost art of apprenticeship. In our fast moving, digital world we have come to expect people to enter a role within an organization ready to hit the ground running. However, an intentional leader will take the time to properly acclimate an employee to a job or role. Roz Hobley of the UK gives a brilliant explanation and example of the Developing Others tool and how to implement it for long-term success of employees.

The Core of a leader must include Skills Intelligence, Personality Intelligence and Emotional awareness, but what happens when a leader does not develop all of these areas? Rich Webb joins this episode for a great conversation around the importance, especially with the rise of AI, in strengthening the Core of leadership through relational intelligence.

Kevin DeShazo unlocks the potential of leaders within the sports industry. On this episode he digs deep into actions, words and behaviors and how those drive your outcomes. But he says all of that starts with the way that you think. It's all about Mindset.

Unlock Every Relationship, one conversation at a time with this simple but powerful concept of The Communication Code. Jeremie Kubicek and Steve Cockram, Co-Founders of GiANT have written another book that organizations around the world are using to create healthier teams. On this episode, Jeremie gives us a sneak peak and understanding of this practical concept.

Chris Ediger so perfectly describes the benefits of using the 70/30 Principal to create a more balanced approach to work. He describes how energizing it is to be able to spend the majority of your time in your unconscious competencies. Listen and try the 70:30 concept with yourself and your team members.

On this episode we continue our conversation and discovery around the 5 Circles of Influence tool. As a continuation of the great explanation from Jon and Johan from the last episode, we introduce you to Annree Wogan, leadership coach living in Australia. She shares her own experience of opening up her awareness of the importance of becoming intentional in all 5 Circles.

Each of us has a unique group of people that we rub shoulders with and interact with - our sphere of influence. These are people in our family, our team, our organization and our community that we have influence with. We can either be intentional with the responsibility of our sphere or we can be accidental. Jon Sakarias Liknes and Johan Haugstad from Norway introduce us to this powerful tool that gives us a lens to see our impact with others clearly.

Steve Cockram finishes outlining the details of the remaining three of the 5 Voices from the previous episode. Learn the strengths of the Guardian, Connector and Pioneer Voice. Steve describes the power of knowing your Voice and then understanding those around you. When we appreciate the differences, we build stronger teams and organizations.