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What makes up a Loyalist Team - Rebecca Teasdale, Linda Adams, & Audrey Epstein - EP174 Jul 03, 2020

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Hi there,
This was one I recorded in late February but only getting around to release now.
It's an excellent panel discussion with the 3 authors.
The notes below are lengthy but cover off the main points. Enjoy!
Key takeaways from the interview:
•Knowing what you’re for and what you’re against
•Building High Trust Relations and focusing on Trust is so useful right now – for teams that don’t have this it’s showing up so much!
•Key Question – where does this passion come for wanting to help people?
oHard wired in this way and being naturally a helper
oHaving empathy intrinsic to her and embedded in her DNA
oWhen you find this overlap between meant to, love to, and make a living at
oHaving exposure to supporting and managing people from an early part of her career and developing a real interest in this – wanting to do the right thing for people
•Self-Awareness is at the core of everything as a leader and a human!
•We never get there….but we need to keep trying!
•Others view of you matches how you perceive yourself
•Self-awareness and how to build it within Teams…
•How Leaders can develop their own self-awareness and in others?
•The Spinach Analogy!!!
•We need to be able to give others insights that they are not self-awareness
•How do you approach a leader that think they are self-aware when they are not?
•Creating Curiosity as the key for the leader to be more self-aware!
•Tool – Look in the mirror – reflecting a different image of what you have!
•Using Data to bridge the gap of self-awareness – 360 Data or interviews with a Leader
•Data driven feedback is invaluable for developing the self-awareness of the team
•Tool – Team Assessment to find out trust about the leader and the individuals
Q – The idea for the Loyalist Team – where this idea came from?
•Based on a passionate believe that everyone deserves a great team
•Developed an approach that can be assible and felt that writing a book would extend this reach!
•Identified 4 different team types and lots of examples of each
•How they developed the model itself to give people a common language around the team types they were experiencing
•Team work, Candor, Accountability and Results as some of the stand out traits
•Testing hundreds and hundreds of teams and validated that there was the 4 team types that existed
•The emergence of the idea – a lot had been written leadership but not as much on teams
•What makes a good leader in a suboptimal team?
•The way people show up on a team impacts how other people perform?
•Observing teams and then developing teams
•The importance of data in team analysis moving the team from Saboteur to Loyalist
oFound % variance attributed to team leaders – 15%
oIf you’re enable to fully engage the full team – 70%
•Key point – get the whole team engaged
•Where does gut and feeling come into moving the team to Loyalist
•Exercise – Imagine the best team they were ever on?
oAttributes
oWhat was in there
oIdentify the key characteristics
oBuild out this list, this really reflects what YOU would want in a loyalist team
oWhat made it your best team?
oThere could be sadness in this…as they could go back a long time…
•Key Point - Teams are only as strong as the weakest link between any 2 people on the team – every single relationship matters and has to be strong
oThe leader has to see what is happening with the team
oAre they supporting, or competing with each other?
•The toughest part of leadership is to be able address these challenges between team members
•How does the Leader breakthrough this?
•Exercise – set up the safe environment & assuming positive intent
oCome up with agreements and team norms so the team can measure themselves against
oHave the team responsible for these and everyone has buy-in
oThis leads to self-management
•This is a key area for self-awareness comes in
•Leaders operating from the hub and spoke perspective – it’s not creating points of interconnection with the team
•Have the leader step back from being the hub – the whole team needs to engage
•Almost no one has this clear definition of the High Performing Teams – they have years of experience working on mediocre teams….you need the team to get very clear on what they expect from each other. Not from what they’re bringing from previous failed teams
•Teams need to be clear on what we WILL do instead on SHOULD to
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•Self-awareness & Teams
•And one areas was with relationships & teams…and how Self-Awareness was key..
•There are lots of compelling reasons to build a better team. Great teams deliver stronger results, faster. They’re more innovative. They challenge you to learn more quickly and to be at your best. And, let’s face it — they’re simply more fun to work with.
•Self-Awareness is lacking was the key piece
•To build greater self-awareness, work to create a team of Loyalists around you, people who trust you, support you, and challenge you to be your best. Surround yourself with people who will speak their truth, even when it’s hard. And then listen. When you do, you will see an amazingly positive impact — on you, on them, and on the overall success of your team.
•How you can measure the team’s progress & how regularly?
•Tool – the 4 teams zone assessment – both reliable and valid
oUsed on over 800 teams – strong academic base assessment
oEvery team engagement is assessed and gives them a baseline (trispectivegroup.com)
oIdentify what are the 2-3 clear opportunities
oThis leads to creation of a team development plan
oCreate pulse points from that and do a retest 6 months later and see where things are at then – a very objective test
oEstablish which zone the team stands and then work towards to the next phase
oOver 6 months it’s possible to move from Saboteur to Situation/Loyalist
•How can teams stay High Performing once they get there?
oChanges to teams can impact the level they are
oConsistent conversations is needed
oOngoing partnerships are needed and leaders need to continue the conversation when the coaches are not there
•Motto/Manta - Never rest on the laurels and never fully satisfied attitude is key!
•Never take the view that they’ve made it…and that’s it…
•Ongoing development, ongoing self-analysis and setting new goals
•Example – highest performing team never spoke bad about each other – had to be fully honest with each other at the top and this had a huge impact all the way down!
•A small tweak at the top of the pyramid had a huge impact all the way down the organization
•Live roundtable feedback during team meetings and at leadership meetings – CEO would come in for feedback
•COVID19 and How teams work – what are you seeing?
•How can leaders enable / empower their teams to work?
oFocus on Trust and the Relationship
oTaking Time to check in with people
oEnsure you’re getting truth on the table
oAssume positive intent is key!
oStart with Compassion as a Leader…this is key!!
oTeam members are feeling anxious about missing out
oSimple ideas – quizzes, coaching techniques…
oAssume stress
oDon’t forget about personal lives
oReview your Operating Norms??? – are they still valid?
oIf you don’t have them…maybe start now!
oUnexpressed expectations that are violated are dangerous….make them clear!
•Living their own principles and being a loyalist team and it’s an ongoing journey
•3 key points that make them a loyalist team
oFinancial model – split 3 ways equally from the start
oHave each other’s back 100%
oHonest Feedback with Positive Intent!
Connect in with the team:
•Buy the book on Amazon.com
•Trispectivegroup.com

Sean Swarner - Climbing Everest with One Lung, Surviving Cancer (x2), & Choosing Life! - EP173 Jun 26, 2020

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1% Better with Sean Swarner
Sean Swarner is a philanthropist, an author, and keynote speaker.He is a two-time terminal-cancer survivor who has dedicated his life to helping others reach their full potential
He was voted One of the Top 8 Most Inspirational People of All Time
Check out more on his sites:
www.seanswarner.com | www.cancerclimber.org
Enjoy this one.
Best,
Rob

Tuesday Night Book Club #3 - The New New Thing Book - John O'Sullivan Jun 23, 2020

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Tuesday Night Book Club #3 – The New New Thing - Author Michael Lewis - Summary by John O'Sullivan
I hope you enjoy the listen to this live recording.
If you’d like to join the club, you can register for the next one taking place on the 7th Julyat 8pm on this link:
Register for it here – https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/tuesday-night-book-club-with-rob-dec-tickets-107330915658?ref=estw

Self-Esteem, Self-Worth, & How to Shut-up your Inner Critic! Me, mySELF, & EI! Part 9 - EP172 Jun 19, 2020

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Hi again & welcome to the series on Emotional Intelligence.
In this one on Self-Esteem, I cover:
0 to 1:30m - Introduction to what is self-esteem, Inner critic, imposter syndrome
1:30 -3:15 - The history of Self-esteem & where the movement began with Nathaniel Branden & Rosenberg
3:20 – 5:15 - What is Self-Esteem & the Self-Esteem scale – made up of Self-Efficacy and self-respect – tied to self-worth!
5:15 – 14:15 - Self-Esteem Theories, Maslow Hierarchy of Needs & the Inner Voice
14:15 – 17:00 - Where does self-esteem come from?
17:00 – 19:00 - Why is Self-Esteem important?
19:00 – 20:30 - What is the difference between Self-Esteem and Self-Confidence?
20:30 – 24:15 - Theories on Self-Esteem
24:15 – 27:00 - Examples of Low & High Self-Esteem
27:00 – 33:30 - 7 Benefits of Self-Esteem
33:30 – 39:00 - Self-Esteem and the Pathological Critic
39:00 – 56:00 How to develop and overcome low Self-Esteem
56:10 – End - How to measure Self-Esteem
Books & references mentioned:
Emotional Intelligence – by Daniel Goleman
The Self-Esteem Movement
A Free PDF of the Rosenberg’s Self-Esteem Scale is available here.
A Proven Program of Cognitive Techniques for Assessing, Improving, and Maintaining Your Self-Esteem
An Episode & Blog post that I put together about Self-confidence last year
Benefits - https://www.liveyourtruestory.com/11-benefits-of-high-self-esteem-confidence/
Why important - http://www.alwaysgreater.com/achievements/what-is-self-esteem-why-is-self-esteem-important
Measuring Self-Esteem - https://positivepsychology.com/rosenberg-self-esteem-scale-questionnaires/
7 steps to your core values
Podcast - https://robofthegreen.ie/episodes/corevalues-onepercentbetter-ep091/
Blog - https://robofthegreen.ie/2018/12/24/7stepstocorevalues/
If you’re interested in more details on what was covered in this episode, would like to explore your own Emotional Intelligence deeper, I’d be happy to discuss this further and look at coaching opportunities.
Please do get in touch via email at Rob@robofthegreen.ie or connect in over any of the social channels - @robofthegreen

Tuesday Night Book Club #2 - So Good They Can't Ignore You! - Rob O'Donohue Jun 12, 2020

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TNBK #2 - Enjoy.

Karim Nurani – Sweat Equity, Investing Psychology, & Knowing when to take a risk! – EP171 Jun 05, 2020

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Karim Nurani is an entrepreneur, investor, and chief strategy officer of Linqto, a leading platform providing liquidity in the private sector. He has 30 years of experience in new business development with a focus on strategy and business transformation.
As a visionary who can assess business models from the perspectives of both an executive and investor, Nurani is responsible for the formation and success of over a hundred startups ranging from mining to process manufacturing.
As a partner at Keiretsu Connect, and throughout his time with Bay Angels, Sandalwood Ventures and other entities, he has guided investors and new venture leaders to the launch and development of markets as diverse as IoT, GreenTech, CannaTech, AR and VR and more.
This was the first time in 1% Better history that we dived deep into Investing and I learned a lot. Karim is a great storyteller and has had a fascinating career journey so far. I hope you enjoy this one. Here is a high-level summary of what we covered in the episode:
•How Karim became an investor
•Being an investor is a double-edged sword and takes a long time to get there!
•Coming from Kenya and a background of struggle
•Growing up in a struggle – does this lead him to be an entrepreneurial?
•Having a great excitement coming from within from an early age
•Entrepreneurial – Born or Built?
•You have to go through the process to become a good one!
•Essential to build the skillset behind the Entrepreneurial spirit
•The Entrepreneurial spirit is always burning…it never ends!
•The discipline is to finish what you started and also when to call it off!
•Education in Kenya and then moving to Vancouver for University days
•Always wanting to travel but needing to be able to fund it!
•His first entrepreneurial experience selling Indian shirts in Vancouver – taking many lessons from this which was a great learning experience
oResearch is important
oPay attention to details
oBe ready to execute
•Internalizing these lessons from early days
oHaving a great memory of details from businesses
•Studying Economics and international trade and & Finance in Vancouver
•Gave him a real understanding of money and trading – very practical
•Advice – if you’re going to build a business you have to have an academic behind it!
•Trying a variety of jobs post college to get experience
•Where did the investing angle come from?
•Taking a role with an actual gold mine in Tanzania but not getting paid
•Getting the promise of gold
•Running the gold mine for 2 years
•What it means to be an investor?
•Sweat Equity – this was the start!
•Success is like a drug – you have to be able to measure it!
•Walking away from the experience of 2 years
•Success is….the ability to walk away from something and take away the lessons learned – from the Gold Mine Experience there was many!
oIt’s not always about dollars
•Next up - starting a Tex-Mexican restaurant in Kenya – made money from this
•A second restaurant – a wraps and smoothie bar…lost his shirt on this
•The relationship with fear? When young and unattached, there is no fear. Later in life, it sets in!
•From 2000 on, moved to the US and was a ‘working guy’ to meet the bills!
•Choosing the vertical to sell in Early Stage Start-up Businesses
•Karim understood how these worked from his experience
•This opened up many doors for Karim and introduced him to many investors and started to understand the psychology of the investors
•How are Entrepreneurs and Investors different?
•This depends on who’s money you’re investing and why?
•The psychology is different at every stage
•The 2 types of Investors
oAngel investor – you’re investing your own money – sometimes this is not rational
oInstitutional Investors – typical VC’s – other people’s money
•How can anyone become an investor? Different countries have different rules
oStart with Sweat Equity as an initial step into the world of investing
oPlaying a role for free and getting equity
oWilling to give time for equity
oDo some time and some cash investment – this is an option too
oKarim did both
•How does one find a company to offer sweat equity?
oSometimes this is done through connections
oAngelList is a site that can do this too
•San Francisco is a hot bed for start-ups and just walking into a bar/restaurant and find likeminded people to do this
•Finding Co-working spaces are great opportunities to find potential start-ups and investors
•Investing today – Pandemic times
oInvestment opportunities during a Pandemic?
oWhat’s different?
oWhat do you look at now compared to 3 months ago?
oHow do you see investing change in the coming months?
oRelationships at the core?
oWhat advice do you give to investors and/or start-ups?
oAreas that are full of opportunity now and into the coming months?
oHow has Karmin’s view changed over the last few weeks due to COVID19?
oBehaviours are going to change due to COVID19
oThis will completely define the future
oThis is having a huge impact on investors and their wealth
oThe only companies that survive are ones that have already a digital environment
oCompanies that haven’t done this are going to struggle
•Today survival is key!
•The importance of digital transformation will be key and has been key for the last few years
•There is no time now to think through this – it’s about taking action at rapid pace now
•In times of stress like now, teams will break down, so it’s vitally important to understand how the team will survive under the pressure
•COVID will pass but the team pressure will remain
•How does Culture come into it?
oTwo different aspects
1) Internal culture
2) Culture of the environment that you tend to be in – what is the culture of the investor?
Eg – how different this is between the US, Europe, and Australia
•The Virtual Investor Conferences and how these work
•What role / position stood out for Karim the most in his career so far?
Check out the links
•keiretsuconnect.com
•https://www.keiretsuconnect.com/calendar
•Karim Nurani on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/karimnurani/

Tuesday Night Book Club #1 - Power of Moments - Dec O'Connell May 31, 2020

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We hope you enjoy the first of many Tuesday Night Book Club Episodes.
Starting the series off with 'The Power of Moments' from Chip and Dan Heath.
Join the TNBK slack channel here - Slack group - https://join.slack.com/t/robofthegreen/shared_invite/zt-8ofg7r9d-xTpoTVd~Rfce7gCUWU8bag

Josh Quigley (returns) – Finding the Path & Dreaming Big – EP170 May 29, 2020

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In this episode, I welcome back Josh Quigley to the show.
Our first chat was in Feb/March 2018. Now, two years on, I wanted to check back in with you to see what’s been going on since. As you will hear, it’s been an eventful 2 years.
We cover a lot. Here’s a summary:
•A quick recap on Josh’s background.
•Successful Young Employee,
•Suicide Attempt – 2015 - survived
•Video went viral…talking about it…5 years ago – Just on that – talking about mental health…a a lot of progress since!
•A Turning Point for you…
•Life since early 2018?
oCycling
oTravel
oDecisions to go, stay, write, and more..
oGoals of Health and Happiness of yourself and others
•Helping to inspire others…
•Detaching more from tech
•Spending a lot of 2018 up and down and trying to find his path
•On the 14th of April 2019, starting out on his 7th attempt to cycle around the world
•This time I never looked back and cycled 14,500 miles crossing the entire length of Europe, Asia, and Australia
•Achievements
•Learnings for you…
•Setbacks
oAustralia
oBike stole in London
•Breakthroughs
•Each time – learning from them?
•Disaster in Josh’s words:
oWith just 3,500 miles to go I was cycling across America when I was hit by a car.
o21st December 2019 – an angel on your shoulder!
o16k complete…
oKnocked. Off the bike,
oHit in Texas late in the evening
oThe list of injuries…
oLuckiest guy in the world!!
oBanned from flying
oAnother Turning Point?
oMore determined than before..
oResilience – what is it that drives you to go keep going
oMindset now…
oDepression?
oMentally – impact – resilience…get back up again
Now – May 2020:
•Recovery
•Training
•Goal setting – how has this changed
•Mindset
•Lessons learned
•Planning to complete the trip?
•Future plans
oProfessional cycling
oHow do your levels compare?
oWhat time would it take to get to this level?

About Self-Confidence & 9 Ways to Develop it! Me, mySELF, & EI Part 8 - EP169 May 24, 2020

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Hi again & welcome to the series on Emotional Intelligence.
In this one on Self-Confidence, I cover:
•0 – 8:10 – The Introduction and definitions on Self-confidence, Self-Efficacy and Self-Esteem
•8:10sec – Self-Confidence & Confidence – Same or different and inward v outward
•11:15 – The role of Self-Confidence in Emotional Intelligence - Am I taking a strong position?
•18:20 – The importance of Self-Confidence, Benefits & links to Happiness
•23:30 – People lacking Self-Confidence leave clues & low self-confidence
•28:30 - People with High Self-Confidence & taking on a positive view
•31:30 – 9 Approaches on How To Develop Greater Self-Confidence
Books mentioned:
•Emotional Intelligence – by Daniel Goleman
Links to follow:
•An Episode & Blog post that I put together about Self-confidence last year
•Podcast - https://robofthegreen.ie/episodes/confidenceuncovered-ep112/
•Blog - https://robofthegreen.ie/2019/05/27/confidence-uncovered/
•Overall Self-Confidence Deep Dive - https://positivepsychology.com/self-confidence/
•Self-Efficacy - self-efficacy
•Practice Perseverance -- http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/psp/84/4/822/
If you’re interested in more details on what was covered in this episode, would like to explore your own Emotional Intelligence deeper, I’d be happy to discuss this further and look at coaching opportunities.
Please do get in touch via email at Rob@robofthegreen.ie or connect in over any of the social channels - @robofthegreen

Paidi O'Reilly - 1% Better Live - Innovation, Mindsets, & 7 Year Cycles - EP168 May 21, 2020

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This was the first live in a while and the first where we had a decent audience over zoom.
Thanks to all that attended.
A brief outline of what we covered below. Enjoy the interview.
What was the most recent thing you’ve learned that has been useful?
What was your earliest memory?
What did / do you want to be when you GROW UP?
Growing up, who was your biggest influence?
Up to the age of say 18 – is there a standout moment / choice / decision you made – that worked out or regret? What is it?
PhD – Higher Ed – Was that a big decision?
Innovation:
Alexander Osterwalder’s myths of Innovation
Learned skill v born innovative
Tools that can be used in this area?
You and COVID19 – as an innovator, thinker, lecturer,
How has this challenged your thinking
How do you avoid common biases?
What has changed for you?
Mindset
Habits / Practices?
What’s not?
General Wrap up:
What is your superpower?
Kryptonite
Questions from audience
Connect with Paidi on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/paidioreilly/

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