Teaming With Ideas

Darryl Stickel on Building Trust for successful collaboration

Darryl Stickel has studied the data, and concluded that trust is created in the one who trusts, not in someone else's trustworthiness. Learn how to build trust in your team by beginning with yourself.

Psychological Safety

The World Health Organization, ISO, even the UN agree: psychological safety begins with you, not your manager. Learn how to self actualize your own psychological safety and how self-compassion, mindfulness and acceptance of what you can and can't control are the tools to achieve it.

Stay Curious: Lead with Positivity

Quincy Troupe learned early on that staying curious and trusting others will bring their best to work resolves conflicts and contrasting political agendas resiliently. Listen or read his interview here.

Accountability, Courage and Jerks

Andrew Fox has a lot to say about his style of leadership, having courage at work to lead and collaborate, and how to deal with jerks - both as teammates and bosses.

On Mutality and Team Leadership

Mutuality with Gary Clarke With over 30 years of business experience Gary is an authentic value driven business leader with global and domestic CPG experience. He was fortunate enough to build a 20-year career with MARS right through from entry sales level to General management. He is well known for his ability to coach mentor and lead teams that deliver sustainable long-term outcomes. With this experience and passion, Gary has now founded 360Resolve a company that is driven by the belief ...

Humility, Vulnerability and Leadership with Mark Ippolito

Mark Ippolito and Carlos Valdes-Dapena, friends since 1986, together explore the importance, and benefit of being what AI cannot: vulnerable, humble and emotionally intelligent.

Gratitude Infusion with Kerry Wekelo

Kerry Wekelo believes in practicing gratitude, and lives by it. Using gratitude when giving feedback, when collaboration, and even when talking to yourself is enormously powerful, as outlined in her book, "Gratitude Infusion". Listen to or read this podcast blog for more. Have a hard time receiving a compliment? Be sure to listen to the end of this podcast!

Kula, Culture and Community

Emma Magenta,, life coach and former owner of South Mountain Yoga, discusses leading a kula or community with individual attention.

Bringing Your Whole Self to Teams

Sylvia Burberry, President, Emerging and Seed Markets for Royal Canin, shares 1 very important lesson to team leaders: the importance of bringing everyone's whole selves to teams and team meetings. Listen to or read this podcast post to learn why, and how skipping in the individual check-ins at every meeting can help the entire team foster trust, context, collaboration and relationships that add value to any team and organization. Sound too easy? This simple step is masterful. Here's why.

Being Right vs Being Effective

Hamish Thomson, author or IT'S NOT ALWAYS RIGHT TO BE RIGHT and start-up advisor, reveals lessons learned leading teams all over the world.

Being Right vs Leading Effectively

Hamish Thomson, author or IT'S NOT ALWAYS RIGHT TO BE RIGHT and start-up advisor, reveals lessons learned leading teams all over the world.

Design Thinking Collaboration

The part of the diversity really interested me was the knowledge. I was really inspired at the macro level; putting people together and figuring out how to make it work. It's not just putting people together and hoping something will happen, it's not that garbage can model. It's, “No, I'm actually going to manage the process.” Leaders have goals, they want to create value. So, you can't just throw people together and expect it to work. You’ve got to have processes that work toward a particul...

Visual Facilitation

Nevada Lane, MSOD ACC, facilitates meetings using much more than talking points. Listen and learn how graphic facilitating your team or group meetings builds retention and clarity.

Focus on the People, Care for Yourself

Tim Creed has lived all over. He went from being an HR associate to leading a sales team in one day, with positions to fill. Listen to the lessons he learned from his whirlwind career.

Empathy and Accountability

The delicate balance of both empathy and accountability are Clint Kofford's heartstones to leading a successful team

Leading Teams with Dignity and Respect

Juliana Saretta, an international team leader now at Keurig Dr Pepper, explains how leading a team with dignity and respect for individual team members produces the best collaboration

Drawing Collaboration

Tom Russell, CEO of InkyThinking, not only helps teams draw out their vision, but trains people in graphic facilitation. The results are magnificent. Getting people on their feet, drawing their ideas, collaborating in a way that overrides obstacles, a team’s ideas are heard AND seen.

Intuitive Leadership

We have guiding principles in organizations that say fact-based decision making certainly makes sense. And certainly in scientific organizations, that makes a lot of sense.  But I also noticed that there's a lot of people holding back their ideas, their perspectives, their gut sense, because they've not been able to say, I am basing this idea on a fact. It's just a hunch. What I understand is, the higher up you go in an organization, the more important intuition becomes because it makes you...

Emotional Freedom at Work

This unusual interview features Carlos Valdes-Dapena and Devan Bailey discussing emotional freedom at work. Practices include meditation instead of suppression.

Keep Teams Dreaming with Angela Mangiapane

Angela Mangiapane, President of Mars, Inc's Global Services organization, applied her financial background to her HR position in a surprisingly creative way. She encouraged her team to dream, visualizing new would-be scenarios for success. Then the team worked together to realize that outcome. Hear her stories of creative problem-solving while her IT department maintains fluid productivity during a pandemic.

Team Power, Hierarchy Flexibility...and Hippos with Dr. Lindy Greer

Lindy Greer has compared the power dynamic of being a team leader to being a hippo. Sometimes your strong and ferocious, rising up out of the water, and sometimes a leader goes under water with only their eyes on the pond. Science and research driven, listen to University of Michigan's Lindy Greer explore the power flexibility needed to run a great team.

Your Team Has The Answers with Ulf Hahnemann

A few focused strategies, adult-to-adult communication build team trust, Ulf candidly shares stories of his lessons learned leading teams. Don't miss this entertaining interview of how he brings out the best in his teams to find solutions and answers in difficult situations

Teams' Aptitude AND Attitude with Arturo Arteaga

Arturo Arteaga is a Mars compensation and benefits leader from Mexico. You can read his transcript at https://www.carlosvdapena.com/teaming-with-ideas.

Teambuilding Myths & Realities

Robert Ginnett, PhD from Yale on Organizational Behavior and author of GROUPS THAT WORK, AND THOSE THAT DON'T, shares research from NASA, surgical teams, commercial aviation teams and GMC. He discusses the fallacies of Tuckman's team stages, and stranger teams. His 3 critical elements of forging a high-performing team reveal great detail that can be applied by team leaders across the board. Culture, climate, clarity of tasks all factor into this brilliant discussion.

Managing Teams Remotely

Creatively finding ways to connect with his new team whom he's never met in person, Brian Graczyk continually acknowledges his good fortune in this interview with a veteran remote worker managing his global team.

Micro-behaviors Can Determine Team Effectiveness

Team Building: It’s About the Debrief

Carlos Valdes-Dapena and Vidula Bal explore what works and what doesn't work with traditional team building, personality assessments and structural team building. Lessons learned by thought leaders, once colleagues, and team cohesiveness while virtual during COVID-19 restrictions and globally distant. Bottom line: it's all about the quality of the debrief.

Employee Experience v Employee Engagement

The reason we haven't moved the needle on engagement is surveys are a very flat document of a very three-dimensional thing that we're trying to measure. I think engagement is an outcome. I don't think it's the thing that we can go after to hunt down and make better. I think that employee engagement is something that happens at the end of having a really great experience. So that flips me over to employee experience, which is what are the experiences? What are the touchpoints that we have wit...

Human Being vs. Human Doing with Sam McKee

Carlos Valdes-Dapena interviews Evergreen Leadership's Sam McKee, who was raised up from an abusive childhood to a small church, laying the foundations of a remarkably skilled and insightful leadership expert. Hear how teams can thrive from defining their context by sharing the 4 H's - individuals' Hometown, Highlight, Hardship and Hero. Learn why hiring for diversity alone won't give your team a successful outcome, how relationships can and do affect team collaboration, and why it's importan...

The Craft of Creativity with Matt Cronin

Carlos and Matt explore creativity, conflict and diversity, trust and respect in team collaboration.

Embrace Not Knowing with Arvi Dhesi

Carlos Valdes-Dapena interviews the illustrious Arvi Dhesi, former Mars, Inc. internal consultant, on the Magnificent Middle of companies and teams, and looking for the "silver lining" of obstacles that come our way at work. Arvi is an author, consultant, speaker and brilliant business man with Korn Ferry, and lives in the UK.

Teaming With Ideas: Introducing New Podcast Series on Team Collaboration

Producer Janet Aldrich interviews Carlos Valdes-Dapena about his new podcast series: what inspires him, what about high performance collaboration resonates with him, why team collaboration has him "teaming with ideas".