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Making teams, especially tech teams, work together effectively may not be something that just happens naturally. Sometimes it requires some coaching. In the world of adopting agile ways of working, agile coaches are a key part of an organization to help those teams to eventually manage themselves and succeed. I have been an agile coach and let me tell you, every team has its own unique challenges and successes. My guest today is a long time agile coach and many of us in this field seek for his advice to help us improve.
Bob Galen is an Agile Methodologist, Practitioner & Coach. In this role he helps guide companies and teams in their pragmatic adoption and organizational shift towards Scrum and other Agile methods and practices.
He’s published a few agile related books including Extraordinarily Badass Agile Coaching: The Journey from Beginner to Mastery and Beyond. We speak today about lessons to help your team and how can you also be a badass agile coach.
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You and I have been on this situation. We are looking for a role, get an interview and then it's time to talk about salary expectations. Where do we even start here? How much can we ask for? What if they say no to my ask? Am I really asking for too much or too little?
My guest today will help us navigate through these scenarios so you can develop the skill of negotiation. Brandon Bramley has over 10 years of experience in negotiating salaries and currently runs The Salary Negotiator, which provides professional job offer negotiation coaching and courses. Take about 30 minute to listen to this episode and you will walk away with the confidence to ask for what you deserve. Lets listen.
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Tell me about your workplace. Are you in a place where there is rarely ANY conflicts, things are good on the surface that is. Or are you in a place where there are multiple fights? Or perhaps, you are in a place where conflict, that is, different ideas are welcomed. My guest today agrees that conflict can be a great tool for teams. Karin Hurt is the author, alongside David Dye, of Powerful Phrases for Dealing with Workplace Conflict.She is the Founder of Let's Grow Leaders, a global, human-centered leadership development company known for practical tools and training that sticks. After this episode you would have learned tactics to deal with various situations of workplace conflicts that you can share with your teams so conflicts is no equal to fighting.
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Picture this, you are giving a presentation to a new customer about this app or this dashboard your team created, explained all the cool technical features at length. You feel good, you think you killed it since you prepared for so long, and at the end, the customer was not interested.
What went wrong? They just don’t get it, right? Perhaps you did not bothered to put yourself in the feet of the customer. You did not show enough empathy. Something similar happened to my guest jermy adamson. Jeremy is the author of the book Geek with Empathy.
Jeremy is a leader in AI and analytics strategy, and has a broad range of experience in aviation, energy, financial services, retail, and public administration
You will learn today how to build empathy with those around you to bring you better results at work. He say at the root of every tech problem there is an empathy problem.
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Lets talk about AI, Artificial Intelligence. You are probably using itn right now to make your life easier, create transcripts, products, images… but are you really using it to make yourself a better person? Today you will learn how in this conversation with Camilo Rojas, Ph. D.
Camilo is the CEO and Founder of ProjectUs.ai, a venture capitalist backed MIT Media Lab spinoff that created an AI tool that seeks to help people become the best version of themselves.Camilo did his postdoctoral research at the MIT Media Lab, focusing on the ethical use of AI to help people develop complex skills that we talk about on the podcast such as e.g., empathy, self-awareness, effective communication, etc.), and to help teams and organizations become more creative, cohesive and productive.
Today, you will learn how Project Us AI was developed and how it works, misconceptions about AI and possibilities for the future.
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How do I help my team become agile?
Hello and welcome to episode 100 of the HSS. If this hapesn to be the first episode you lsten to, in each episode I discuss a difefernt essential skill with the help of an expert. I have spoken to globally recognized authors, Harvard professors, military leaders, psychologists, pscyhitiatrics, people who have done scientific reserahc on how to become better at the so called "soft" skills to help you thrive in your career.
I want to thank you for being with me in this learning journey. I started this alongside my graduate studies in Organizational Psychology at Harvard, and through my own career journey which at this time involves working with multiole technical teams to help them become high perfoming, and create an agile organization.
This is why today I chose to highlight this topic of agility because it embodies what soft skills are about, how to integrate human dynamics to deliver a solution.
In this episode I’ll play some excerpts from some of the folks who co-created the famous Agile Manifesto, the base document for all things agile. Let's listen to Jeff Sutherland talking about what makes a great team, Jon Kern, on what we really need or don’t need, to get things done faster, and Arie van Benekum on the essentials of collaboration.
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It is time to take an inventory of your year, figure out what do you eally want: a new job, a new career, growth.
So I will replay an excerpt of my interview with executive coach and author Dr Gary Crotaz. He is considered one of the top coaching leaders in the world. Listen to his model based on his book The IDEA Mindset where he breaks down how to conduct a good self assessments and define our true path.
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This season I am officially lunching coaching opportunities for us to work together so you can master skills we discuss here, become a high performer in your career and lead ahigh performing team.
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The feeling that management or even team members do not realize how much we contribute to a team is something I hear often. We usually hear the advice of ‘just put your head down’ do the work and it will be noticed.' But this is rarely the case and we just need to be more strategic about it.
This is why when I read the book Impact Players: How to Take the Lead, Play Bigger and Multiply Your Impact by Liz Wiseman, I knew I wanted her on the show. In the book and as she discusses in our conversation, she describes what disnguishes good employees vs those that really make an impct and seemed to be relied upon the most.
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This season I am officially lunching coaching opportunities for us to work together so you can master skills we discuss here, become a high performer in your career and lead ahigh performing team.
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If there is a skill I need help with, and I am sure you do to, is how to deal with difficult people. People who either may come at you screaming, or be condescending or whom we may simply be consider plain crazy. Sometimes we may be the crazy person in a situation.
So I had the honor to speak with a psychiatrist about it. Dr Mark Goulston gave critical techniques on how to act during a moment of heated conversation.
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This season I am officially lunching coaching opportunities for us to work together so you can master skills we discuss here, become a high performer in your career and lead ahigh performing team.
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In the podcast we talk a lot about communication skills and using our body language is a skill we neglect. We need to learn how to properly read our bodies and use them to send a message as well.
I had the pealsure of talking with Mark Bowden, who has been featured on major TV shows, he has written books about body language and one of the most popular TED talks called ‘The Importance of Being Inauthentic’.
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This season I am officially lunching coaching opportunities for us to work together so you can master skills we discuss here, become a high performer in your career and lead ahigh performing team.
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One of my favorite guets was Peggy Klaus, and as you may know she is the author of multiple books including ‘Bragg: The Art of Tooting Your Own Horn Without Blowing It.'
The main challenge for many people, especially in tech, is how can we really promote ourselves when we do not want to look like complete a…holes. To distinguish between both, let's listen to an excerpt of my conversation with peggy where she also shares how to do proper bragging.
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This season I am officially lunching coaching opportunities for us to work together so you can master skills we discuss here, become a high performer in your career and lead ahigh performing team.
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'Getting things done' is a motto I love and a book I enjoy from David Allen. He even created a whole method based on the book. So every time someone asked me ‘how can I become more productive’ I tell people to read the book and even better, if you are short on time now, just listen to my interview with him: https://www.hardcoresoftskillspodcast.com/category/productivity/
In this episode he summarizes his method.
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This season I am officially lunching coaching opportunities for us to work together so you can master skills we discuss here, become a high performer in your career and lead ahigh performing team.
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The key question that seems to come up regularly how can we be better leaders?
I have spoken about this to various guests in my podcast and on of the epiodes that resonated the most was from L. David Marquet. He was the commander of a nucelar submarine and author of various leadership books including the classic Turn the Ship Around.
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This season I am officially lunching coaching opportunities for us to work together so you can master skills we discuss here, become a high performer in your career and lead ahigh performing team.
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One of the questions I get asked is how do I deal with confrontation?
One simple change we can apply is how we use our vocabulary. Listen to an excerpt from interview wiht author Sam Horn. To listen to the rest of the interview go here. https://www.hardcoresoftskillspodcast.com/verbal-communications-sam-horn/
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This season I am officially lunching coaching opportunities for us to work together so you can master skills we discuss here, become a high performer in your career and lead ahigh performing team,
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A key question you may have is “how do I demonstrate my soft skills in my job search?’
Thea Kelley will answer this question. Thea Kelley is a job search and interview coach serving job seekers nationwide for more than 15 years. Her Amazon best-seller Get That Job! The Quick and Complete Guide to a Winning Interview has been praised as "Excellent" on Forbes.com.
For smart job search tips and a FREE GIFT, subscribe to Thea's blog at https://jobsearchandinterviewcoach.com .
Today we talked about how to demonstrate our soft skills, especially during the interview process.Connect with me via LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/yadiraycaro/ or email me at [email protected]
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Decision-making is a very necessary skill we need as leaders. In this episode, you will learn the best approaches to decision-making with a decision-making expert.
Cheryl Strauss Einhorn (https://www.areamethod.com/) founded Decisive, a decision sciences company that trains people and teams in complex problem solving and decision-making skills using the AREA Method. AREA is an evidence-based decision-making system that uniquely controls for and counters cognitive bias to expand knowledge while improving judgment. Cheryl developed AREA during her two decades as an award-winning investigative journalist writing for publications ranging from The New York Times and Foreign Policy Magazine to Barron’s and The Stanford Social Innovation Review. Cheryl teaches at Cornell University and has authored three books: Problem Solved, A Powerful System for Making Complex Decisions with Confidence and Conviction, about personal and professional decision-making; Investing In Financial Research, A Decision-Making System for Better Results about financial and investment decisions; and new book about Problem Solver Profiles, Problem Solver, Maximizing Your Strengths To Make Better Decisions.
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If you lsten to this podcast, you are definitely into improving yourself. You read boks, listen to podcast, seek mentors, and you are loking for answers to help you get to a next level. You need coaching. Even if you have not yet hired the help of an actual coach, you can take steps to coach yourself.
Coach Yourself us the title of the book of my guest Antonia Bowring (https://www.ab-strategies.com/ ). Antonia is a highly credentialed, top New York executive coach. She works primarily with founders, C-Suite executives, and leadership teams. One of Antonia’s areas of expertise is helping neurodiverse leaders, especially those with ADHD. Today you will learn various frameworks addressed in her book and setps you can take to start coaching yourself.
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This is a replay of an interview which aired in Nov 2021.
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My guest today, Oscar Trimboli (https://www.oscartrimboli.com/ ), shared some fascinating data that made me realized, we are barely listening to each other. Oscar is the author of Deep listening and Breakthroughs, professional speaker and host of the apple award winning podcast Depp Listening.
This episode is a master class on listening. We talk about some fascinating concepts including listening villains and really simple steps you can take now to become a better listener and save you significant time on your work week.If you want to receive more information, subscribe to my newsletter via https://www.hardcoresoftskillspodcast.com/
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Curiosity can save help your team and your job. In this episode, you will learn why this skill is so essential and how to master it.
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One of the most popular episodes was the interview with John Kotter, author of multiple books and the authority of change management.
You can listen to it here: https://www.hardcoresoftskillspodcast.com/managing-change-john-p-kotter/
In this episode, we will review the 8 steps for change management from John Kotter.
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