Swear by Your People: Achieve Peak team performance through enduring relationships

L&D In Action: Winning Strategies from Learning Leaders

What’s your favorite team? Most people, when asked this question, will think first of athletics. Many will immediately picture a football team–of either the association or American variety. Very few, if any of us, are quick to think of our own teams at work, even though those are the teams we spend the most time with. Why is that? There are many reasons we aren’t as enthusiastic about our teams at work as we should be, and the buck always stops with leadership. This week, Adrian Baillargeon joins us to discuss how we can infuse trust, enthusiasm, and cohesion back into our teams.
Adrian is a speaker, executive coach, and author of the book Teams That Swear. He has worked with global clients on 3 separate continents in the corporate, sports, not-for-profit, and education sectors. As a leadership team performance expert, his methods draw from scientific research, as well as from high-performing professional and amateur sports teams. He teaches us how to unify our teams by achieving clarity and focusing deeply on relationship development.
Join us as we discuss:

• Why swearing has benefits for individuals and teams (according to science!)
• The importance of clarity to team success… but not unless you have a clear definition of what clarity means!
• The 3 categories of purpose and how to cultivate them for your team
• The importance of finding a personal connection as means of building trust
• How to differentiate between healthy and unhealthy conflict
• The ‘HHH’ method of developing relationships by sharing a personal hero, hardship, and a highlight

Episode Resources

👉Adrian Baillargeon on LinkedIn

👉Adrian Baillargeon website

👉getAbstract website

👉getAbstract on LinkedIn

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L&D In Action: Winning Strategies from Learning Leaders releases every other Tuesday, bringing you conversations from the best minds in Learning and Development.
Previous guests include: Simon Brown of Novartis, Ravin Jesuthasan of Mercer, Michael Lee Stallard of Connection Culture Group, Michelle Weise of Rise and Design and Dr. Nigel Paine of Learning Now TV.
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