036: Detoxifying Teams with Steve Ritter
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 15 July 2016
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Old friend and Team Clock originator Steve Ritter shares his experiences on the key differentiators of toxic vs. healthy teams… and key steps for making the leap.
You’ll learn:
1. Why strategic planning is often a monumental failure
2. The pillars of Ritter’s Team Clock model for successful teaming
3. Common behaviors that cause dysfunction in teams –and how to correct them
About Steve
Steve Ritter has served as a human resources leader, teacher, author, and consultant. He is a fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives, the Founder and CEO of the Team Clock Institute, the Managing Director of the Midwest Institute & Center for Workplace Innovation, and the author of Team Clock: A Guide to Breakthrough Teams and Useful Pain: Why Your Relationships Need Struggle. Steve is on the faculty of the Center for Professional Excellence at Elmhurst. He is the former Senior Vice President and Director of Human Resources at Leaders Bank, which won the #1 Best Place to Work in Illinois in 2006 the APA’s Psychologically Healthy Workplace Award in 2010. Steve consults organizations including Kraft Foods, Kellogg’s, Advocate Health Care, the Chicago White Sox, Northwestern Mutual, the Illinois Hospital Association, and Starcom Worldwide.
Items Mentioned
- Team Clock Website
- Team Clock Manual
- Steve’s book, Team Clock
- Steve’s book, Useful Pain
- What to Do When it’s Your Turn by Seth Godin
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast, the show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work. |
| 0:10.0 | Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money. |
| 0:14.0 | With your host, Pete Lekitis. Well, I'm looking forward to introducing this next guest to you. |
| 0:24.3 | It's my friend Steve Ritter, and this is the guy I call upon when some training client is talking to me |
| 0:30.8 | or a prospect about maybe doing some work, a workshop and they tell me what's going on and I think, |
| 0:37.1 | you know, that sounds more so toxic and problematic and a Myers-Brigs workshop isn't what you want. You need to fix some basic issues first. I send them to this guy, Steve Ritter. |
| 0:47.0 | And he's not a super flashy keynoter, but he just patiently works through the challenging questions and issues and stuff that it takes |
| 0:55.3 | to get to the root of a matter and make it all better. |
| 0:58.5 | So I am so pumped to share with you some input that the Steve Ritter has about you know what are the |
| 1:04.8 | key differentiators between toxic and healthy teams and what are some things you can do to |
| 1:09.3 | make the leap to be less toxic and more healthy. So you'll learn one, why strategic planning |
| 1:14.7 | is often a monumental failure. |
| 1:16.5 | Two, the pillars of Steve Ritter's team clock model |
| 1:19.7 | for successful teaming, and three, |
| 1:21.5 | common behaviors that cause disfunctions in teams and how to correct |
| 1:25.3 | them and again if you want the show notes the transcript the links to things mentioned |
| 1:29.2 | you'll find that over at awesome at your job dot com slash Epp 3-6 and if you want just the takeaways faster |
| 1:36.4 | sign up for the gold nugget email list over at awesome at your job |
| 1:38.9 | dot com and you can read some of the key takeaways in under two minutes. |
| 1:43.0 | Here's a bit about Steve. |
| 1:45.0 | Steve Ritter has served as a human resources leader, teacher, author, and consultant. |
| 1:48.6 | He is a fellow of the American College of Health Care Executives, the founder and CEO of the |
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