1027: The Mindsets that Inspire Teams with Paula Davis

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🗓️ 27 January 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Paula Davis shares best practices for keeping your team engaged and motivated.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) Why to shift focus from performance to people

2) How to keep your team connected and motivated

3) The tiny noticeable things that improve team dynamics

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— ABOUT PAULA —

Paula Davis JD, MAPP, is the Founder and CEO of the Stress & Resilience Institute, a training and consulting firm that helps organizations reduce burnout and build resilience at the team, leader, and organizational level.

Paula left her law practice after seven years and earned a master’s degree in applied positive psychology from the University of Pennsylvania. She is also the author of Beating Burnout at Work: Why Teams Hold the Secret to Well-Being & Resilience and Lead Well: 5 Mindsets to Engage, Retain, and Inspire Your Team.

Her expertise has been featured in numerous media outlets including The New York Times, and Psychology Today.

• Book: Lead Well: 5 Mindsets to Engage, Retain, and Inspire Your Team

• LinkedIn: Paula Davis

• Company: StressAndResilience.com

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0:00.0	Don't forget about the fundamental human need that we all have to just make sure that we're making an impact in our world.
0:15.0	And just being really keen to share that with people when you notice it.
0:20.0	It comes down to what I call tiny noticeable things or TNTs that are a combination of a little bit more human stuff and a little bit more teams stuff that together, I think, become a really powerful source of motivational fuel for folks.
0:40.6	That's Paula Davis.
0:41.9	She's the founder and CEO of the Stress and Resilience Institute,
0:44.5	a training and consulting firm that helps organizations reduce burnout
0:47.1	and build resilience at the team, leader, and organizational level.
0:50.4	She's also the author of Beating Burnout at Work,
0:52.6	white teams hold the secret to well-being and resilience, and lead well, five mindsets to engage, retain, and inspire your team. So learn one,
0:59.9	why to shift focus from performance to people, two, how to keep your team connected and
1:04.1	motivated, and three, the tiny noticeable things that improve team dynamics. And if you want to get
1:08.9	a quick summary write-up of these takeaways, I recommend you sign up for the free Gold Nugget Email newsletter
1:12.6	at Awesome At Your Job.com.
1:14.5	I'm Pete Bikaitis.
1:15.5	This is How to Be Awesome at Your Job.
1:16.9	And now here's Paula.
1:21.4	Paula, welcome back.
1:23.0	Hello. It's so good to be back.
1:24.9	Well, I'm excited to hear you talking about leading well and mindsets for engaging, retaining, inspiring folks.
1:32.0	Could you kick us off with any of the most surprising discoveries you've made when it comes to what it really takes to engage, retain, and inspire colleagues these days?
1:41.2	One of the things that really surprised me was actually seeing the data
1:44.9	around when companies take not only a performance focus, so looking at numbers and metrics and
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