181: Create the Best Place to Work, with Ron Friedman
Coaching for Leaders
Dave Stachowiak
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2015
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Ron Friedman: The Best Place to Work
Interviews are not the most effective way to select people, but if you need to do it:
- Standardize your questions
- Ask behavioral questions
“What underlies a great place to work isn’t access to perks, but rather experiences that are psychologically fulfilling.” -Ron Freidman
Three needs that we have to feel good at work:
- Being good at the work we are doing and able to grow our competence
- Being connected to the people around us
- Autonomy and choice in how we approach our work
“The impact of money on job satisfaction is incredibly small.” -Ron Freidman
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| 0:00.0 | Have you thought about what you can do to create the best place to work? |
| 0:04.3 | Today the art and science of creating an extraordinary workplace. |
| 0:08.8 | This is Coaching for Leaders, episode 181. |
| 0:12.2 | Produced by Innovate Learning, |
| 0:14.9 | Maximizing Human Potential |
| 0:18.0 | Greetings to you from Orange County, California. This is coaching for leaders and I'm your host, Dave Stahoviac. |
| 0:28.0 | This is a weekly show to help leaders improve their communication, strategy, coaching, productivity, and personal |
| 0:37.0 | mastery. |
| 0:38.0 | And I'm so glad that you have tuned in today because I have a guest with me that is someone who's got some great perspective on many of the things that are so important to be able to create a workplace that is truly extraordinary. |
| 0:55.7 | And that is something that I know so many of us as leaders think about |
| 1:00.3 | and want to take good action on in order to maximize the effectiveness of our organizations, |
| 1:06.6 | but also to maximize the enjoyment of the people that work there. |
| 1:11.5 | And my guest today is Dr. Ron Friedman. Ron is an |
| 1:14.8 | award-winning psychologist and the founder of Ignite 80, a consulting firm that |
| 1:19.7 | helps smart leaders build extraordinary workplaces. He's an expert on human motivation |
| 1:26.0 | and he's the author of the new book, The Best Place to Work, the Art and Science |
| 1:31.3 | of Creating an extraordinary workplace. |
| 1:34.0 | Ron, welcome to coaching for leaders. |
| 1:36.0 | Thanks so much, Dave. Great to be here. |
| 1:38.0 | I'm thrilled to have you, and before we started recording the interview today, |
| 1:44.4 | you had mentioned to me that, you know, |
| 1:46.7 | that it was interesting how you got started |
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