444: How to Have Learning Meetings, with Lisa Cummings

Coaching for Leaders

Dave Stachowiak

Education, Business, Management, Self-improvement, Careers

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2019

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Lisa Cummings: Lead Through Strengths Lisa Cummings is the founder and CEO of Lead Through Strengths, a firm that exists to help people find and use their strengths at work. Lisa and her team serve large teams and organizations to help them leverage the results of the CliftonStrengths (formerly StrengthsFinder) assessment. She is also the host of the popular Lead Through Strengths podcast. In this conversation, Lisa and I discuss the value of bringing continual learning into existing team meetings. We explore several steps for making this a reality and feature her new StrengthsFinder training* for individuals and teams who want to do this more intentionally. Use code CFL10 for a 10% tuition discount if you decide the program is right for you. Key Points Consistency of team learning over time, each if for only a few minutes in each interaction, can make substantial progress. If possible, begin a meeting with a learning component. Help connect the dots for people between their natural talents and the work in front of them in the organization. When you ask people to think of others who they admire, be specific. Resources Mentioned Activity: What Do You Want to Be Remembered For? in PDF format (free membership required). StrengthsFinder training for individuals and teams* (use code CFL10 for a 10% tuition discount) The Ultimate Guide to Using Your Strengths to Get Hired Related Episodes Five Effective Ways to Train the People You Lead (episode 31) How Teams Use StrengthsFinder Results, with Lisa Cummings (episode 293) How to Lead Meetings That Get Results, with Mamie Kanfer Stewart (episode 358) One Alternative to Standing Meetings Discover More Activate your free membership for full access to the entire library of interviews since 2011, searchable by topic.

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0:00.0	What if the weekly staff meeting could also be a learning meeting?
0:04.4	On this episode, the actions you can take to make learning a consistent reality
0:09.3	for your team.
0:10.5	This is coaching for leaders episode 444.
0:15.0	Produced by Innovate Learning, Maximizing Human Potential.
0:20.0	Greetings to you from Orange County, California. This is coaching for leaders and I'm your host, Dave Stahovia. Leaders aren't born.
0:33.6	They're made.
0:34.6	And this weekly show helps you discover leadership wisdom
0:38.0	through insightful conversations.
0:40.8	So many of you have reached out to me over the years and said that phrase
0:45.6	leaders aren't born their made really resonates with you and is the
0:52.4	inspiration to continue to learn and continue to grow not only for each one of us,
0:58.6	but probably even more importantly for the people that we have the privilege to be able to lead an influence in our
1:03.9	organizations. Yet the practical realities of doing that in the daily whirlwind are a challenge
1:11.3	for so many of us. I know one of the things I struggled with a lot as a leader
1:15.5	managing a team for the first time and having a weekly staff meeting was being able to set aside time and
1:22.2	intention toward helping people to learn driving professional
1:26.9	development in the midst of all the other chaos that's happening in the organization.
1:31.8	Today we're going to really dive in on how do we practically do that in a way that is accessible and also really makes a difference in developing our team.
1:42.0	I'm so glad to welcome back to the show someone who is a
1:45.4	tremendous expert in strengths and talents and also someone who's a close friend
1:51.4	Lisa Cummings is the founder and CEO of Lead Through Strengths, a firm that exists to help people find and use their strengths at work.
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