528: Building High-Performing Teams through Psychological Safety with Aaron Levy
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 23 December 2019
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Aaron Levy discusses how to encourage your team to give and receive more honest feedback.
— YOU'LL LEARN —
1) The deciding factor of high-performing teams.
2) How to make feedback less intimidating.
3) Four ground rules that allow teams to thrive.
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— ABOUT AARON —
Aaron is the Founder and CEO of Raise The Bar, a firm focused on helping companies address the problem of millennial turnover.
Aaron is an ICF Associate Certified Coach, a Thrive Global contributor, an 1871 mentor, the Co-Director of Startup Grind Chicago and a member of the Forbes Coaches Council. He has educated, coached, and consulted over 5,500 business leaders, helping them to define goals, create action plans, and achieve sustained success.
Aaron is on a mission to transform the manager role – by empowering each manager with the tools, skills, and training to be leaders of people who unlock the potential of their team.
• Aaron’s book: Open, Honest, and Direct: A Guide to Unlocking Your Team’s Potential
• Aaron’s LinkedIn: Aaron Levy
• Aaron’s website: RaiseBar.co
• Book site: OpenHonestandDirect.com
— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —
• App: Loom
• App: Google Tasks
• Study: Google’s Project Aristotle
• Study: Bloomer’s experiment
• Study: The Pratfall Effect
• Book: Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life by Marshall Rosenberg
• Book: Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business by Gino Wickman
• Book: Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success by Adam Grant
• Movie: Stand and Deliver
• Sketch: Key & Peele text message confusion (NSFW)
• Previous episode: 388: How to Not Suck at Managing with Aaron Levy
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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 McKitis. |
| 0:16.0 | Hello, and thanks for joining us here for episode 528 with Aaron Levy. |
| 0:22.4 | Aaron is talking about building great teams through psychological. audience here for episode 528 with Aaron Levy. |
| 0:22.5 | Aaron is talking about building great teams through psychological safety. |
| 0:25.5 | You'll learn one, the deciding factor for high-performing teams. |
| 0:29.0 | Two, had a big feedback, less intimidating, and three, foreground rules that help teams thrive. |
| 0:34.5 | So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to albums that we've |
| 0:37.2 | referenced it's at all your job.com slash F-28. |
| 0:41.2 | Now here's Aaron's story. |
| 0:42.1 | Aaron is the founder and CEO of Raise the Bar, a firm focused on helping companies address the problem of millennial turnover. |
| 0:48.0 | Aaron is an ICF Associate Certified Coach, a Thrive Global Contributor, an 1871 mentor, the co-director of |
| 0:53.6 | Start of Grine, Chicago, and a member of the Forbes Coaches Council. |
| 0:56.8 | He has educated, coached, and consulted over 5,500 business leaders, helping them to |
| 1:01.6 | define goals, create action plans, and |
| 1:03.2 | achieve sustained success. |
| 1:04.6 | Aaron is on a mission to transform the manager role by empowering each manager with the |
| 1:08.8 | tools, skills, and training to be leaders of people who unlock the potential of their team. |
| 1:14.0 | So big thanks to Aaron for taking the time to chat with us again, |
| 1:17.0 | and big thanks to our sponsors, check him out. |
| 1:20.0 | Now, here's era. Aaron. |
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