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Coaching for Leaders

657: How to Increase Team Performance Through Clarity, with David Burkus

Coaching for Leaders

Dave Stachowiak

Business, Management, Careers

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

David Burkus: Best Team Ever!

David Burkus is the bestselling author of four books about business and leadership which have won multiple awards and been translated into dozens of languages. His insights on leadership and teamwork have been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, USAToday, Fast Company, the Financial Times, and many other media outlets.

Since 2017, David has been ranked multiple times as one of the world’s top business thought leaders. As a sought-after international speaker, his TED Talk has been viewed over two million times. He has worked with leaders from organizations across all industries, including PepsiCo, Fidelity, Clorox, Adobe, and NASA. He’s the author of Best Team Ever!: The Surprising Science of High-Performing Teams*.

There are many things that help teams work well together, but perhaps you haven’t thought of this one: clarity. Knowing what is being done and who’s doing it often helps a team achieve more. In this conversation, David and I discuss the practical steps to surface more clarity and drive better performance.

Key Points

  • Casting a leadership vision is important, but insufficient. It’s not helpful to expect a team to figure out roles and responsibilities on their own.
  • Teams work best when they understand how each individual works best. Clarity increased performance.
  • Hold huddles using these three questions: (1) What did I just complete? (2) What am I focused on next? and (3) What is blocking my progress?
  • Consider communicating in bursts to allow for people to retreat into less interrupted time for deeper work.
  • Establish priorities and consistently make those priorities clear so they are obvious and apparent to the team.

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There are many things that help teams work well together, but perhaps you haven't thought of this one.

0:06.0

Clarity. Knowing what's being done and who's doing it often helps a team achieve more.

0:13.6

In this conversation, the practical steps

0:16.7

to surface more clarity and drive better performance.

0:21.2

This is coaching for leaders episode 657.

0:25.0

Produced by Innovate Learning, Maximizing Human Potential.

0:30.0

Greetings to you from Orange County, California. This is coaching for leaders and

0:38.8

I'm your host Dave Stahoviac. Leaders aren't born.

0:43.7

They're made.

0:44.7

And this weekly show helps you discover leadership wisdom through insightful conversations.

0:50.9

Such a key conversation we've had many times on the show is a conversation about team leadership.

0:58.5

How do we help teams to be as really do a better job at being able to lead a team in a way that not only produces results, but

1:16.8

also where we find joy in the work and empathy and clarity and so many things that we'll talk about in today's conversation.

1:24.0

I'm pleased to welcome back to the show David Burcas.

1:27.0

He's a best-selling author of four books about business and leadership

1:30.0

which have won multiple awards and been translated into dozens of languages.

1:34.0

His insights on leadership and teamwork have been featured in the Wall Street Journal,

1:38.0

Harvard Business Review, USA Today, Fast Company, the Financial Times,

1:42.0

and many other outlets.

1:44.0

Since 2017, he's been ranked multiple times as one of the world's top business thought leaders.

1:49.0

As a sought after international speaker, his TED Talk has been viewed over 2 million times.

1:55.1

He's worked with leaders from organizations across all industries including Pepsico,

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