692: How to Optimize Teams and Drive Engagement Using Data with Mike Zani

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🗓️ 9 August 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Mike Zani shares data-driven approaches to improving your team’s performance.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) What businesses can learn about teams from baseball

2) The top two predictors of team performance

3) Top three do’s and don’ts of effective teaming

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— ABOUT MIKE —

Mike Zani is the CEO of The Predictive Index, a talent optimization platform that uses over 60 years of proven science and software to help businesses design high-performing teams and cultures, make objective hiring decisions, and inspire greatness in people. Its 8,000+ clients include Bain Capital, Blue Cross Blue Shield, DoorDash, LVMH, Nissan, Omni Hotels, and VMware. Zani is also the co-founder and partner at Phoenix Strategy Investments, a private investment fund. An avid sailor, he was coach of the 1996 US Olympic Team. He holds a BS from Brown University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

• Mike’s book: The Science of Dream Teams: How Talent Optimization Can Drive Engagement, Productivity, and Happiness

• Book website: DreamTeams.io

• Mike’s company: The Predictive Index

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Book: Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth

• Book: The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement by Eliyahu Goldratt

— THANK YOU SPONSORS! —

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0:00.0	Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast.
0:04.0	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 Makaitas.
0:19.0	Hello and thanks for joining us here for episode 692 with Mike Zoddy.
0:23.0	Mike has towering experience when it comes to using data to build and optimize teams
0:29.0	and drive engagements.
0:30.0	You'll learn one, what businesses can learn about teams from baseball.
0:34.0	Two, the top two predictors of team performance.
0:37.0	And three, the top three do's and don'ts of effective teaming.
0:40.0	So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to Alan's We've Reference,
0:43.0	please drop on by awesome at your job.com slash ep692.
0:48.0	And check out some of the other cool stuff you got at awesome at your job.com
0:51.0	from the ability to search the full text transcript of everything to the email summaries
0:55.0	to the 10-day email course about winning at work.
0:58.0	How to slash unproductive minutes out of there and get home earlier or do more fun work you dig.
1:04.0	So a lot of cool stuff at awesome at your job.com and a lot of cool stuff about Mike.
1:09.0	Mike Zoddy is the CEO of the predictive index, a talent optimization platform that uses
1:14.0	over 60 years of proven science and software to help businesses design
1:18.0	high-performing teams and cultures, make objective hiring decisions, and inspire greatness in people.
1:23.0	It's over 8,000 clients include Ben Capital, Blue Cross, Blue Shield, DoorDash,
1:28.0	Nissan, OmniHotels, and more.
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