How Does Gratitude Create Better Teams?

The Art of Accomplishment

Brett Kistler

Business, Education, Personal Development, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Management, Self-improvement

4.9 • 275 Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2022

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

After listening to our two-part series on building functional teams, it's easy to see all of the shortcomings in our teams and realize that we might have a ways to go before we can truly call our teams functional. This realization can result in shame and feelings of not being good enough. Once we realize that our brains are wired to focus more on what’s going wrong than on what’s going right, we can shift to a more balanced assessment using a powerful tool. Gratitude allows us to see how the things we might call “setbacks" or “failures” might actually be leading us to the success that we desire. Tune in to this bonus episode to learn about the power of gratitude in a team. “I would say the real, core reason as to why people resist gratitude besides that it’s strange and awkward in the beginning is the fact that they’re scared that they won’t be prepared for the inevitable doom that is always around the corner if they are happy.”

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0:00.0	I would say the real core as to why people resist gratitude, besides it's strange and awkward at the
0:08.8	beginning, is the fact that they're scared, that they won't be prepared for the inevitable doom
0:15.8	that is always around the corner if they are happy.
0:20.3	Welcome to the art of accomplishment, where we explore how deepening connection with ourselves
0:24.6	and others leads to creating the life we want with enjoyment and ease.
0:28.6	I'm Brett Kisler, here today with my co-host, Joe Hudson.
0:36.6	All right, so I wanted to add a little bit of a bonus episode in here after talking about
0:40.9	how to build a functional team and all about dysfunctional teams because I know that the way that
0:46.8	I might listen to this if I was a CEO might be to see all the ways that a functional team
0:51.6	are not what I am or not what we have yet and that I'm just not good enough. And then look at all those signs of a functional team are not what I am, or not what we have yet, and that I'm just not good enough,
0:56.9	and then look at all those signs of a dysfunctional team and just see them everywhere, and just get really hard on myself and down on myself and down on my team.
1:04.1	So I want to talk a little bit about that, and what would you have to say to somebody listening to those last two episodes and just walking
1:11.5	out of it feeling like they just had a one-star meeting with themselves?
1:14.5	Right. Yeah, great question. So what I would say is that's part of the dysfunction.
1:23.5	That kind of self-talk is probably the root, if not one of the roots of the dysfunction.
1:30.6	And it's also incredibly limiting, meaning there's kind of two ways to get to solutions.
1:35.9	One way to get to a solution is to see what's wrong and how do you fix it.
1:40.7	And the other way to get to a solution is see what's right and how do you build on what's right.
1:45.0	And most people really focused on the first one because they have that negative voice in the head
1:50.2	because what's been really useful for humanity up until now is to be able to see what's wrong
1:56.0	more than see what's right because see what's right is, oh, I like that apple.
2:03.1	See what's wrong is, oh, that snake can kill me.
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