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You may have been intrigued by the title of this podcast and it was originally going to be called team mistakes but then I thought that these are not just mistakes these are things we do deliberately out of our own self interest and which harm our team. These are sins we think we can get away with. 

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Do you feel you and your team are being productive? Are your hours spent on a lot of work yet you feel at the end of the day you have not achieved what you really needed to? Or do you spend your time putting out fires? In this episode you will learn techniques you can use now for you and your team to become more productive. 

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Building our emotional intelligence is hard. We speak about it all the time, read books about it, yet when it comes time to practice the skills we need we fall short. In this episode you will learn specific techniques you can start using today to build your emotional intelligence. 

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Let's face it. You are afraid of giving feedback. You’d rather tell someone else what you think about that person’s behavior rather than just tell them. We make all sort of excuses such as “they should know its not my job to tell them” or it will be useless” So rather than tell the person you’d rather stay with the status quo. Or are you the person who give feedback yet it is not well received and the recipient ends up angry at you for your “helpful” comments?

Today you will learn some effective ways to give feedback.

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Less say you have a team, and you feel great about your work. You think you are on top of tasks, you think you are supporting the team and giving them the direction they need, you are crushing it. Yet something is off, your team may not have the initiative you wish and morale for some reason may seem low. Have you asked yourself if you are micromanaging your team? In you will learn 5  signs you are a micromanager and what to do about it. 

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When you hire someone for your organization, you would have a contract that specifies scope of the work, what needs to be done to get the task done. In your company you also have the rules to abide to, where to do timesheets, reports. In today's work environment which is team-driven, regardless of location or time zones, how do we navigate those expectations for the people we will be working side by side with every day? Having a team contract can save you time and bad conflict. 

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Networking is not just about going to a networking event and handing out cards, is about building relationships. It's not about what can you do for me, but what can we do for each other. Furthermore, you need a network not just when you look for a job but once you are in the job, especially in large organizations. Today you will learn ways to build a network without feeling sleazy. 

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How do you prepare for an interview as a softawre developer? How has the landscape change in the age of AI? In this live episode, Mike Mroczka discussed all how to prepare in each stage and the role of "soft" skills to succeed in technical interviews. 

Mike Mroczka is a former senior SWE (Google, Salesforce, GE) turned tech hiring consultant. He is a top-rated mentor on interviewing.io and author of viral content on system design and technical interview strategies He is the co-author of the book "Beyond Cracking the Coding Interview: Pass Tough Coding Interviews, Get Noticed, and Negotiate Successfully (Cracking the Interview & Career)."   

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Steve Jobs, the American inventor best known for founding Apple, once said, “People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on. But that’s not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are.” 

This is such a big challenge especially if you work in a field serving customers where you may believe you don’t have the luxury to say no to requests. However, oftentimes your success will depend on just saying NO. 

But how do you know when is it OK to say no? And how can you say no without upsetting people?  In this episode you will learn a framework for sayying No.

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When everything is a priority, nothing is a priority. You may have heard of this quite often yet we seem to neglect this in or daily lives and at work in our teams since you probably are in a constant state of putting out fires. In this episode, you will learn techniques to help you prioritize. 

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“If I were given one hour to save the planet, I would spend 59 minutes defining the problem and one minute resolving it.” 

This is a quote from Albert Einstein emphasizing the importance of truly understanding problems before we jump into solutions. Yet, we often tend to focus on solutioning, developing the right app, the right product or service. In this episode you will learn some techniques you can use to ensure you and your team are able to focus and make problem solving easier.

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When we think about doing a brainstorming session, we picture a room full of excitement, ideas flowing. Yet, this may not always be the case. Think about your last “brainstorming” session. Awkward silence, one or two people dominating the conversation, constant arguing. In this episode you will learn research-based effective techniques to do brainstorming right. 

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 Did you know that a majority of workers, about 86% per research, believe that the main reason for workplace failures are caused by bad communication? Did you also know that if you have good communication at work, employee retention increases four and a half times? Communication is critical and aside from learning how to speak and write effectively, and being transparent, the medium matters. In this episode you will learn what questions you need to ask yourself to select the right communication method.

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 While using Artificial Intelligence effectively is a skill we need to have to be competitive, we also need to be good communicators who sounds authentic and who can have actual conversations with no AI help. In this episode you will learn key steps to write better than a bot. 

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Does most of your work presentations feel like "death by PowerPoint" or turn into demos that get a bit too technical. Does speaking in public gives you an absolute fear you almost paralyzed?  Today you will learn the key simple elements to make a presentation truly engaging.  

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What makes change happen? What creates individual change and transformation. How can we make new transformation and not just try to build new habits. In this episode, you will learn how with Jason Hreha is a behavioral scientist, entrepreneur and author of Real Change, a book redefining habit formation and personal growth.  

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 We regularly hear leaders in organizations and teams say  we are a learning culture, we always learn from our mistakes. Yet, are we learning only when we are putting out fires and we come to the rescue? Do we have a system to learn regularly?

 In this episode you will learn about a tool you can use with your team to reflect on what is going well and what needs improvement. 

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Change is hard and you or someone you know is experiencing a lot of turmoil right now. Positions being cut, returning to office after many years working remote, restructuring and having to take some new responsibilities, changing cities or even countries. Adapting to change and managing change are skills we do not often think about developing. Change just happens to us, and we just must deal with it. In this episode, here are 4 steps to help you develop these skills to allow you and your team, adapt to change effectively. 

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In this episode, Andrew Hobday, coach, speaker and author of the book Psychology-Driven Agility: Mastering Human Dynamics for Business Success, join us to discuss how to develop tru agility in an organziation. 

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Yadi Caro on the Find Your Dream Job Podcast. 

Employers want to hire people who are great communicators, who can collaborate with others to solve problems, and who receive correction well. These qualities are known as soft skills, and Find Your Dream Job guest Yadi Caro says you can learn them if you feel lacking. 

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Does it feel hard to try to convince others to see the same issues you are seeing? To buy into that idea that you truly believe will save tons of time? You’ve told them so many times, but these people don’t listen!  In this episode you will learn 4 steps you can do to persuade others to buy in your idea.

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In this episode, Elizabeth Lotardo, LinkedIn Learning instructor and author of the highly-praised new book 'Leading Yourself: Find More Joy, Meaning, and Opportunities in the Job You Already Have,' you will learnways to achieve happiness in the work you have, managing change, and micromanagers, and even some tips for using LinkedIn.

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Are you being asked to return to office? Did they told you its for the best because collaboration is just best if done in person? In this episode we will address what research states about this and also share 4 tips collaboration better onsite and online. 

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Are you an introvert struggling to become a better communicator?  Or perhaps you have an introvert in your team and you want them to be able to speak with customers, give presentations? In this episode you will learn 3 pieces of advice for you as an introvert and 3 key tools to make your “introvert” team member become a better communicator.  
 
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What makes a great team? You can have a team of superstars, the best of the best, yet for some reason, the productivity is down, constant fighting occurs, the quality of the product is not the best.  Think about your favorite sport team. Yes, each may have amazing players but if the team is not able to work well, the team of superstars can be mediocre.

Today you will learn what you can do to make your team great, based on scientific research. 

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 You are probably a member of a team or leading a team. Are you in a team doing work together or are you in a group of inviduals doing work? If you are a member of a team, you are all by definition, working together towards a common goal. So if this meets your criteria for your workplace, then listen to this episode to learn about 5 mistakes you need to aoid, lets listen. 

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People speak at about 125 words per minute. People think at 900 words per minute. 
So guess what, when you speak at 125 words, you as listener are filling in the gaps with any information you want to put in between. You are making assumptions, stories, you turned off because you are thinking about what to answer next. Bottom line, we tend to suck at listening.

In this episode, you will learn some tips to become a better listener which could save you hours of time at work. 

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Do you know the value you bring to your team?  Or perhaps you feel you can offer more and you have not being able to express the why effectively. Today you will learn some techniques to do a self assessment so you can recognize the strength of your skills. 

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If you are entering a new team or managing a new team, it can be quite intimidating especially if you are the new person. In this episode, you will learn about the 5Cs framework: Connect, Communicate, Collaborate, Create and Correct. 

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In this episode recorded via LinkedIn Live, Empathy in Tech founder Andrea Goulet discusses why empathy is essential in tech and how to build it in organizations. 

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This episode is part 2 of a conversation with Enrique Acosta Gonzalez, military veteran, author and host of the Developing the Leader Within podcast.

You can see the full episode here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVfCg0HX-NA&t=143s 

Today we focus on emotional intelliugence: how to build it, what are some practices we can implement now, and how we can build work ethic within oiur teams. 

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This episode is part 1 of a conversation with Enrique Acosta Gonzalez, military veteran, author and host of the Developing the Leader Within podcast.

You can see the full episode here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVfCg0HX-NA&t=143s 

We talked about well leadership, how to collaborate in teams, communicating effectively and if can we really manage time. 

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In this episode, I will address two points of view. As an employer or hiring manager, how do you assess for soft skills? As a job seeker, how do you demonstrate tou have those skills. 

You may have seen multiple articles describing how important are "soft" skills for the future of work. If you are looking for a job or thinking about the next steps on your career you'd want to listen to this episode so you know what to prepare for. 

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This is the last episode of this season and it you are listening as this episode is released we are approaching the end of the year. This is a time when we evaluate where are we, where do we want to go, so this episode will give you a lot of value. My guest is Andy Storch (https://www.linkedin.com/in/andystorch/ ) and he is the author of a book called Own Your Career, Own Your Life. You will learn today about how to start paving the way to get to a career you love. 

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Bad situations are expected  at any point, that’s a given, so how do we manage to deal with them effectively? At work, how do we help our teams become resilient?

Today you will learn specific strategies on that with Dr. Marie-Hélène Pelletier, leadership psychologist, keynote speaker, executive coach, workplace mental health expert and author of the book The Resilience Plan: A Strategic Approach to Optimizing Your Work Performance and Mental Health.

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Listen to my interview in the Empathy in Tech podcast (https://www.empathyintech.com/).

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Politics, religion, diversity, issues with the law... there are so many topics that as people in positions of leadership, we refuse to talk about because we want to stay ouf of it we do not want to be controversial. But there are instances when is necessary because it aligns with values and it can even be good for business. Today we talk about when and how to speak out with Matt Kohut (https://www.matthewkohut.com/) 

Matthew Kohut is the author of Speaking Out: The New Rules of Business Leadership Communication (2024) and other books as well. As the managing partner of KNP Communications, Matt has prepared CEOs, elected officials, and public figures for events from live television appearances to TED talks. 

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When you take that mandated company learning session online, do you actually learn something? How about those classes where you have “death by PowerPoint”? We love to talk about learning, yet we rarely work on finding or providing a learning experience. 

Today we talk about learning with Vince Jeong. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/vincejeong/). He is the host of the podcast The science of Excellence and the CEO of learning company Sparkwise. 

We talked about  what consideration we need to take to learn because it is a skill. 

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Are you a curious person? Are you prmoting curiosity among your team members? If not, you should, as my guest Dr Daine Hamilton recommends. She is a sought-after expert in curiosity, perception, emotional intelligence, and behavioral science. Dr. Hamilton is the creator of the Curiosity Code Index®, the Perception Power Index, and the author of five books sold worldwide. She is also the host if the podcast Take the Lead. 

In today's conversation we talked about how to develop curiosity to succeed. 

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Do you know what makes an individual thrive in a challenging situation? It is not physical ability or technical skill. The secret may be on using the right combination of attributes. 

What are attributes and why can we use these to maximize our individual and team potential? Today we talk again in this podcast with Rich Diviney, a retired US Navy SEAL Commander and author of the book The Attributes: 25 Hidden Drivers of Optimal Performance. He  developed his expertise in human performance during his over twenty-year career in the US Military. Diviney was intimately involved in an extremely elite SEAL selection process. He also spearheaded the creation of a mental performance directorate that focused a strong emphasis on physical, mental, and emotional discipline.

Today you wil learn what attributes are, how to leverage them, and you will find out about the results of my attribute assessment. 

You can take the assessment and get a 15% discount using the code HARDCORESKILLS15 

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 Today you will be listening to another podcast Arguing Agile with Brian Orlando and Om Patel. 
We talked aboiut the missing patrt when it comes to implementation agile, the how to deal with the people part. That is, how improtrant is it for us to practice our soft skills to become better team members, managers, collaborators. 

Communications are so tricky. When I ask people and teams I work with what skill do you want to improve on I often hear, "I want to be a better speaker or a writer." The thing is, when we try to become that person we think we should use eloquent long speeches with convoluted words. But what if the secret ingredient involved just being YOU and keeping it simple. 

This is what I have learned from Dr Mimi Goss, who was one of my proffessors at Harvard University where she teaches. Dr. Mimi Goss is the author of What Is Your One Sentence?: How to Be Heard in the Age of Short Attention Spans (Prentice Hall-Penguin, 2012). She is a communications consultant,former reporter, and media trainer whose clients and students have include heads of state, diplomats, politicians, military officials, corporate executives. 
Today you will learn the actions you can take now to become a better communicator. 

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This podcast is centered around helping you refine those skills that help you do your work in tech, and a lot of those skills center around using agile ways of working.

Today, I speak with an expert in one of those frameworks . His name is Richard Knaster and he has more than 30 years of experience in software and systems development, in roles ranging from developer to executive. Richard is the co-author of the SAFe Distilled book series.

While we did talk about this framework, the focus and lesson for us today is about becoming a new kind of leader or manager, where you focus on the big picture, on value and on connecting the dots.

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 If you are a frequent listener you knoe I have had a few epsiodes about coaching on this show, especially agile coaching. I think as managers especially in the IT world, knowing that is takes a different skill set to be a good coach is essential as wel as recognize when you need a coach to help you and your team achieve great levels of performance. My guest today is an authority in the world of agile coaching, she literally wrote the book on it and was able to make that transition from a project management mindset to a coach mindset. 

Lyssa Adkins is an internationally-recognized thought leader in the Agile community. She is the author of Coaching Agile Teams which has been a top ranking business bok for over a dozen years.  Her current focus is improving the performance of top leadership teams through insightful facilitation and organization systems coaching. Today you will learn more about what it takes to be a good coach. 

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Making teams, especially tech teams, work together effectively may not be something that just happens naturally. Sometimes it requires some coaching. In the world of adopting agile ways of working, agile coaches are a key part of an organization to help those teams to eventually manage themselves and succeed. I have been an agile coach and let me tell you, every team has its own unique challenges and successes. My guest today is a long time agile coach and many of us in this field seek for his advice to help us improve. 

Bob Galen is an Agile Methodologist, Practitioner & Coach. In this role he helps guide companies and teams in their pragmatic adoption and organizational shift towards Scrum and other Agile methods and practices. 

He’s published a few agile related books including  Extraordinarily Badass Agile Coaching: The Journey from Beginner to Mastery and Beyond. We speak today about lessons to help your team and how can you also be a badass agile coach. 

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You and I have been on this situation. We are looking for a role, get an interview and then it's time to talk about salary expectations. Where do we even start here? How much can we ask for? What if they say no to my ask? Am I really asking for too much or too little? 

My guest today will help us navigate through these scenarios so you can develop the skill of negotiation. Brandon Bramley has over 10 years of experience in negotiating salaries and currently runs The Salary Negotiator, which provides professional job offer negotiation coaching and courses. Take about 30 minute to listen to this episode and you will walk away with the confidence to ask for what you deserve. Lets listen. 
 

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Tell me about your workplace. Are you in a place where there is rarely ANY conflicts, things are good on the surface that is. Or are you in a place where there are multiple fights? Or perhaps, you are in a place where conflict, that is, different ideas are welcomed. My guest today agrees that conflict can be a great tool for teams.  Karin Hurt is the author, alongside David Dye, of Powerful Phrases for Dealing with Workplace Conflict. 

She is the  Founder of Let's Grow Leaders, a global, human-centered leadership development company known for practical tools and training that sticks. After this episode you would have learned tactics to deal with various situations of workplace conflicts that you can share with your teams so conflicts is no equal to fighting. 

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Picture this, you are giving a presentation to a new customer about this app or this dashboard your team created, explained all the cool technical features at length. You feel good, you think you killed it since you prepared for so long, and at the end, the customer was not interested. 

What went wrong? They just don’t get it, right? Perhaps you did not bothered to put yourself in the feet of the customer. You did not show enough empathy. Something similar happened to my guest jermy adamson. Jeremy is the author of the book Geek with Empathy. 

Jeremy is a leader in AI and analytics strategy, and has a broad range of experience in aviation, energy, financial services, retail, and public administration

You will learn today how to build empathy with those around you to bring you better results at work. He say at the root of every tech problem there is an empathy problem. 

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