Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast #200 Andrew May High Performing Teams

Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast #200 Andrew May High Performing Teams

Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast #200 Andrew May High Performing Teams

High Performing Teams

On this episode of the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast, Craig Johns speaks with Andrew May about high performing teams, leadership and followership, and the three circles that form a high performing team.

We also dive deeper into the bridge that connects the corporate world and sports, training your brain, and the learning agility that businesses can learn from athleticism and sports.

Andrew May  – High Performing Teams
Andrew May is the CEO and founder of StriveStronger, author of the best-seller “MatchFit” and the Mental Skills Coach for the Manly Sea Eagles National Rugby League Club. He took up a Bachelor of Applied Science in Exercise Physiology and a Masters of Coaching Psychology at the University of Sydney. 

From a former middle-distance runner to assisting top-tier athletes at the Australian Institute of Sport, he is a regular face on ABC News Breakfast and the host of The Business Fit podcast and Performance Intelligence podcast. He is also a former Managing Partner at KPMG after they acquired his company The Performance Clinic, and is part of IBO World Boxing Champion, Tim Tszyu’s team.

Andrew talks about:

  • Dreaming of going to the Olympics as a runner
  • Starting surfing at 12, which planted the seed of high performance
  • The skill of following as taught by the Army and the Navy
  • It’s a real strength to be able to both follow and lead in a team
  • Definition and dynamics of high performing teams 
  • The three circles of a high performing team
  • The importance of teamwork and connectivity
  • Your brain is totally trainable
  • Coaching in sports and in the corporate world
  • Good coaches will know when to focus on the positives as a double down on the strengths
  • Businesses can learn Learning Agility from sports
  • Getting the middle balance between driving a high performance team and the stakes of running them out of gas
  • Three gifts he wants to give his kids
  • The social contagion theory
  • Disconnection in the modern world of technology

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“Having the conversation on and actually working on resilience. Working on toughness and grit, and actually making people work hard and get rewarded for it.” The importance of conversations around rewards within teams with Andrew May on the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast.

“In a high performing team, having real clear leadership, authentic leadership, but then having people who know actually how to follow a plan and implement a plan and knowing your job. So it’s really challenging and it’s totally changed my definition of followership.” Andrew May on the strength in followership on the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast.

“If you want your brain to be fit, fast, flexible, and strong, you’ve got to train your brain. And that’s where mental skills are now really evolving and it excites me.” Training your brain with Andrew May on the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast. 


Resources Mentioned in this show:
Andrew May www.andrewmay.com
Andrew May LinkedIn
Andrew May Facebook
Andrew May Instagram
Andrew May Youtube
Andrew May X (Twitter)
Craig Johns www.craigjohns.com.au
Craig Johns craig@nrg2perform.com
Craig Johns LinkedIn
Craig Johns Facebook
Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast
NRG2Perform www.nrg2perform.com

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active CEO Podcast 139 Trust Through Healthy Confrontation

active CEO Podcast #139 TRUST Through Healthy Confrontation

active CEO Podcast 139 Trust Through Healthy Confrontation

TRUST Through Healthy Confrontation

As leaders it is important that we build TRUST & resilience through healthy confrontation in a safe psychological space.

Trust and resilience are two important ingredients when it comes to positive and successful team dynamics. Trust is the glue and resilience is the pliability of the collective.

Trust is confidence in the honesty or integrity of a person or thing, and/or having confidence, faith or hope in someone or something.

Resilience is our ability to adapt well in the face of adversity, trauma, tragedy, threats, or significant sources of stress—such as family and relationship problems, serious health problems, or workplace and financial stressors.

To build trust and resilience we need to create an environment that fosters healthy confrontation where people or groups with opposing ideas or opinions are free to express without the fear of retaliation or negative consequences. This is achieved through creating a safe psychological safety where the shared belief in the team is that it is safe for interpersonal risk taking, and team members feel accepted and respected.

in 2018 Google released their research findings on the five keys to a successful Google team. They found that the highest-performing teams have one thing in common: psychological safety, the belief that you won’t be punished when you make a mistake.

To achieve psychological safety, we need to create a space that allows for moderate risk-taking, speaking your mind, creativity, and sticking your neck out without fear of having it cut off. The results are higher levels of engagement, increased motivation, effective problem solving, enhanced learning and better performance.

Healthy confrontation done effectively is a true asset to your business or team. To create an atmosphere of healthy confrontation build rapport, be timely with confronting, focus on the issue rather than the person, aim to find a resolution and always follow up after the conversation.

It’s time for your to build the trust and resilience need in your workplace to stimulate innovation and creativity.

Want To Learn More?

Check out the Break The CEO Code whitepaper. It provides an overview of Break The CEO Code and showcases the 6 key phases. We also go a little deeper into the 2nd phase PERFORMANCE, where we discuss the 3 P’s of the Leadership Performance Formula.

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Resources Mentioned in this show:

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Craig Johns Keynote Speaker
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active CEO Podcast Donna-Leigh Perfect Double Dose Of Dopamine

Double Dose Of Dopamine

On this episode of the active CEO Podcast, Craig Johns speaks with Donna-Leigh Perfect about the double dose of dopamine, PEACE tools, lifting your mindset through physical exercise, and The Resilient Rockstar show.

We also speak about winning the Golden Shares Award, having a passion to curb childhood obesity, DREAMGUARDS program and how she overcame seeing her mother being murdered.

Donna-Leigh Perfect – Double Dose Of Dopamine

Donna-Leigh Perfect is an entertainer, international speaker, author and resilience expect who is changing lives after overcoming an abusive childhood where she lived in 13 foster homes and went to 13 schools. She is an Inspiring, Vibrant, Energetic and Life-Changing speaker who is the founder of happy home-workouts.

Her education includes a Diploma in Sales management and Marketing from the Auckland University of Technology in New Zealand, a certificate 4 in Personal Training and is currently completing an NLP /Time Line Therapy course eat Minds Tomorrow. She is passionate about curbing domestic violence, through her P.E.A.C.E tools, which transform lives daily through her Resilient Rockstar live stage show and Resilient P.E.A.C.E Program, As a Lifeline Suicide Prevention Counselor and expert on Resilience.

Donna-Leigh talks about:

  • Double dose of dopamine.
  • Take life a little less seriously.
  • The Resilient Rockstar Show.
  • Lifting your mindset through physical exercise.
  • Happy home workouts on YouTube at the beginning of COVID-19.
  • Reading children’s stories with rescue dog Rocky Rockstar.
  • Watched her mum being murdered by her father.
  • Having no stability with 14 foster homes and schools.
  • Becoming a lifeline counsellor volunteer.
  • Setting up an Australian textile company from scratch to a million dollar turnover.
  • Becoming a personal trainer because she loves fitness.
  • Dream Guards Perfect P.E.A.C.E Program.
  • Escape the situation and trust your instincts.Living a real life of passion and purpose.
  • Being your quirky, friendly vulnerable self.

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Resources Mentioned in this show:

Donna-Leigh Perfect www.donna-leighperfect.com
Dream Guards www.dreamguards.com.au
Donna-Leigh Perfect Twitter
Donna-Leigh Perfect LinkedIn
Donna-Leigh Perfect  Instagram
Craig Johns www.craigjohns.com.au
Craig Johns craig@nrg2perform.com
Craig Johns LinkedIn

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Perfectly Bullied Perfectly At P.E.A.C.E Book
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Phase 5 TEAM – 10 Elements of Leading High Performing Teams

Learn the 10 Elements of Leading High Performing Teams. The first four phases of Breaking The CEO Code focus on first leading yourself (phases 1-3) and secondly being a high performing leader (phase 4). To be able to lead high performing teams, the first four phases are critical as a team, organisation or community culture are only as good as the behaviours the key influencer is modeling.

The 10 Elements of Leading High Performing Teams

Breaking The CEO Code Craig Johns Phase 5 TEAM - 10 Elements of Leading High Performing Teams

Leading high performing teams requires:

  1. Create DIRECTION & meaning through shared mission, vision, values & beliefs;
  2. Develop clear ROLES & responsibilities to build team culture;
  3. Establish diverse professional RELATIONSHIPS that are supportive, enjoyable & dependable;
  4. Provide a collaborative LEADERSHIP style through consistent influence & direction;
  5. Foster GROWTH through creative risk-taking, problem-solving & information sharing;
  6. Promote REWARD, recognition & reflection strategies to ensure accountability;
  7. Clarify PROCESS & structure to enable commitment & method of cooperation;
  8. Build TRUST & resilience through healthy confrontation in a safe psychological space;
  9. Enable IMPACT through clear outcomes & team performance goals; &
  10. Create a safe psychological space for vulnerability & open honest COMMUNICATION.
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