Driving Employee Engagement | Daniel Pink

2013 REACH Conference

Daniel Pink’s ideas around “Autonomy, Mastery, and Purpose” from his book Drive kept cropping up. He suggests that contrary to popular belief, extrinsic rewards do not effectively motivate your team. These are physical and visible rewards such as bonuses or gifts (typically going hand-in-hand with the old carrot-and-stick approach). Instead, he suggests that in order to inspire your team and encourage innovation, engagement, and ultimately increase productivity, you need to look to intrinsic rewards to make a real impact. These are rewards that are personally satisfying to the individual.

Win More by Solving Other People's Problems | Margaret Anee Neale

Stanford Innovation Lab

If you really want to win at negotiation, stop fighting and start listening. In this episode of Stanford Innovation Lab, host Tina Seelig speaks with Margaret “Maggie” Neale, professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, for answers to the burning questions about negotiating. Is emotion your most powerful tool? When does deference earn you more than dominance? Will setting a walk-away price decrease your drive to negotiate for more? Maggie also shares pro-tips on negotiating in all settings, from the office to the farmers’ market.

Players vs. Petenders | John Maxwell

Maxwell Leadership Podcast

Let me ask you a question: are you a player, or are you a pretender? Sometimes it can be harder to see the difference in ourselves than it is to see it others. So, today we begin a series in which John Maxwell teaches the difference between players and pretenders and how the world needs more leaders who will lead authentically and add value to their people.

To Get Results, Push and Pull Your Team | Joe Folkman

The 90th Percentile

Over the past year, there has been a call for leaders to be less demanding and more empathetic toward individual employees.  They need to inspire and motivate them to work not demand results! However, our analysis of 360-degree assessments showed that the most effective leaders also know how to “push people, but are not very good at pulling them. In this episode, we are sharing the research behind the paradox of pushing and pulling your team to achieve exceptional performance

Be Better at Work: How to Communicate Better with Coworkers and Employees | Robert I. Sutton

Think Fast, Talk Smart

Most of the work we do requires coordinating and collaborating with others. But how can we ensure the benefits of working with others, while avoiding conflict that’s inherent to communicating within groups?

In this podcast episode, Matt Abrahams speaks with management expert Robert I. Sutton, who is a professor of organizational behavior (by courtesy) at Stanford GSB, about maximizing productivity while minimizing what he calls “friction.”

Cultivating Collaboration: Don't Be So Defensive! | Jim Tamm

TEDxSantaCruz

Ever see red? It's called being defensive, and turns out, it is the single greatest inhibitor to true collaboration. Jim Tamm shares years of experience in getting out of the red zone and cultivating a "green zone" attitude.

Jim Tamm is a former law professor and senior administrative law judge for the state of California. He mediated nearly 2,000 employment disputes and handed down legal decisions that impacted national labor policy. He’s worked for 40 years in the field of alliance building and conflict resolution, and is an expert in building collaborative workplace environments. He’s the author of “Radical Collaboration,” published in 2005.

The Beauty of Conflict | Clair Canfield

TEDxUSU

For many, conflict is considered a negative experience and an indication that something has gone wrong. When viewed from that perspective it frequently creates interactions that leave us feeling frustrated and unsatisfied. In this talk, Clair identifies some of the ways we get stuck in the trap of justification and also provides hope for a new way of approaching conflict. This different approach unlocks the possibilities of conflict and empowers us to create the change we want in the world around us, in our relationships, places of work, communities, and most of all within ourselves.

How To Achieve Your Goals

Hidden Brain Podcast

Are You An Ideal Team Player? | Patrick Lencioni

Tedx University of Nevada

Patrick Lencioni thinks it is time to change the way we prepare people for success. Drawing from his book, The Ideal Team Player, Lencioni makes the compelling case that the key to success in an increasingly team-oriented world is being humble, hungry and smart. Whether you’re a CEO or a 7th grader, focusing on these deceptively simple virtues can radically improve your personal and professional effectiveness and fulfillment.

Great Leadership Comes Down To Only Two Rules | Peter Anderton

Tedx Derby

Peter takes us on a whistle stop tour of leadership in the last 16 centuries and tells us why everything you ever need to know about leadership comes down to only two rules.

A Chartered Engineer who crossed over to the 'dark side' of HR at the start of the millennium, his role as the Organisational Development Manager for 3M UK focused on strategy, change, leadership development and coaching - ultimately becoming a Chartered Fellow of the CIPD.

Why Good Leaders Make You Feel Safe

Simon Sinek

What makes a great leader? Management theorist Simon Sinek suggests, it's someone who makes their employees feel secure, who draws staffers into a circle of trust. But creating trust and safety - especially in an uneven economy - means taking on big responsibility.