Illouminating Teams: Recent Episodes
Dan Paech
In this interview series we talk to business leaders and organisational psychologists about organisational development, psychology, and all things teams.We cover personal stories, trends and latest approaches, team development and engagement, synergy and trust, and psychological safety, amongst other themes.
A veteran leader & CMO for B2B tech scale-ups, Peter is not new to all this remote business. As Founder of Anywhere Consulting, he's made it his mission to support 10,000 leaders to create more flexible, transparent & horizontal workplaces that attract top talent and enable companies to grow, fast.
Peter quite literally wrote a book on leadership from anywhere, and in this interview he shares with us some of his insights and principles for remote operations, team management, and flexible leadership practices.
We cover:
- Why Peter is so passionate about remote work, and how he first became attracted to it even pre-pandemic;
- How remote can have an effect on management structures;
- The sorts of tools needed to properly support remote and distributed teams;
- The differences between remote and asynchronous, and why some teams manage remote but struggle to be asynch; and
- Whether there are certain personalities that thrive in remote, asynch roles, or if it's truly a way of working that can suit anyone
Find Peter via on LinkedIn or via Anywhere Consulting. We are also big fans of his mailing list!
What is a theatre director's perspective on psychological safety? How can the more rationally-inclined learn from the creative sector's distinct team-building strategy? How might fostering possibilities for liminal space result in groups that are more content and perform better?
Maja Maletkovic, CEO and founder of Immersive Reality Studios and the new immersive experience club ESOTHERI, offers us a novel method for working together that draws on her varied expertise in the arts and culture-for-profit.
Listen to Maja as she discusses her views on:
- What OKRs & other performance frameworks miss;
- What liminality means and how it can help teams perform better;
- Whether creative teams are different, with a unique set of needs; and
- High-purpose cultures & engagement.
Ex-banker, Rhodes Scholar, author, entrepreneur and current Director of Selection for Rise, a joint initiative of Schmidt Futures and the Rhodes Trust, Muloongo Muchelemba is a global citizen who grew up and worked in 9 countries and has visited over 50.
There is truly no-one better to discuss finding and developing talent in a global context, inclusion, and the importance of being mission-driven in high-performance cultures.
In this conversation we cover:
- Whether or not the world is ready for truly global teams;
- Inclusive selections processes & the tools that can support them;
- Striking a balance between the company and individual; and,
- Why the best team culture she worked in was diverse and collaboratively competitive
Sonia has deep expertise within the start up scene- the former Program Director of the Stockholm chapter of Antler, a global early stage and accelerator program, and now as a consultant for key nordic players like the Danske Bank accelerator and the Second Foundation.
She’s had an international career and seen the formation (and break up!) of a lot of teams.
In this interview we talk about: -
The nature of founder team relationships
Some of the fundamentals that help them be successful
How VCs assess founder teams
Soft versus technical skills in team success
* The role of accelerators
Plus she shares some interesting insights into building a career abroad and not being transactional about networking. Take a listen!
Aakash Gupta is the Founder and CEO of Sorry, I Was on Mute, a blog dedicated to managing remote and distributed teams.
Aakash built the blog in the early stages of the pandemic when remote work was forced upon the world, and has grown it substantially over the last two and a half years.
Aakash tells us about some of the ways in which managing a remote team differs from managing a regular team, what tech he uses, and explains the current trends in remote work.
Ingrid Molan is a Director at Nous Group and an Organisational Psychologist with almost 10 years experience working with all things people.
She works across a range of topics including leadership, learning and development, capability, culture, talent identification and performance management.
In this conversation we talk to Ingrid about leadership, with a focus on what constitutes a great team leader. We cover a range of topics including:
- Leadership vs. management
- Characteristics of great leaders
- Whether leaders are born or can be taught
- Current challenges for team leaders
- Work trends in 2022 (and their implications)
- Tips and tricks for team leaders
In our interview series Illouminating Teams we talk to business leaders and organisational psychologists about organisational development, psychology, and all things teams.
We cover personal stories, trends and latest approaches, team development and engagement, synergy and trust, and psychological safety, amongst other themes.
This conversation is with Kristen Turnbull, Founding Director at CoreData WA and deputy managing director of CoreData Group. Kristen has more than 10 years’ experience running market research projects across Australia and founded the WA business in 2017.
We discussed how she launched the CoreData Western Australia office in Perth from scratch, what principles she uses in recruiting and team building, what tools are helpful to manage a team, and how she engages and motivates her team.