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Cultivate the Teams You D.R.E.A.M. About | Dr. Joey Faucette

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Episode 193 | Cultivate the Teams You D.R.E.A.M. About | Dr. Joey Faucette Episode summary How do you cultivate a Work Positive team culture when nearly 4 out of 5 people on your team are somewhere between going through the motions and actively working against you? How do you create a team so strong that people line up to join it, refuse to leave it, and do their best work inside it? Dr. Joey Faucette unveils his groundbreaking D.R.E.A.M. Teams framework for cultivating the teams you dream about leading. You discover how to define your culture on purpose, place the right people in the right seats, elevate courage, attend to each person, and magnify their strengths. Listen as Dr. Joey explores: ☀️ Why managers account for 70% of the variance in team engagement and why that variance costs the global economy $438 billion in lost productivity annually ☀️ How a single misaligned leader, operating without self-awareness, can poison an entire culture one drop at a time and how a single intentional leader can transform it ☀️ Why top talent are the best evaluators in the room and why they often choose to work for a different company than yours ☀️ How fear paralyzes teams in communication, career progression, and innovation and how courage is the antidote that unlocks potential ☀️ Why people who felt seen, heard, and led suddenly felt none of those things when leaders stopped checking in during the pandemic

Dr. Joey transforms how you think about team culture by proving that as you apply the D.R.E.A.M. framework, you create a culture where people feel clearly led, rightly placed, bravely heard, personally seen, and genuinely celebrated.

Key Insight

"The organizations that grow people and profits today do so in that order. They start with people. And the profits pour in." Sharon McLaughlin

Your DOT (Do One Thing)

Choose ONE element of the D.R.E.A.M. framework to implement this week based on where your team can learn and do better:

Define: Ask one team member "What is one thing I can improve in leading our team?" Right People: Write down three reasons why the perfect candidate gets excited to join your team before your next hire Elevate: Share one thing you're uncertain about in your next team meeting and ask for your team's thinking Attend: Have a vision conversation with one team member, telling them one thing you see in them that they have yet to fully see in themselves Magnify: Catch three people doing something well this week, share it specifically, out loud, and in the moment

The D.R.E.A.M. Teams @ Work Framework

Define Your Culture on Purpose Right People, Right Seats Elevate Courage Attend to Each Person Magnify Their Strengths

Featured Work Positive Podcast Guests

Sean Lemson (executive coach, author of "One Drop of Poison") Dr. Will Sparks (leadership culture expert) Jon McGavin (Area General Manager for Ritz-Carlton and JW Marriott, Grand Lakes Orlando) Jennifer McClure (executive search veteran, leadership advisor) Ashley Rudolph (talent acquisition expert) Glenn Akramoff (interim leadership specialist) Jill Schulman (former Marine, author of "The Bravery Effect") Lisa Cummings (CEO of Lead Through Strengths)

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