Jessica Potts, High Performance and Leadership Expert
In this episode, Roxanne chats with Jessica Potts about harnessing natural talents, understanding strengths and weaknesses, and the global productivity crisis. They explore the importance of management skills, community, and alignment in a workplace. The discussion also covers organizational values, feedback, and the concept of "mature directness".
Key Points
- Understanding and harnessing individual strengths within a team can lead to greater productivity, satisfaction, and overall success in the workplace.
- Building trust within a team, especially vulnerability-based trust, is crucial for open communication, collaboration, and the ability to provide and accept constructive feedback.
- Effective leadership involves knowing oneself, understanding the team, and working together towards common goals with a clear and shared sense of purpose.
Hiring and creating a great team of employees is more challenging than ever! Reading between the lines on a well drafted resume, meeting with the seemingly perfect candidate and deciding on personality vs. skillset is a daunting task.
On this episode of Authentic Living with Roxanne, we are joined by Jessica Potts. Jessica is a recovering government worker, who now spends her time with a wide range of public and private sector clients as president of Inspired Strategy Group Inc.
Jessica’s company specializes in building high-performance leaders and teams, sustaining employee, stakeholder, and community engagement as well as facilitating strategic processes.
Known for her energy, optimism and strong belief in pursuing the things you are most passionate about, Jessica's life's purpose is summarized simply as "seeing you at your best".
Authentic Touch Points:
My "AH HA" moment. 3:40 Everybody has talent. 7:25 My beginning. 20:50 Projects and processes. 28:55 Trust within the team. 33:15 The “emotional bank account”. 40:55 Hire attitude and train aptitude. 47:30
Join me to hear Jessica share her methods and ideas to designed to help you create your “dream team”.
Links: Jessica’s email: [email protected] Jessica’s website: http://inspiredstrategy.ca Gallup Workplace: https://www.gallup.com/workplace/212033/attract-hire-top-talent.aspx Patrick Lencioni's Books: https://www.tablegroup.com/books/ Roxanne’s LinkedIn profile:https://www.linkedin.com/in/roxannederhodge/ Roxanne’s email: [email protected] Chat with Roxanne: https://roxannederhodge.com/chat/ Roxanne’s previous podcasts: https://roxannederhodge.com/blog/
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