David Burkus Presents

Helping leaders and teams do their best work ever. David Burkus is one of the world’s leading business thinkers and the author of four best-selling books about business and leadership. Episodes of the show include insights, strategies, tips and takeaways from David as well as in-depth conversations with other world renown experts to contribute ideas, opinions, and insights to help you level of your own leadership.

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How To Avoid Burnout While Working From Home

In this episode, we're going to cover four ways that you can manage burnout on your team. When you examine all the research on keeping remote workers engaged, it turns out that it’s not too hard to keep employees working. In fact, the bigger challenge is keeping employees from working too hard. The bigger task is helping them fight the burnout that would turn a short-term productivity gain into a long-term drain on everyone. //ABOUT DAVID One of the world’s leading business thinkers, David Burku...

Dec 09, 2020•10 min

How Leaders Build Trust In Teams

Trust is one of the most important elements of a team culture but also about an entire company's culture. If people feel that they can trust you as a leader, and if they feel they can trust each other, then they communicate better, they collaborate better, they develop a sense of shared identity and shared understanding, that pushes that team to greater levels of performance. And as a leader, building trust on the team is one of your number one jobs. //ABOUT DAVID One of the world’s leading busi...

Dec 09, 2020•8 min

How To Lead Remote Teams Effectively

You, as a leader will likely be leading remote teams in the future, so it's worth talking about what it takes to lead a remote team effectively, and in this video, we're going to share three tips for leading a remote team. When you look at the research on remote teams, leading effectively involves three crucial elements: Shared Expectations Shared Empathy Shared Vision. In this episode, we'll look at each in turn and offer some takeaways on how to lead your current or future remote team more eff...

Dec 09, 2020•10 min

What Great Teams Have In Common

What do great teams have in common? What are the things that great teams who create consistent amounts of value and over perform expectations all share. The teams that win again and again--what are the things that they all have in common that under performing teams lack?  When we look at the research there are three things that great teams have in common. Intellectual diversity, psychological safety, and a purpose or a cause worth fighting for. And in this episode, we'll look at all three i...

Dec 09, 2020•10 min

Vision, Mission, Purpose

Purpose statements, mission statements, vision statements. It can get really cluttered really fast. It seems like every organization has a different offering when it comes to declaring their purpose. Some just have a mission statement. Some have a mission and vision, some have a purpose. Some use some other term to describe a little bit of prose that they put on a plaque in the office or in the front of a 10-K report. And if you go from organization to organization, you can get really confused b...

Dec 07, 2020•8 min

Six Ways to Drive Employee Performance and Motivation

Motivating your people is a delicate and purposeful challenge that requires more than an annual review or jotting a few notes in someone’s personnel file. Just like getting in shape or learning a new language, bolstering the motivation and performance levels of your employees won’t happen overnight.   Here are six ways you can improve performance and motivation in your workplace: 1. Make Expectations Clear 2. Provide Continuous Feedback 3. Correct Privately; Praise Publicly 4. Believe in Yo...

Dec 07, 2020•11 min

How Paul O'Neill Fought For Safety At Alcoa

One of my favorite leadership lessons is the story of how Paul O'Neill fought for safety at Alcoa. He led a turn around of the financial performance of struggling aluminum manufacturer, but NOT by focusing on Alcoa's stock price or revenues. Instead, he encouraged employees at all levels to fight for the safety of their coworkers by studying the process and working to become a zero accident company. And it made all the difference. //ABOUT DAVID One of the world’s leading business thinkers, David...

Dec 07, 2020•11 min

Our Global Fight

Never in the history of humanity, never in recorded history at least, have we found that the entirety of humanity is united in one fight. Is united in one purpose. I mean, yeah, World War Two was a massive global threat but even then it was one half of the world fighting against the other half. We have never had one global enemy. One global fight that we are all together looking at and saying "We will win." And the results of that have been amazing. They're a reason to be optimistic and they're ...

Dec 07, 2020•7 min

Which Leader Are You?

Which leader are you? There are two basic types or styles of leadership: transactional and transformational leadership. Transactional leaders look to exert effort from followers based on rewards and punishments. Transformational leaders tap into something far more effective. They don't promise rewards, they build movements. And the people who follow, follow because they see a future worth fighting for. So, which leader are you? //ABOUT DAVID One of the world’s leading business thinkers, David Bu...

Dec 07, 2020•11 min

What Makes A Purpose-Driven Organization?

What makes a purpose driven organization? 4 Misconceptions about purpose-driven companies The last 10-15 years have seen a dramatic increase in talk about being purpose-driven organizations, mission-focused companies, and business that do good by doing good. But there's a lot of misconceptions around what it really means to be a purpose-driven organization. In the video, we cover 4 misconceptions about purpose-driven organizations and provide examples of companies that are truly purpose-driven. ...

Dec 07, 2020•11 min

Why Underdogs Win

Research reveals that underdogs, those who feel like they've been criticized and discounted, are more motivated than others to perform and more likely to develop innovative ways to win. Low expectations actually fuel high performance. If people underestimate you, and you believe they're estimating wrong, then your motivation to perform is stronger than if they'd believed in you to begin with. //ABOUT DAVID One of the world’s leading business thinkers, David Burkus’ forward-thinking ideas and bes...

Dec 06, 2020•10 min

Personality Tests Are Useless

Personality Tests at work are widely used. Millions of people every year take personality tests given to them (or paid for) by their employers. But most of these personality tests, the ones that place you into a personality type, are useless. They're of dubious origin, and dubious methodology. And yet we fall for it time and time again. //ABOUT DAVID One of the world’s leading business thinkers, David Burkus’ forward-thinking ideas and bestselling books are helping leaders and teams do their bes...

Dec 06, 2020•14 min

Why Mission Statements Fail

Let's talk about your company mission statement. The goal of mission statements was noble. The intent of a mission statement is to inspire and motivate employees. But many of them fail. And for the same reasons. //ABOUT DAVID One of the world’s leading business thinkers, David Burkus’ forward-thinking ideas and bestselling books are helping leaders and teams do their best work ever. He is the best-selling author of four books about business and leadership. His books have won multiple awards and ...

Dec 06, 2020•9 min

Extrinsic Vs Intrinsic Motivation

In this episode, we're going talk about extrinsic motivators, intrinsic motivators, when can you motivate people and when do you have to trust that they're motivating themselves. //ABOUT DAVID One of the world’s leading business thinkers, David Burkus’ forward-thinking ideas and bestselling books are helping leaders and teams do their best work ever. He is the best-selling author of four books about business and leadership. His books have won multiple awards and have been translated into dozens ...

Dec 06, 2020•12 min

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