# team building
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33:25Round 6 — Friday karaoke partiesAl Elliott: I'm doing it, I'm doing it. Uh, so let's whip through the rest of these. Friday afternoons are karaoke parties Leanne Elliott: Red flag Al Elliott: With a dedicated room for itEP 324 · 4 Aug 2026·interview· 33:25–34:5643:28The 'right' team: Kieran finds his own replacementAl Elliott: Talk to us about your team. Right now. So you said, unfortunately, in the last 18 months, you have had to make some layoffs. Where are you up to with your team right now? Who's there? What's Keira doing? LeanEP 295 · 23 Apr 2026·interview· 43:28–47:2011:29Building culture when forging three businesses togetherSteve Kemish: Well, you need to spend time with them first. So when we, as I mentioned earlier, we forged 3 businesses together. About 5 years ago. Now, the collective sum of that company, new company, was only about 15 EP 275 · 12 Feb 2026·interview· 11:29–14:0945:08Workplace Surgery: building high-performance teams without burnoutAl Elliott: Love that. Love that. Okay. Question number 2, how do I build a high-performance team that doesn't settle for second best? Hi, Leanne. What is the best way you've actually found to achieve high performance ouEP 266 · 13 Jan 2026·workplace surgery· 45:08–49:1827:15How to build a thriving team as a new managerAoife O'Brien: Yeah. So, when I did my own research when I was doing my master's a number of years ago, and that's where the, let's say the seed of this model came about. So, I looked into, really I was looking at engageEP 255 · 4 Dec 2025·interview· 27:15–30:4511:19Why bringing on more team members with learning challenges matteredLeanne Elliott: Yeah Christian Laing: He makes, he makes a brew, he makes the staff a drink when they come in. He trained all the staff, um, and, and people didn't think that was possible, you know Leanne Elliott: Why waEP 253 · 27 Nov 2025·interview· 11:19–13:3434:52Workplace Surgery: Building a reliable team when you're used to doing it all yourselfLeanne Elliott: Yeah Al Elliott: That is a TV show I'd watch. 2 TV detectives, Judge and Cable. Get in my office, Cable! Anyway, right, so let's move on to the world-famous weekly workplace surgery. Where I put your quesEP 238 · 7 Oct 2025·workplace surgery· 34:52–41:0038:06Day 90: right people, right roles and the Bad Apple experimentAl Elliott: Let's talk about the last part of it, this sort of 60 to 90 days. What do you feel that people should have achieved by the end of the 90 days? Then we'll work backwards Vince Sanderson: This is going to be a EP 177 · 6 Mar 2025·interview· 38:06–44:5943:17Workplace Surgery: Fostering culture in a remote teamAl Elliott: Okay, so question number 3, Lee, I think is right up your street, and you'll see why in a second. I run an online marketplace for handmade goods that's grown from a side hustle to a team of 40 over the past 3EP 134 · 8 Oct 2024·workplace surgery· 43:17–48:119:13Growing from 3 to 34 people and the struggle of getting technical work doneAl Elliott: Can you just tell us, first of all, give us context. It started off with you and Amanda, Paul. How many people have you got now? And secondly, tell us, what challenges did you have when you were building thatEP 127 · 12 Sept 2024·other· 9:13–15:0315:47Building the team and the probation periodLeanne Elliott: I mean, as you said, it— you described it as a clubhouse, more of a clubhouse than an office. I mean, how do you still encourage people to work hard? Because it sounds pretty fun Ed Williams: I think we'vEP 125 · 5 Sept 2024·interview· 15:47–18:3628:31Can a bad event do more harm than good?Al Elliott: I'm going to mess it all up. So, can, if I got it wrong, would that actually have a detrimental effect on my culture? Lee Rubin: It's a, it's a good question. And I'm going to say yes and no. I think that theEP 119 · 30 Jul 2024·interview· 28:31–32:2934:06Dispelling common myths about anger and its managementRyan Martin: I think sometimes anger can be really— can have a team-building effect, meaning if If we're all angry at the same people or in the same way, it can really build camaraderie that way. So sometimes a leader's EP 81 · 8 Mar 2024·interview· 34:06–38:1623:46Clip 6 & 7 — Stella: first founder story and what you can do with a collection of peopleLeanne Elliott: So from one inspiring leader to another, my next clip comes from our very first founder story with the formidable Stella Smith from Perks. The more I learn about Stella, both in the media and from her teaEP 52 · 17 Aug 2023·other· 23:46–31:50
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