Work Positive

Halloween comes every Monday at Give Kids The World Village. Christmas comes every Thursday. Sara Valentine says your culture happens on the days in between, on ordinary Tuesdays. In this week's episode, Sara talks with Dr. Joey about the HEART framework she discovered as she watched her team serve Wish families, and how a culture climbs back from rock bottom one conversation at a t...

Every February at Dr. Joey's farm, the first crocus pushes through frozen ground before the daylilies stir. The crocus goes first. Then spring follows. In this week's episode, Dr. Joey coaches all five B.R.A.V.E. @ Work practices from the Work Positive Community Live Experience. Who on your team waits for you to go first?

Dr. Joey Faucette is ...

Two sisters bought a pearl necklace at a Goodwill for sixty-nine cents. The appraisal came back at $50,000. Do you undervalue your team in a similar way? One designer at an architecture firm shared her underappraisal with Glassdoor because her owner had yet to ask. Porschia Parker-Griffin helps organizations unlock the millions of dollars of potential hiding in...

You started out an octopus. Curious, full of wonder, eight arms reaching in eight directions at once. Then the system folded you down to a grain of sand, coated the irritation layer by layer, and called the result beautiful. Michael Hunter spent 40 years debugging software before he discovered the bug was always in the people. Your team engages with whoever is inside that pearl....

Fence posts planted five feet apart in Irish soil grew back into trees. If your team’s culture is rich  enough, it can grow your people. Jordana Cole talks with Dr. Joey about the one question that transforms fence post performers into vibrant, tree-top contributors.

Jordana Cole is an igniter of leadership and team potential, spa...

Have you woke up at 3:00am sure this whole train jumps the rails?

Dr. Gleb Tsipursky talks with Dr. Joey on this week's Work Positive Podcast to help. His diagnosis reorganizes your whole challenge. AI adoption stalls on psychology, because the technology turns out to be the easy part. Fear, identity threat, and shame stall your rollout, and each one takes a different answer.

Marcus sits at his kitchen table on a Sunday evening. A glass of bourbon. Six exit interview transcripts.

Five of the six carry the same three words: "I felt invisible."

He sets them down and tries an exercise his coach recommended. Eight people on his team. Name what each one does best.

He reaches three and stops. That’s all he’s got. And after fourteen months as their people leader.

That night his teenage daughter Jad...

Scott McInnes founded Inspiring Change in Dublin and hosts Building Better Cultures. He joins Dr. Joey on why your brain files the unfamiliar as negative, why culture is a vehicle for strategy, and why values hold weight only as behaviors.

Seven out of ten people choose a job based on culture when everything else is equal. So why do most organizations still leave theirs to chance?

Scott McInnes helps leadership teams answe...

Do you ever wonder what's next? Sure you do for the company you work with and your team, but what about for yourself?

Julian Lighton spent more than 30 years watching companies decide whether to develop people or rent them. He advised them at McKinsey. He operated inside them at Cisco and Hitachi. He convened them as Chief Strategy Officer at four billion-dollar public companies. Now he coach...

Most leaders diagnose their people challenges alone, behind a closed door, with a spreadsheet. Dustin Snyder does the opposite. As founder of Wayforward, he goes into companies at major turning points and maps what is actually happening inside the workforce, using a method he created and named Strategic Workforce Insight Mapping or SWIM, for short. He wro...

EP 197 | Five Lenses That Transform How People Leaders Cultivate | Dr. Joey Faucette

• Bad events carry roughly four times the psychological weight of good events of equal magnitude, according to Roy Baumeister's research at Florida State University. One piece of negative feedback drowns out about four pieces of positive feedback.
• Negativity bias kept your ...

Everyone needs to be needed. How needed do you need to be?

When your team waits on your opinion for every decision, they feel supervised instead of trusted, and you finish the day exhausted. Parker McCumber offers a different route, one he found while flat on his back in an Afghan cesspool.

Parker McCumber brings a rare combination of military leadersh...

Episode 195 · On It and In It: How to Create a Team That Stays Brave | Mickey Wilson & Dr. Chris Endersby

Rate the team you lead on a scale of 1 to 10 for alignment and unity. Not just within the team, but between the team and the company. What is your score?

Alignment and unity are two of the loudest indicators of engagement, and engagement is the prime meridian of growing people and profits.

This week Dr. Joey welcomes Mickey...

Episode 194 · People Leave Feelings Instead of Jobs (Season 4 First-Half Wrap)

Twenty-plus guests. One truth. Across the first half of Season 4, every conversation kept circling the same finding: people leave feelings instead of jobs. In this solo wrap, Dr. Joey Faucette looks back across episodes 168 through 192, with D.R.E.A.M. (193) as the capstone, and pulls the whole season into a single word every people leader can act on. Se...

Episode 193 | Cultivate the Teams You D.R.E.A.M. About | Dr. Joey Faucette

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...

Episode 192 | Lead Change Without Losing Your People | Sharon McLaughlin

Disruption is the norm now, and wave after wave of it leaves people leaders worn down in body, mind, and heart. Sharon McLaughlin shows you how to guide change so it transforms your culture rather than batters your people. You care for yourself first, then you care for the team you lead, and you trade more strategy for the real conversations th...

Episode 191 | Make People Matter, and Watch Challenges Shrink | Stephen de Groot

“Take the values off the wall. Paint over them.” Stephen de Groot once showed up to a consulting engagement with a roller and a paint can, and nearly got fired for it. His point lands hard and simple: your values stay just words until your actions give them meaning.

As you live the values you say you believe, your culture t...

Episode 190 | Curiosity: The Secret to Culture Transformation | Dr. Domonique Revere

How do you transform a work culture where people don't just survive a toxic workplace but thrive in a space where they feel seen, heard, valued, and have skin in the game? How do you move from overfunctioning as a leader to offloading responsibility and allowing autonomy and agency in your team? How do you make leadership accessible and practical f...

How do you close the gap between knowing something and actually doing it as you drown in knowledge but lack the ability to translate it into consistent repeatable action? How do you create a culture so Work Positive that an ordinary person put in the right environment with the right tools suddenly becomes extraordinary? How do you transform from a leader who points out issues to one who helps people reach their full potential? Tr...