James Scouller on the “Cost Of Not Paying Attention” Podcast

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I recently made a guest appearance on Janine Hanmer Holman‘s podcast, The Cost Of Not Paying Attention, which aired on Monday 2 October 2024. You’ll find it — along with a full transcript — by clicking the image at the bottom of this post. It’s the one with a quote from Janine about my trilogy. You can also find it here on Apple and Spotify, but you won’t have the transcript.

Janine, a keynote speaker, author, trainer and consultant is based in California, USA.

Why The Name?

Her unusually named podcast starts from this thought: “Science reveals that up to 90% of what we do and say happens through unconscious thoughts and actions … so can we be more effective by doing more consciously?”

That’s why she started her podcast interview with this question: James, what’s the one thing you’ve noticed when working with clients that they’ve been failing to pay attention to … and what’s the cost of that inattention? What’s the problem that inattention is causing?

Cost Of Not Paying Attention podcast with James Scouller

Our Conversation

From there, we discussed the ideas in my trilogy, How To Build Winning Teams Again And Again. Topics we covered included:

  • What led me to write the trilogy.
  • What I’ve learned about the 25% of teams who are succeeding.
  • The hidden (Collective and Individual) psychological forces making it difficult for any work group to become a genuine team. And why being ignorant of them costs so many would-be teams.
  • The three big psychological issues every aspiring work group MUST address if it’s to become a genuine team: Commit, Combust and Combine (C-C-C).
  • The problem of micro issues (that cause teams to re-experience an earlier issue even though they thought they’d resolved it).
  • How knowing the dominant psychological C-C-C issue can help you figure out how best to take your would-be team further up the curve.
  • The difference between team consultancy and team coaching.
  • The importance of a would-be team agreeing in advance how it’s going to make decisions … and sticking to that.
  • Where trust and psychological safety fits within the Commit-Combust-Combine model.
  • The importance of a team figuring out its number one goal.
  • How humour can “oil the wheels” in team coaching.

To remind you, if you want to go straight to our podcast episode and have the transcript, click the image below.

Enjoy the podcast.

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