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In this episode we discuss how overdoing meetings, establishing too many KPI’s, and trying to focus on a plethora of seemingly equal priorities actually diminishes effectiveness, execution, and engagement. We share tips to help alleviate these things that many leaders face.

Read the full blog here: https://www.gapology.org/post/when-more-becomes-less

Often we face the desire to pursue our "passions" or opportunities that lie in a completely different line of work. This decision doesn't come lightly, as it is often wrapped in the self-doubt created as a result of the successful and comfortable existence in which we live. With this emotional pull comes a series of challenges we must address and overcome. In this podcast, we discuss some ways to tackle these. 

Read our full blog on this topic here: https://www.gapology.org/post/choosing-to-be-successful-somewhere-else

As we look at developing lasting engagement in our teams, we must consider how healthy the interpersonal relationships are between individuals and work groups within our organizations. This week’s Gapology Radio podcast discusses how developing these relationships within a strong, interdependent culture takes focus within your larger leadership rhythm... and tips to do so more effectively. 

This podcast episode features HR guru and author, Natalie A. Smith who shares her insights on Talent Acquisition and the changing world of Human Resources and creating an interviewing experience in the workplace. 

Natalie Smith is the author of “The Power of Plan B: Leap Into Your Greatness” and the founder and CEO of PeopleWiseHR which is a boutique  HR consulting business operating out of the Washington DC area. Her team works with small to medium sized organizations, providing a wide range of HR support including advisory support related to HR infrastructure buildout, HRIS implementation, training and leadership development, HR policy and procedure development, HR audits and compliance, and so much more. Head to her website peoplewisehr.net for more of her team’s offerings. 

Read the full blog with her tips here: https://www.gapology.org/post/talent-acquisition-the-interviewing-experience-a-conversation-with-natalie-a-smith

There will always be top performers, bottom performers, and the middle group. Gapology is all about seeking the information around these groups. What make them tick? What behaviors create each group and what can we learn through careful analysis? In this Gapology Radio podcast, we discuss "Minding the Gap" between top and bottom performers and the important of creating a culture where leaders and teams feel accountable versus apathetic toward their expectations and overall company objectives. 

In this episode, we share a short blog that includes five key steps to make your expectations come alive and wrap into your leadership rhythm.

One of the critical areas to create lasting high-impact effects on your team is to focus on development. In this Gapology Radio episode, authors Mark Thienes and Brian Brockhoff discuss the importance of carving time into your Leadership Rhythm for planning and executing development elements for your team… and yourself.

Mark and Brian discuss a method of self-destructive leadership being used by many leaders called "Borrowing Power." They discuss how it ruins First Team First, the Habit Ladder and many other elements of strong leadership.

Personal and professional growth sits at the heart of winning leadership. Just as the Knowledge Gap is the first Performance Gap we must identify and close when we miss achieving our objectives, self-development must be the first thing we go after when attempting to improve our performance.

Listen to Mark and Brian discuss self-development as they continue their series on Emerging Leaders.

In this episode, Mark and Brian share a method and new way of thinking about how you align yourself with the multiple teams that you are a part of at work. 

In this episode, we look at creating connection with your team to help them move from Knowing to Doing to Being when it comes to engagement in their roles. Performing at a high level is possible when reviewing your team, their level of learning and impact, and then taking action as a leader. 

In this short inspirational blog episode, we share commentary around starting off your New Year right by focusing on your Identity and Mindset before tackling your Behaviors. 

In this episode, Mark and Brian discuss how leveraging Purpose with a remote workforce adds benefits to the team, increases retention, drives engagement, and delivers organizational goals, especially when it comes to setting it apart from the competition. 

Steps: 

1. Define a clear and compelling purpose.
2. Wrap that purpose around your people.
3. Wrap that purpose around your performance.
4. Wrap that purpose around your processes.

Creating a culture of winning is a process, not a destination. It is a continuous, ever-evolving environment intentionally built through dedication and focus. In this episode, we discuss methods from Gapology that you can leverage to define and design that culture in your workplace.

Listen in to our Gapology Radio podcast this week as we share some of our own Gapology discoveries from recent workshops and coaching sessions we’ve held. It’s an interesting conversation that you can gain insight from as you apply it to your business. www.gapology.org

Mark and Brian begin their series developed for individual contributors on "Becoming a Leader" by focusing on leveraging the tactics from their book, "Speed of Purpose." In this episode, they discuss putting purpose first and wrapping all behaviors around it to set yourself up for success when the opportunity for advancement comes around. 

*Read our full blog on this topic here: https://www.gapology.org/post/becoming-a-leader-with-speed-of-purpose

Empathy is a strength, not a weakness. In this episode, we discuss the importance of empathy in strong, effective leadership. Even if you struggle with it, we provide some tips on how to tap into this much-needed skill. 

Read the full blog here: https://www.gapology.org/post/empathetic-leadership

Creating connection begins in the early stages of an employee’s journey with your organization but also throughout their career through development opportunities and launches of new initiatives where learning and growth are required. In this Gapology Radio podcast episode, we discuss leveraging the power of the Habit Ladder, one of our most popular tools, to grow knowledge, skills, commitment, and connection with your team.

If we had to choose one skill that would be the most critical to producing outstanding leadership and impacting your team, customers, or larger organization, it would be Communication. It sits at the heart of every other leadership skill. This Gapology Radio podcast episode discusses methods to create a Leadership Rhythm with Communication that delivers high impact.

Sometimes, no one else can “step up” in the workplace. It is simply up to you! Courage in the workplace can be hard to come by, and the Team may be reluctant to step up. However, modeling “courage” and stepping up will set an example for others. In this Gapology Radio podcast episode, we discuss methods for doing so and creating a culture of courage within your workplace.

In this episode, Mark and Brian continue their series for Emerging Leaders with a discussion on how to set clear expectations effectively. Often new leaders struggle here, resulting in an overly commanding or weak style that creates teams that are uninspired, confused, and non-committed. Our tips provide a simple, action-oriented method to quickly up your expectations game!

Also, read our full blog on this topic: https://www.gapology.org/post/expectations-emerging-leaders-series

Mark and Brian wrap up the overview of their latest book, "Speed of Purpose" with the third Driver...Process.

Mark and Brian start a new series of episodes based on their new book, "Speed of Purpose." In this episode they discuss the power and the importance of wrapping your organization in Purpose. 

In this short inspirational episode we discuss the importance of becoming a student before becoming a teacher. In essence, learning about your team gives you the ability to more effectively train, teach and lead them. This episode is from our book, "Gapology Inspirations" which is available on Amazon.com and Kindle. Link below...

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This week's podcast episode features a wonderful conversation with the amazing Kim Rooney who shares lessons from her book, "Spiritual 2x4s and Other Wake-Up Calls" and discusses how they connect to the universal truths laid out in Gapology.

Read the full blog on this topic here:https://www.gapology.org/post/wake-up-calls-a-conversation-with-kim-rooney

We are proud to share that our very own Gapologist, Mark Thienes is now a fiction author. His new novel, "Unraveled: The DNA Kill Switch," is available on Amazon, and this is the first interview where Mark shares a little history of this new venture. As we head into a little break, listen in as we discuss his new book!

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Mark and Brian discuss some of their favorite Quotable Quotes from Speed of Purpose.

In this short podcast episode we share an inspirational message from our book, "Gapology Inspirations" on establishing our own power, our own winning strength that will motivate and lead our teams. To see our full podcast on this topic, see our content lineup. 

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When deciding on methods to improve your business, start with building Exception Reporting into your Leadership Rhythm. This tactical approach provides incredible insight into who is winning, why they are winning, and how you can impact the rest of your team to create winning action.

Communication is most likely the single skill to build if you want to be an effective leader. Without excellent communication skills and consistent strategies that really work, you will struggle with everything. In this Gapology Radio episode, we discuss creating a leadership rhythm around two-way communication to drive team engagement to help you solidify your role as a Winning Leader.

Mark and Brian discuss the common belief that leadership only flows downward from a leader to their team. In reality, all levels have the ability to lead, through influence, all other levels as well. This includes their peers, colleagues, and even their bosses. This is called, "Managing Up" and in this podcast episode we share how to do this effectively by using your skills with Gapology. 

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Our focus determines our behaviors. This much is clear. What determines our focus? In this week’s podcast, we continue our series to help individual contributors by discussing leveraging your identity and the IMBAR pathway to define the plans that will set you up for success in meeting your most important goals and achieving your purpose.

*Read our full blog on this topic here: https://www.gapology.org/post/becoming-a-leader-with-identity

When looking at the various levels of commitment shown by team members, we view them through the lens that the team member is solely responsible for being committed to their role, task, or employment in general. What we tend to forget, however, is the leader’s role and responsibility in all that. In this week’s Gapology Radio podcast, we discuss this important topic and show how the leader matters most.

Mark and Brian interview Bob Vandercook, President Client Transformation and a Gapology coach. Bob is also an Operations Pastor for a church in Texas. Bob shares his journey and experience with Gapology in the business world and as a part of his world-wide ministry. 

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As business leaders, we must always consider what is best for the business in our decision-making process. One of our largest investment areas is our people, and similar to other areas of our organization, we must also define our expectations for the results of this investment area. We must clarify what our expected return must be from it. This is our People ROI. 

Listen in as authors Mark Thienes and Brian Brockhoff discuss the decision of “How do you know when to invest in someone?”

In this Gapology Radio podcast episode, we begin a new series discussing a process of mapping your Identity, Mindset, Behavior, Action, and Results, known by the acronym: IMBAR. We share a brief introduction and history while laying the foundation for this new series, where we will share insights into how you can leverage the power of IMBAR to transform your career, life, and the lives of those you impact… no matter what level of an organization you work in. 

Team dynamics ebb and flow over time. Is yours acting in a dependent state where they rely on you for everything? Are they working solely in an independent, siloed state? Or are you creating an interdependent culture where they work collaboratively and leverage the strengths of each other to create exceptional results? In this Gapology Radio episode, we discuss these questions by looking at them through the lens of Gapology.

Creating the career of our dreams requires a firm understanding of our past and, even more importantly, our present. To get to where we want to be, we need to know where we are, and briefly looking into our past for clues of potential obstacles helps us improve and more effectively move forward. The IMBAR Mapping process is the perfect vehicle to do all of this. As we wrap up our short series discussing IMBAR, we outline this simple, yet powerful process. 

In this episode, Mark and Brian discuss The Gift of 168. With 168 hours in our weeks, what are we doing with it? Understanding this gift gives us the power to hit the reset button each week to align our efforts around our Purpose and our Identity. 

Join our discussion on creating a Team IMBAR, the identity mapping process that aligns teams around a powerful vision of who you are... and who you can become... to work together with a singular focus to deliver your highest objectives.

When teams move through moments of change in the workplace, they experience real human emotions and, as a result, human behaviors that must be planned for by their leader. In this episode, we discuss a model called "The DABA Change Ladder" and how leaders matter in smoothly leading teams through these potentially stressful moments.

Join us for this practical and informative Gapology Radio podcast episode, where we share practical methods for developing and clarifying priorities that lead to action. We’ve made sure to include some fun along the way, making it an episode that’s both enjoyable and useful!  

How we think and feel impacts how we behave and is described in "Emotional Intelligence," a method for understanding and adjusting our behaviors intentionally using the "EQi" model. In the podcast, our friend Coach Cabrina joins us to share an overview of Emotional Intelligence and her thoughts on how it fits with Gapology and IMBAR to impact performance.

Mark and Brian discuss how to measure and impact the talent and mindset levels of a team in a remote workforce, in order to drive individual performance and deliver high levels of team performance as a result.

Training is only the tip of the iceberg when striving to achieve Organizational Wisdom. In this Gapology Radio podcast episode, we discuss the trap many leaders fall into by assuming that training alone will produce that wisdom. There is a massive gap between training and wisdom, and it requires a focused effort built into our leadership rhythm to deliver an impact where team members learn, think, and behave interdependently to create insight and deliver our objectives, expectations, and purpose.

In this short inspirational episode, we share a strategy to make sense of and organize all of the things that we do in our life. Often times the levels of stress due to focusing on the wrong things, or taking on too many things, becomes overwhelming. We need a process to bucket the demands others put on us...and the ones we put on ourselves. This episode provides a simple method of bucketing these demands, so that we can focus on the ones that really matter and can make a difference in our lives. 

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You must clarify… and exhibit… the expectations and priorities to create a real impact for your team and yourself. In this week's episode, we discuss the importance of your leadership rhythm when it comes to setting and delivering your highest expectations and overall purpose.

In this inspirational episode, we share a blog from our book, "Gapology Inspirations". This one speaks to the power of a positive leader and the effect he or she can have on the mindset of the team. 

Most organizations today have a “Meeting Culture,” and their teams commonly suffer from “Meeting Fatigue.” Driven by remote work and many other factors, there is no getting around it, and if not managed well, a Meeting Culture can be unproductive and demotivating. Listen to this week’s Gapology Radio podcast episode to learn 5 steps to make meetings more effective through a Gapology lens.

You think you may have an idea that someone is ready for the next big step in their career. They seem ready to be promoted… but are they truly? In this week’s Gapology Radio podcast episode, we discuss key things to look for as evidence that they may be mentally and emotionally ready with the necessary skills they will need to really excel. 

Versatility is incredibly important in today’s agile and remote workplaces. Listen to this week’s Gapology Radio podcast to hear some tips we share to leverage your existing skills and passions to create a career that will benefit your organization and your life! 

* Also read the full blog on this topic here: https://www.gapology.org/post/creating-versatility-in-leadership

In this Gapology Radio podcast episode Mark and Brian discuss the origins of their second book, “IMBAR: The Pathway of Transformation.” They share what it is, where it came from, how it has impacted leaders from many industries, and how it can help you as well. 

With Gapology Inspirations, we start a new series of inspirational short lessons using key elements from our books with this first one titled, "Newbies Forever." You can read more in our blog series on our website and in our book, "Gapology Inspirations" on Amazon.com.

What methods and vehicles of communication have you found to be the most impactful for your team’s understanding, retention, and action? In this week’s Gapology Radio podcast, we discuss 3 steps to establish a structured, intentional process to deliver the messages you routinely share with your teams. 

As leaders, we impact others with our behaviors and actions. What we say and do can potentially change the lives and careers of our team in both positive and negative ways. In this episode, Mark Thienes shares a short narrative on this topic and his thoughts on how we can be very intentional with this impact. 

Mark and Brian discuss the first Driver to creating Purpose in your organization... People. 

In this episode, we look at how we, as leaders, connect with our teams and ourselves by leveraging one of our most popular tools, TxM=P (Talent x Mindset = Performance). 

Where have you set your "Bar?" Do you know? The “Bar” in this context is the level of expectation for performance that you are going after. In this episode, we discuss five career-building behaviors that winning leaders can leverage to set themselves apart. 

In this episode, Mark and Brian discuss the importance of developing a clear and compelling Purpose, and they provide tactics to do just that!

In this episode, we share our experiences developing and delivering short, impactful lessons that create action with teams. We call these "Teachable Points of View," and they are intended to be delivered in short, bite-sized sessions of around 15 minutes when the situation arises where teams need your teaching, coaching, or inspiration. We recommend developing your own or using some of ours from our book, "Gapology," and keeping them close at hand for when the time is right to show your leadership!

Read our full blog on this topic: https://www.gapology.org/post/teachable-points-of-view-to-create-action

In the typical employee lifecycle, there are many assumptions made by leaders. We assume that our new team members smoothly onboard to the organization, organically grow their skills, and efficiently begin contributing to our team’s success. In this Gapology Radio Podcast episode, we discuss intentionally developing your strategy of teaching and mentorship to create engagement and winning performance.

When building a Leadership Rhythm that impacts your leadership life and your team’s experience, your efforts must be strategic. Listen in as authors Mark Thienes and Brian Brockhoff share insight into making the analysis of results… and the behaviors that drive them… part of your weekly Leadership Rhythm.

Judy and Sarah Shoulak join Mark and Brian in this episode, where they discuss the challenge of communication, especially in the remote workforce world we are all living in. They share tips and techniques from Gapology to help improve your leadership effectiveness through improved communication. 

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We all want to grow. Whether in our personal lives or within the scope of our work, growth is essential to staying effective, efficient, and relevant. Without continuous improvement in our skills and knowledge, we tend to fall into a state of stagnancy and apathy that can be extremely detrimental to our overall life and career goals. In this episode, we discuss ways to apply Gapology to create a culture of growth within your organization and individual life as well.

In our new Gapology Radio podcast episode, Mark and Brian discuss the origins of their third book, “Speed of Purpose: Achieve 2.8X Productivity and Beyond.” They share where it came from, how it is all laid out, and how it can help you when you create a clear and compelling purpose that is wrapped around your People, Performance, and Processes of your organization. 

Change is a necessary part of life. Why do we, as human beings, struggle with it so? This is a situation that organizations routinely face and one that can cause dramatic upheavals within its ranks. In this week’s Gapology Radio Podcast episode, we discuss some strategic methods and things to consider to help lead your team through these volatile times. 

Read the full blog here: https://www.gapology.org/post/leading-through-change

In this episode, Mark and Brian provide tips to overcoming the challenge of leading top performers and under performers in a Zoom World. 

Visit us at www.gapology.org for more information on Gapology, IMBAR or Speed of Purpose.

Welcome to Gapology Radio. At Gapology, our purpose is to help leaders achieve their greatest potential and this podcast is designed to support that purpose. I’m your host, Brian Brockhoff, author and creative director here at Gapology Institute and along with the original Gapologist himself, author and CEO, Mark Thienes, we have lively discussions focused on improving your real-world leadership and the situations you face each day, through the tools and methods described in our series of Leadership development books. We also have great conversations with many special guests who specialize in executive and personal coaching. You can learn more about Gapology, including our books, our workshops, and our online training classes all linked through our website, Gapology.org. 

Subscribe and tune in each week for a new topic all designed to help you achieve your greatest potential.

Too much stress? Often stress in Emerging Leaders and their direct reports is due to a lack of clear process, resulting in chaos. In this week’s podcast episode, we discuss leveraging a clear Leadership Rhythm to establish predictable behaviors that your team, and you, can count on. 

Also, read our full blog on this topic here: https://www.gapology.org/post/reduce-stress-with-leadership-rhythm-an-emerging-leaders-episode

Mark and Brian discuss applying the Habit Ladder when leading a team in a virtual environment. They share new tactics to consider when leveraging one of Gapology's most powerful tools. 

Interviewing and hiring new members for your team is only one way to develop organizational talent. The other way is to identify the talent, interest and passion that already exists within your organization, and develop their skills to fit specific roles or projects which will fill the needs that you may have. In this episode, we share how you can leverage Gapology to do all of this in a strategic way that will deliver a high performing team!

Read our full blog on this topic on our website: https://www.gapology.org/post/developing-organizational-talent

This Gapology Radio podcast episode examines our team members’ level of commitment to the things they do and how our connection with them drives that commitment and overall engagement. Our responsibility as their leader is to understand this to provide the things they require that keep them committed. 

When connecting team members to what matters most, the leader matters. They help to show the way and model the mindset needed to live at a "Being Level" for elements most critical to an organization. Listen to our discussion as we describe the "Being Ladder," where we lay out methods to move from "Knowing" and "Doing" to "Being."

Analyzing your team should be more than just a numbers exercise. Looking at how they connect to your purpose and developing a set of core values and core competencies that tie to your purpose will set your team apart. Then, measuring their effectiveness for those elements gives you important information to help them improve execution in delivering your purpose. Listen to our discussion on how to do all of this!

*Read the full details on this topic on our blog: https://www.gapology.org/post/purposeful-people-analytics

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In this podcast episode we discuss how to elevate engagement by applying the Gapology methods to your leadership rhythm. 

When considering how to move a team to take action on the most important elements of your business, there isn’t a better place to start than looking deeply at their engagement levels. Engagement is a clear indicator of how connected, or committed, they are to your organizational purpose, their training experience, the expectations being set for them, and the culture of action. As we’ve discussed in almost all of our blogs and podcasts, the first thing we need to do as leaders, is look in the mirror. 

*Read the full blog with detailed info on our website: https://www.gapology.org/blog

Mark and Brian discuss the fact that when the "Why" is big enough, the "How" becomes easy.

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Mark and Brian discuss the second Driver to creating Purpose in your organization... Performance.

In this short inspirational podcast episode, we share thoughts on how winning leaders overcome obstacles using Gapology. Starting with a strong purpose with an emotional and mental commitment to succeed is how they start, and then they leverage our Root Solutions to create a strategic approach to preventing or overcoming the obstacles we all face in order to create the momentum needed to win. This episode discusses these methods and shows that in order to reach our goals, we need a clear process. 

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On this week’s Gapology Radio Podcast episode, we are thrilled to feature a winning leader from one of our Gapology Workshops. Patrick Gonzales joins us to share his top learnings and how they have impacted his leadership since attending. Listen in to hear how his experience is shaping his career! 

In this Gapology Radio podcast episode, we share the ten traits of winning leaders based on our research and experience over the past 14+ years of teaching Gapology. 

In this short podcast episode, we share inspirational thoughts about caring for your team, while balancing strong leadership with supportive guidance through a rhythm of daily communication around the things that really matter. 

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Trust in the workplace is essential to the overall organization’s success, and although most people would agree with its importance, it is often difficult to achieve. Competing priorities and careers often stand in the way of ultimately trusting fellow teammates. In this episode, we share tips for creating a trust-based culture using Gapology.

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Judy and Sarah Shoulak takeover the Gapology Radio podcast this week while Mark and Brian are on vacation and discuss the topic of Conflict Resolution! They share their thoughts on this topic through the lens of Gapology, as well as through methods they've developed as part of their "Relatively Speaking" coaching services. 

*Also, read my thoughts on this topic on our blog! https://www.gapology.org/post/conflict-mediation

In this episode, Mark and Brian introduce Judy and Sarah Shoulak as the newest members of the Gapology Team. Listen in and hear how Mark and Judy first met and the impact Gapology made on Judy and the team she led in her previous role as President of a major restaurant chain.

Send in questions to the Gapology Team by emailing contact@gapology.org.

Visit www.gapology.org for more information on any of our books or services.

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What creates the environment, or culture, where team members feel engaged? Well, we should begin by examining the driving force we can directly control… ourselves, as their leaders. In this Gapology Radio podcast episode, we discuss creating a Leadership Rhythm to reflect on the engagement levels of our team and ourselves, to intentionally design our weeks to grow those levels and improve overall results and satisfaction.

Mark and Brian discuss achieving organizational wisdom. 

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Does your organization create action from its results? Do you? What are you doing with any information you gather from your weekly analysis efforts? In this Gapology Radio podcast episode, we discuss methods for looking at your top performers, measuring their results, and then establishing a culture of leveraging that insight to create action throughout the rest of the team. 

Many questions get raised when leaders and training departments are asked to “retrain” team members. One that we need to ask ourselves is, “Was the initial training insuffient, ineffective, or would we be better served to focus our attention elsewhere to create lasting performance improvement?” In this Gapology Radio podcast episode we explore this common topic. 

Have you been looking for ways to foster independent thinking in your team or to close your own Knowledge Gaps around their performance? In this episode, we discuss the power of asking questions to begin the journey to developing wisdom, solidifying importance, and creating lasting action to produce exceptional results.

In this episode Mark and Brian discuss a big challenge in today's Zoom World... How to build relationships. It is becoming increasingly difficult to build and maintain relationships with a remote workforce and remote clientele, but we've spoken to some top performers to learn their tips to make the most of the relationships and build real connection. 

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Like peanut butter and jelly go together, so do Expectations and Accountability. In this Gapology Radio podcast episode, we discuss the important connection between them and provide a clear five-step process to create clarity and engagement around what your team needs to do and what the outcome of their work will need to be to help you deliver your highest objectives. 

Listen to our conversation with Danielle Beazley, Associate Vice President at Best Buy, and hear how Gapology has impacted her leadership and the leadership rhythm of her team.

New podcast episode! In this short inspirational blog episode, we share thoughts around leveraging the root solutions from Gapology to win against the headwind we all face from time to time. https://spoti.fi/3fD95us https://apple.co/2DHZmol

Mark & Brian close out the overview of IMBAR by covering Behavior, Action & Results along with the IMBAR Pathway and some of the pitfalls people can avoid in the pursuit of a dominant mindset.

How do you know when to add headcount to your existing team? How do you know when to replace existing performers? In essence, when do you make the decision to place that ad on Indeed and LinkedIn?

This is often a tough choice, and in this new Gapology Radio podcast series we begin to ask the question, “How do you know…?” around topics like tonight’s which is “How do you know when to hire?”

Brian shares a short blog that lays out five action steps curated from Gapology, IMBAR and Speed of Purpose that will help deliver effectiveness. 

Mark and Brian discuss the importance of positioning your identity for the role that you want in order to prepare your mindset and drive your behaviors, actions, and results to deliver your dream job.

Spotify: http://ow.ly/vy1n30mgWf7

iTunes: http://ow.ly/eiYO30mFEa1

GooglePlay: http://ow.ly/Bw2d30mqGG9

Mark and Brian discuss the importance of identifying the Core Competencies, by role, that close Performance Gaps, create action, and deliver winning results.

In this episode, Mark and Brian discuss how to leverage Gapology to prevent underperformance on a team. Our methods focus on establishing clear processes to ensure consistency in your leadership and ensure Performance Gaps are quickly identified, closed and prevented.

Also, read the full blog here: https://www.gapology.org/post/removing-underperformers-the-right-way-with-gapology

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/00vx7rFRyOkg75QTwSmlML?si=dfa407779b164a93 Apple Podcast:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/gapology-radio/id1114090406?i=1000552459732