Episode 108 - Building Healthy Teams with Matt Lesser

In this episode of The Disruptive Successor Show, Jonathan speaks with Matt Lesser, the Founder, and CEO of Uniquely Normal and best-selling author of UnSatisfied. For over two decades, Matt has facilitated and trained leaders, teams, and boards of directors in dozens of countries on six continents.He has served in various C-suite roles in private equity, banking, and commercial uniform industries. He also launched and operated several businesses in the Midwestern petroleum industry.Matt shares how he learned that business is all about the people after his family business failed. He talks about taking those lessons to his practice and he talks about how he sits down with the teams he is working with and listens to their stories as a foundational aspect of understanding them.These one-on-one conversations, as well as assessments, are done with the intention of knowing what motivates team members and the ways they like to communicate. These are vital insights that can transform them into top-performing teams.Matt and Jonathan also discuss the need for boundaries. This can refer to respecting employees' time in a remote environment, as well as using family gatherings as a venue to talk business.  HIGHLIGHT QUOTESMATT: Engaged teams require empathy, empowerment, and excellence"We're going to go from here to there, and how we get from here to there, I don't know. But we're going to get from here to there and, along the way, we are going to focus on 3 major areas—and they are empathy, empowerment, and excellence."MATT: Create boundaries during family gatherings about business"At the dinner table, this is a business-free zone. And we even put a policy in place where we put fines that if somebody said something about business, they were fined. And it went into this general fund for the family that we give away for charity."MATT: Remote teams must be more intentional about culture"It comes down to the word intentionality. And I think that's what it's going to take for organizations, especially those that continue to be remote if they want to have a healthy and connected and engaged organizational culture, they're going to have to be even more intentional than those that are face-to-face."Connect with Matt and get his book through the following links:About MattWebsiteEmailBookIf you enjoyed today’s episode, please subscribe, review and share with a friend who would benefit from the message. If you’re interested in picking up a copy of Jonathan Goldhill’s book, Disruptive Successor, go to the website at www.DisruptiveSuccessor.com Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.