S4E93: High Performance & Resilience in projects with Dominic Siow

<p>In this week’s pod we welcomed Dominic Siow to talk about performance and resilience in projects.</p> <p>Dominic is co-founder of EQ Strategist, a company with a mission to help create empowering workplaces where people wake up each and every day inspired to deliver extraordinary outcomes for their organisations.</p> <p>Prior to his present vocation, Dominic was a senior operations manager for IBM Australia and VP of Product Development at grapevine Technologies. Dominic has previously contributed as speaker and mentor at the Magic Moments Youth Leadership and Business Summit and as a Senior Leader at Robbins Research International events across Australia since 2003.</p> <p>He is the author of the Amazon Best Seller “What’s GREAT about this? How to be Resilient and Thrive through Disruption and Change.”</p> <p>The main topics we discussed on the podcast were as follows:</p> <ul> <li>Storytelling is important especially in times of change. People need to be led and inspired</li> <li>Workplace culture is the shared beliefs and values of a team “what people do when the managers aren’t around”</li> <li>One of the main challenges in projects is that we have capable project managers but a lack of capable leaders. Aligning people on the right behaviours will inspire teams i</li> <li>Of the three employee types: Engaged employees outperform satisfied employees by 38% in productivity, inspired employees outperform satisfied employees by 149%</li> <li>Many companies do not look for inspiration when making recruitment decisions. Experience is often the sole driver</li> <li>Do not underestimate the importance of the storming process when creating a team. A leader needs to align the team on the ethos they want to engender</li> <li>All teams need to have a common purpose. Think about the outcomes of the project; the ‘why’ rather than the ‘when’ and ‘how’</li> <li>Humans are motivated by purpose. If the why is big enough then the how finds a way</li> <li>Are your KPI’s outcome focussed?</li> <li>PM’s aren’t