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Nov. 30, 2023

Episode #22: Creating Brave and Diverse Teams with Dr. Steven E. Jones

Episode #22: Creating Brave and Diverse Teams with Dr. Steven E. Jones

Heather Neely and Dan Winter talk with Dr. Steven E. Jones, co-author of Growing Groups into Teams and Principal Consultant with Altus Growth Partners. Steven Jones has been a part of many diverse teams, to advocate for diverse communities. ...

Heather Neely and Dan Winter talk with Dr. Steven E. Jones, co-author of Growing Groups into Teams and Principal Consultant with Altus Growth Partners. Steven Jones has been a part of many diverse teams, to advocate for diverse communities. 

 

In today’s conversation, we explore the qualities that allow team members to be not only diverse, but to be bravely themselves:

  • Leadership, change, and holding space for growth

  • What true diversity looks like

  • How to build diverse teams to address complex problems and power imbalances

  • The importance of difficult conversations in groups to support diversity

  • The intersection of diversity and decision-making 

  • Building inclusive spaces for effective teamwork

  • The role of emotional intelligence in diverse teams

 

About Steven E. Jones: Steven E. Jones is an executive coach, advisor, and consultant who works with US and international leaders. Steven inspires and guides leaders across systems to navigate cultural transformation. He partners with executives and their teams to build organizational cultures that increase value, improve lives, and expand the capacity of communities to achieve outcomes that transform challenges into opportunities. Steven merges wisdom, care, results-based leadership, and generative distinctions to engage the whole person in building practices to thrive.

 

About the book, Growing Groups Into Teams: How do you turn a group of individuals into a highly effective, productive team? Growing Groups into Teams is an unusually useful book written by a team that has helped thousands of groups become effective teams.

 

Through real-life stories combined with pragmatic advice, this book strengthens your ability to see what’s needed and take effective action:

  • What two promises turn a group into a team

  • How to engage people to make those promises

  • How to invite responsibility and accountability

  • How to include and inspire people across differences

  • How to build and rebuild trust, and more!

Regardless of how productive your teams are today, the insights in this book will help you grow to the next level to drive your business or organization forward. Order your copy today: https://www.amazon.com/Growing-Groups-into-Teams-Real-life-ebook/dp/B0CJLC23VS 


If you're looking to expand your leadership influence, shift your results, and develop a highly engaged, accountable team, we’d love to talk to you. Schedule a conversation with an Altus Team Member here: https://altusgrowthpam.as.me/Zoom30min

 

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