Episode 15: Supercharge Your Team's Performance (w/ Victoria Reichenberg)

Our Guest: Victoria Reichenberg, Leadership Coach and Organization Development Consultant for VLR Consulting In this episode, Victoria Reichenberg shares her six principals of supercharged teams and how to implement these in your company to improve team performance. Victoria speaks on the importance and impacts of trust, purpose, communication, core strengths, accountability, and team culture. Conversation Highlights The meaning and impact of having a supercharged team The components and importance of trust Ways leaders can find their purpose + Examples of a purpose statement The value in utilizing your voice, your core strengths, and diversity The importance of accountability and team culture and identity Victoria challenges you to give one piece of positive feedback to your team members this week! Episode Timeline [00:22] Introducing Victoria Reichenberg and the intentions of this episode [01:10] What does it mean to be “supercharged”? [02:27] The inspiration and impact behind Victoria’s implementation of these performance principals [04:54] How Victoria came to work with trust and what trust means to her [07:15] Responding to feedback regarding a lack of trust [09:29] 4 tips to build trust [11:46] The leader’s and manager’s role and impact on how teams are performing [14:19] Examples of a purpose statement [15:37] How leaders and teams can find their purpose (their “why”)? [18:16] Focusing on the positive: Emphasizing and recognizing your core strengths [19:21] Utilizing your voice and the diversity of the team [21:08] The importance of accountability + The Blake Mouton Model [24:11] Forming team identity with intentional cultural rituals [25:29] It all comes back to trust [26:02] The secret sauce: The most forgotten principal amongst managers [28:10] Having these tools are extremely useful [29:12] Take action: Victoria’s challenge for you this week [29:57] How to get in touch with Victoria Magic Marketing Quotes from our Guest “What I love about finding a team purpose is that it’s very immediate and it’s very personal and it’s very day to day and it charts how we show up at work every single day.” “When we allow uneven performance among our teams, when we don’t hold people accountable, that underperformer is not only not fulfilling their goals and doing their work, but everyone else on the team is affected.” Resources The Blake Mouton Model: https://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newLDR_73.htm About Our Guest Victoria Reichenberg is a Bay Area leadership coach and organization consultant specializing in creating supercharged teams. Victoria came to what she now sees as her life’s work a decade ago when she was hired to lead an especially distressed team. Her success in transforming that group into a flourishing productive force led her to graduate school to understand the science behind team performance. Connect with Victoria Reichenberg LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/victoriareichenberg/ VLR Consulting: http://www.vlrconsulting.com/ About Marlow Marlow is where leading professionals at all stages in their career go to refine the core professional skills and habits that matter most. We combine in-house expert coaches with interactive resources to ensure a personalized coaching experience for each member. Connect with Marlow Listen to our podcast: https://www.levelingup.co/ Visit our website: https://www.getmarlow.com/ Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/getmarlow Follow us on Instagram: https://instagram.com/getmarlow Find us on Facebook: https://facebook.com/getmarlow Connect with us on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/getmarlow/