VitalBytes Podcast
Welcome to the VitalBytes Podcast, brought to you by VitalSmarts Australia New Zealand. Join us for award-winning strategies that will help you increase employee satisfaction, improve accountability and transform your corporate culture.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 10 minutes
- Episodes
- 99
- Years Active
- 2017 - 2020
The Most Essential Element of a Successful Tough Conversation
From Joseph Grenny: How do we face tough issues? How can we confront problems in a way where the other person listens? You have to make it safe.
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No, Working Is NOT All About The Money
From David Maxfield: Real motivation doesn’t come from money — it comes from what we do with money. To increase motivation, here’s how to connect money to the things that matter most.
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2 Essential Questions to Increase Workplace Engagement
From David Maxfield: If you’re looking to increase workplace engagement, ask yourself these two questions to see how you’re socially motivating your employees. If they’re not socially motivated, you…
How to Transform a Dead-End Job
From David Maxfield: When we don’t enjoy something or see growth because of it, it’s hard for us to be engaged in our work. If you or your employees need motivation, take a look at the tasks at hand…
The 3 Common Pitfalls of Group Facilitators
From Amy Daly-Donovan: When you lead a group, balancing the roles of facilitator, group, & content is tough. When you focus too much on one area to the exclusion of another, you likely fall into one …
The 3 Key Roles in Every Successful Group
From Amy Daly-Donovan: To best create positive learning environments, we don’t necessarily have to learn new things — we just have to remember the key players involved and recognise their role in the…
4 Reasons (Other than Money) People Go To Work
From David Maxfield: We all work for money, but that’s not the only reason. These four valued outcomes beyond pay drive us to do our best and really engage in our work!
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The Real Reason People Miss Work (and What To Do About It)
From David Maxfield: Everybody misses work sometimes, but if the excuses start multiplying, you likely have a problem with employee engagement.
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The Positive Power of Influence
From Cricket Buchler: Change is hard. But a support system makes it easier. If we want to make it easy for people to change, we need to rally the support of those who enable. We need the power of inf…
The One Person Who Can Change Your Entire Organisation
From Cricket Buchler: We’re all influenced by others. (We just don’t like to admit it.) Instead of ignoring social pressures, we need to harness its power. Here’s how:
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The Easiest Way to Create a Healthier Organisational Culture
From Cricket Buchler: It’s easy to forget how much power lies in social influence. We naturally influence each other all the time. So, how do we harness that influence to bring about organisational c…
The 3 Keys To Effectively Leading a Group
From Amy Daly-Donovan: Training groups is tough. When we use these three essential components of facilitation, we help groups learn better and accomplish their goals.
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Why You Feel the Way You Do (And What To Do About It)
From Steve Willis: It’s not the way other people act that determines our emotions. It’s the stories we tell about WHY they act the way they do that cause our feelings. Control the stories, control th…
How to Communicate Best When You’re Feeling Your Worst
From Steve Willis: High-stakes conversations are tough. Often, we try to avoid them. Or, we face them and leave disappointed with the outcome. But there’s a third choice: we can engage in these conv…
How to Help Others Take Responsibility for Their Actions
From Joseph Grenny: When people own up to their choices, they have the opportunity for real change. Here’s how to create a space where we can connect with someone in a way that leads to self-motivate…
How to Stop People From Shutting Down (and Still Hold Them Accountable)
From Joseph Grenny: In accountability conversations, our brains are on high alert for threats. So, how do we confront an issue without making someone shut down?
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The Secret to Holding Your Loved Ones Accountable? Don’t Focus on Accountability
From Joseph Grenny: With family or friends, accountability gets tricky, but it is possible to confront issues without harming the relationship.
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What’s Your Coffee Costing You? (Hint: It’s More than Money!)
From Travis Bradberry: Caffeine isn’t bad, but we need to understand its influence. It affects our immediate reactions, sleep quality, and long-term health. We don’t have to cut it out completely, bu…
What’s Easier to Change: Your Mind or Your Environment?
From Brian Wansink: Our surroundings can influence us negatively or make us more focused & effective. Why not change your environment to work to your advantage?
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The Real Reason You Lie to Yourself (and How to Stop)
From Dr. Stacy Nelson: We can start solving problems instead of causing them. Switch to a healthier, more constructive mindset in just three steps.
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