Jun 30, 2020
Mike Robbins is an author, speaker, and coach delivering
keynotes and seminars to groups of all kinds throughout the world.
His clients include Google, Wells Fargo, eBay, Gap, Adobe, Schwab,
Microsoft, Genentech, Airbnb, and the San Francisco Giants.
He's written five books which have been translated into 15
different languages.
His latest book, "We're All in This Together: Creating a Team
Culture of High Performance, Trust, and Belonging", was recently
released. Host of a podcast called "We're All In This
Together",
Before starting his business in 2001, he played baseball at
Stanford University and then with the Kansas City Royals
organization. Injuries to his pitching arm ended his playing career
at the age of 23
Stories in this episode:
- Hughes Marino - small real estate company. Mike offered to do a
web-x session for the whole company during the pandemic. They were
very grateful and not what they expected
- Whenever things are tough can we show up for our clients, can
we be of service to them?
- Deltec -Technology company - a company that keeps inviting Mike
to speak at their annual conference annually for many years
- Can we put ourselves into our customers shoes and try to be an
extension of their team and bring that outside perspective?
- Power of storytelling
- Latest book - geared towards anyone with a group or team which
is all of us - focus on the 4 pillars:
1st is Psychological safety
2nd is inclusion and belonging
3rd is 'embracing sweaty palm conversations' - Be willing to
engage in conflict and feedback in a healthy way
4th is caring about and challenging each other
- When teams can create these four, they can thrive
- An email recently received from a client surpassed his own
expectations
- "Team chemistry” - realised parallel with leadership - for an
individual to get the most out of their talent
- Started a consultancy business - knew he had a story to tell,
wanted to share the story
- Book - Business started in 2001 and decided to write a book the
same year, ultimately was a journey, learnt a lot about the
publishing world - over next 5 years got a literary agent who
dropped him and then got another one and eventually 5 years later
got a publisher and was eventually released in 2007
- Now speaks about - Leadership, team performance and company
culture
- Helps teams develop their leadership skills and help their
culture as a whole in which people can thrive
- The difference between for smaller more intimate groups and
large
auditoriums
- and its all small stuff - Richard Carlson
This book was a series of 100 short essays - blog posts before
blog posts existed.
Favourite quote: "Be yourself, everyone else is already taken"
-Oscar Wilde
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