Often in the workplace a person and the role they perform are inseparable in the minds of their colleagues. But this merging of identities causes problems.

To avoid those problems you must separate roles and souls. How to do that is exactly what we’re going to discuss, as well as…

* Whether a company is a mechanism or an organism

* When Harry met Sally in the office

* Jesse Eisenberg’s advice for hiring managers

* The price we all pay by punching in and out

* Finding peace with your spirit animal

* And more

This podcast is brought to you by CultivateMe, which helps companies create exciting career journeys for their people… so they don’t get bored and quit.

If you’re curious about any of the ideas we discuss on the show, or you just want to connect, you can always send an email to hello@cultivateme.xyz. We’d love to hear from you.

So come along as we explore all those questions, as well as…

* How free coffee hurts the mission

* The 3 components of “ownership mentality”

* Why no one chooses busboy as a career

* How we outsource our sanity

* And more

This podcast is brought to you by CultivateMe, which helps companies create exciting career journeys for their people… so they don’t get bored and quit.

If you’re curious about any of the ideas we discuss on the show, or you just want to connect, visit us on the web at http://cultivateme.xyz.

* Every kid’s favorite new year’s joke

* How resolutions are a time capsule

* The importance of mental hygiene

* How to clear your mental RAM

* The four stages of an annual retro

* Projects versus habits

* How to climb the ladder of abstraction

* And more

This podcast is brought to you by CultivateMe, which helps people and organizations use their everyday work as a platform for growth, both as professionals and as people.

If you’re curious about any of the ideas discussed on the show, or you just want to connect, you can always send an email to hello@cultivateme.xyz. We’d love to hear from you.

We cover such important topics as…

* The economic drag of matcha lattes and meditation rooms

* How to balance touchy feely culture with bottom line business goals.

* The relationship between meaning and mattering

* Whether every employee ACTUALLY needs to matter

* What railroad protocols have to do with helping employees feel seen and heard.

* And more

This podcast is brought to you by CultivateMe, which helps people and organizations use their everyday work as a platform for growth, both as professionals and as people.

If you’re curious about any of the ideas we discuss on the show, or you just want to connect, you can always send an email to hello@cultivateme.xyz. We’d love to hear from you.

The new title is: Jobs To Journeys.

We’re no longer JUST talking about learning at work. But rather about how organizations can create the right conditions that will bring meaning and focus to people’s work. Conditions that will challenge people and change them for the better. And in the process create a dynamic community of heroes that run towards the important and sometimes frightening problems that must be solved in the business.

Along the way we discuss…

* How to be the hero of your own movie

* What’s the difference between a job and a journey

* Insights from The Hobbit movie marathons

* How to not waste 30% of your life.

* Why Batman runs toward the explosion

* Effective swim coaches

* Why starting is the best way to start

* And much more

This podcast is brought to you by CultivateMe, which helps people and organizations turn their jobs into journeys.

If you’re curious about any of the ideas we discuss on the show, or you just want to connect, you can always send an email to hello@cultivateme.xyz. We’d love to hear from you.

* The three essential ingredients of a healthy growth culture;

* What founders, new managers, and orchestra conductors all struggle with;

* Gabe’s tomato plant and why yelling at flowers is pointless

* The illusion of lazy gardeners

* A different way to think about pruning your organization

* And more

This podcast is brought to you by CultivateMe, which helps people and organizations use their everyday work as a platform for growth, both as professionals and as people.

If you’re curious about any of the ideas we discuss on the show, or you just want to connect, you can always send an email to hello@cultivateme.xyz. We’d love to hear from you.

* How to develop your intuition

* Telling jokes at a funeral

* The difference between landing a jet on an aircraft carrier and mastering pivot tables

* Kids who are bad at sarcasm

* How life is just a collection of games

* Whether cursing is inherently wrong

* Surfing with your fears

* A simple way to instantly relay tons of information without actually stating it

This podcast is brought to you by CultivateMe, which helps people and organizations use their everyday work as a platform for growth, both as professionals and as people.

If you’re curious about any of the ideas we discuss on the show, or you just want to connect, you can always send an email to hello@cultivateme.xyz. We’d love to hear from you.

* 2am toll booth collectors

* Podcast Christmas Carols

* How to flip a job interview to your advantage

* How to hire for the journey, not the job

* The inevitibility of outgrowing your role

* Whether you can “phone it in” for decades on end

And more.

To get in touch, email hello@cultivateme.xyz or visit us on the web at

http://cultivateme.xyz

Is talent RETENTION the wrong metric? Are we trying to trap people in our organization and keep them doing the same thing for years on end? Or do we want a vibrant, dynamic ecosystem of people full of energy, creativity, and passion because they’re on a journey of discovery and development?

* How does the career path of an Aircraft carrier XO teach us about stagnation?

* How does Gene Hackman’s character in Hoosiers getting kicked out of the game teach us about trial by fire?

* How does the way the Roman army and political system worked teach us about the motivations for caring for your people?

Join us as we explore these and other ideas and try to unclog the gutters of talent flow.

In this episode Doug and Gabe discuss three key elements you want to constantly maintain and develop. As well as how can a company create some structures and incentives around these three elements to help improve the flow of talent through their organization.

We like to say that “People want to go places where they can go places”. So if your organization wants to attract great people, you might want to think about how you can help them have not just a great job, but a great career.

This podcast is brought to you by CultivateMe, which helps people and organizations use their everyday work as a platform for growth, both as professionals and as people.

If you’re curious about any of the ideas we discuss on the show, or you just want to connect, you can always send an email to hello@cultivateme.xyz. We’d love to hear from you.

It’s a very common emotion in the workplace, especially among first time managers, but it can rear its head with any change of role.

Doug discusses where he sees it pop up in his coaching work, and we discuss how to tame it and bring yourself and your team into alignment in a way that builds trust and unleashes productivity.

This podcast is brought to you by CultivateMe, which helps people and organizations use their everyday work as a platform for growth, both as professionals and as people.

If you’re curious about any of the ideas we discuss on the show, or you just want to connect, you can always send an email to hello@cultivateme.xyz. We’d love to hear from you.

* What burning your hand on a stove tells us about learning

* What’s bad for Gabe is good for a fish

* What humans have in common with wisteria bushes

* Why Aristotle got it all wrong

* Do magnets “attract” iron filings, or do iron filings “prefer” magnets?

* Gabe is a total jerk to Doug… twice in a row!

* The eternal secret that drives all human progress

* How all of the above might apply to your learning and development program

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Have questions or want to connect? Email hello@cultivateme.xyz