Gapology Radio

In this Gapology Guys Podcast episode, we discuss a common occurrence in organizations that go through frequent change events, "Managing Change Fatigue." We share some tips and our thoughts on how to best set your team up for success and how to navigate the burnout you may discover along the way using Gapology.

This week's episode of the Gapology Guys podcast features an inspiring conversation with Tiffany and Josh High, founders of Results Driven and Heels Homes, Ltd. They offer powerful insights into how they've applied Gapology to drive exceptional performance and build winning cultures within their organizations. Tiffany and Josh share their journey of success, and also provide actionable tips that any leader can use to achieve remarkable results through intentional leadership.

In this episode of the Gapology Guys podcast, we explore the distinction between training and teaching—two of Gapology's powerful Root Solutions. We highlight the critical role of leaders as teachers and share how to embed teaching into their leadership rhythm through the intentional use of Teachable Points of View (TPOVs).

Brian sits down to chat with leadership trainer and coach Barbara Boselli, founder of BNOW Consulting. They draw connections to IMBAR, and she shares her thoughts and tips on staying curious, creating self-awareness, and blocking reflection time to impact mindset.

Has all the “noise” from the world around us clouded your team's efforts to consistently deliver winning results? In this week's Gapology Guys podcast episode we share our thoughts from a Gapology perspective on how to leverage your mindset and rhythm to cut through the noise and refocus on behaviors that create impact and action. #gapology #expectations #winningleaders #leadershipdevelopment #leadershiptips @gapology

In this podcast episode, Mark and Brian share key components for setting clear expectations to deliver consistent, winning results. This is a fundamental piece from Gapology and one that is instrumental in creating accountability.

Mark and Brian share The Commitment Ladder, a powerful tool for winning leaders to use when analyzing their team's level of commitment. The discoveries with this process provide an understanding of how to best adapt their own behaviors in leading them.

Looking for a great way to view your team's overall execution and their connection to their skills and mindset? In this week's Gapology Guys podcast, we discuss a leadership method we call Knowing-Doing-Being. #gapology #teams #leadership #leaders #business #gap #gaps #performance #coaching #development #book #gapologyradio #podcast #brockhoff #thienes #improvingperformance #winningleaders

Authors Mark Thienes and Brian Brockhoff discuss a leadership equation for examining a team member's level of talent (skills, ability, and execution), their mindset (how they think and feel), and how they contribute to the team member's overall performance level.

Authors Mark Thienes and Brian Brockhoff discuss a powerful tool from their book, "Gapology," that addresses the shortcomings of traditional training methods and provides practical steps to improve their outcomes. #gapology #leadership #leadershipdevelopment #training #learning #habit #books #methods

Authors Mark Thienes and Brian Brockhoff discuss the origins of their third book, Speed of Purpose: Achieving 2.8X Productivity and Beyond. They provide a high-level overview of the framework for wrapping your people, performance, and processes in a clear and compelling purpose. For more details, visit gapology.org. #gapology #speedofpurpose #teams #leadership #leaders #business #gap #gaps #performance #coaching #development #book #solutions #consulting #gapologyradio #podcast #brockhoff #thienes #gapologist #closinggaps #improvingperformance #winningleaders #winning

Authors Mark Thienes and Brian Brockhoff share the origins of IMBAR and provide a high-level overview of the model. For more details, visit gapology.org.

Authors Mark Thienes and Brian Brockhoff share the origins of their flagship book, "Gapology: How Winning Leaders Close Performance Gaps." For more information on Gapology, visit www.gapology.org

In this Gapology Radio podcast episode, we share the ten traits of winning leaders based on our research and experience over the past 14+ years of teaching Gapology. 

Have you been looking for ways to foster independent thinking in your team or to close your own Knowledge Gaps around their performance? In this episode, we discuss the power of asking questions to begin the journey to developing wisdom, solidifying importance, and creating lasting action to produce exceptional results.

Feeling stagnant? Noticing stagnancy in your team? Mindset may be the issue. Our formula of TxM=P is a great way to assess the mindset and talent levels of your team… and yourself. Tune in to learn more!

Join our discussion on creating a Team IMBAR, the identity mapping process that aligns teams around a powerful vision of who you are... and who you can become... to work together with a singular focus to deliver your highest objectives.

In this episode, we discuss strategic ways to align the action of your team by clearly setting expectations and looking to the performance of your A-Players. 

Listen to our conversation with Danielle Beazley, Associate Vice President at Best Buy, and hear how Gapology has impacted her leadership and the leadership rhythm of her team.  

Personal Branding! Listen in to our in-depth discussion on intentionally building a personal brand by choosing and leveraging your core competencies that deliver consistent winning results in your organization.

Join us for this practical and informative Gapology Radio podcast episode, where we share practical methods for developing and clarifying priorities that lead to action. We've made sure to include some fun along the way, making it an episode that's both enjoyable and useful!  

Mark and Brian discuss the importance of identifying the Core Competencies, by role, that close Performance Gaps, create action, and deliver winning results.

Listen in to our Gapology Radio podcast this week as we share some of our own Gapology discoveries from recent workshops and coaching sessions we've held. It's an interesting conversation that you can gain insight from as you apply it to your business. www.gapology.org

When deciding on methods to improve your business, start with building Exception Reporting into your Leadership Rhythm. This tactical approach provides incredible insight into who is winning, why they are winning, and how you can impact the rest of your team to create winning action.

Listen to our conversation with Chet Enten, Director of Talent Development at Security Finance, as he shares his experience with Gapology and how their amazing team of leaders embedded it into their culture and created a real, lasting impact on their organization. 

In this Gapology Radio podcast episode, we "reshare" an older episode on Framing for Interviews. If you are preparing for an important interview, give this a listen. We share some valuable tips for framing your experience and skills in a way that will help you make the most of the opportunity.

Sometimes, no one else can “step up” in the workplace. It is simply up to you! Courage in the workplace can be hard to come by, and the Team may be reluctant to step up. However, modeling “courage” and stepping up will set an example for others. In this Gapology Radio podcast episode, we discuss methods for doing so and creating a culture of courage within your workplace.

There will always be top performers, bottom performers, and the middle group. Gapology is all about seeking the information around these groups. What make them tick? What behaviors create each group and what can we learn through careful analysis? In this Gapology Radio podcast, we discuss "Minding the Gap" between top and bottom performers and the important of creating a culture where leaders and teams feel accountable versus apathetic toward their expectations and overall company objectives. 

Training is only the tip of the iceberg when achieving Organizational Wisdom. This podcast episode discusses the trap many leaders fall into by assuming that training will deliver that wisdom. There is a massive gap between training and wisdom, and it requires a focused effort built into our leadership rhythm to deliver an impact where team members learn, think, and behave interdependently to create insight and deliver our objectives, expectations, and purpose.

How we think and feel impacts how we behave and is described in "Emotional Intelligence," a method for understanding and adjusting our behaviors intentionally using the "EQi" model. In the podcast, our friend Coach Cabrina joins us to share an overview of Emotional Intelligence and her thoughts on how it fits with Gapology and IMBAR to impact performance.

In this short episode, we share a "Teachable Point of View" on the topic of Self-Development. Growing our own skills is a winning leader behavior that focuses on the areas we want or need to grow, without direction from anyone else. Here we share some tips to make the most of your efforts in this area.

Mind the Gap. This familiar phrase from our friends across the pond provides a slightly different context when examining Performance compared to Perception. In this week's Gapology Radio podcast, we discuss all of this through the lens of Gapology. 

When connecting team members to what matters most, the leader matters. They help to show the way and model the mindset needed to live at a "Being Level" for elements most critical to an organization. Listen to our discussion as we describe the "Being Ladder," where we lay out methods to move from "Knowing" and "Doing" to "Being."

When looking at the various levels of commitment shown by team members, we view them through the lens that the team member is solely responsible for being committed to their role, task, or employment in general. What we tend to forget, however, is the leader's role and responsibility in all that. In this week's Gapology Radio podcast, we discuss this important topic and show how the leader matters most.

When teams move through moments of change in the workplace, they experience real human emotions and, as a result, human behaviors that must be planned for by their leader. In this episode, we discuss a model called "The DABA Change Ladder" and how leaders matter in smoothly leading teams through these potentially stressful moments.

One of the critical elements A-Group leaders bring to the table is a consistent rhythm around creating accountability. This week's Gapology Radio podcast episode discusses three key ways these winning leaders create transparent and consistent accountability.

In our new Gapology Radio podcast episode, Mark and Brian discuss the origins of their third book, “Speed of Purpose: Achieve 2.8X Productivity and Beyond.” They share where it came from, how it is all laid out, and how it can help you when you create a clear and compelling purpose that is wrapped around your People, Performance, and Processes of your organization. 

In this Gapology Radio podcast episode Mark and Brian discuss the origins of their second book, “IMBAR: The Pathway of Transformation.” They share what it is, where it came from, how it has impacted leaders from many industries, and how it can help you as well. 

In this Gapology Radio podcast episode, authors Mark Thienes and Brian Brockhoff discuss the origins of Gapology. Mark shares how he originally began looking at the various similiarities and differences in top and bottom performing groups. Then, through extensive interviews and in analyzing the wide swing in mindsets and behaviors between the two groups, many consistent methods surfaced which created sustained winning performance. From there came Gapology. Hear his incredible story today!

You must clarify… and exhibit… the expectations and priorities to create a real impact for your team and yourself. In this week's episode, we discuss the importance of your leadership rhythm when it comes to setting and delivering your highest expectations and overall purpose.

If we had to choose one skill that would be the most critical to producing outstanding leadership and impacting your team, customers, or larger organization, it would be Communication. It sits at the heart of every other leadership skill. This Gapology Radio podcast episode discusses methods to create a Leadership Rhythm with Communication that delivers high impact.

One of the critical areas to create lasting high-impact effects on your team is to focus on development. In this Gapology Radio episode, authors Mark Thienes and Brian Brockhoff discuss the importance of carving time into your Leadership Rhythm for planning and executing development elements for your team… and yourself.

When building a Leadership Rhythm that impacts your leadership life and your team's experience, your efforts must be strategic. Listen in as authors Mark Thienes and Brian Brockhoff share insight into making the analysis of results… and the behaviors that drive them… part of your weekly Leadership Rhythm.

As business leaders, we must always consider what is best for the business in our decision-making process. One of our largest investment areas is our people, and similar to other areas of our organization, we must also define our expectations for the results of this investment area. We must clarify what our expected return must be from it. This is our People ROI.  Listen in as authors Mark Thienes and Brian Brockhoff discuss the decision of “How do you know when to invest in someone?”

Join our discussion on "Relentless Training" with Martial Arts Hall of Fame legend, Grandmaster Shogun Gregg Brown, 9th degree Red Belt and owner of Shogun Martial Arts, Shogun International Federation of Martial Arts, and Mojo Magic Fitness. Hear about his journey and how a focus on continuous improvement with discipline, balance, and rhythm helps him to improve the lives of the youth, adults, and law enforcement community in the Kansas City area. 

Many questions get raised when leaders and training departments are asked to “retrain” team members. One that we need to ask ourselves is, “Was the initial training insuffient, ineffective, or would we be better served to focus our attention elsewhere to create lasting performance improvement?” In this Gapology Radio podcast episode we explore this common topic. 

You think you may have an idea that someone is ready for the next big step in their career. They seem ready to be promoted… but are they truly? In this week's Gapology Radio podcast episode, we discuss key things to look for as evidence that they may be mentally and emotionally ready with the necessary skills they will need to really excel. 

How do you know when to add headcount to your existing team? How do you know when to replace existing performers? In essence, when do you make the decision to place that ad on Indeed and LinkedIn? This is often a tough choice, and in this new Gapology Radio podcast series we begin to ask the question, “How do you know…?” around topics like tonight's which is “How do you know when to hire?”

As we look at developing lasting engagement in our teams, we must consider how healthy the interpersonal relationships are between individuals and work groups within our organizations. This week's Gapology Radio podcast discusses how developing these relationships within a strong, interdependent culture takes focus within your larger leadership rhythm... and tips to do so more effectively. 

Like peanut butter and jelly go together, so do Expectations and Accountability. In this Gapology Radio podcast episode, we discuss the important connection between them and provide a clear five-step process to create clarity and engagement around what your team needs to do and what the outcome of their work will need to be to help you deliver your highest objectives. 

Communication is most likely the single skill to build if you want to be an effective leader. Without excellent communication skills and consistent strategies that really work, you will struggle with everything. In this Gapology Radio episode, we discuss creating a leadership rhythm around two-way communication to drive team engagement to help you solidify your role as a Winning Leader.