How Leaders Build Exceptional Teams with Dr. Vanessa Druskat

Join our host Don MacPherson and Dr. Vanessa Druskat as they discuss what leaders need to do to create superior performing teams and great cultures in Season Six of 12 Geniuses.

Dr. Druskat is a leader in the field of team collaboration and emotional intelligence and Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior at the University of New Hampshire. She is a multi-award-winning teacher and researcher and a leader in the field of team collaboration and emotional intelligence. Her popular Harvard Business Review article (with S. Wolff) on emotionally intelligent teams has been reprinted four times in collections of HBR's most valued articles.

In this episode, Dr. Druskat and Don discuss building great work cultures and how leaders can influence the creation of high-performance teams. They talk about the importance of collaborating on the creation of team norms, how those norms should be governed, the importance of building a sense of belonging, and why hiring the best, most experienced people is not the solution to creating a superior-performing team.