David Burkus Presents
Episodes
5 Tricks To Stay Motivated At Work
25 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It’s difficult to stay motivated at work in almost every job. In some ways, fading motivation is inevitable. Research on flow states and eustress su...
Are You A Micromanager?
12 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Do you know if you’re a micromanager as a leader? Do you know if your people consider you a micromanager? The tricky thing about micromanagement is ...
How To Step Down From A Leadership Position
05 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
If you’re doing your job well as a leader, then you’re going to grow your team and yourself. That means that people are going to grow out of your ...
Why Leaders Fail
29 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
John Maxwell famously said, “everything rises and falls on leadership.” Although research offers a more nuanced picture. For an organizatio...
Introverts Are Great Leaders
22 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
There is a misconception about leadership that just won’t seem to go away. It’s the commonly held belief that the best leaders are charismatic and...
The Future of Teamwork
08 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The future of work is teams. That’s a trend that’s been around for a long time. Jobs that could have been alone at one time or another happe...
How To Build A Team Culture
01 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Culture is a huge factor in the success or failure of a team. There are cultures so focused on performance and talent that they leave everyone drained...
How Great Teams Communicate
25 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Teamwork is impossible without communication. Teams have to share information; they have to share ideas. Without communication, teams can’t coordina...
How To Communicate Effectively At Work
18 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Communication is the lifeblood of any relationship. And that’s especially true for the leader-teammate relationship. How well leaders communicate wi...
Two Types of Trust on Teams
10 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Trust makes a massive difference on the performance of teams. And that fact has been found in research on teamwork over and over. For example, a 2011 ...
How To Think Strategically As A Leader
05 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
There’s a lot to think about as a leader. There are goals to pursue. There are people to manage. And every day new problems arise that make pursuing...
How To Create A Teamwork Culture
27 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Teamwork may indeed make the dream work, but teams that lack a teamwork culture can be a nightmare. Pick your sport, and you can find a professional t...
How To Conduct Stay Interviews
13 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In a time when most organizations are struggling to attract and retain talent, one simple intervention can help reduce turnover dramatically. Despite ...
How To Conduct An After Action Review
06 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Failure is inevitable. Projects fall apart. Clients leave. Sometimes circumstances outside of the team’s control doom them to failure. But every fai...
How To Get A Leadership Position
31 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
You don’t need a title to be a leader. But, it helps. And for many aspiring leaders, getting noticed and seen as a potential new leader in an organi...
How To Rebuild Trust On A Team
24 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
One of the biggest factors in helping a team collaborate optimally is the level of trust on the team. The extent to which team members feel safe to ex...
How To Lead Creative Teams
24 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Creativity is a team sport. It’s been that way for a long time. But the level of teamwork required to solve problems and find innovation has increas...
How To Fire An Employee
09 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we’ll outline how to fire an employee in a way that is specific, but humane. Research suggests that the boost in productivity from ...
How To Build Team Alignment
02 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Team alignment can make or break the success of any team. But many leaders struggle with how to build team alignment and so just assume that smooth ru...
How To Love Your Job Again
25 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
According to the Gallup organization, only about 20 percent of adults report being highly engaged in their job. In the United States, the number rises...
How Leadership Influences Organizational Culture
18 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we’ll outline the six ways leaders influence organizational culture. Leaders and researchers have engaged in a constant dialogue ab...
How To Ask For Help At Work
11 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
There aren’t a lot of jobs left that people can do in complete isolation. There aren’t a lot of problems left that can be solved by lone geniuses....
How To Demonstrate Leadership At Work
04 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Just because you don’t have a title, doesn’t mean you’re not a leader. But if you want to someday gain that title, and the position of team lead...
How To Deal With Toxic Leadership
28 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Bad bosses are a sad reality of working life. Hopefully, you’ve never had to deal with toxic leadership. But if you’re reading this, you probably ...
How To Manage High Performers
21 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
High performing talent can make or break a project’s success—or an entire organization’s success. Recent research suggests that high performers ...
How To Measure Employee Engagement
14 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Employee engagement has been a hot topic for several decades. And for good reason. Business teams with highly engaged employees have a 59 percent lowe...
How To Deal With A Difficult Employee
07 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dealing with difficult employees is unavoidable. But the good news is that taking the time to deal with a difficult employee can have a dramatically p...
How To Build A Positive Team Culture
28 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Most leaders agree on the importance of building a positive organizational culture. Positive organizational cultures come from the accumulation of pos...
Keep High Performers Motivated
21 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we’ll review five methods leaders can use to keep high performers motivated and achieving. 0:00 Introduction 1:10 Sharing Meaning 2...
How To Think More Critically
14 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Critical thinking is one of the most critical skills for leaders. When it comes to making decisions, crafting strategy, or even just solving smaller p...
How To Make Employees Feel Appreciated
07 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Appreciation is an underutilized part of organizational life. It’s not that leaders think they don’t need to make employees feel appreciated. Most...
How To Keep Learning As A Leader
31 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Leaders are learners. That's not really disputed. You have to be a pretty strong learner to even get into a leadership role. And most people agr...
The Secret To Giving Feedback
24 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Many leaders struggle to give great feedback. The secret to giving great feedback is “don’t mix messages.” Give positive feedback and constructi...
What High Performing Teams Do Differently
17 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How do you build a high performing team? If you think like most people, you will start with acquisition. You will start by thinking about how you can ...
What Makes A Powerful Mission Statement
10 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we’ll review the four elements of a powerful mission statement and offer some powerful examples as well. Most mission statements ar...
What High Performers Do Differently
03 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Every organization wants to attract and retain high performers. And it seems like every individual wants to be one of those high performers that gets ...
What Causes Burnout At Work
21 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we’ll review the six true causes of burnout and offer some practical tips for leaders to mitigate the damage from these causes. Exc...
4 Characteristics Of High Performing Teams
14 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we’ll summarize that research by presenting the top four characteristics of high-performing teams. It's not about who is on the tea...
A Company Is Not A Family
07 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
And further a company shouldn’t be a family. When companies began to overuse the family analogy, results are rarely positive. Instead, pushing for f...
What High Performers Want
30 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Decades after the "War for Talent," most organizations finally discovered the truth. Despite spending ever-increasing amounts of money on high perform...
How To Create A Strong Team Culture
23 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Culture is the secret sauce of organizational success. It seems like nearly everyone agrees that culture is hugely important. The culture individuals ...
How To Welcome A New Employee To The Team
16 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Onboarding new employees is one of the most crucial, but overlooked, aspects of building a great team and great culture. It’s crucial because the fi...
Why Good Employees Quit
09 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
When good employees quit, it’s hard for those same leaders not to take it personally. An unexpected resignation letter can feel like a betrayal. &nb...
Five Ways To Build Trust On Teams
02 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
One of the easiest ways to predict how successful or not a given team will be, is to first measure how much trust exists on the team as a whole. When ...
The Five Worst Ideas In Management
26 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we’ll cover perhaps the five worst ideas in management in no particular order—in the hopes of correcting some errors and keeping ...
Signs Of A Toxic Company Culture
19 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How do you identify that toxic company culture from the outside to avoid joining it. Or, if you’ve already joined it, how do you identify the toxic ...
Why Performance Reviews Don't Work
12 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we’ll examine the reasons performance reviews don't work. And we’ll outline some practical steps you can take to offer feedback t...
How To Fix A Broken Team Culture
05 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we’ll outline the three steps to fixing a broken team culture, or at least preventing the toxicity of the companywide culture from ...
What Most Leaders Get Wrong About Culture
28 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Culture is paramount. The success or failure of an organization or team depends upon its culture—the norms and behaviors around how employees commun...
How Great Leaders Serve The Team
23 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The best leaders are those who truly learn to serve others. They learn how to put employees first. They learn how to flip the hierarchy. Even ...
How To Get The Most Out Of Your Team
16 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
One of the core goals of any leader is to get the most out of his or her team. The ability to create team cohesion and a culture that elevates the tal...
How do I stop after hours emails?
14 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"How do I stop after hours emails?" it's a question asked by more and more leaders and team members as the work from home experiment drags on. In this...
4 Mistakes New Leaders Make
09 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we'll outline the 4 Mistakes New Leaders Make If you've been in leadership for a while, welcome to the realization that we are always...
How Much Should My Team Work From Home?
07 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As the great work from home experiment comes to an end, and more and more offices are opening up, many leaders have been asking "How much should my te...
3 Elements Of A Great Team Culture
02 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We have a tendency to believe that successful teams are created by recruiting top-talent and raising the average of talent on a team. But recent resea...
How do I celebrate small wins?
26 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of AskBurk, we'll cover how to celebrate small wins on your team. Small wins are a big deal. And taking the time to celebrate them can...
How To Handle Low Performers
17 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Handling low performers on a team is one of the worst jobs any leader must do. It's not fun to have conversations with unmotivated employees and try t...
Is The 4 Day Work Week The Future Of Work?
11 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Is the 4 Day Work Week the future of work? Or is a 4 Day Work Week just a series of fads and experiments. In this video, we break down the research on...
How To Get Better At Receiving Feedback
04 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The single best way to grow as a leader is to lead and then get feedback. It is to act and interact with your team and learn what can be improved upon...
What’s The Best Team Building Activity For Remote Teams?
28 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What’s The Best Team Building Activity For Remote Teams? It's complicated. Team Building Activities in general aren't actually as effective as those...
Let's Talk About The "Great Resignation"
27 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
David Burkus reacts to reports of a coming "great resignation." What is the great resignation and what can leaders do about it? Should employees quit ...
How The Best Companies Hire Talent
21 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
One of the most significant decisions that leaders make is who to hire. No matter how many core values you have and how many posters you hang, company...
How To Give Positive Feedback To Employees
06 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we’ll outline four methods that can make giving positive feedback to employees much more effective. Do It Now Be Specific Connect T...
Team Building Isn't An Activity
22 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Team building isn’t an activity, it’s a habit. Unless the chosen activity changes a team’s habits, it probably wasn’t worth the effort. Moreov...
How To Drive Employee Engagement At Work
08 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this video, we’ll cover the three ways to drive employee engagement at work. They happen to be the three elements of job crafting that employees ...
How To Get More Feedback At Work
25 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Feedback is vitally important. Feedback is how we improve performance. Feedback is how we engage employees at all levels. Feedback is how we measure p...
How To Resolve Conflict On A Team
11 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Conflict on a team is inevitable. Conflict happens because people are different, they think differently, and they act differently. a lot of personal c...
How To Keep Remote Teams Engaged
27 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Employee engagement has been a pretty hot topic over the past year. The “great work from home” experiment forced millions of employees to find new...
How To Limit Distractions When Working Remotely
13 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Distractions at work have been a constant for a very, very long time. But suddenly, those of us who were working from home—or living at work—found...
How To Create Psychological Safety On Teams
30 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Psychological safety on high performing teams almost everywhere. From teams large and small and even in Google's infamous Project Aristotle study whic...
How Remote Workers Make Friends
16 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Having good friends at work predicts a lot about engagement and performance. But in this new, work-from-anywhere, world, building friendships among te...
Can Motivation Be Increased?
01 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Can Motivation Be Increased? | David Burkus Presents | 02.09 In the modern economy, motivation is a tricky thing. But in this episode, we'll outline t...
How To Get Remote Teams To Work Together
16 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How To Get Remote Teams To Work Together | David Burkus Presents | 02.07 In this video , we’ll cover a simple and easy way to get your remote team t...
How To Create A Remote Team Working Agreement
02 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How To Create A Remote Team Working Agreement | David Burkus Presents | 02.05 A team working agreement is a living document drafted by a team that out...
How To Run A Virtual Team Meeting
19 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How To Run A Virtual Team Meeting | David Burkus Presents | 02.03 In this episode, we'll cover the best practices around running a virtual team meetin...
What Makes A Great Remote Worker?
06 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In addition to the normal methods we use to screen job candidates, and the tactics we use to judge whether those candidates are a fit for the organiza...
How To Do Remote Team Building
22 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we'll cover how to do remote team building. Most of what teams (especially remote teams) actually need to build better collaboration ...
How To Build Culture On A Remote Team
10 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we’re going to review the two key elements of team culture that were uncovered in that experiment: shared understanding and shared ...
How Teams Should Make Decisions
10 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we’ll review four stages you should take your team through to make sure that you get more of the brilliance that happens from havin...
Is Remote Work The New Normal?
10 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Remote Work is indeed the new normal. Not because we're headed for a future where everyone is working from home. But because the extended time spent w...
Making Remote Workers Feel Included
10 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
When it comes to teams that work from home of work from anywhere, one of the key aspects that smart leaders pay attention to is making sure that their...
How The Best Teams Work Together
10 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In 2015, Google’s People Analytics team asked an ambitious question: “Why do some teams perform better than others?" They looked at a variety of p...
How To Motivate A Remote Team
09 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Motivation is tricky for all teams, co-located or remote. It's hard for many team managers to find a way that motivates each individual. And it’s ev...
How To Reinforce Purpose On Your Team
09 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Finding ways to reinforce purpose on a daily basis can be difficult. So, in this episode, we’ll review three ways that you can frame that purpose in...
How To Manage A Remote Team
09 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Remote work has been on the rise for a long time, but 2020 gave extra accelerant to the remote work fire. In this episode, we’ll cover three activit...
Why Motivation Doesn't Last
09 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
No matter how long your tenure as a team leader, you've probably seen it. Motivation can fade. Individual employees who seemed so full of life and so ...
How To Motivate Your Team As A Leader
09 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
When it comes to motivating individuals and teams, a lot of leaders assume they need a great deal of power to make changes to the whole organization. ...
How To Lead The Problem Solving Process In Teams
09 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Creativity is a team sport, and creative problem solving is no different. But where many team leaders struggle is in how to lead their team through a ...
How To Avoid Burnout While Working From Home
09 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we're going to cover four ways that you can manage burnout on your team. When you examine all the research on keeping remote workers ...
How Leaders Build Trust In Teams
09 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Trust is one of the most important elements of a team culture but also about an entire company's culture. If people feel that they can trust you as a ...
How To Lead Remote Teams Effectively
09 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
You, as a leader will likely be leading remote teams in the future, so it's worth talking about what it takes to lead a remote team effectively, and i...
What Great Teams Have In Common
09 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What do great teams have in common? What are the things that great teams who create consistent amounts of value and over perform expectations all shar...
Vision, Mission, Purpose
07 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Purpose statements, mission statements, vision statements. It can get really cluttered really fast. It seems like every organization has a different o...
Six Ways to Drive Employee Performance and Motivation
07 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Motivating your people is a delicate and purposeful challenge that requires more than an annual review or jotting a few notes in someone’s personnel...
How Paul O'Neill Fought For Safety At Alcoa
07 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
One of my favorite leadership lessons is the story of how Paul O'Neill fought for safety at Alcoa. He led a turn around of the financial performance o...
Our Global Fight
07 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Never in the history of humanity, never in recorded history at least, have we found that the entirety of humanity is united in one fight. Is united in...
Which Leader Are You?
07 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Which leader are you? There are two basic types or styles of leadership: transactional and transformational leadership. Transactional leaders look to ...
What Makes A Purpose-Driven Organization?
07 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What makes a purpose driven organization? 4 Misconceptions about purpose-driven companies The last 10-15 years have seen a dramatic increase in talk a...
Why Underdogs Win
06 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Research reveals that underdogs, those who feel like they've been criticized and discounted, are more motivated than others to perform and more likely...
Personality Tests Are Useless
06 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Personality Tests at work are widely used. Millions of people every year take personality tests given to them (or paid for) by their employers. But mo...