
How to Build a High-Performing Team with Richard Kasperowski
About this episode
In this podcast episode, we welcome Richard Kasperowski. Richard is an author, teacher, speaker, and coach focused on team building and high-performance teams.
Richard is the author of two books, High-Performance Teams: The Foundations and The Core Protocols: A Guide to Greatness, as well as the forthcoming book High-Performance Teams: Core Protocols for Psychological Safety and Emotional Intelligence.
We talked to Richard about what core protocols are, how important it is to talk about one’s feelings, and how to help your team achieve new heights. Listen to the full episode or read the transcript.
Things we covered:
- How Richard started his career
- What are core protocols?
- Why psychological safety in teams is important
- Why it’s important to share how you feel, even as a developer
- How big should the team be?
- What is mob programming
- Things to do and not to do as a team leader
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