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Work Positive

Work Positive

By: Dr. Joey Faucette
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Work Positive podcast guests share strategies and tactics, real-life stories, and case studies that focus on how you can attract top talent and reduce team turnover. The host of the Work Positive podcast, Dr. Joey Faucette, is an executive coach, culture architect, and best-selling author. His latest book, Work Positive in a Negative World: Team Edition, is the manifesto for developing your positive work culture. Listen to the Work Positive podcast if you: want to attract top talent desire to reduce team turnover invest in leadership training are performance driven, and; care about your team members.Copyright 2022 Work Positive podcast, Dr. Joey Faucette, All Rights Reserved. Economics Management Management & Leadership
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  • Make People Matter, and Watch Challenges Shrink | Stephen de Groot

    Make People Matter, and Watch Challenges Shrink | Stephen de Groot
    Jun 14 2026

    Episode 191 | Make People Matter, and Watch Challenges Shrink | Stephen de Groot

    Episode Overview

    “Take the values off the wall. Paint over them.” Stephen de Groot once showed up to a consulting engagement with a roller and a paint can, and nearly got fired for it. His point lands hard and simple: your values stay just words until your actions give them meaning.

    As you live the values you say you believe, your culture transforms from a poster in the lobby into a place where your people feel safe, seen, and ready to grow.

    Listen as Stephen explores with Dr. Joey:

    ☀️ Why values painted on a wall mean nothing until your daily actions give them meaning.

    ☀️ The three great states that help your people feel safe and capable.

    ☀️ What “nuked” change is and why you are created for it.

    ☀️ How hiring for values and filtering for competencies shrinks most discipline challenges.

    ☀️ The one thing you can do today to grow your own resilience by knowing your values.

    Key Insight

    “Ensure that your people feel like they matter, and what they do matters, and half your problems will go away.”

    Stephen de Groot

    Your DOT (Do One Thing)

    Know yourself. Know your own values. As Stephen says, the one thing you can do is “know ourselves, know our own values,” because understanding what matters to you grows your resilience and points you toward the environments that align with your values, where fulfillment and meaning grow.

    Connect with Stephen de Groot

    Get a copy of his books:

    • Getting To Better: A New Model for Elevating Human Potential at Work and in Life
    • Responsive Leadership in Social Services: A Practical Approach for Optimizing Engagement and Performance

    Brivia Consulting: https://www.briviaconsulting.com/

    Getting to Better (free tools + overview): https://gettingtobetter.com/

    LinkedIn: Stephen de Groot

    Connect with Dr. Joey

    Visit workpositive.today, subscribe to the free Work Positive Newsletter, and browse every episode at the Work Positive Podcast archive.

    • TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@dr.joeyfaucette
    • YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@workpositive7529
    • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drjoeyfaucette/
    • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WorkPositiveToday/
    • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/workpositive.today/

    #WorkPositive #CultureEatsStrategyForBreakfast #Leadership #HumanPotential #EmployeeEngagement #CompanyValues

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    36 mins
  • Curiosity: The Secret to Culture Transformation | Dr. Domonique Revere

    Curiosity: The Secret to Culture Transformation | Dr. Domonique Revere
    Jun 7 2026
    Episode 190 | Curiosity: The Secret to Culture Transformation | Dr. Domonique Revere How do you transform a work culture where people don't just survive a toxic workplace but thrive in a space where they feel seen, heard, valued, and have skin in the game? How do you move from overfunctioning as a leader to offloading responsibility and allowing autonomy and agency in your team? How do you make leadership accessible and practical for anyone looking to elevate their culture intentionally? Transform your approach to servant leadership and allyship on this episode of the Work Positive Podcast with Dr. Joey Faucette and Dr. Domonique Revere. Dr. Dom is a leadership strategist, work culture expert, and Chief Culture Architect of HR Remedy Consulting. She coaches at the intersection of leadership development, organizational management, and culture elevation, offering clear practical frameworks for leading with integrity, presence, and impact. Listen as Dr. Dom explores: ☀️ Her origin story growing up in East Cleveland in a single parent household, with a community who saw potential in her and propelled her toward success without expecting gain ☀️ Why she wanted to create spaces where people felt seen, heard, valued, could thrive rather than just survive, and be creative and innovative ☀️ How servant leadership and allyship mean helping others move in the same direction, honoring different perspectives and experiences, without needing anything in return ☀️ Why leaders need to stop overfunctioning, offload responsibility, and allow autonomy and agency to grow in their teams so they can take vacations without worry ☀️ Her new book "Language of the Land" which makes leadership accessible and practical, providing an A to Z guide for anyone looking to elevate their culture intentionally Dr. Dom transforms how leaders think about culture by proving that as you become genuinely curious about the people around you, asking more questions to understand why they operate, emote, and carry what they carry, you learn about your own blind spots and create a culture where people thrive individually and collectively. 🔑 Key Insight: "Servant leadership and allyship - when we think about allyship, it's not necessarily that we're all moving in the same direction. We want to make sure that everyone has a seat at the table, we understand perspective, we really are honoring experiences. But these are also folks that don't have anything to gain. Them being at the table and really their gaining is the essence of understanding and valuing different perspectives, different lifestyles, different experiences, different truths. When we are sitting in that space and knowing that everybody deserves peace, deserves protection, deserves safety, we all win." 💡 Your DOT (Do One Thing): Ask more questions. Become genuinely curious about the people who are around you - why they operate the way that they do, why they emote the way that they do, why they carry the things that they carry. You'll learn not only a lot about them, but you'll learn a lot about yourself as well. You'll learn where your blind spots are, where the privilege is, where maybe you can lean in and do things a little bit differently. If you take nothing else away from the conversation, slow down and become genuinely curious about the people that you're choosing to do life and choosing to do work with. It's going to make us all just better humans individually and collectively. Connect with Dr. Domonique Revere: Visit HRemedyConsulting.com for leadership strategy, work culture expertise, and coaching services Get "Language of the Land: The A to Z Guide for Elevating Culture" on Amazon Connect with Dr. Dom on LinkedIn Follow Dr. Dom Revere on Instagram and Twitter Discover how to make leadership accessible and practical for transforming cultureLearn the key to psychological safety, belonging, and inclusion in the workplace #ServantLeadership #Allyship #CultureTransformation #LanguageOfTheLand #GenuineCuriosity #StopOverfunctioning #CultureEatsStrategyForBreakfast #WorkPositive 🎙️ Love the Work Positive Podcast? Please leave a review on iTunes to help others discover how to grow people and profits with a positive work culture! 🔗 Stay connected with Dr. Joey Faucette: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@workpositive7529LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drjoeyfaucette/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WorkPositiveToday/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/workpositive.today/ Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@dr.joeyfaucette 📧 Know someone who'd make a great guest on the show? Email analiza@getpositive.today with your recommendation!
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    36 mins
  • Fulfill Human Potential Through Super Performance | George Pesansky

    Fulfill Human Potential Through Super Performance | George Pesansky
    May 31 2026
    How do you close the gap between knowing something and actually doing it as you drown in knowledge but lack the ability to translate it into consistent repeatable action? How do you create a culture so Work Positive that an ordinary person put in the right environment with the right tools suddenly becomes extraordinary? How do you transform from a leader who points out issues to one who helps people reach their full potential? Transform your approach to building super performing cultures on this episode of the Work Positive Podcast with Dr. Joey Faucette and George Pesansky. George is a Six Sigma Master Black Belt, army veteran, inventor, and the author of "Super Performance" published by Fast Company Press. He has trained over 10,000 professionals, worked with some of the world's largest manufacturers, and built a flourishing consulting practice. Listen as George explores: ☀️ His unexpected leadership opportunity as a tank platoon leader with zero training or experience, completely surprising everyone and reaching top evaluations ☀️ Why the essence of Super Performance is helping people reach their full potential, realizing it's not about me but about we and how we all come together ☀️ The golden hour philosophy that we can all have nearly perfect or even perfect levels of performance, like how factories have hours where they work completely safe ☀️ How to go beyond talking about servant leadership and actually demonstrate you'll do things to help people be better tomorrow than they were today, even at an expense to you personally ☀️ Why you have to hang on loosely as a leader, letting people take ownership and be engaged so it doesn't matter if you show up because the systems exist George transforms how leaders think about performance by proving that as you build a culture where people take autonomy and control, you work less rather than harder because you let people take ownership. 🔑 Key Insight: "What I'm gonna call those eight strategies we outline in the book, when you can approach problems that way, there's really nothing you can't solve if you have a group of committed resources that are going to be there with you. It's not about working too hard. Super Performance is actually working less because you're letting people take ownership and letting them be engaged. If you didn't show up today, if you didn't show up this week, it wouldn't matter because the systems exist, the people have ownership, they're engaged. You were a clock builder versus a time teller. The time tellers are the folks that I refer to as capes, the clock builders are who I always want to hire." 💡 Your DOT (Do One Thing): Understand something that went well and be able to answer the question why. It can be any activity, any discussion, could even be the workout, the peloton that you're on listening to the podcast. Ask yourself why did it feel so good today? Why could I have gone a few extra steps, a few extra miles? Why did the performance in the factory do well? The question of why when we do well never gets asked but the question of why when we fail is asked much too often. Just have some balance. Don't say never look at why we fail, but ask the other question once in a while. Connect with George Pesansky: Get "Super Performance" on Amazon (paperback, Kindle, audiobook narrated by George himself)Visit GeorgePesansky.com for articles, podcast appearances, and resources that add valueVisit MyBlendedLearning.com for George's company and consulting servicesConnect with George on LinkedInRead George's articles in Forbes and Fast Company where he is a contributorDiscover how to help people and organizations reach their full potential #SuperPerformance #ClockBuilder #GoldenHour #HangOnLoosely #AskWhyItWentWell #WorkLessNotHarder #CultureEatsStrategyForBreakfast #WorkPositive 🎙️ Love the Work Positive Podcast? Please leave a review on iTunes to help others discover how to grow people and profits with a positive work culture! 🔗 Stay connected with Dr. Joey Faucette: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@workpositive7529LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drjoeyfaucette/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WorkPositiveToday/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/workpositive.today/ Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@dr.joeyfaucette 📧 Know someone who'd make a great guest on the show? Email analiza@getpositive.today with your recommendation!
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    31 mins
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