Dan Bovee - "The Secret Formula Top Leaders Use to Build Unstoppable Teams"
Dan Bovee, Director of Talent Acquisition and Development at Morey, breaks down how to hire, align, and grow high-performance teams. He explains the concept of “right people, right seats” and why culture drives results. Dan details a challenge-and-encourage leadership approach for promoting psychological safety and highlights the framework for building high-performance teams through values-aligned hiring and role alignment.
EPISODE: Dan Bovee Director, Talent Acquisition & Development @ Morey The Secret Formula Top Leaders Use to Build Unstoppable Teams A Conversation with Dan Bovee 40
Dan Bovee, Director, Talent Acquisition & Development at Morey, breaks down how to hire, align, and grow high-performance teams. He explains “right people, right seats” and why culture drives results. Dan details challenge-and-encourage leadership for psychological safety. He connects culture directly to measurable business outcomes. Episode Description
Introduction to Dan Bovee (00:25) Full Podcast Episode (27:14) Episode Highlights (02:28) ‘Right People, Right Seats’ is Your Growth Flywheel (01:45) Interviewing Better With TEDW Behavioral Prompts (02:44) Culture As Competitive Advantage In Hiring (02:58) Effective Coaching Through Psychological Safety (05:06) Leaders Must Always Model The Culture First (05:07) Making Culture The Engine Behind Consistent KPI Wins (03:49) Trust Manager Intuition When Resumes Are Not Enough (03:04) Short - Interviewing Better With TEDW Behavioral Prompts (00:59) Short - Effective Coaching Through Psychological Safety (00:57) Table of Contents
(00:25) Introduction to Dan Bovee “I've been a part of big organizations, small organizations, medium-sized, led teams, scaled teams, from two to three folks, all the way up through 180 people. I spent the last couple of decades in leadership and professional development.”
Full Episode “Putting people in the right seats creates the opportunity for folks to lean into their strengths and get the results ultimately that they want. It allows them to be more productive, creative, and engaged.”
(02:28) Episode Highlights
(01:45) ‘Right People, Right Seats’ is Your Growth Flywheel “I think it's incumbent upon us as leaders to really pay attention to our people and understand what they're good at and try to put them in the best possible position to be successful.”
(02:44) Interviewing Better With TEDW Behavioral Prompts “I want to understand the situations that this individual has been put in, how they've reacted, what their thought process is in the moment, and try to understand how well that fits in with what we do and whether or not they would be a cultural fit based on that.”
(02:58) Culture As Competitive Advantage In Hiring “The core values there are to look out for each other. If you have an opportunity to make others successful, bring them with you. And work your butt off.”
(05:06) Effective Coaching Through Psychological Safety “You'll be able to hone that skill set as long as you have a leader who is encouraging you along the way and sympathetic to the fact that we're going to fall off the bike a few times and that's okay.”
(05:07) Leaders Must Always Model The Culture First “I've always been a firm believer that culture comes from the top down. It has to be communicated clearly and perpetuated from the highest levels of the organization and then have everybody aligned underneath those individuals.”
(03:49) Making Culture The Engine Behind Consistent KPI Wins “Culture is the engine that propels that vehicle to consistently produce quality results and so that's the end goal.”
(03:04) Trust Manager Intuition When Resumes Are Not Enough “I think compassionate management is so important. That's the ability to put yourself in other people's shoes, to see the world through their lens, to empathize with them but leave enough space to be able to alleviate suffering or solve problems on their behalf.”
YOUTUBE SHORT: “I want to understand the situations that this individual has been put in, how they've reacted, what their thought process is in the moment, and try to understand how well that fits in with what we do and whether or not they would be a cultural fit based on that.” - Dan Bovee
YOUTUBE SHORT: “You'll be able to hone that skill set as long as you have a leader who is encouraging you along the way and sympathetic to the fact that we're going to fall off the bike a few times and that's okay.” - Dan Bovee
Dan Bovee Dan Bovee, Director, Talent Acquisition & Development at Morey, breaks down how to hire, align, and grow high-performance teams. He explains “right people, right seats” and why culture drives results. Dan details challenge-and-encourage leadership for psychological safety. He connects culture directly to measurable business outcomes.
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