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Quick Hits are 10-minute conversations designed to exercise your brain by letting you listen in on an unscripted conversation to hear other people‘s thoughts on a variety of subjects. In February of 2021 I and the members of my mastermind group thought other people might enjoy listening in on some of the lively conversations we were having. But we realized that no one was going spend 90-minutes listening to us going on about anything and sometimes nothing. Instead, we decided to pick one topic and have a short conversation to share. I took the reigns because facilitating those types of conversations sounded like fun. Over the course of a few months it grew from just members of our mastermind group to four (sometimes three if schedules go sideways) people from various parts of the world and from ”short” to exactly 10-minutes. Thus was born ”Quick Hits” hosted by me, Dr Robyn. I hope to get caught up with posting them here on PodBean at some point. As of this writing, I have over 100 ”episodes.” If you‘d like to see the videos of these conversations, they are available on my YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/DrRobynQuickHits If you have a topic you‘d like to hear discussed, I encouraged you to use the contact page of my website: https://drrobynodegaard.com/ to let me know.
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Thursday Jan 12, 2023
Thursday Jan 12, 2023
A healthy sense of competition can be beneficial, essential even, on an individual level. It allows individuals to strive to be the best they can possibly be. But when a team has to work together, does that sense of competition benefit the group or cause it to splinter?
I heard strong cases for both sides of the argument from my guests on this edition of Quick Hits. They all have extensive experience working with teams in their respective fields and were generous with their accumulated wisdom.
Mentor and sales consultant Kevin Wash said that competition is “essential. It takes a team from being ordinary to extraordinary. Within a team there are individuals, but every person in the team should be challenged to move from being okay to being the best they can be. And competition is what does that.”
PR consultant Rick Alcantara asked a key question. “If your tendency as a business leader is to continuously reward the high achievers, if you’re cutting them breaks and giving them all the special benefits, do those things serve as a disincentive to other folks?”
Financial futurist Jim Lee also argued that, “If you are competing, you’re trying to do more of what you have been doing and you’re less likely to experiment, take risks and exercise creativity.”
Competition within a team has risks and rewards, and in order for it to benefit the organization, it has to be careful managed.
You can likely tell from the conversation where I stand on the subject. What do you think? Is competition good or bad within a team?
Connect with the panelists:
Rick Alcantara: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rickalcantara/
James Lee: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jleeadvisor/
Kevin Wash: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevin-wash-23b90915/
Dr Robyn Odegaard: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robynodegaard/
Want a summary of the Quick Hits I post every week, plus the links to the LinkedIn pages of each of the panelist to show up in your in-box every week? Just let me know where to send it: https://drrobynodegaard.com/quick-hits-notifications/
#QuickHits are designed to exercise your brain by letting you listen in on an unscripted conversation to get other people's thoughts on pertinent subjects. If you would like to join a conversation or have a topic you would like to hear discussed, please message me. https://www.DrRobynOdegaard.com
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