November 01, 2022
Episode 14: Foresight and Instilling Strategic Communication Frameworks
On today’s episode of The Future of Teamwork, host Dane Groeneveld invites Kian Gohar, Founder and CEO of Geolab, to discuss the bionic age and how to utilize foresight to plan different scenarios and future-proof your business. Geolab has partnered with organizations like NASA, Google, the XPRIZE Foundation, and Harvard to help their teams create frameworks to work more strategically. During the conversation the two also touch on the power of AI in your software stack, crowdsourcing customer ideas in the innovation sphere, and the concept of “teaming out.”
Kian is the Founder & CEO of Geolab, a leadership development and executive coaching firm inspiring the world’s leading organizations to build exponential teams dedicated to solving complex problems through disruptive innovation. Our work helps teams:
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- Create bold innovation strategies through agile leadership sprints
- Become radically adaptable by turning future risks into opportunities
- Achieve exponential collaboration in a hybrid work environment
He is the co-author of the Wall Street Journal bestselling book “Competing in the New World of Work” with Keith Ferrazzi, published by Harvard Business Review in 2022. Based on a global research project with 2000+ global leaders during the pandemic ear, the book reveals the best leadership practices that helped the most successful teams thrive in the pandemic, and is a roadmap for hybrid team success.
Notes
On today’s episode of The Future of Teamwork, host Dane Groeneveld invites Kian Gohar, Founder and CEO of Geolab, to discuss the bionic age and how to utilize foresight to plan different scenarios and future-proof your business. Geolab has partnered with organizations like NASA, Google, the XPRIZE Foundation, and Harvard to help their teams create frameworks to work more strategically. During the conversation the two also touch on the power of AI in your software stack, crowdsourcing customer ideas in the innovation sphere, and the concept of “teaming out.”
Recap & Takeaways
- [05:04 – 07:13] Taking the humans out of dehumanized work, and the pandemic as an accelerator
- [07:13 – 09:06] Virtual training and the benefits to hybrid approaches in learning
- [09:11 – 11:07] How the metaverse and online training could reduce global carbon footprints
- [17:19 – 18:46] Highlighting the San Jose Sharks and how it used foresight to plan out reactions to different scenarios
- [23:12 – 25:03] Why teams struggled to communicate during the pandemic despite software solutions
- [25:24 – 26:49] The employee experience and making collaboration more seamless
- [28:52 – 32:04] The power of AI in the stack
- [35:01 – 37:13] Crowdsourcing and bringing key customers [39:03 – 43:05] “Teaming out” and collaborating with small businesses and smaller ecosystems
- [47:55 – 48:42] Hustle culture and accepting working differently
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