IMPACTFUL Teamwork

This podcast is for you if you’re a business owner, business leader, entrepreneur or executive who knows they want to make a real impact in the world and knows they can’t do it alone. Your host is Julia Felton, a leadership and team engagement specialist provides unique insights into how to harness the energy of your people to create massive business momentum through unlocking the super-power of teamwork.Some of the questions we grapple with are:- You know you need a team to help you but how do you get your team on the same page? - How do you get them pulling in the same direction and not pulling apart? - How do you create a connected, collaborative, cohesive team?In this podcast I will be sharing with you strategies and tactics to help you become the best leader you can be so that you can inspire IMPACTFUL teamwork. Teams that make a real difference. Each podcast will be full of actionable steps you can take and implement immediately. We’ll also be interviewing guests to lear

IMPACTFUL Teamwork is a business podcast hosted by Julia Felton, with 130 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 82.

Julia Felton hosts IMPACTFUL Teamwork, a business show with 130 episodes published.

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  Episode #130

  AI and Cultural Debt: The Hidden Trust Risks Shaping Your Organisation

  Sep 28, 202627 min

  This episode of the Impactful Teamwork podcast argues that AI is changing organisational culture whether leaders intend it or not, and that the biggest risk is cultural debt—unaddressed behaviours, tensions, and unwritten rules that compound over time. Drawing on Deloitte’s Global Human Capital Trends survey, it highlights that 42% of workers say their organisation rarely evaluates AI’s impact on people, and 80% of leaders worry colleagues use AI to appear more productive. The host outlines five trust risks: blurry ownership and accountability (including 41% using AI to automate work without employers knowing), “performance productivity” and work slop, fairness in evaluating output versus effort, reduced human connection as AI replaces interactions, and erosion of judgment (with 42% of executives concerned about over-dependence). Leaders are urged to surface new trust questions, clarify accountability, define fair-use principles, deliberately protect connection, and model transparent AI use. 00:46 AI Shaping Culture 02:20 Cultural Debt Explained 05:16 Unwritten Rules Shift 06:54 Trust Risk One Ownership 08:59 Trust Risk Two Work Slop 11:05 Trust Risk Three Fairness 13:07 Trust Risk Four Connection 15:35 Trust Risk Five Judgment 18:05 Design Human Machine Partnership 19:39 Five Leader Actions Connect with Julia: Website LinkedIn Facebook Instagram Take the IMPACTFUL Teamwork Quiz to assess your team's communication, creativity culture, goal clarity, and conflict resolution skills! Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify

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  Episode #129

  Are We Automating Away Our Humanity? The Leadership Question AI Cannot Answer

  Sep 21, 202627 min

  This episode of the Impactful Teamwork podcast explores whether organisations are “automating our way out of humanity” as AI accelerates. Julia highlights rare agreement among AI leaders—Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, OpenAI’s Sam Altman, and Elon Musk—on the need to pace AI development, noting Amodei’s argument that governance and safeguards are lagging behind capability. The episode argues the biggest AI leadership challenge is human, not technological: efficiency can become a dangerous addiction, and outsourcing friction may also outsource connection, trust, empathy, and wisdom. Drawing on King Charles’ comments about “emotional excellence” and nature’s balance, plus lessons from horse herds, it proposes leaders anticipate what AI changes, intentionally design what AI handles vs. what remains human, and implement through experimentation while measuring impacts on connection and thinking. 00:55 AI Moving Too Fast 03:10 Wisdom Over Efficiency 06:42 Harmony And Humanity 09:35 Horses And Connection 12:13 The Great AI Paradox 15:07 Reinventing Leadership Teams 18:30 Implementing AI Wisely 21:09 Nature Seasons And Pause 21:59 Three Leadership Questions 23:20 Deliberately Human Future Connect with Julia: Website LinkedIn Facebook Instagram Take the IMPACTFUL Teamwork Quiz to assess your team's communication, creativity culture, goal clarity, and conflict resolution skills! Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify

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  Episode #128

  The Environment You Create Impacts The Candour In Your Business

  Sep 14, 202628 min

  Host Julia Felton argues that silence on leadership teams is often a rational response to the environment leaders create, not a lack of courage, and that psychological safety is built continuously through everyday interactions. Citing Kurt Lewin’s idea that behaviour is a function of the person and their environment, she describes Amy Edmondson’s hospital findings that better teams report more errors because admitting mistakes is survivable, warning that “clean” error logs may signal suppression. Using horse-based examples and Nokia’s 2005–2010 smartphone decline research, she shows how fear and misaligned pressure distort information flow and decision-making. Julia highlights four environmental design factors: leaders’ first three-second reaction to bad news, what happens to information after it’s raised, reward structures that discourage experimentation, and what happened to the last truth-teller. She closes with a “Cafe moment” story illustrating how shared frameworks change conditions and enable feedback. 00:46 Why Leaders Miss Bad News 02:03 Rethinking Psychological Safety 03:05 Leadership Quote And Environment 05:38 How Reactions Shape Silence 07:34 Behavior And Environment Research 08:47 Amy Edmondson Error Reporting 11:26 Horses Tell The Truth 12:53 Horse Lessons For Teams 15:46 Nokia Fear And Failure 18:51 Four Environment Components 22:14 Cultural Zones And Modes 23:41 Steve Cafe Moment Story 25:16 Weekly Challenge Reflection 26:17 Wrap Up And Next Steps Connect with Julia: Website LinkedIn Facebook Instagram Take the IMPACTFUL Teamwork Quiz to assess your team's communication, creativity culture, goal clarity, and conflict resolution skills! Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify

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  Episode #127

  Learning From Failure: How Psychological Safety Helps us Build Innovative Teams

  Sep 7, 202634 min

  On the Impactful Teamwork podcast, host Julia Felton interviews Rachel Franco, founder of Fail Smarter, about why teamwork and learning from failure are competitive advantages. Franco shares how her Fortune 500 innovation enablement work and a Northwestern capstone on barriers to learning from failure led her to focus on helping leaders and teams overcome fear of failure so they can innovate. The conversation emphasises psychological safety—making it safe to speak up with ideas, concerns, and mistakes—through leader role-modelling, thoughtful responses, and measurement using Amy Edmondson’s Fearless Organization Scan. Franco cites data linking high psychological safety to lower turnover and higher engagement, productivity, learning agility, and skill application, and notes Google’s Project Aristotle finding it is the top factor in team effectiveness. They discuss practical blockers like lack of time, incentives, cross-team communication, weak user-centered thinking, rushed postmortems, and poor follow-through on ideas, plus experiential learning via the “failure toy” workshop and Fail Smarter’s quiz. 00:45 Meet Rachel Franco 01:27 Why Fail Smarter 04:59 Fear of Failure Culture 06:43 Psychological Safety Basics 09:00 Measuring Safety and Incentives 12:31 Stats That Prove It 17:06 AI Era Needs Experimentation 18:58 Why Projects Fail 21:05 Everyone Can Innovate 23:39 Ideas Need Follow Through 26:20 Failure Toy Workshop 29:34 Accountability and Smart Risk 31:03 Where to Find Rachel You can connect with Rachel at https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachelfranco/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachelfranco/ Connect with Julia: Website LinkedIn Facebook Instagram Take the IMPACTFUL Teamwork Quiz to assess your team's communication, creativity culture, goal clarity, and conflict resolution skills! Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify

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  Episode #126

  Your Leadership Team Is Not Under-Led. It Is Over-Ranked.

  Aug 31, 202621 min

  The episode argues that teamwork is a key competitive advantage and that many organisational problems—failed change initiatives, low engagement, and poor collaboration—reflect outdated leadership models. Drawing from June Gunter’s book "Chaos to Clarity" and the host’s training with horses, it introduces the diamond model of shared leadership based on herd dynamics: the lead mare provides direction from the front, the lead stallion protects and unifies from behind, and sentinels lead from the middle with awareness, advocacy, and integration of newcomers. The host recounts executives observing wild horses at Return to Freedom and seeing the diamond formation in action during uncertainty. The episode emphasises roles over ranks, the capabilities of attention, direction, energy, and congruence, and invites listeners to assign diamond roles to tackle a current team challenge. 00:00 126 - Chaos to Clarity 00:33 The Diamond Model 01:02 Shared Leadership 02:54 Three Positions of Leadership 04:20 The Lead Mare 05:08 The Lead Stallion 06:27 The Sentinels 07:56 Return to Freedom 11:05 Followship 13:43 The Business Case 14:35 This Week's Challenge 15:20 Closing Reflections Connect with Julia: Website LinkedIn Facebook Instagram Take the IMPACTFUL Teamwork Quiz to assess your team's communication, creativity culture, goal clarity, and conflict resolution skills! Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify

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