Nikki Bush in conversation about high-performance teamwork with Caspar Craven, a leading international authority in achieving big, bold goals using a very human approach to building teams. Caspar is an accomplished entrepreneur, who has built and sold businesses and worked in the corporate world as a chartered accountant, investment banker and CFO. He has sailed twice around the world – the first time was as the youngest crew member in the world’s toughest yacht race, The BT Global Challenge, and the second time he circumnavigated the world with his wife and three young children (all under 10 years of age). While sailing the Pacific Ocean, he sold one of his businesses for a 7-figure sum. Caspar is a motivational and keynote speaker who uses his unique mix of experiences to inspire his audiences. His latest book, Be More Human: rethinking the rules of high-performance teamwork, was published in 2020. Visit www.casparcraven.com for more information.
This conversation covers:
- Putting people first, instead of only running business by the numbers.
- Put people first; results will follow.
- The keys to effective teamwork.
- The importance of listening and helping team members find themselves in your story.
- How to balance the need for relentless action and caring for your team.
- Self-reflection and being prepared to hear honest feedback about yourself.
- Parallels between work and home life.
- How you do anything is how you do everything.
- What we see is all there is – how to keep on top of mind-awareness.
- Where focus goes energy flows.
- If you are running a team, you are in the business of growing people.
“None of us have all the answers. You come up with an ideal hypothesis, you test it and see what works, and you adapt.”
Caspar Craven, Motivational Leadership and Teamwork Keynote Speaker
“You’ve got to have self-belief, but temper that with the fact that you’ve got to take ideas from other people on board.”
Caspar Craven, Motivational Leadership and Teamwork Keynote Speaker
“Everything changed when I went from saying ‘I’m right’ to ‘how do I know I’m right?’”
Ray Dalio, Bridgewater
“It doesn’t matter who is right. It only matters what is right.”
Caspar Craven, Motivational Leadership and Teamwork Keynote Speaker
“What’s that story that unites us?”
Caspar Craven, Motivational Leadership and Teamwork Keynote Speaker
“The nature of how we collaborate together is at the forefront more than it has ever been.”
Caspar Craven, Motivational Leadership and Teamwork Keynote Speaker
“It’s all about putting people first and finding the roles that they love doing.”
Caspar Craven, Motivational Leadership and Teamwork Keynote Speaker
“It’s about finding the thing that connects people together, giving people a purpose, and then creating that purpose together as an organisation. And once you get that, then you can create extraordinary results.”
Caspar Craven, Motivational Leadership and Teamwork Keynote Speaker
“It’s something that was long, long overdue to have the understanding that we are whole people.”
Caspar Craven, Motivational Leadership and Teamwork Keynote Speaker
“Be more human!”
Caspar Craven, Motivational Leadership and Teamwork Keynote Speaker
“You put your work face on: this is how you’re meant to be; this is how everyone else goes. And it’s quite a hard mould to break out of.”
Caspar Craven, Motivational Leadership and Teamwork Keynote Speaker
“Leaders who share more of themselves, and more of their failures are the ones who are building the most connected teams, because they’re making it okay to be human and to be real again.”
Caspar Craven, Motivational Leadership and Teamwork Keynote Speaker
“When people do come and speak truth to us, it’s really important just to sort of acknowledge it. I will write it down and reflect on it.”
Caspar Craven, Motivational Leadership and Teamwork Keynote Speaker
“Pain plus reflection equals progress.”
Ray Dalio, Bridgewater
“What’s the one thing that I can do, such that by doing makes everything else easier or unnecessary?”
Gary Keller, Executive Chairman of KWx
“We get the maximum amount of growth when we push into the highest level of uncertainty that we can comfortably handle.”
Caspar Craven, Motivational Leadership and Teamwork Keynote Speaker
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