The Carvery with Alex Dorr
Markets and Investing
All that you desire in life - success, happiness, innovation, creativity, teamwork - is your natural state, once the drama is gone. Hosted by Alex Dorr, a practicing drama dissolver and keynote speaker who's worked with Fortune 500 companies, The Carvery is a place for all to learn the simple tools, practical strategies and proven mental processes to carve away the drama in our lives. In this show, Alex shares his stories of living drama-free (or trying to), teaching the philosophy and how leaders can also carve away drama to lead more peaceful, high-achieving teams.
Location:
United States
Genres:
Markets and Investing
Description:
All that you desire in life - success, happiness, innovation, creativity, teamwork - is your natural state, once the drama is gone. Hosted by Alex Dorr, a practicing drama dissolver and keynote speaker who's worked with Fortune 500 companies, The Carvery is a place for all to learn the simple tools, practical strategies and proven mental processes to carve away the drama in our lives. In this show, Alex shares his stories of living drama-free (or trying to), teaching the philosophy and how leaders can also carve away drama to lead more peaceful, high-achieving teams.
Twitter:
@alexmdorr
Language:
English
Email:
alex@cywakeman.com
Episodes
INTERVIEW: Creating a Culture of Ownership and Accountability in Today's Workplace
11/2/2022
In this video, I discuss my recent article with Emergence on how to truly create a culture of ownership with our ground-breaking tools that cultivate accountability and self-reflection.
After doing 70-80 sessions per year for the last 7 years with Fortune 500 companies in all industries across the world, these were the 5 key areas that leaders tend to miss the mark when it comes to building the culture of accountability that they hoped for.
You can download the full article to share with...
Duration:00:39:53
MINI-LESSON: The 5 Sources of Drama in 15 Minutes
4/27/2022
Designed for you to share with everyone you want to introduce No Ego and Reality-Based Leadership with, this podcast walks through the 5 main sources of drama that all leaders and teams will encounter in the workplace. Drama leads to over 2.5 hours per day of lost time and energy per person in an organization on average. Modern leaders know the biggest part of their job becomes navigating these interferences of drama when they come up.
Being able to manage energy around ego-based thinking,...
Duration:00:17:58
#4: Why True Leaders are Able to Bridge to HOW WE COULD
3/30/2022
I have become more and more fascinated with this idea of being a bridge as a leader. The bridge can first be taken personally when you are asked to evolve or step up in your career. The bridge can be in moments when you are able to take the energy away from whey we can't and get it refocused on how we could. Many times the bridge can be where you act as a connector between two mindsets to bring compassion to either side that may be judging the other and not helping.
In your career, you will...
Duration:00:25:02
#3: Refocus and Move Past Mental Drama With This Quick Tip
3/16/2022
Ever find yourself with so much on your mind that you want to accomplish that you are almost frozen? I find myself often getting ahead of myself thinking about what amazing things are coming or can come in the future and missing the reality that each moment I spend 'ahead of myself' I am taking no action in the moment.
In this episode, I share this realization and how it has opened me up to not violently coming back to focus when this pattern occurs, but to instead gently notice that I am...
Duration:00:11:49
#2: 3 Questions for More Consistent Performance and Joy at Work
3/2/2022
In this episode, I dive into the importance of steadiness as a skill to be developed. So many people focus on their performance and improving their skills, but many don't realize how important consistent and steady effort is to being successful in their career. This episode allows you to reflect on your own steadiness along with 2 more areas where we can evolve ourselves to the next level, and most importantly, to be happier at work.
This has been an idea I've been chewing on for awhile and...
Duration:00:15:35
#1: Why Checking the Boxes Doesn't Add Value at Work
2/16/2022
Many people find energy in checking the boxes each day and getting a ton of tasks done on their list. I admit myself that this feels great. However, many don't take a step back to see if all of those boxes they are checking are truly adding value and moving along the higher-value work that would move things forward at a grander scale. This episode is exploring that idea of checking the boxes and how to ensure those tasks are all leveling up to make sure that progress is going in the right...
Duration:00:16:46
Podcast Update: The New Format for The Carvery
2/9/2022
I couldn't be more excited about the new format I am taking to help you keep learning the tools and philosophies of living beyond drama at work and in your world. This episode level sets on the structure of the new podcast flow and what to expect from each episode.
From this new structure that amplifies all of the creative ideas I have flowing through the short blogs I am sending out on my Workplace Portal newsletter that comes out every other Wednesday, I have some incredible ideas to...
Duration:00:09:37
Keeping Teams Engaged in the Virtual World
2/2/2021
Are you racking your brain trying to figure out how to keep your team engaged in the virtual environment we are in?
This has been one of the most common questions coming through from leaders trying to navigate the work from home, hybrid and work from anywhere environments we are in.
Download the FREE guide I mentioned in the introduction and the session here:
Reality-Based Interviewing for Accountability Guide (usually $49.99 on our website)
This exclusive keynote gives you a new...
Duration:01:07:17
Leading in Uncertainty, Disruption and Challenge - 4 Essential Tips
12/14/2020
2020 has been (and is continuing to be) a year that none of us could say we were prepared for as a leader. There is just no other way of saying it. Leadership is always a challenge, but leading in a crisis has revealed so much to us and our people.
There is an evolved skillset that a leader needs to successfully support, grow and develop teams in the midst of crisis. In this podcast episode you will walk away with my 4 best tips for leading your team sin uncertainty, disruption and...
Duration:00:30:51
Building Your Personal Brand WITHIN Your Workplace
9/2/2020
We've heard endless YouTube videos about building your personal brand so you can LEAVE your job and start your own business, but what about building a personal brand WITHIN our job because we love what we do. This episode will give you four ideas to build your personal brand with your colleagues and customers from the lens of being a low-drama, high-value player at work.
Much of your personal brand is how you appear to others on the outside, but the paradox is almost all of this is...
Duration:00:39:42
When Extreme Ownership Goes Wrong
2/7/2020
Your level of accountability is most correlated to your results and happiness in life. Many that interact with learn this information and take-off with this idea and really start to live out the four factors of accountability in their lives and start to feel different results pretty quickly. However, many run into a similar experience I did where they start to over-reach when it comes to accountability and start taking extreme ownership for their results and noticing some struggles.
In...
Duration:00:32:11
Lessons From 85 Speaking Engagements in 2019
12/31/2019
It was a heck of a ride jumping from around 40 speaking engagements in 2018 to 85 sessions in 2019. I'm beyond grateful and, as I reflect back, I have learned so much. I have summarized all of these lessons and packaged them up for you in this podcast episode.
As you go from city to city and interact with various clients from all of the industries we get to touch - you start to see patterns or themes emerge. These themes become very interesting and, in my free, time I sit in self-reflection...
Duration:00:37:28
Why You HAVE to Play Favorites at Work
12/15/2019
A conventional leadership wisdom out there is that you CANNOT play favorites at work. However, did you know that the same leadership will not please a high-accountable mindset and low-accountable at the same time? This creates an interesting consideration we go into on this podcast.
Many organizations haven't come around to the fact that they have some employees that default to a lower state-of-accountability each day. This is more of a victim-mindset where they believe that most of their...
Duration:00:40:52
Don't Confuse High Performers with High Accountables
11/22/2019
One common confusion with leadership and our philosophy is that people miss that high performance does not necessarily correlate with your highest accountable employees. This podcast clarifies and explains why this is so important to understand.
For years organizations have focused diligently on measuring performance and when many hear our work they say, "Of course! We just need to keep spending all of our leadership capacity on our highest performers and get rid of low performers."
While...
Duration:00:35:18
Overcoming That's the Way We've Always Done it
11/8/2019
"Well...that's the way we've always done it" is one of the most frustrating statements for leaders and organizations to hear for the reason to not change the way we are doing something. This statement reveals a bigger issue than most might realize once you start to understand the power of learned helplessness.
This episode dives deep into victim-mindsets and how to overcome an individual or team that is locked into learned helplessness.
Learned helplessness is the belief that our actions...
Duration:00:40:44
Exploring the Deeper Layers of Drama
10/23/2019
Having the courage to explore the first layer of drama at work is big, but many miss the opportunity to start peeling back the layers of drama that truly get in the way from our teams being highly successful and happy. This episode dives into this idea of the deeper layers of drama that exist and a few tools to identify them and move beyond them.
These deeper layers can be sneaky and out of our awareness until we investigate them. This is something I haven't talked about a ton yet as we...
Duration:00:31:30
FULL KEYNOTE: Ditching the Drama at Work with Reality-Based Leadership
9/28/2019
Listen in on a full keynote of mine on how to ditch the drama at work with Reality-Based Leadership. Ever wondered what it would be like to sit in the front row for one of my sessions? That's what you are listening to here!
This session was one of my best yet. Concise and straight to the point with a TON of energy and practical tools to start leading more drama-free, engaged and results-driven teams.
This group was super interactive and all-in to the philosophy so it made for a great...
Duration:01:18:28
With Great Influence, Comes Great Responsibility with Drama
9/13/2019
Does your drama you bring to the table impact others more the higher up you get in your career? This was a great questions asked by a recent executive leader at one of my sessions that got me thinking. This podcast breaks down my thoughts on whether the impact of our personal drama as a higher-level leader in an organization is grander than our initial research has discovered.
In our research at Reality-Based Leadership, we found that your overall value that you bring to your work decreases...
Duration:00:28:57
Enabling - The Killer of Accountability
9/8/2019
"How can I make someone do something I need them to do at work?" is one of the most common questions I hear as I speak to groups across the country. Most are surprised to find out that trying to change someone is nearly impossible - but you can stop enabling them. Enabling the behavior you don't want is typically what leads to so much conflict or behavior that isn't what you prefer.
This podcast dives deeper into this killer of accountability and gives you some practical ideas to ease the...
Duration:00:32:45
The Hypocrisy of Transparency at Work
8/25/2019
So many people are asking for transparency at work, but are then upset when it happens. Transparent feedback from their leaders seems to ignite the ego. Transparent numbers about how they are doing in their performance can trigger excuses. The transparency of the new internet world has been causing a ton of disruption as well because the tracking and analytics can show the true results of our work.
What we thought would do well in the market (for example a video project we created) only...
Duration:00:33:21