Whitney Johnson: How To Grow Your People - Episode 72

*This episode is sponsored by Spokn (as a listener of our podcast you can get 2 months free on the annual contract with Spokn, please head over to getspokn.com/scalingculture)Our guest is Whitney Johnson - one of the top ten business thinkers in the world as named by Thinkers50 and a LinkedIn Top Voice with 1.8 million followers.Whitney is the CEO of Disruption Advisors and an award-winning author of multiple books, including her most recent book “SMARTH GROWTH: How to Grow Your People to Grow Your Company” published by Harvard Business Review Press. She also hosts the weekly Disrupt Yourself podcast with guests including Brené Brown, Adam Grant, Simon Sinek, and General Stanley McChrystal.An innovation and disruption theorist, Whitney is a frequent contributor to Harvard Business Review and MIT Sloan Management Review. She teaches the S Curve of Learning to managers and companies as both a keynote speaker and a frequent lecturer for Harvard Business School’s Corporate Learning.In this episode of Scaling Culture, Ron and Whitney discuss: What is the S Curve of Learning and key stages of growth? How to grow your people and help them find their S Curve? How to use the S curve to become better leaders? How to use the S curve to design your team and scale it across the organization?  This S curve concept gives leaders great language to use in coaching and developing their team members.  Plus in the episode, Whitney gives a trick for ensuring your feedback is well received.This episode of Scaling Culture is sponsored by Spokn, a podcasting platform for the workplace. For more information about Whitney and her work and books, please follow her on LinkedIn or go to her author’s page on Amazon.  To learn more or purchase the Scaling Culture Masterclass online course, please go to ScalingCulture.OrgIf you’re enjoying the Scaling Culture podcast, please subscribe and share. We’ll be back soon with another incredible guest!