Unleashing the Power of Personal Purpose at Work w/ Travis Dommert from Jackson Healthcare

Bio: TRAVIS DOMMERT is the is Senior Vice President of Learning & Development at Jackson Healthcare, a 3-time number one best-place-to-work in Atlanta among large employers and best workplace for Millennials according to Fortune Magazine. Prior to Jackson, Travis was president of irunurun, a performance and accountability platform that leveraged lessons from elite soldiers and athletes to help leaders build high performance teams. Dommert is a graduate of Northwestern University and Emory University and resides in Peachtree Corners, GA with his wife and five children. What is your biggest strength or area of expertise? How do you think you can provide value to others?: Unleashing the Power of Personal Purpose at Work. Any well-designed learning initiative ultimately drives behavior change. Unfortunately, most are short lived at best because leaders underestimate or misunderstand the mechanisms for making new behaviors stick. By leveraging the wisdom of Aristotle and lessons learned from years of studying soldiers and athletes, we’ve identified a special cocktail of 5 factors needed to make behavior change stick. The toughest yet most impactful factor is helping people uncover a deep, unique, and personal purpose for their work and life. When the fun and games are over, an enduring “why” can keep even the toughest new behaviors alive. I’d love to share the 5 factors and most importantly dive into a simple approach for clarifying purpose and connecting it to work. Notes: The importance of understanding basic psychology and figuring out how people work How engineering experience helps in his jobBook: First Break All the Rules by Marcus BuckinghamWe are awful at diagnosing our own skills and talentsTalking about conferencesUnleashing the power of personal purpose at workBook: Outliers by Malcom GladwellThe journey to mastery and Travis’s company, IrunurunLeveraging the experience of athletes and special forces guysBHOW – Big Hilarious Outrageous Why – what will you put your life on the line for? The single strongest desire of your behavior is your personal whyIt doesn’t matter what you do, your job mattersImportance of helping people understand why their job mattersThe importance of understanding how experience can impact your view of lifePeople need a reason why to People are wired for purpose and when they start living on purpose it becomes more rewardingHow to figure out what your personal brand isHow to help employees connect to purposeThe study of commitment to your job based on whether you know your values or the company’s valuesCommitment to a company goes down if a person knows the company’s values and doesn’t know their ownWhat are you going to start, stop and continue doing based on the values you put downJackson created a full day class on values and purposeThe importance of writing things down, telling others, getting feedback and iteratingProudest moment in career getting more leaders through development programsBiggest failure – not having the courage to talk to CEO about cultureThe power of giving things awayThe power of giving to othersTrend: Slow down and put half as much content and twice as much timePower of simplicityLinks: Book: First, Break All the Rules Breaking all the rules by Marcus BuckinghamBook: Outliers by Malcolm GladwellBook: Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by: Greg McKeownBook: Loyalty Effect by Fred ReichheldTravis on LinkedInAndy on LinkedInTED Talk of Simon Sinek: The Three Golden CirclesFor questions, comments and guest suggestions, contact the host, Andy Storch, at [email protected] Mentioned in this episode:Think Tank conferenceGet your tickets now for the Talent Development Think Tank Conference https://tdtt.us/conference/