Having a good relationship with your team is one of the driving factors towards business success. Creating a trusting environment where employees feel safe to share ideas, take risks + make mistakes leads to better performance as well. Founder & CEO of Workplace21, Cesar Keller, discusses the benefits of AI and how it can be used to mold your workplace into a high performance powerhouse with a happier and fully engaged workforce. * 1:51 – How the 21st century changed work* 4:03 – How natural language processing can increase team performance* 8:39 – Using meta data to optimize company performance * 12:04 – The secret sauce for analyzing behavior* 15:28 – Why people development is SUPER important* 19:59 – Bringing data science into management* 25:48 – Defining what a “healthy team” looks like Website: Home Full Episode Transcription: Derek: (00:00) So Cesar it’s so awesome to have you on the show. Talking with Todd and myself, obviously we’ve had some great conversations in the past and some shared interests around the future of work and the evolution of how companies and employees work together and getting people’s best selves at work and outside of work. And just really appreciate the time here and excited to talk about what you’re working on and help everyone out there understand that. So thank you for joining us.Cesar: (00:25)It’s a pleasure to be here. It’s a pleasure to be here. Do you want me to talk about workplace21?Derek: (00:29)I was going to just ask that first question. Why don’t you tell us what about Workplace21 and the inspiration for that? You know, you’ve come from good corporate and now you’re building something on your own. Tell us about that journey.Cesar: (00:39)Absolutely. So the first thing I like to say is I’ve worked like for more than 20 years in corporate America, right? Like different companies. And I found great place to work and I also found some places where I was miserable every day. Right and I say like why, what is different? Like what’s going on? And all comes about like company culture and leadership and all those differences. And to me what call my attention being a people leader for so long is how subjective those conversations are, right? Like how difficult it is to get to the point and be objective about like what we call soft skills. And some people are saying soft skills are the hard skills to get. So how do you actually get in, be more objective about that? And in few companies I, I, I, I could see actually people going like miserable on, like to work every day and like not enjoying and being some bad examples about like leadership, some toxic environments like this became so like clear in corporate America, right?Cesar: (01:51)Like when you talk to people that’s like two people that are happy about i...