Weekly Posts and Insights
Culture vs. Community: Navigating the Truth of Connection
Culture and community are two intertwined concepts that shape the fabric of societies, defining the uniqueness of each group. While culture helps us differentiate societies, community goes beyond mere description, fostering a sense of fellowship among individuals who share common attitudes, interests, and goals within a specific area
Why Vulnerability Matters When Creating A Vision
Relationships matters when creating a vision for your organizations because you cannot create a vision without being innovative, creative and ready for change. Brene Brown once wrote about vulnerability saying, “Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change.” Vulnerability is the ability to handle uncertainty, to take risks and most importantly embrace emotional exposure. This makes sense. Are you more likely to risk sounding “in left field” if you trust the team you’re with and can be vulnerable around them? Would you mention the “unmentionable” at a board retreat if you trusted that the board members have your best intentions at heart? How can we ask people to tell us their best, perhaps wackiest ideas if they can’t be vulnerable around us?
The 4 Things You Need To Be a Great Remote Leader
When it comes to remote work or some variation of it (hybrid work), the only negotiable is the speed at which we are willing to change our workplaces, not the change itself. Hopefully these 4 elements will give you a head start in adapting your workplace. Don’t wait to go completely remote, these tools work well with traditional workplaces too!
The 3 Big Things You’re Trying to Accomplish with a Strategic Retreat
What are you really trying to accomplish with a strategic planning retreat? Couldn’t a Level 5 leader, to use a Good To Great reference, figure out the risk-taking decisions, gain knowledge of the future, organize efforts, and measure results? So, why then do we gather people together to work on the above definition? Here is why we actually bring teams, boards and diverse people together for a strategic retreat….
4 Personalities on Your Board or Team: Get It Done, Get It Right, Get Along, & Get Appreciated
Do you ever feel like you’re in a team or on a board where you’re mixing water and oil? Some people go hard right, while others go hard left? Even their approach to a topic or challenge is, well, different! Did you know your board or team members have four distinct personality profiles? Using the Lens of Understanding we can identify the Get It Done, Get It Right, Get Along and Get Appreciation personalities on our teams.
How Do We Begin To Evaluate the Success of Organizations?
The list provided is about attaining objective, quantifiable data. It is not about the single opinion of the executive leader, the marketing campaign or the board president. Facts over opinions. True success over the need for money or your vote. Or as Deming is famous for saying, ”In God we trust. All others must bring data.”
More People At and Around the Table, Not Less
The Fs Exercise is a great group exercise to point out minority voice and opinion and how important it is to listen to all perspectives of the group.
A Culture of Purpose Through Mission, Values and Vision
Relationships equal culture. Relationships equal retention. People may leave a job for a variety of reasons, but they will stay because of the intrinsic motivation that only culture and relationships can provide.
The Two Most Important Words This Year: Yes, And
As we begin to rebuild or recreate what work, community, and relationships mean to us in a post-pandemic world, we will need to use the words “yes” a lot more. And, we’ll need to use “and” more.
Building a Long-Lasting, Great Company By Answering These Fundamental Questions
Thesis: If you don't know who you are, where you're going (or want to take other people like your customers) or why you're doing this (the business), no amount of marketing in the world will help you create a great, lasting company, product or service. The story you share with your customers and could-be customers has to be true, authentic, passionate and align with your internal self (as a business).