How to Remote Work and Maintain Your Culture

Nearly two years ago, we were all scrambling to identify what a remote work environment could look like for the first time. Home office supplies flew off the shelves. Business casual attire was replaced by sweat pants and ‘top half only’ looks. Zoom and Peloton stock exploded. We approached this strange season with a combination […]

How To Eliminate Drama From Your Team

What’s stopping your team? As a leader one of your main assignments is to facilitate work.  It’s not to do it all yourself.  The best leaders get great results through others by engaging their team in the mission.  Inevitably you’ll face this one challenge – Drama.  It’s the key roadblock that is stopping your team. […]

Episode 008 – The 5 Needs Of A High Trust High Performance Team – Podcast

The culture you create determines the results you enjoy. You can have the seeds of a great organization but a bad culture and fail. If you grow a great culture, you’ll grow a great business. 5 Needs Of A High Trust, High Performance Team People act out of an unmet need. People do not do […]

Episode 004 – How To Create A Harvest Of Trust – Podcast

Create Trust Like A Farmer Creates A Harvest Trust affects the speed of business. You can create an environment of trust. When trust is high, you get projects done with less drama. Every farmer is convinced in sowing and reaping. They believe the harvest is hidden in the seed.. Trust is just like seed. 1. […]

Why Slogans Never Work

Creating Culture is a Process “How does an organization create a high-trust, high-performance culture system-wide not just with the executive team?”  Since I faciltate a lot of executive retreats, it’s a question I get asked frequently.  For starters, it doesn’t transpire with just an executive retreat where we come up with a new catch phrase such […]

Why Most Leadership Training Fails

Training is a Process Turning a group of employees into a high performance team doesn’t happen overnight.  It takes time, commitment, patience and a belief that the effort is worth it.  When I begin to work with an organization, I know it takes time to change that culture.  It’s the reason I have a process-drive […]

Why Grow And Develop Yourself?

Creating Culture Is A Leader’s Responsibility Great leaders strive to create a culture that allows everyone to play at the top of their game.  When team members show up everyday, giving their very best, everyone succeeds.  Developing a high-performance, high-trust environment is really a leader’s main job.  Without it, people will give you their hands […]

When Is Strategy Useless?

Culture Eats Strategy For Breakfast  I spend a considerable amount of my time not just advising organizations on strategy but ensuring the execution of those plans.  I can spend days with leaders creating one-page strategic plans but if that team does not have the capacity to execute, it becomes a useless exercise.  You and your […]

Questions To Ask In An Organizational Climate Survey

Feedback is one of the great Organizational Challenges Giving feedback can be a challenge.  Because of how many people were raised, the truth was taboo.  They lived with sacred cows and white elephants.  Maybe this describes your home life.  The good news is giving and receiving feedback is a learnable skill. Feedback Creates a Basline […]

How You Can Create a High Performance Team

The culture you create determines the results you enjoy Creating a high-trust high-performance culture is not something that just happens.  It takes a strategy.  In this fast-paced 30 minute podcast I go through some of the strategies that I’ve used in creating teams that perform at amazing levels!  Remember, it doesn’t just take a strategy […]