As I opened the second part of Leading With a Clear Purpose, I made a strong case for how much each of us are attracted to being part of something that matters. Iā€™m convinced that this applies to everyone at any level of any organization. I realize that there are plenty of folks who do what they do,...
On October 6, 2014, I started working for a new organization for the first time since I was 19 years old. Truth be told, I thought I would spend the rest of my career there. I was doing similar work to what I had done in manufacturing but this was for a family-owned business with just under fifty em...
In 2012, I made my first significant career change in more than a decade. While I had a hand in various human resource tasks and projects during the dozen or so years I led our facilityā€™s behavior-based safety process and supported many of our companyā€™s locations across North America that were activ...
Providing our teams with clarity around the mission, vision, and values that weā€™re working toward as an organization can be powerful! One thing I see many leaders struggle with though is keeping those in front of their team members consistently. From the start of this look at the importance of leadi...
Since most leaders will have far more interaction with their teams than theyā€™ll likely have with the majority of the clients they serve, weā€™ll go work through that in far more detail soon. But designing love and purpose into how our organizations operate will most definitely spill over into what eac...
Leaders offer growth and development options because they want the best for their people. As leaders, we have a responsibility to build our people and the way our people are built shows up in our culture every day. If we build values of service, integrity, accountability, responsibility, this will s...
Core values matter in everything we do. Core values are the foundation of who you are - as an individual and as an organization.
A value is something you care enough about to lead from that place.Ā
Values influence and guide our behavior.Ā
Because company culture matters in everything we do and...
