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“Your Core Values Aren’t as Important as you think” with David Friedman
This week we are joined by David Friedman, CEO of Culture Wise, to talk about his second book, Culture by Design. David’s BIG IDEA is that core values are not as important as you think, and shares how he came up with an eight-step framework to purposely create the culture you want after having been a CEO for 27 years.
In part 1: David makes a big deal about the difference between core values and what he calls core behaviors. David explains that values, such as quality, integrity, loyalty, respect, service, innovation are concepts, whereas a behavior, in contrast, is an action. The most successfully business cultures in the world have learned the secret of activating their core behaviors into the culture…recruiting, hiring, recognition, meetings, and much more. Join David for some illustrative stories from the field on great cultures. Culture by Design is a how-to manual on defining behaviors that are most important to the CEO once the behavior is embedded in the culture, leading to the highest performance in your company.
In Part II: ” Learning from David’s Journey as a CEO: The ONE THING CEOs should consider”, David reflects on the pandemic and remote workforce, and the changes CEOs need to make to accommodate, and leverage this shift in their cultures. As a result of the pandemic, David wrote the second edition to include content around a virtual workforce and how these concepts apply.
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Stories in Building an A-Player Culture with Graham Mitchell
This week, join us again with Graham Mitchell, CEO of Grow Business Coaching, joins today from Johannesburg, South Africa, to talk about how CEOs have transformed their leadership style to build an A-player culture.
The fastest line of sight to accomplishing your company’s vision is to build a culture of top talent…talent that is living your core values and executing the priorities and goals of the business. Graham suggests to leaders listening in, that the first action is to get feedback. There are various leadership profiling tools that allow you to get feedback on your leadership style. Getting the feedback will provide a clear picture of the leader and how the leader is showing up. That sets the baseline and the opportunity to learn and how to show up as a leader. Feedback looks different for different CEOs, but a business coach can identify areas within your leadership that you can work on or develop and use your coach to support you and coach you in developing your leadership abilities. Using the story of a client, Graham illustrates the principle of feedback, and the process of how it helps a CEO grow, develop, and thrive.
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The CEO’s Multipliers Journey with Hazel Jackson: Part 2
This week, join us again with Hazel Jackson, CEO of Biz Group as we go behind the scenes to learn more about how Jackson’s Core Purpose drives her to develop and inspire leaders across the world.
“Enriching lives is not about training, it’s about caring,” Jackson shared.
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The CEO’s Multipliers Journey with Hazel Jackson: Part 1
Join us this week with Hazel Jackson, CEO of Biz Group as she shares insights from her years of experience in leadership development on concepts illustrated in Multipliers, by Liz Wiseman.
Jackson first read Multipliers upon its release 10 years ago, and began a journey with Liz Wiseman to bring that powerful content to CEOs around the world. In this podcast, she outlines those accidental diminishing tendencies many leaders unconsciously share, including: The Optimist, Idea Guy, Always On, Rescuer, Pace Setter and Rapid Responder.
Jackson also shares her own journey to becoming a better leader, saying, “Sometimes I have the best impact on my business when I get out of the way. Our role as a leader is to make everyone around us smarter. And sometimes, you make others smarter by just stepping to the side and letting them stretch and grow.”
Join us next week for Part 2!
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Strategic Annual Planning with Ron Huntington
Join us this week with Ron Huntington, Gravitas Impact Senior Coach, as he shares his expertise on strategic annual planning from his years of experience as a business owner, consultant, and coach for award-winning companies.
“The uncertainties ahead demand that you sit down and think through a plan for your business, teams and organization that will get you through the next 12-20 months,” Huntington shared.
Previously a pilot, Huntington knows how important it is to have a plan, “If you want to stay alive, you have to make sure that you have a working flight plan to follow. And that’s really what we give our clients during planning sessions.”
“Strategy drives top-line revenue. We want that top-line revenue, through disciplined execution, to deliver reliable, predictable, bottom-line optimizing profitability and cash flow.”
“If you fail to plan, you may be planning to fail.”
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