Leading to Fulfillment - Episode Zero
Adventures in Businessing
While there will not be new episodes of Adventures in Businessing, we are excited to announce a brand new podcast. Here is a sneak peek with our episode zero. Leading to Fulfillment is a weekly 30 to 40 minute podcast that highlights the impact of People-First leaders and teams where fulfillment is the true measure of success.. In each episode James Laws has conversations with leaders, entrepreneurs, and other thinkers from all walks of life and kinds of businesses to find out how they think & lead differently and make decisions that lead to fulfilling work and fulfilled teams.
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The Importance of Business Events
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Planting, Protecting, and Propagating Your Culture
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Discovering Purpose
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What is Company Culture
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Company culture. For a thing that’s become so ubiquitous in nearly all workplaces, why is it that so many of us are unable to define it, unsure of its impact, and unaware of the things that can shape, harm, and evolve it.
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- [0:00:53] Intro | Timely Topics
- Previous Episode & Series Recap
- [0:02:36] Bridging the Gap from Uncertainty to Culture
- The norms and stardards, i.e. the default state of behavior in your organization.
- When you have these figured out, you can answer the question, "What do I do when I don't know what to do?"
- The norms and stardards, i.e. the default state of behavior in your organization.
- [0:04:49] "Now we're going to talk about Culture."
- What is your company culture?
- It's a BIG umbrella!
- The textbook definition, the assumed, the implicit and explicit.
- "Your culture is a combination of who you are, what you value, and how you behave."
- Creating a great company culture.
- You don't control all of your company culture.
- You have leverage and input, but you can't dictate the culture.
- It's just as much what your team brings to the table.
- True or False: You can't know what your culture is in the early days, because people make up your culture?
- There's a weird irony to unpack.
- Each new hire brings something to your culture.
- Culture fits & culture adds
- Diversity
- What is your company culture?
- [0:13:17] The Contradiction/s of Culture?
- Expand to do more, be more, say more.
- What's the cultural focus?
- Sometimes we hang on to the wrong things.
- It's far to easy to use "culture fit" as a way to discriminate, both consciously and subconsciouslt.
- Stop it!
- [0:17:16] Examples of Things That Make up Your Culture
- How do you approach work?
- What is your stand on work/life balance?
- How do team members interact with one another?
- What is your management/leadership philosophy?
- Challenge: Poll your team.
- Ask them, "What do you think our culture is?"
- If you have someone on your team you hope doesn't contribute to your culture...oops, too late, they already have!
- [0:22:31] How Does Your Culture Get Conveyed to a New Hire?
- Making sure that we convey the culture we know about to other people.
- Don't be a smoke and mirrors company when it comes to your culture.
- There's who you are, and who you want to be.
- [0:25:38] Wrap-Up, Takeaways, Parting Words
- You likely don't have one company culture.
- Next episode: Purpose...what's yours?
- Why are we here?
- Why does it matter?