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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Parting on Good Terms
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Why Form a Business Partnership
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Leading, planning, and managing-- while they can and have been accomplished by solopreneurs, it certainly isn’t easy. Is the answer to find a partner in crime?
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How to Get the Most out of Business Events
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The Importance of Business Events
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Planting, Protecting, and Propagating Your Culture
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Discovering Your Values
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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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- [0:00:58] Intro | Timely Topics
- Brief Discovering Purpose Recap
- [00:03:03] Thoughts on Values
- Values are guardrails.
- "Stay between these lines."
- Values can be deceptively easy.
- Values force you to make tough decisions.
- Values are guardrails.
- [00:05:51] The Right Number of Values?
- What's too many?
- What's not enough?
- An exercise in comparing and contrasting other company's values
- Some well intentioned core values could actually be red flags...
- Avoid the generic and indescript.
- Value being memorable.
- Nailing down your core values take time, and could rightfully be a slow process.
- "Is this a value or a purpose?"
- Values should have specificity.
- [00:15:47] Making Values Meaningful to Your Team
- Using values as a motivator and empowering decision maker for the organization and projects.
- Keep it short, sweet, and meaningful.
- If you only have one value...that's probably your purpose, and not your value.
- [00:20:00] How to Discover Your Values
- Sit down, converse, write down the things that are important to the organization.
- Don't wait till you have 20-25 people to determine your values.
- Try putting your values in priority order.
- Sit down, converse, write down the things that are important to the organization.
- [00:30:19] Closing Thoughts
- Minimal, memorable, meaningful.