Tag: Purpose & Values

Eight lessons to ensure you're invigorating the power of human beings to make a difference.

An organization's culture is one of its main selling points. Unsure if your culture appeals to today's employee? It's time to figure it out.

Great leaders know how to actively listen and empower rather than direct and tell. It's the best way to unlock the power of human capital.

Your talent shortage has more to do with you and your organization than it does with the talent you're trying to recruit or retain.

How can organizations build and maintain trust with customers and communities? It's time to turn your employees into businesspeople.

To build resiliency and lift the fog of change fatigue that is our reality in 2021, we must think differently about how we lead change. Consider these three tips.

Preparing for change? Here are three tips for leaders to mitigate risks and help prepare their people for the road ahead. Change isn't easy, but yes, it is achievable!

Organizations need to implement changes to navigate tremendous challenges. Communicating effectively has never been more critical than it is right now.

Recently, Root Inc. co-founder Jim Haudan met via video conference with Jim Boomgard, president and chief executive officer of DAI: International Development, and Joe Morgan, seasoned CEO, advisor and strategist, to get their insights on leadership during the Covid-19 crisis.

We asked members of the workforce to name their organization’s top priority for 2020. Are you helping your people connect the dots of your strategy ?

People have longed for connection at all times. If you do this for the people you work with and for clients, they will be become your greatest cheerleaders

40% of employees don’t understand their company’s purpose. If you don’t know what your company stands for how can you derive the pride of purpose.

Connecting purpose and meaning at the various levels of the business is something that organizations don’t always do and it has detrimental effects.

At the center of any change effort, large or small, sits the need to connect a vision to specific tactics and actions. We often hear that 70% of these efforts fail to deliver the desired results. This number seems to be so widely cited that it is on the verge of becoming an urban legend. … Continue reading “Purpose: The Magical Multiplier”

A meaningful journey has challenge, risks, excitement, suspense, unexpected events, unknowns and a purpose that makes it all worthwhile

A couple of weeks ago I was hosting a session for managers here at Root’s Corporate Headquarters in Sylvania, Ohio. We got to a part of the program where we talk about the importance of managers being able to connect their teams to the big picture of the business. And we’re not talking connectivity by … Continue reading “Managers: A lesson from Facebook”

Lou Piniella, former Chicago Cubs general manager, was about to start his final baseball game before he retired. It was basically a meaningless game to the Cubs since they were well out of any hope for post-season play – and they lost this game by 11 runs – but it sure wasn’t meaningless to Lou … Continue reading “There’s No Crying in Baseball”

How ABC’s Hit Show, Extreme Home Makeover Gave Me Insights to Efficiencies and Strategic Engagement Extreme Home Makeover recently came to our city to film an episode. For those unfamiliar with the program, basically a deserving family is surprised one morning to find the show’s charismatically, hyper host telling them to vacate the house because … Continue reading “Good Morning, Management Family!”