Driving Results Through Culture

Here is episode fifty-two of S. Chris Edmonds' Culture Leadership Charge video series. In these concise videos, Chris presents the best practices for creating and maintaining a purposeful, positive, productive culture - at work, at home, and in your community. Today's focus: A recent study found that 83% of employees in the US plan to leave their jobs. The talent crisis is getting worse. Chris describes how a healthy work culture can increase talent retention - and talent attraction!

Here is episode fifty-one of S. Chris Edmonds' Culture Leadership Charge video series. In these concise videos, Chris presents the best practices for creating and maintaining a purposeful, positive, productive culture - at work, at home, and in your community. Today's focus: Our world is an un-civil place. We have strayed far in the US from our Founding Fathers' declaration of domestic tranquility for all. Civility is within reach - Chris shares how in this short episode.

Here is episode fifty of S. Chris Edmonds' Culture Leadership Charge video series. In these concise videos, Chris presents the best practices for creating and maintaining a purposeful, positive, productive culture - at work, at home, and in your community. Today's focus: To create workplace respect, leaders must make values - how people treat each other at work - as important as results. Chris presents four criteria to ensure your values a observable, tangible, and measurable.

Here is episode forty-nine of S. Chris Edmonds' Culture Leadership Charge video series. In these concise videos, Chris presents the best practices for creating and maintaining a purposeful, positive, productive culture - at work, at home, and in your community. Today's topic: A major US college football program was in the news for the incredibly demeaning culture it created and sustained. The problem? Most workplaces have demeaning cultures, as well. Listen to this short podcast to learn ways of staying in tune with the quality of trust and respect in your workplace.

Here is episode forty-eight of S. Chris Edmonds' Culture Leadership Charge video series. In these concise videos, Chris presents the best practices for creating and maintaining a purposeful, positive, productive culture - at work, at home, and in your community. Today's focus: Recent surveys paint a bleak picture. US employees are voluntarily leaving jobs at the highest rate since 2001. Why? Because they don't feel valued or validated by their leaders.

Here is episode forty-seven of S. Chris Edmonds' Culture Leadership Charge video series. In these concise videos, Chris presents the best practices for creating and maintaining a purposeful, positive, productive culture - at work, at home, and in your community. Today's topic: Organizations and leaders are facing a perfect storm of competing demands in the coming months and years - technology, remote workers, generational preferences, customer demands, and more. It's a perfect storm. Listen to learn Chris' recommendations for effective leadership in the midst of these demands.

Here is episode forty-six of S. Chris Edmonds' Culture Leadership Charge video series. In these concise videos, Chris presents the best practices for creating and maintaining a purposeful, positive, productive culture - at work, at home, and in your community. Today's focus: What do you look for when hiring new staff? There are two potential paths that companies take and there are pitfalls with both. The best approach: hire for values, then train for needed skills.

Here is episode forty-five of S. Chris Edmonds' Culture Leadership Charge video series. In these concise videos, Chris presents the best practices for creating and maintaining a purposeful, positive, productive culture - at work, at home, and in your community. Today's focus: To create a culture based on trust and respect, you must drive out fear. Garry Ridge, President of the WD-40 Companies, has figured out how to do that.

Here is episode forty-four of S. Chris Edmonds' Culture Leadership Charge video series. In these concise videos, Chris presents the best practices for creating and maintaining a purposeful, positive, productive culture - at work, at home, and in your community. Today's focus: If your pace is frantic and you feel like you never get ahead, maybe it's time for a reset. Chris describes his reset after a heart attack in 1993 - and his life is more sane, calm, creative, fun, and of service than ever because of it.

Here is episode forty-three of S. Chris Edmonds' Culture Leadership Charge video series. In these concise videos, Chris presents the best practices for creating and maintaining a purposeful, positive, productive culture - at work, at home, and in your community. Today's focus: training - alone - won't fix your bent or broken work culture. Training builds awareness and skills. Culture isn't an awareness and skills problem - it's a clarity and accountability problem. Chris describes how to fix your work culture.

Here is episode forty-two of S. Chris Edmonds' Culture Leadership Charge video series. In these concise videos, Chris presents the best practices for creating and maintaining a purposeful, positive, productive culture - at work, at home, and in your community. Today's focus: generosity - of leaders, employees, and organizations - is growing in importance. Chris describes insights from Tamara McCleary and Susan Baroncini-Moe about how senior leaders must demonstrate generosity and inspire it across their companies.

Here is episode forty-one of S. Chris Edmonds' Culture Leadership Charge video series. In these concise videos, Chris presents the best practices for creating and maintaining a purposeful, positive, productive culture - at work, at home, and in your community. Today's focus: make your people better. Would your business be positively impacted if your people performed better, cooperated better, served others better, and teamed better? You bet. Chris shares how you can make your people better.

Here is episode forty of S. Chris Edmonds' Culture Leadership Charge video series. In these concise videos, Chris presents the best practices for creating and maintaining a purposeful, positive, productive culture - at work, at home, and in your community. Today's focus: An ad for workplace snacks that can "change your work culture" raises Chris' blood pressure. Change your culture with liberating rules that require trust and respect in every interaction. The snacks will be an added benefit!

Here is episode thirty-nine of S. Chris Edmonds' Culture Leadership Charge video series. In these concise videos, Chris presents the best practices for creating and maintaining a purposeful, positive, productive culture - at work, at home, and in your community. Today's focus: A quote from Garry Shandling inspires Chris to outline how to live your best self, in service to others, every day.

Here is episode thirty-eight of S. Chris Edmonds' Culture Leadership Charge video series. In these concise videos, Chris presents the best practices for creating and maintaining a purposeful, positive, productive culture - at work, at home, and in your community. In this episode, Chris shares Hyrum W. Smith's brilliant "belief window" model, which demonstrates how our experiences and beliefs can - if we don't validate them - lead us astray, at home and work. He explains how great leaders ensure their belief windows include diverse opinions from diverse team members - and how better decisions, happier team members, and higher performance are the result.

Here is episode thirty-seven of S. Chris Edmonds' Culture Leadership Charge video series. In these concise videos, Chris presents the best practices for creating and maintaining a purposeful, positive, productive culture - at work, at home, and in your community. In this episode, Chris describes significant changes to the "world as we know it" - the retail landscape, generational influences, digital nomads - and how leaders must adapt to ensure a positive employee experience every day.

Here is episode thirty-six of S. Chris Edmonds' Culture Leadership Charge video series. In these concise videos, Chris presents the best practices for creating and maintaining a purposeful, positive, productive culture - at work, at home, and in your community. In this episode, Chris invites listeners to learn how health their business or team culture is with his free online Purposeful Culture Assessment. It's fast and scoring - and his analysis of your scores - are immediate!

Here is episode thirty-five of S. Chris Edmonds' Culture Leadership Charge video series. In these concise videos, Chris presents the best practices for creating and maintaining a purposeful, positive, productive culture - at work, at home, and in your community. Today's focus: Chris' working musician life helps him explain how sour notes get in the way of inspired performances on stage and in the workplace.

Here is episode thirty-four of S. Chris Edmonds' Culture Leadership Charge video series. In these concise videos, Chris presents the best practices for creating and maintaining a purposeful, positive, productive culture - at work, at home, and in your community. Today's focus: what inspires us and sustains us? For Chris, it's service and grace - something that has endured for years and is much needed in our workplaces today.   This content was originally published in video format on January 15, 2018.

Here is episode thirty-three of S. Chris Edmonds' Culture Leadership Charge video series. In these concise videos, Chris presents the best practices for creating and maintaining a purposeful, positive, productive culture - at work, at home, and in your community. Today's focus: a fresh start. Each of us has the opportunity every day to be selfish or of service and of grace to others. Chris presents three ways to serve others - and bring ourselves peace and significance. This content was originally published in video format on January 1, 2018.