SUMMARY
A healthy and effective team culture is essential to organizational success, but building a culture of excellence is not automatic. Today’s episode is a live recording of a workshop led by GLN President and CEO David Ashcraft. In the workshop, David shares how to establish team culture in a practical and effective way and explains how values and behaviors help drive successful outcomes for a team. In addition, David also runs through some of the specific values and behaviors that currently define the culture at the GLN.
IN THIS EPISODE
0:00 Intro
2:43 What makes up culture
7:23 Knowing who you are as an organization
8:10 Values of the GLN
17:40 Key behaviors at the GLN
27:35 Lessons learned
38:35 Outro
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STANDOUTS AND TAKEAWAYS
- “Culture” is made up of what you celebrate and what you say, “no” to.
- Knowing your identity—what business you are in—is critical for an organization.
- The values of the Global Leadership Network:
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- Excellence
- Authenticity
- Collaboration
- Humility
- Key behaviors at the GLN:
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- Pray about everything
- Live a spiritually-yielded life
- Work with a spirit of intensity
- Allocate resources strategically
- Intercept entropy at its earliest stages
- Build relationships
- Be authentic
- Recognize that life change is a process
- Possess a winning attitude
- Communicate truth with grace
- Don’t settle for what’s good for your organization at the expense of what is best.
- Do not be afraid to borrow good ideas from others.
- Never stop learning.
- Dream big: people follow big dreams.
- Act like the organization you hope to be, not the one you are right now.
- Remember that you can’t please everyone, so don’t try.
- Strive to make 90% of your people wildly enthusiastic about what you’re doing, and allow 10% to be wildly upset with you.
- Always keep one eye on eternity.
LINKS MENTIONED
Whitney Putnam
Vice President of Marketing | Global Leadership NetworkDavid Ashcraft
President and CEO | Global Leadership NetworkEp 167: David Ashcraft on Building Team Culture
TOPICS IN THIS PODCAST
Church & Faith-BasedCultureLeading OrganizationsVisionA healthy and effective team culture is essential to organizational success, but building a culture of excellence is not automatic. Today’s episode is a live recording of a workshop led by GLN President and CEO David Ashcraft. In the workshop, David shares how to establish team culture in a practical and effective way and explains how values and behaviors help drive successful outcomes for a team. In addition, David also runs through some of the specific values and behaviors that currently define the culture at the GLN.
On This Podcast
Whitney Putnam
Global Leadership Network
Whitney Putnam is the Vice President of Marketing at the Global Leadership Network. She is passionate about men and women working together to expand their influence so that many more people come to know Jesus. As a builder, Whitney cares deeply about building healthy and holistic communities of people, from the team she has the joy of working with at the GLN to those in her neighborhood. She is a well-respected leader and innovator having served as an executive leader at several global non-profits. She’s a mom to three little girls and married to a tall redhead named Michael. They can most often be found dancing in their kitchen and occasionally sprinkling confetti in greeting cards, all while living in Dallas, Texas.
David Ashcraft
Global Leadership Network
David Ashcraft is President and CEO of the Global Leadership Network, as well as President of The Advantage, a leadership collaborative serving pastors in Pennsylvania. As Senior Pastor of LCBC in Pennsylvania for 32 years, he helped grow weekly attendance from 150 people to a combined average of more than 22,000.
Show Notes
SUMMARY
A healthy and effective team culture is essential to organizational success, but building a culture of excellence is not automatic. Today’s episode is a live recording of a workshop led by GLN President and CEO David Ashcraft. In the workshop, David shares how to establish team culture in a practical and effective way and explains how values and behaviors help drive successful outcomes for a team. In addition, David also runs through some of the specific values and behaviors that currently define the culture at the GLN.
IN THIS EPISODE
0:00 Intro
2:43 What makes up culture
7:23 Knowing who you are as an organization
8:10 Values of the GLN
17:40 Key behaviors at the GLN
27:35 Lessons learned
38:35 Outro
LISTEN
Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube
STANDOUTS AND TAKEAWAYS
LINKS MENTIONED
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