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Community Matters

High performing, values-aligned teams are a joy to behold. And, common goals and shared values alone don’t make high performing, values-aligned teams. Those are key foundational pieces of the...



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Character Revealed

Is your personal character showing? You may not think so, but it is. It shows with every plan, decision, and action you make. Your character is obvious to those who observe you, who hear you, and who...



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New Leadership Role? Here’s your 2nd 90 day plan

This is my 200th blog post. Thanks for your continued interest in #WorkPlaceInspiration and #PurposefulCulture! Without you readers and listeners, this journey would have ended long ago. This is a...



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Carry Your Fair Share

I worked with a client recently that has a remarkable organizational culture. The success they enjoy is based, they believe, on the concepts of what they call their “adult business deal.”...



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Help them “Run Back to the Barn”

What brought our family to Colorado was a wonderful experience in the early ’80′s at a dude ranch in Sedalia, CO (only about an hour from where we live today). The Lost Valley Ranch is a...



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Be Intentional in 2014

Do you go with the flow or do you map out a path and follow it, intentionally? For many of us, we go with the flow. We let others create the environment we live or work in. If the flow aligns with...



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In Pursuit of Profit or Purpose?

What would employees say, in this moment, is your team, department, division or organization’s purpose, it’s reason for being? Most employees say, “To make money.” Why would...



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Customer Service Sucks.

Many of us know from day-to-day experiences that customer service is getting worse, not better. A recent study from ASU’s W.P. Carey School of Business found that the number of US households...



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Do You Create Engagement or Disengagement?

We humans have a tendency to believe that what we do and how we do it is “all good.” We rarely pay attention to the signs around us that we may not be seen as positively as we’d...



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Want to Build Trust? Be Civil.

Two-thirds of Americans believe people can’t be trusted. So says a recent AP/GfK study. When this survey was first conducted in 1972, half of Americans felt that people were trustworthy. The...



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