Ep 167: David Ashcraft on Building Team Culture

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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: 
      1. Excellence 
      2. Authenticity 
      3. Collaboration 
      4. Humility 
  • Key behaviors at the GLN: 
      1. Pray about everything 
      2. Live a spiritually-yielded life 
      3. Work with a spirit of intensity 
      4. Allocate resources strategically 
      5. Intercept entropy at its earliest stages 
      6. Build relationships 
      7. Be authentic 
      8. Recognize that life change is a process 
      9. Possess a winning attitude 
      10. 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.  

 

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