Gallaher Edge Blog
You just got the call you were dreading. Your top CRM consultant, Jay, is leaving to go to a bigger consulting firm. Jay’s skill set is in high demand and you were aware that he was constantly getting calls and offers from recruiters. You’ve been proactive in rewarding him with frequent pay increases, and you’ve Read More
Do you ever wonder what your employees really want, or what they really NEED, when it comes to feeling engaged and productive at work? As a leader of people, you care (sometimes it might feel like too much) about them, but sometimes you struggle with understanding them. And if you don’t know what’s driving them, Read More
Serial entrepreneur, Jonathan Taylor, has started seven companies, acquired 18 and sold three, for an undisclosed amount surpassing a quarter of a billion dollars. And yet he still was open to learning more effective ways to run businesses when he did the work of The Human Element. In this episode, he joins me to discuss Read More
In order to have a great organization that achieves anything of consequence, you must have great teams. As we partner with teams to help them become more effective, our focus is on three things: alignment, trust, and collaboration. Alignment ensures everyone is working together and not fighting over priorities, trust provides the social lubricant for interpersonal interactions and collaboration enables Read More
Tom Cannon is the CEO of National Carts, a company that has been around for over 30 years. He talks about the process of creating a common vision when stepping into somebody else’s company, as well as the process of realizing that nothing about the culture was aligned with that future vision. He describes his investment in changing the culture, including taking everybody through Radical Collaboration®, which focuses on building collaborative skills like self-awareness and self-accountability, and elaborates on growing his own self-awareness.
Here at Gallaher Edge, we exist to evolve humanity by applying the science of human behavior to organizations. Our work creates transformational change in organizations’ cultures through meaningful and impactful human experiences. As we help companies nationwide navigate changes and improve their organizational culture, we work deeply with the individuals within organizations to build trust, Read More
Every business leader wants to develop and nurture an effective organizational culture, but many feel stuck when their efforts don’t move the needle. Because unfortunately, with culture change, you can’t just flip a switch. You can’t just buy a bunch of beanbag chairs and bring in a suggestion box and expect to create an effective Read More
If you want to incite a complex debate, begin a conversation on organizational culture. It exists, we all know that, and we are aware that it’s crucial in shaping behavior in organizations. But for many leaders, there’s something amorphous about the concept, which can make it difficult to change or improve. It’s essential to define Read More
On today’s episode, I talk to Suneera Madhani, the founder and CEO of Stax by Fattmerchant. I met Suneera when she was going through Starter Studio, a tech accelerator in Orlando, FL, and when her team was preparing for incredible growth, she asked for my help to align her team. My purpose in life is to help teams increase their cohesion and effectiveness, ultimately driving organizational performance, and a lot of that involves growing individual self-awareness to create more self-accountable team members who then communicate and collaborate more effectively. AND, there is also the critical element of aligning your team on the core elements of your organization. Why do you exist, what do you do (and what do you NOT do), what is your vision of the future, how do we align decisions to maximize the likelihood we get there (AKA strategy), and how do we treat each other along the way (AKA culture). I use the framework from Patrick Lencioni’s The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything to create a playbook for executive teams. In my interview with Suneera, we discuss everything from self-awareness to recover from defensiveness to finding your true purpose as an organization to how a viral article in Fast Company broke Fattmerchant, but ultimately prepared them to align strategically in preparation for scalability and 10x growth. If you are an entrepreneur who wants to grow a company, or a leader who wants to create a kick ass culture, you don’t want to miss this conversation.
For many organizations, culture emerges without intention. Yet every organization is designed perfectly to get the results it gets! So, it’s incredibly useful for leaders to pay attention to organizational culture. Every leader wants their organization to be as effective as possible; you pour your heart and soul into your business, your team, and your Read More