An Organization Is A Shared Belief - A Fiction

Posted by Walt Brown on Jul 22, 2020 10:45:00 AM

An organization is essentially a fiction, only given meaning and power by those who believe in it, who buy in.

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Topics: Balanced, Belong, Believe, Accountable, Heard, Developed, Measured

Entrusted with the future: The significance of your employees aligning themselves with your business

Posted by Walt Brown on Jun 17, 2020 11:38:00 AM

As a business owner, you undoubtedly hope for the best when it comes to the future. Whether you are ultimately hoping to become wealthy, or you are simply building a small, humble organization because it is your chance to construct a workplace culture that you would be thrilled to work in every day, you are hoping to create a system that produces comfort that will persist well beyond today.

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Topics: Belong, Believe

Taking One Survey Will Change The Way You Do Business

Posted by Walt Brown on May 27, 2020 2:06:00 PM

Over the course of the past 13 years, I’ve interacted with nearly 200 business owners who had questions about optimizing employee engagement within their organizations. It’s not that the organizations were in desperate need of help. On the contrary, some of these businesses were performing very well, and the owners of these companies simply wished to explore the possibility that some ingredients might be missing that would allow these companies to perform even better if they could be discovered.

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Topics: Balanced, Belong, Believe, Accountable, Heard, Developed, Measured

5 Tips - The Reality of COVID-19 (or Recessions) and How Your Investment in EOS will Help

Posted by Walt Brown on Mar 16, 2020 3:38:09 PM

Dear Clients and Friends,

I wish I were not writing this, I am cognizant of the situations and extremes I may be writing to and I pray for the best as soon as possible. We are in this together, and I want to take some time to share some guidance I have seen work in past recessions.

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Topics: Balanced, Belong, Believe, Accountable, Heard, Developed, Measured

Why Your Operating System Needs to Be Organizational, Not Organic

Posted by Walt Brown on Mar 11, 2020 10:15:00 AM

In the pages of The Patient Organization, I laid out the 7 Question-7 Promise Framework, which allows everyone within your company to align themselves with your mission by deciding if they can answer “yes” to questions of belonging, belief, accountability, measurement, communication, development and balance. The ultimate benefit of this process is the creation of the type of workplace environment that can power an Organizational Operating System (OOS).

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Topics: Balanced, Belong, Believe, Accountable, Heard, Developed, Measured

Why Developing Your Employees The Right Way is a Requirement for Your Business

Posted by Walt Brown on Feb 12, 2020 9:45:00 AM

The idea of developing your employees can lead you into tricky territory if you’re a business owner. On the one hand, there are reasons to not take formal steps to develop your employees that might make logical sense on a very superficial level. After all, you probably have employees on your staff that entered your workspace solely because you advertised very specific employment opportunities that they responded to.

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Topics: Belong, Accountable, Developed, Measured

Hiring for Cultural Fit: What it Does and Does Not Mean

Posted by Walt Brown on Jan 29, 2020 10:57:00 AM

In most hiring situations, the first time a candidate comes across the radar of a business is when the job seeker submits a resume to the HR department or HR representative. If the applicant appears to check all of the necessary boxes - an impressive education, and years of employment that indicate how the candidate has acquired experience and demonstrated expertise with the requisite skills - then the applicant is brought in for an interview.

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Topics: Balanced, Belong, Believe, Accountable, Heard, Developed, Measured

Your Organization is a Fiction, and That’s a Good Thing

Posted by Allen Cobb on Jan 22, 2020 1:49:00 PM

To conceive of their businesses as fictional entities is a difficult task for several business leaders to engage in, and for a very good reason. After all, the buildings, desks, chairs, computers, logos and employees are certainly very real, and far from fictional. So, in what way are we suggesting that all organizations are fictional?

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Topics: Belong, Believe

6 Reasons Why Your Company Has The Wrong Core Values

Posted by Walt Brown on Jan 15, 2020 10:55:00 AM

In order for your organization to transform into a Patient Organization through utilization of the 7 Question - 7 Promise Framework, it is essential for you to identify and codify the real core values of your business. If you have already taken the steps to establish core values for your company, you are undoubtedly on the scent, we want to make sure you are on the correct path. Unfortunately, there is a strong possibility that the core values of your company have been misidentified, and if this has happened, the effects can be disastrous when it comes to solidifying the culture of your company and summarily applying those values to your organization’s hiring and firing practices.

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Topics: Belong

7 Steps to Creating Proper Balance in Your Organization

Posted by Walt Brown on Jan 8, 2020 10:56:00 AM

When it comes to balance in the workplace, several different explanations are employed to describe what it means, and many of these definitions are correct in one respect or another. In fact, the most complete description of workplace balance incorporates multiple elements from the popular definitions of balance. This ultimately means true employee balance combines considerations of work-life balance with opportunities for thought and reflection within the workplace, while also understanding that keeping employees productive is not immutably connected with keeping employees in motion.

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Topics: Balanced, Belong, Believe, Accountable, Heard, Developed, Measured

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