Working on Purpose

Do you want TO HELP CREATE a world where people are passionate about their work, INSPIRATIONAL LEADERSHIP HELP team members REALIZE THEIR GREATNESS, and capitalism thrives while serving the highest causes? Me, too. The Working on Purpose program is a thought leadership engine that ENLIGHTENS AND INSPIRES listeners with insights from ELITE business leaders and novel subject matter experts. Together, we’re WORKING ON PURPOSE TO STEWARD the future of work and BUSINESS to elevate us all. Working on Purpose is broadcast live Wednesday's at 6PM ET. The Working on Purpose TV Show is viewed on Talk 4 TV (www.talk4tv.com). The Working on Purpose Radio Show is broadcast on W4CY Radio (www.w4cy.com) part of Talk 4 Radio (www.talk4radio.com) on the Talk 4 Media Network (www.talk4media.com). The podcast is also available on Talk 4 Podcasting (www.talk4podcasting.com).

Episodes

Work Shield: Listening and Resolving

May 12, 2021 • 50 min

Work and the location and people with whom it gets done can be such a source of fulfillment and connection. Yet, it often presents frustration, misunderstandings, and grievances. Part of the problem is that companies don’t have a viable culture that supports open communication when things go awry – people don’t feel comfortable sharing their hurts and disappointments. That’s when problems can escalate to bigger levels than need be ...

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Awakening Men to Purpose

May 6, 2021 • 50 min

Men are in crisis - a crisis of roles, expectations and conflicting signals. An opportunity exists to look to the wisdom traditions that can offer spiritual guidance along the journey to heightened consciousness. You’ll need courage, and curiosity, and a good guide. Gabriel Keczan shares how he helps men connect with deeper purpose through embodiment and relationship to awaken their hidden powers.

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Elevate Your Productivity with Holacracy

April 29, 2021 • 52 min

Through a social technology for governing and operating a team, holacracy takes the best from Getting Things Done and Agile approaches to yield a dynamic approach to collaboration and productivity. It involves continually evolving the team structure based on small experiments and new information. Everything starts in Holacracy with ‘tension.’ With Holacracy, you can use this tension as fuel for moving forward and improving producti...

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Meet the House of Shine Shineologists

April 21, 2021 • 52 min

What would the world look like if we began teaching children about their unique talents and ways of being that can better the world? How would helping people discover their purpose at a very young age, and then choose careers to live it through, increase well-being, productivity, and even peace in the world? We talk with Chief Shineologist Dr. Claudia Been about this very work she is doing through the House of Shine to help more pe...

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Purpose and its Application in Life

April 8, 2021 • 49 min

In this conversation with the ever insatiably curious Professor Wright, we take a deep empirical dive into purpose and how people experience it. How people gain access to their purpose and apply it is the focus, and Dr. Wright shares what he’s learned over a life time investigating how to change our behavior to have a better life.

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Engagement and Well-Being in Workplace

April 1, 2021 • 49 min

Soliciting and listening deeply to understand the perspectives and experiences of your employees, and taking action on the feedback, is a business imperative in today’s business world. People crave meaning and purpose in their lives, and work is a profoundly important contributing component. Conducting regular, anonymous employee engagement surveys to continue the open exchange between employees and leaders is essential for individ...

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Corporate Social Responsibility and ESG

March 24, 2021 • 49 min

Aiming to make a difference in the world beyond earning healthy profits is good for the health and vitality of all shareholders in a company. The world has so many problems and opportunities awaiting a motivated workforce to take on. In this episode, we learn through Matt Gerber’s experiences the difference corporate social responsibility and environmental social governance investing initiatives make in communities and how being pa...

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Grit, Grace and Gravitas in Leadership

March 17, 2021 • 51 min

Effective leadership starts with defining your internal bearings through deep personal exploration. Standing on that foundation, employing grace in your leadership becomes the game changer, where your approaches, behaviors, connection with the men and women you lead, and your demeanor begin to reflect the evolution you want for yourself while positively elevating the lives you touch.

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Practicing Simple Acts of Social Purpose

March 10, 2021 • 52 min

How’s this for good news? If you don’t like your job, you have the power to instantly improve it today by simply sprinkling in a social purpose contribution. What does that mean, you ask? You can stand for something more at work – to help or serve people beyond whatever your job calls you to do. Where and how you do so is entirely of own your beautiful and uniquely “you” creation.

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Ingredients in Your Leadership CAKE

March 4, 2021 • 48 min

Host of the Leadership Hacker podcast and author of the Leadership Cake likens the fundamentals of leadership to the essential ingredients of a delicious cake. Every leader needs to find the right mix of those ingredients to form his or her “cake,” while developing a distinctive and memorable taste that informs their legacy. This episode summarizes the approach Steve has employed to developing leaders from junior level to internati...

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Building Your Extraordinary Life

February 25, 2021 • 49 min

Want to live an extraordinary life? Or, are you content with one that is flat, repetitive and run by fear? Purpose, vision, and values go a long way in creating a life of fulfillment and impact. We’ll learn about these essential ingredients and more in a fireside chat with Robert White who has spent more than 50 years teaching 1.3 million people learn high-impact personal and leadership effectiveness.

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Creating a Memorial Legacy to Live By

February 19, 2021 • 50 min

Most people ache to matter, to make a meaningful contribution during their time on earth. Others would also like to be remembered long past their lifetimes through their achievements and contributions to society. In this episode, we learn about the idea of memorial capacity, the aspects and pathways of legacy, and how to craft a strategic legacy plan that best optimizes our talents, abilities and resources.

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The Science of Purpose and Our Cosmos

February 10, 2021 • 50 min

Many people understand purpose existing for people as an on/off switch – either you’ve discovered it for yourself or you haven’t. Yet, there is so much more to purpose, which has been described as occurring as four distinct stages expressing wildly different levels of impact. Further, purpose exists in human beings, companies, institutions, and nations. This episode takes a deep dive into purpose and its expressional impact, and ex...

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Continuing Education as a Way of Life

February 4, 2021 • 50 min

It is hard to argue in today’s fluid workplace against the need for ongoing learning and development, constantly gaining new skills and stoking the ability to innovate and handle change. This episode showcases how Cornerstone League stayed agile during the COVID pandemic to innovate novel ways to engage members with fresh content created from evolving societal and workplace needs for a vibrant learning environment for all.

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CEO as Servant Leader and Energy Broker

January 28, 2021 • 50 min

Effective leaders know the value of ongoing learning and receiving mentorship and support from others. In this episode, we learn from the CEO of NAFCU about why emotional intelligence is critical as a servant leader in today, some of his recommended hiring and managing practices that fly in the face of many companies, and the importance of guarding and nurturing culture while stoking the communication channels to steward the workfo...

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Never Stop Growing and Learning

January 21, 2021 • 51 min

Two of the biggest aspects that hold people back from pursuing their biggest, best life are their self-confidence and fear. The question is, will you learn to develop and harness those concerns in life to fuel your pursuit of your dreams, or will you let them hold you back and rob you of a fulfilling and impactful life? In this episode, we talk with Renee Cermak about the importance of stewarding our self-esteem and what she’s lear...

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Unleashing the Desire to Learn

January 14, 2021 • 50 min

When John Baker was considering what to do for work, he asked himself, what’s the most important problem in the world I can help solve. The answer was how people learn, which led to founding D2L 20 years ago. Today, he’s out to upskill the workplace to raise the talents of humans working alongside technology and work strategically to re-start the economy in the pandemic era.

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Employee Recognition Drives Engagement

January 7, 2021 • 51 min

The power of a sincere “thank you”: Priceless. Everyone wants to know they matter and the work they do makes a difference. What if all your leaders could show they care for their team members? And what if you had a way to systematize appreciation across your entire organization, with everyone being able to express their gratitude for others? Learn how employee recognition can be implemented, scaled and unleashed to power engagement...

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Collaborative Creativity

December 30, 2020 • 52 min

We can learn surprising things about ourselves when we practice creativity. We learn about our own biases, limitations, and fantasies, among many other useful aspects. Organizations can also solve business problems with collaborative creativity. And when individuals come together to collaborate creatively, there is a transfer of energy and a nurturing intellectual intimacy that not only gels the team but also provides tremendous fu...

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Are You a Leader Worth Following?

December 23, 2020 • 52 min

Whether you’re a seasoned leader or just getting started in the role, there’s a good bet there are aspects of your leadership that can be strengthened when you do the hard work on yourself. After all, an unexamined life is simply not worth following and at its worst can be incredibly destructive to the followers left in their wake. In this episode with 20-year leadership veteran Tim Spiker, we learn about effective leadership that ...

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