June 11, 2025 • 30 mins
Empowered Living With Jeff Byrd.
Welcome to Empowered Living. Listen as Jeff tackles critical issues in a way that brings "Insight for business, leadership, and life!
https://www.talknetworkradio.com/hosts/EmpoweredLiving
Welcome to Empowered Living. Listen as Jeff tackles critical issues in a way that brings "Insight for business, leadership, and life!
https://www.talknetworkradio.com/hosts/EmpoweredLiving
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Hello, this is Gabriella on the scene today with Talk
Network Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
We have a real dread for you.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Just around the corner, and that is Empowered Living with
Jeff Bird. Jeff is the owner of Jeffrey for Coaching
and he will be coming to you weekly to teach
you more about empowered living. Now, let's join Jeff already
in the studio.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Hello and welcome.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
This is Jeff Bird Jeffrey Bird Coaching, and this is
Empowered Living.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Today.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
We're going to address a topic that I love. It's
very near and dear to me, and the title is
called the Winning culture.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
The winning culture.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Now, in coaching and leadership training, we have a quote
that says culture eats vision for lunch. In other words,
I don't care how grand your vision is. If you
don't have a culture and interactions within your team, they
can make that happen. They can get people where they
(01:33):
need to go. It's never gonna happen. You're never going
to see that vision fulfilled unless you have a healthy
culture behind it. Now, you know sometimes you maybe you've
experienced this. You you walk into a place and you
don't know what's going on, but you can tell something's wrong,
right I was in a culture like this one time
in a business and someone walked in and we knew
(01:54):
them pretty well, and they came up and they leaned
on the counter and they said, tell me what's going on,
so I can be mad too. They had no idea
what was wrong with us, but they knew that our
culture was off and we weren't getting along, and there
was friction and there was terrible leadership. And I said,
tell me what's going on, so I can be mad too.
They could just feel that negative energy. And that's the
(02:15):
way it is with culture, you know, people, We don't
fool people as much as we think. If there's things
that are off, if there's relationships that are off, communication
that's people walking in can feel that.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Most of them can.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Some people are fairly dull, but the better part of
people can feel that when they walk in, we're not
hiding anything from anybody. And that's why culture is so important,
you know. Actually, more than fifty percent of employees say
that they would stay at jobs that paid less if
they could work for a great boss. We're just looking
for somebody that appreciates us, values us, that we can
(02:47):
relate to.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
That creates a healthy culture.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Now, the opening passage that I want to use for
today is one of my favorite psalms, and as I
was looking at this again recently and it occurred to me, Wow,
this is really kind of a cultural passage. So I'm
going to read it to you and then we'll break
it down and look at how some of these principles
here can apply to culture if it's in your even family,
but in your business and your organization and your teams
(03:12):
and your whatever you may be involved with. The psalm,
the reference for the psalm is Salm one oh three,
verses two through five, and it says, bless the Lord,
owe my soul, and forget none of his benefits, who
pardons all your disease or I'm sorry, who pardons all
your iniquities, Who heals all your diseases, Who redeems your
(03:35):
life from the pit, Who crowns you with loving kindness
and compassion, Who satisfies your years with good things, so
that your youth is renewed like the eagle. Wow, that's
some big positives. And the psalmist here is telling himself, Uh,
he's telling his He's talking to himself, he's talking to
(03:55):
his soul, and he says listen, don't forget any of
these things. Don't forget the culture that you have with God,
and as a result, thank him. When it says bless
the Lord to me, that's like, thank you so much.
You are fantastic. Oh my, I appreciate everything you've done
for me so much. And we could certainly have that,
and hopefully we do in our relationship with God, but
(04:17):
also in our relationship with others, even in our business relationships.
So here's a few things that I take a few
qualities that reveal a healthy culture that Passage gave me
the basis for number one quality of a healthy culture
is forgiveness. Forgiveness, and in this instance, I'm going to
define that as seeing value in another beyond their failures,
(04:44):
seeing value in another beyond their failures. Now, often I'll
have a room full of people and I'll ask them.
I said, now, if I were to hold up a
fresh new hundred dollars bill here, who would like to
have that?
Speaker 2 (04:56):
And every hand goes up. I say, okay, what if.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
I crumpled it up and threw it on the floor,
would you still want it?
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Yep? Everybody still wants it.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
What if I took it outside and threw it in
the mud, would you still want it?
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Sure?
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Because it can be washed off the condition. The temporary
condition of one hundred dollars bill has no impact.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
On its value.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
So it is with people. We all have days where
we're better than others, and our temporary condition is no
indicator of.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Our permanent value.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
And even when we mess up, the person who can
look on us, who can forgive that, who can see
our value beyond that failure, that goes a long way
when everybody's doing that towards creating a very healthy culture.
And I have a story that happened to me many
years ago. I was a teenager back at the time,
and I just started driving. Actually I've been driving for
(05:48):
a couple of years. But I was trying to back
the car into our driveway. And we had a garage
right at the back of the driveway, and when you
got to the back of the driveway, there was our
kitchen the window overlooking the rear part of that driveway,
and so I was backing down the drive It was
a big old seventy four Chevrolet and palla, big old
beast of a car, and I was backing down, backing down,
(06:10):
backing down, and got a little close to that garage
door and crunch right into the garage door. And then
I looked up and the kitchen table was right inside
that kitchen window, and Dad often set at that kitchen table.
And sure enough, I hadn't any sooner crunch that door
than he popped up in that window looking at what.
I did not thought, oh no, he's gonna let me
have it now. But you know what he didn't.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
He didn't.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
He came out there and he looked at it, and
he got a hammer and he started beating that aluminum
garage door back into shape. And nothing was said about it.
And a few days later he came to me. We
were in a nice, quiet place.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
It was good.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Nothing bad came in that story, and he said, you
know the other day when you backed into the garage door.
I said, yeah, yeah, I remember that, he said. He said,
I didn't like that one bit. He said, but before
I said anything, I realized that you you didn't like
it any better than I did. And that's why I
didn't say anything about it. He said, I knew you
already felt bad about I knew you already hated that
(07:08):
it happened. Why do I need to make that worse.
And so often it's that way with people you know.
And now there's different types of people. Some people just
seem to delight in making doing things that injure other people.
But sometimes there's real mistakes that happen. It's completely unintentional,
and they don't like it any better than we do.
Why make them feel bad about it? It's like the
difference in those type of people is the difference between
(07:30):
a pig and a sheep. Somebody once told me a
pig and a sheep might both fall into the same
mud hole. But whereas the pig is squealing in delight,
the sheep is bleeding trying to get out. So when
you have those type of people, it pays to look
on them, continue to see their value, forgive what was done,
and then work together towards something better. The second aspect
(07:55):
of a winning culture is healing.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Healing. Now I got to thinking about this and I thought,
what is health? What is health?
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Health is the inclusion of the positives with the elimination
of the negatives. Right in your physical health. If all
you did was take in the good stuff, all the nutrients,
and you can get rid of everything bad in your body,
you'd have great health. What about in our mind, what's
going in the mind. What if we're only putting positive
things in our mind and getting rid of the negative things,
(08:25):
maybe turning off the news for a while and only
putting in those positive things and in our soul our
in the way we feel. What if we only put
in things that were positive. Now I realize, I'm realistic.
I realize we can't get out and to get rid
of all the negative, we'd had to leave the world,
and we can't do that. But what I'm talking about
is on the things that we can control, minimizing the
(08:45):
negative and enhancing that positive signal. Right, So, and it
occurred to me that, hey, antioxidants on the physical side
are so important.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Right. The antioxidants are the things that go around our body,
the free radical scavits they call them. They go around
looking for those free radicals that will harm our body,
and they attached to them and they eliminate them. And
I thought, who are my antioxidants? Who are your antioxidants?
Who is it that helps you find those negative, damaging
messages and things in your life and helps you get
(09:18):
rid of them, helps you bring the positive and magnify
the positives. One person, just one person in your life
like that can make a huge difference. I'm on the
board of a center for people with disabilities, and I
do trainings several times for them a year. And once
I was doing a training and I wanted to hear
from the people who were participating that day, and so
(09:39):
we had them share some stories, and one after one,
they shared how they had this disability and so many
people were against them, and life just seemed against them.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
But because there was one person who believed in them,
just one person, and they'll remember that, they'll remember by name,
they'll remember exactly what they said. Because of that one
person that believed in them, they were able to overcome
all those other negative messages and keep moving forward and
keep achieving and keep succeeding and reaching their goals and
their dreams. So we don't want to allow the negative
(10:11):
in and on a team, sometimes you'll have that one
bad apple, that one negative person that just brings everybody
else down. He's pushing everybody else down to try to
build themselves up. And often what I found is that
this might be a gifted person, they might be really
good at something. But let me ask you this, think
of your favorite say chocolate, for instance, if you knew
that your favorite chocolate was laced with arsenic, would you
(10:35):
eat it? Of course not, because that benefit of having chocolate,
the enjoyment of having the chocolate, would be far outweighed
by the potential threat of what was going to happen
because of the arsenic.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
And it's that way.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
When we have a talented person with a bad attitude
who just doesn't get along with others, you know, we
don't want them on our team because of the poison.
The effect of that poison that they bring is going
to far outweigh the impact of their skills.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
We can find it.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
If we can find another person who's healthy, who's really healthy,
they can learn the skills if they're somewhat competent. But
to find it to have a person that's skilled, but
that just brings that poison with them in their attitude,
that's going to bring the whole team down. Okay, I
want to give you still on this health. I want
to give you six practices for positivity and health.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
The first one is write down positive things to help
them stick. Have you ever just woken up with some
great ideas on your mind and you thought, oh, surely
I'll remember that when I when I finally get up
today and you got up and it was gone. We
need to write down the positive things when we have
that thought. Often I'll use the voice memo on my
phone to get the positive thoughts recorded so I can
(11:44):
come back to them, think.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
About them, maybe write about them, maybe even do.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
A podcast on them. But write down the document. There's
positive things to help them stick. Just the act of
recording them helps them stick.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Number two is visualize the opposite of the negative.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Visualize the opposite.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
If you can picture a negative scenario happening, you can
also picture its opposite. It's called the law polarity. There's
two sides to everything. So if instead of picturing the negative,
visualize its opposite, visualize the positive picture that happening. Put
that in your mind and in your heart. The third
(12:21):
thing is minimize external negative noise. Minimize the negative noise.
I asked a group the other day, I said, can
you imagine what your day would be like if when
you woke up in the morning, you had no input,
no negative input from the media, no negative input from
other people, and no negative input from your own thinking.
They said, Oh my goodness, I'd have a wonderful day. Right,
(12:43):
So what are the things that we control? What can
we do to turn down that radio or turn that
broadcast off that's bringing in just negative messages, negative reports.
Who that's typically negative can we make a decision not
to be around? And who that's positive? Can we be
around instead of that? So how do we turn down
(13:03):
that negative noise? And in our own thinking when we
have those negative thoughts, how can we turn that down
by putting the positive in picturing the positive in its place?
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Number four is to focus on reality. And this asks
the question where am I right now? And what's the
next step, even if it's a little step, what's the
next step that you can take towards where you want
to go? If you have a dream of something, the
bigger the dream, the longer it might take to get there.
(13:34):
But as long as you are on a daily basis
doing something that helps you move in that direction, that's
progress and that's something to feel good about and that
will help you. That will help with your health. To
never be moving and just keep having dreams, that's very discouraging,
that's very unhealthy. And then again back to the antioxidants.
Who are the people who help you with that? Who
is it that can help you keep you accountable to
(13:57):
moving forward? Number five is the saying, this too shall pass.
If you're in a negative situation and there's nothing you
can do about it, just remember that this too shall pass.
It never rains every day. You will get through this.
Someone said in times like these, it's good to remember
there have always been times like these.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
You know.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
We like to think back on the good old days
that you know, if we really think about it, probably
weren't so good. So we don't want to get too
down because of a temporary difficulty. We got to remember
this is temporal. I'm growing, I'm moving in the right direction.
I'm putting the right things in my mind. I'm developing
healthy people around me, creating a healthy culture. This tooes
shall pass. It's not going to be this way forever.
(14:38):
Let me keep going forward and then turning down. I
kind of mentioned this earlier, but turning down that dial
of internal negative chatter. A friend of mine said that
anytime she ever goes to do something important, she can
just hear all of this inner chatter. Oh you you
can't do that. Those people don't care. They don't want
to listen to what you say. You know other people
(14:59):
do it better. Blah blah blah blah blah. Well, she
calls that her Grimlin and she named hers George Burns.
And anytime she said, anytime she goes to do something significant,
she'll just hear that babble and she'll say, now, George,
you have to go sit in the corner because I
don't have time to talk to you today, turning down
that dial of the negative inner chatter. Okay, so those
are the six points under health. Under health and health
(15:22):
was number two of the points we want to look
at today. The first one was forgiveness for the healing,
healthy culture, the winning culture. Number two was healing. Number
three is redemptive. Create a culture that is redemptive, not punitive.
In nature, failures are not only forgiven, but mistakes are redeemed. Okay,
(15:44):
So true forgiveness always welcomes a growth willing person back alongside,
even if they've made mistakes, but they're willing to grow.
It welcomes them back alongside so that they could learn, grow,
get better, overcome the past failure. And this creates a
redemptive culture. It looked it does not view failures as
(16:07):
the end, but as the end of the beginning. As
Winston Churchill once said, this is not the end, it's
not even the beginning of the end, but it may
be the end of the beginning. That's how we look
at failures. We look at it as the path to greatness.
One of the illustrations that I love about this are
the Wright brothers, who you probably know invented the flight,
or at least discovered it. It was already there, just
(16:29):
nobody had really put it to the test and figured
out how to do it yet. So they discovered flight.
But these guys went through all if you read their story,
and I encourage you to do so, they went through
all kinds of setbacks. They had weeks of bad weather
at times when they were trying to test their craft.
They had technical issues. They would have to go back
and start from scratch and figure out how to rebuild
(16:51):
engines and rebuild other things. They had damage to the planes.
The planes would crash and get damaged and they had
to rebuild those. And they were low on funds anyway,
And they had all of these setbacks, but they kept
getting better each time. They used those failures and those
setbacks not to give up and to quit. They believed, Hey,
we are learning what not to do. We're gonna find
(17:14):
what that problem was, we're gonna modify it, we're gonna
redeem it, and we're gonna keep getting better. Well, you know,
they were so inspirational that years later, when the Apollo
eleven crew flew to the Moon, they carried a piece
of their first successful aircraft with them that the Right
Brothers had made, because it was so inspirational. So we
never know if our perseverance and our redemption of failures
(17:36):
today might inspire tomorrow's generations in ways we could never
imagine when those Right brothers down there at Kitty Hawk
first had that successful flight. They never had in mind.
I wouldn't imagine that there was gonna be a rocket
ship that flew to the Moon that would carry a
piece of that plane with them. But because they persevered
and they redeemed their failures today and that's the mindset
(17:57):
and the culture they had years later up on the moon,
and that spaceship carried a piece of our plane with them.
Number four, A winning culture is loving and compassionate in nature. Now,
now think of this, Say that you were with a
business and your your top salesperson in that business or
organization was off. His numbers were just down three quarters
(18:22):
in a row. Now, if you were the leader of
that organization, what would you do? Some people, they would
just go to them and go, hey, Bob, you know
your numbers have been down three quarters in a row.
You better you better get these numbers back up or
bad things are going to happen.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Well, that's one way to deal with it.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
But that's not part of a winning culture, because a
winning culture is loving and compassionate. Somebody in a winning
culture would go and say, Bob, you know, hey you
are You've always been our top salesman. You're so valuable
to this organization and what we do, and I've noticed
that your numbers have been down a bit over the
last three quarters. Is everything okay? Is there anything I
(18:58):
can do to help you? Know?
Speaker 2 (18:59):
I am.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Oh, My ears are open if you need to talk
about anything or work through anything. But let's see what
we can do together to to help get help get
this back on track and get them back up to
where you where you've always been and what we know
you're capable of. That's a winning culture. That's a loving
and compassionate response. This is where the person themselves, not
(19:21):
just the work that they do, is highly valued. We
don't just love Bob because he produces for us and
gets this good reverende.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
We actually love Bob. Uh.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
This is where your team becomes like family. Now, it's
interesting that two of the top desires that millennials say
they want in a workplace is they want an environment
that's like family, and they want to do something that's
meaningful that's part of a winning culture. Those are something
that they're going to teach us before it's all over.
(19:54):
They want to be part of an environment that's like family,
part of a culture that embraces them like family, And
they want to do something that's meaningful and significant that
makes a positive difference for other people. So sometimes just
engaging in conversation with other listening can tell somebody that
we love them, and the way we listen can share
that we're compassionate towards them. Just engaging with them in
conversation and listening well and having the right mannerisms, the
(20:18):
right eye contact, the right tone in our voice can
convey to people how much we care about them. Okay,
Number five, a winning culture is where good things are
shared and this creates new vigor. There's a few things
that I listed that we can share that will add
value to others and help create the winning culture. First
of all, good stories about value that's been added by
(20:41):
the work we do can be shared. That's always encouraging
in any organization that it exists to add value to
somebody through the services or products that provides. Sharing those
stories about value that's been added, that's encouraging. Those need
to be shared to remind everybody of hey, why are
we here, Why do we get up and come do
this every day? Why do we exist in the first place.
(21:01):
The second, profits can be shared. There are some some
companies that engage in profit sharing and it's it's very
impressive the results that they've got. Delta is one Delta.
In twenty seventeen, Delta shared over one point one billion
dollars with people throughout its organization. Southwest Airlines, they believe
(21:23):
in profit sharing too. They shared five hundred and eighty
six million dollars in twenty seventeen, which was even a
higher percentage than Delta because it's a smaller company, And
they also gave three hundred and fifty one million dollars
to their four oh one k plans. So sharing profits
is another good thing to do. Also, sharing good things
that colleagues have done. If somebody on your team does
(21:46):
something great and you're a manager, a leader of that team,
or even if you're a coworker a colleague pointed out, hey, wow,
you know so and so did this really great thing
the other day. They stayed and helped out on this project.
They dealt with a difficult situation in an exceptional manner.
Share anything good that can be shared about someoney. Look
for the good, look for the good and share it.
Also share things that have been done that have led
(22:09):
to our present good. Look back in the past and
remember things that people have done, sacrifices, they've made, ideas,
they've had, opportunities they've taken that have led up to
our present condition. And share those things. And then also
share good things that we're planning to do. Okay, what
are we planning to do in the future and how
how might that positively impact other people? And then lastly
(22:32):
on this share good things that others are doing. When
you see other organizations, don't just be totally self focused
on your organization. Look at other things in the community
that are being done that are positive, and share good
things that other people are doing. Read their stories, share
their stories, focus on the good. Bring all this positive in. Okay,
(22:53):
So that's my list for today. Now, I'm going to
be back in a couple of minutes and we're going
to make a few final applications. But right now we're
going to take a brief break and I'll.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
Be right back.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
Jeff will be back shortly to wrap up today's message.
This is Gabriela still on the scene today with Top
Network Radio. If you're just tuning in, you're listening to
Empowered Living with Jack Bird. If you've missed any part
of today's message, you can hear it again online as
well as the entire archive of Empowered Living.
Speaker 4 (23:24):
At www dot Topnetwork Radio dot com or search keyword
hashtag empowered Living. We would like to acknowledge our music
partners Sound Ideas for Corporate to the Max and Kevin
McLeod for Airport Lounge. Any scriptures read during this broadcast
(23:44):
are from the New American Standard version of the Holy Bible.
If you would like to learn more about Jeffrey Bird Coaching,
visit www dot Jeffbirdcoaching dot com that is j ff
b y r D Coaching dot com.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Do have Facebook search for at coaching rocks or drove
Jeff aligne at Jeff at Jeffbirdcaching dot com. Again j
e f f b y r D coaching dot com.
Let Jeff's coaching rocks be the building blocks of your
empowered success.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Now let's go back to Jeff.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
For the rest of today's message.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
All righty, welcome back up. So I've got a few
applications for you today on these topics that we've talked
about about creating the winning culture. The first one is
on forgiveness where we started. When it comes to forgiveness,
it's very helpful to recall our own failings and those
who have forgiven us and what difference it's made in
(24:52):
our lives. You may recall it's recorded that Jesus once
said that whoever has been forgiven much will love much.
When we realize and recognize and own our own failings
and shortcomings and what other people that put up with
putting up with us, it makes us all the more
compassionate and loving towards other people. We want to remember
(25:12):
to see their potential and their value beyond their immediate performance.
The person that fails today might overcome that and might
be the greatest success tomorrow. But we don't want to
attach a person's value to their temporary performance. We want
to remember the value and treat them just as valuable
(25:32):
on their best days as on their worst days. And
that's going to really help them succeed. And keep in mind,
just like that story I told about with my backing
the car into the garage door, when somebody else fails,
they don't like it any better than you do. For
some of us, failures can seem really really devastating, and
we really have to work hard to overcome that. And
it's so helpful to have somebody come along and say, hey,
(25:54):
I still see your value. I believe you're going to
get through this and we're going to get better.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
Number two on health is increase your antioccidants. Okay, Now,
this could be in every area of your life. On
the physical level, maybe you just need to take a
good supplement every day. On the other levels, we need
to bring in those people who are our antioxidants who
(26:19):
help us identify and overcome that negative, stinking thinking and
help us bring in the right thinking. And we can
ask ourselves, you know, who adds health to us in
our thinking, in our acting, in our lives, in our living.
Who are those people? Let's let's be sure and remember
to thank them. And also maybe it's time to have
(26:39):
a talk with one of them. Maybe it's time to
grab a coffee. Maybe a person who's always been helpful
and positive in an area that you're struggling with right now,
maybe it's time to just reach out to them and say, hey, hey,
can we catch up for coffee. I'm you know, it
always does me so much good to be around you,
and let's sit down and chat for a while. Okay,
number three, it's redemptive, So remember to distinguish, but between
(27:00):
a person's performance and their intention and their potential. Don't
throw we say, don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.
Remember every baby is messy, but every great thing has
come from someone putting up with the baby. Where would
we be if we threw our babies out with the bathwater?
So we want to be sure and distinguish that rightly.
(27:22):
And also you can ask who shows signs of greatness
but could use some help. Think of the right brothers, Boy,
they had the greatness they had the drive, they had
the passion, they had the vision, and they needed help.
They needed help from some other engineers, from some mechanics,
from They needed backers so they could keep doing it.
Who can you help who shows signs of greatness and
needs that extra little push to get down the road
(27:42):
to their potential. Number four is being loving and compassionate,
and on this truly care for people, not just the
job they do. Yes, the job is absolutely important, and
we want we want people who do it well, but
value the people more than just the job. Make sure
you find people who are gifted in the areas that
need to be developed, but also care for those people
(28:05):
beyond those abilities and beyond that development. And remember, when
it comes to communicating with people, only seven percent of
our communication is in what we say, thirty eight percent
of how we communicate is in how we say it,
and fifty five percent or in our mannerisms, our body language.
So remember it's not just what you're saying. That's only
(28:27):
seven percent of communication is about what you say. The
rest is how you say it and the way you
say it. So remember that. Then keep in mind if
you're a manager department, and if you have people who
report to you. Keep in mind this quote by Patrick
Lencioni that says people will walk through fire for a leader.
That's true in human Just remember that when we're creating cultures,
(28:48):
and even if you're not the leader in any culture
that you're a part of, just remember that to be
true in human in everything you do.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
Number five Sharing good things.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
Just I gave you a list just a minute ago,
or remember what what has happened good in your life
and your organization lately that you can share. Who has
handled something difficult and done a very good job at
it that you can praise. What are we planning that
will be good for others? What positive difference are others
around us making. Let's recognize it, and let's let him know. Hey, hey,
her y'all did that over there, even if it's not
(29:17):
your organization, Her j'all did this great thing, and that's
so awesome. So proud to know you. So those are
the takeaways for today. I hope that this has been
as encouraging to you as it has been for me
to share it. On creating a winning culture. So I
hope that you're part of one, and I hope that
wherever you're at that you're helping it grow. So that's
(29:38):
all for today. Thank you so much for tuning in.
This is jeff with Jeffrey Bird Coaching. We'll see you
next time.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
About at the back BA
Hello, this is Gabriella on the scene today with Talk
Network Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
We have a real dread for you.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Just around the corner, and that is Empowered Living with
Jeff Bird. Jeff is the owner of Jeffrey for Coaching
and he will be coming to you weekly to teach
you more about empowered living. Now, let's join Jeff already
in the studio.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Hello and welcome.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
This is Jeff Bird Jeffrey Bird Coaching, and this is
Empowered Living.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Today.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
We're going to address a topic that I love. It's
very near and dear to me, and the title is
called the Winning culture.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
The winning culture.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Now, in coaching and leadership training, we have a quote
that says culture eats vision for lunch. In other words,
I don't care how grand your vision is. If you
don't have a culture and interactions within your team, they
can make that happen. They can get people where they
(01:33):
need to go. It's never gonna happen. You're never going
to see that vision fulfilled unless you have a healthy
culture behind it. Now, you know sometimes you maybe you've
experienced this. You you walk into a place and you
don't know what's going on, but you can tell something's wrong,
right I was in a culture like this one time
in a business and someone walked in and we knew
(01:54):
them pretty well, and they came up and they leaned
on the counter and they said, tell me what's going on,
so I can be mad too. They had no idea
what was wrong with us, but they knew that our
culture was off and we weren't getting along, and there
was friction and there was terrible leadership. And I said,
tell me what's going on, so I can be mad too.
They could just feel that negative energy. And that's the
(02:15):
way it is with culture, you know, people, We don't
fool people as much as we think. If there's things
that are off, if there's relationships that are off, communication
that's people walking in can feel that.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Most of them can.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Some people are fairly dull, but the better part of
people can feel that when they walk in, we're not
hiding anything from anybody. And that's why culture is so important,
you know. Actually, more than fifty percent of employees say
that they would stay at jobs that paid less if
they could work for a great boss. We're just looking
for somebody that appreciates us, values us, that we can
(02:47):
relate to.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
That creates a healthy culture.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Now, the opening passage that I want to use for
today is one of my favorite psalms, and as I
was looking at this again recently and it occurred to me, Wow,
this is really kind of a cultural passage. So I'm
going to read it to you and then we'll break
it down and look at how some of these principles
here can apply to culture if it's in your even family,
but in your business and your organization and your teams
(03:12):
and your whatever you may be involved with. The psalm,
the reference for the psalm is Salm one oh three,
verses two through five, and it says, bless the Lord,
owe my soul, and forget none of his benefits, who
pardons all your disease or I'm sorry, who pardons all
your iniquities, Who heals all your diseases, Who redeems your
(03:35):
life from the pit, Who crowns you with loving kindness
and compassion, Who satisfies your years with good things, so
that your youth is renewed like the eagle. Wow, that's
some big positives. And the psalmist here is telling himself, Uh,
he's telling his He's talking to himself, he's talking to
(03:55):
his soul, and he says listen, don't forget any of
these things. Don't forget the culture that you have with God,
and as a result, thank him. When it says bless
the Lord to me, that's like, thank you so much.
You are fantastic. Oh my, I appreciate everything you've done
for me so much. And we could certainly have that,
and hopefully we do in our relationship with God, but
(04:17):
also in our relationship with others, even in our business relationships.
So here's a few things that I take a few
qualities that reveal a healthy culture that Passage gave me
the basis for number one quality of a healthy culture
is forgiveness. Forgiveness, and in this instance, I'm going to
define that as seeing value in another beyond their failures,
(04:44):
seeing value in another beyond their failures. Now, often I'll
have a room full of people and I'll ask them.
I said, now, if I were to hold up a
fresh new hundred dollars bill here, who would like to
have that?
Speaker 2 (04:56):
And every hand goes up. I say, okay, what if.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
I crumpled it up and threw it on the floor,
would you still want it?
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Yep? Everybody still wants it.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
What if I took it outside and threw it in
the mud, would you still want it?
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Sure?
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Because it can be washed off the condition. The temporary
condition of one hundred dollars bill has no impact.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
On its value.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
So it is with people. We all have days where
we're better than others, and our temporary condition is no
indicator of.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Our permanent value.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
And even when we mess up, the person who can
look on us, who can forgive that, who can see
our value beyond that failure, that goes a long way
when everybody's doing that towards creating a very healthy culture.
And I have a story that happened to me many
years ago. I was a teenager back at the time,
and I just started driving. Actually I've been driving for
(05:48):
a couple of years. But I was trying to back
the car into our driveway. And we had a garage
right at the back of the driveway, and when you
got to the back of the driveway, there was our
kitchen the window overlooking the rear part of that driveway,
and so I was backing down the drive It was
a big old seventy four Chevrolet and palla, big old
beast of a car, and I was backing down, backing down,
(06:10):
backing down, and got a little close to that garage
door and crunch right into the garage door. And then
I looked up and the kitchen table was right inside
that kitchen window, and Dad often set at that kitchen table.
And sure enough, I hadn't any sooner crunch that door
than he popped up in that window looking at what.
I did not thought, oh no, he's gonna let me
have it now. But you know what he didn't.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
He didn't.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
He came out there and he looked at it, and
he got a hammer and he started beating that aluminum
garage door back into shape. And nothing was said about it.
And a few days later he came to me. We
were in a nice, quiet place.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
It was good.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Nothing bad came in that story, and he said, you
know the other day when you backed into the garage door.
I said, yeah, yeah, I remember that, he said. He said,
I didn't like that one bit. He said, but before
I said anything, I realized that you you didn't like
it any better than I did. And that's why I
didn't say anything about it. He said, I knew you
already felt bad about I knew you already hated that
(07:08):
it happened. Why do I need to make that worse.
And so often it's that way with people you know.
And now there's different types of people. Some people just
seem to delight in making doing things that injure other people.
But sometimes there's real mistakes that happen. It's completely unintentional,
and they don't like it any better than we do.
Why make them feel bad about it? It's like the
difference in those type of people is the difference between
(07:30):
a pig and a sheep. Somebody once told me a
pig and a sheep might both fall into the same
mud hole. But whereas the pig is squealing in delight,
the sheep is bleeding trying to get out. So when
you have those type of people, it pays to look
on them, continue to see their value, forgive what was done,
and then work together towards something better. The second aspect
(07:55):
of a winning culture is healing.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Healing. Now I got to thinking about this and I thought,
what is health? What is health?
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Health is the inclusion of the positives with the elimination
of the negatives. Right in your physical health. If all
you did was take in the good stuff, all the nutrients,
and you can get rid of everything bad in your body,
you'd have great health. What about in our mind, what's
going in the mind. What if we're only putting positive
things in our mind and getting rid of the negative things,
(08:25):
maybe turning off the news for a while and only
putting in those positive things and in our soul our
in the way we feel. What if we only put
in things that were positive. Now I realize, I'm realistic.
I realize we can't get out and to get rid
of all the negative, we'd had to leave the world,
and we can't do that. But what I'm talking about
is on the things that we can control, minimizing the
(08:45):
negative and enhancing that positive signal. Right, So, and it
occurred to me that, hey, antioxidants on the physical side
are so important.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Right. The antioxidants are the things that go around our body,
the free radical scavits they call them. They go around
looking for those free radicals that will harm our body,
and they attached to them and they eliminate them. And
I thought, who are my antioxidants? Who are your antioxidants?
Who is it that helps you find those negative, damaging
messages and things in your life and helps you get
(09:18):
rid of them, helps you bring the positive and magnify
the positives. One person, just one person in your life
like that can make a huge difference. I'm on the
board of a center for people with disabilities, and I
do trainings several times for them a year. And once
I was doing a training and I wanted to hear
from the people who were participating that day, and so
(09:39):
we had them share some stories, and one after one,
they shared how they had this disability and so many
people were against them, and life just seemed against them.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
But because there was one person who believed in them,
just one person, and they'll remember that, they'll remember by name,
they'll remember exactly what they said. Because of that one
person that believed in them, they were able to overcome
all those other negative messages and keep moving forward and
keep achieving and keep succeeding and reaching their goals and
their dreams. So we don't want to allow the negative
(10:11):
in and on a team, sometimes you'll have that one
bad apple, that one negative person that just brings everybody
else down. He's pushing everybody else down to try to
build themselves up. And often what I found is that
this might be a gifted person, they might be really
good at something. But let me ask you this, think
of your favorite say chocolate, for instance, if you knew
that your favorite chocolate was laced with arsenic, would you
(10:35):
eat it? Of course not, because that benefit of having chocolate,
the enjoyment of having the chocolate, would be far outweighed
by the potential threat of what was going to happen
because of the arsenic.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
And it's that way.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
When we have a talented person with a bad attitude
who just doesn't get along with others, you know, we
don't want them on our team because of the poison.
The effect of that poison that they bring is going
to far outweigh the impact of their skills.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
We can find it.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
If we can find another person who's healthy, who's really healthy,
they can learn the skills if they're somewhat competent. But
to find it to have a person that's skilled, but
that just brings that poison with them in their attitude,
that's going to bring the whole team down. Okay, I
want to give you still on this health. I want
to give you six practices for positivity and health.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
The first one is write down positive things to help
them stick. Have you ever just woken up with some
great ideas on your mind and you thought, oh, surely
I'll remember that when I when I finally get up
today and you got up and it was gone. We
need to write down the positive things when we have
that thought. Often I'll use the voice memo on my
phone to get the positive thoughts recorded so I can
(11:44):
come back to them, think.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
About them, maybe write about them, maybe even do.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
A podcast on them. But write down the document. There's
positive things to help them stick. Just the act of
recording them helps them stick.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Number two is visualize the opposite of the negative.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Visualize the opposite.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
If you can picture a negative scenario happening, you can
also picture its opposite. It's called the law polarity. There's
two sides to everything. So if instead of picturing the negative,
visualize its opposite, visualize the positive picture that happening. Put
that in your mind and in your heart. The third
(12:21):
thing is minimize external negative noise. Minimize the negative noise.
I asked a group the other day, I said, can
you imagine what your day would be like if when
you woke up in the morning, you had no input,
no negative input from the media, no negative input from
other people, and no negative input from your own thinking.
They said, Oh my goodness, I'd have a wonderful day. Right,
(12:43):
So what are the things that we control? What can
we do to turn down that radio or turn that
broadcast off that's bringing in just negative messages, negative reports.
Who that's typically negative can we make a decision not
to be around? And who that's positive? Can we be
around instead of that? So how do we turn down
(13:03):
that negative noise? And in our own thinking when we
have those negative thoughts, how can we turn that down
by putting the positive in picturing the positive in its place?
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Number four is to focus on reality. And this asks
the question where am I right now? And what's the
next step, even if it's a little step, what's the
next step that you can take towards where you want
to go? If you have a dream of something, the
bigger the dream, the longer it might take to get there.
(13:34):
But as long as you are on a daily basis
doing something that helps you move in that direction, that's
progress and that's something to feel good about and that
will help you. That will help with your health. To
never be moving and just keep having dreams, that's very discouraging,
that's very unhealthy. And then again back to the antioxidants.
Who are the people who help you with that? Who
is it that can help you keep you accountable to
(13:57):
moving forward? Number five is the saying, this too shall pass.
If you're in a negative situation and there's nothing you
can do about it, just remember that this too shall pass.
It never rains every day. You will get through this.
Someone said in times like these, it's good to remember
there have always been times like these.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
You know.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
We like to think back on the good old days
that you know, if we really think about it, probably
weren't so good. So we don't want to get too
down because of a temporary difficulty. We got to remember
this is temporal. I'm growing, I'm moving in the right direction.
I'm putting the right things in my mind. I'm developing
healthy people around me, creating a healthy culture. This tooes
shall pass. It's not going to be this way forever.
(14:38):
Let me keep going forward and then turning down. I
kind of mentioned this earlier, but turning down that dial
of internal negative chatter. A friend of mine said that
anytime she ever goes to do something important, she can
just hear all of this inner chatter. Oh you you
can't do that. Those people don't care. They don't want
to listen to what you say. You know other people
(14:59):
do it better. Blah blah blah blah blah. Well, she
calls that her Grimlin and she named hers George Burns.
And anytime she said, anytime she goes to do something significant,
she'll just hear that babble and she'll say, now, George,
you have to go sit in the corner because I
don't have time to talk to you today, turning down
that dial of the negative inner chatter. Okay, so those
are the six points under health. Under health and health
(15:22):
was number two of the points we want to look
at today. The first one was forgiveness for the healing,
healthy culture, the winning culture. Number two was healing. Number
three is redemptive. Create a culture that is redemptive, not punitive.
In nature, failures are not only forgiven, but mistakes are redeemed. Okay,
(15:44):
So true forgiveness always welcomes a growth willing person back alongside,
even if they've made mistakes, but they're willing to grow.
It welcomes them back alongside so that they could learn, grow,
get better, overcome the past failure. And this creates a
redemptive culture. It looked it does not view failures as
(16:07):
the end, but as the end of the beginning. As
Winston Churchill once said, this is not the end, it's
not even the beginning of the end, but it may
be the end of the beginning. That's how we look
at failures. We look at it as the path to greatness.
One of the illustrations that I love about this are
the Wright brothers, who you probably know invented the flight,
or at least discovered it. It was already there, just
(16:29):
nobody had really put it to the test and figured
out how to do it yet. So they discovered flight.
But these guys went through all if you read their story,
and I encourage you to do so, they went through
all kinds of setbacks. They had weeks of bad weather
at times when they were trying to test their craft.
They had technical issues. They would have to go back
and start from scratch and figure out how to rebuild
(16:51):
engines and rebuild other things. They had damage to the planes.
The planes would crash and get damaged and they had
to rebuild those. And they were low on funds anyway,
And they had all of these setbacks, but they kept
getting better each time. They used those failures and those
setbacks not to give up and to quit. They believed, Hey,
we are learning what not to do. We're gonna find
(17:14):
what that problem was, we're gonna modify it, we're gonna
redeem it, and we're gonna keep getting better. Well, you know,
they were so inspirational that years later, when the Apollo
eleven crew flew to the Moon, they carried a piece
of their first successful aircraft with them that the Right
Brothers had made, because it was so inspirational. So we
never know if our perseverance and our redemption of failures
(17:36):
today might inspire tomorrow's generations in ways we could never
imagine when those Right brothers down there at Kitty Hawk
first had that successful flight. They never had in mind.
I wouldn't imagine that there was gonna be a rocket
ship that flew to the Moon that would carry a
piece of that plane with them. But because they persevered
and they redeemed their failures today and that's the mindset
(17:57):
and the culture they had years later up on the moon,
and that spaceship carried a piece of our plane with them.
Number four, A winning culture is loving and compassionate in nature. Now,
now think of this, Say that you were with a
business and your your top salesperson in that business or
organization was off. His numbers were just down three quarters
(18:22):
in a row. Now, if you were the leader of
that organization, what would you do? Some people, they would
just go to them and go, hey, Bob, you know
your numbers have been down three quarters in a row.
You better you better get these numbers back up or
bad things are going to happen.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Well, that's one way to deal with it.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
But that's not part of a winning culture, because a
winning culture is loving and compassionate. Somebody in a winning
culture would go and say, Bob, you know, hey you
are You've always been our top salesman. You're so valuable
to this organization and what we do, and I've noticed
that your numbers have been down a bit over the
last three quarters. Is everything okay? Is there anything I
(18:58):
can do to help you? Know?
Speaker 2 (18:59):
I am.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Oh, My ears are open if you need to talk
about anything or work through anything. But let's see what
we can do together to to help get help get
this back on track and get them back up to
where you where you've always been and what we know
you're capable of. That's a winning culture. That's a loving
and compassionate response. This is where the person themselves, not
(19:21):
just the work that they do, is highly valued. We
don't just love Bob because he produces for us and
gets this good reverende.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
We actually love Bob. Uh.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
This is where your team becomes like family. Now, it's
interesting that two of the top desires that millennials say
they want in a workplace is they want an environment
that's like family, and they want to do something that's
meaningful that's part of a winning culture. Those are something
that they're going to teach us before it's all over.
(19:54):
They want to be part of an environment that's like family,
part of a culture that embraces them like family, And
they want to do something that's meaningful and significant that
makes a positive difference for other people. So sometimes just
engaging in conversation with other listening can tell somebody that
we love them, and the way we listen can share
that we're compassionate towards them. Just engaging with them in
conversation and listening well and having the right mannerisms, the
(20:18):
right eye contact, the right tone in our voice can
convey to people how much we care about them. Okay,
Number five, a winning culture is where good things are
shared and this creates new vigor. There's a few things
that I listed that we can share that will add
value to others and help create the winning culture. First
of all, good stories about value that's been added by
(20:41):
the work we do can be shared. That's always encouraging
in any organization that it exists to add value to
somebody through the services or products that provides. Sharing those
stories about value that's been added, that's encouraging. Those need
to be shared to remind everybody of hey, why are
we here, Why do we get up and come do
this every day? Why do we exist in the first place.
(21:01):
The second, profits can be shared. There are some some
companies that engage in profit sharing and it's it's very
impressive the results that they've got. Delta is one Delta.
In twenty seventeen, Delta shared over one point one billion
dollars with people throughout its organization. Southwest Airlines, they believe
(21:23):
in profit sharing too. They shared five hundred and eighty
six million dollars in twenty seventeen, which was even a
higher percentage than Delta because it's a smaller company, And
they also gave three hundred and fifty one million dollars
to their four oh one k plans. So sharing profits
is another good thing to do. Also, sharing good things
that colleagues have done. If somebody on your team does
(21:46):
something great and you're a manager, a leader of that team,
or even if you're a coworker a colleague pointed out, hey, wow,
you know so and so did this really great thing
the other day. They stayed and helped out on this project.
They dealt with a difficult situation in an exceptional manner.
Share anything good that can be shared about someoney. Look
for the good, look for the good and share it.
Also share things that have been done that have led
(22:09):
to our present good. Look back in the past and
remember things that people have done, sacrifices, they've made, ideas,
they've had, opportunities they've taken that have led up to
our present condition. And share those things. And then also
share good things that we're planning to do. Okay, what
are we planning to do in the future and how
how might that positively impact other people? And then lastly
(22:32):
on this share good things that others are doing. When
you see other organizations, don't just be totally self focused
on your organization. Look at other things in the community
that are being done that are positive, and share good
things that other people are doing. Read their stories, share
their stories, focus on the good. Bring all this positive in. Okay,
(22:53):
So that's my list for today. Now, I'm going to
be back in a couple of minutes and we're going
to make a few final applications. But right now we're
going to take a brief break and I'll.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
Be right back.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
Jeff will be back shortly to wrap up today's message.
This is Gabriela still on the scene today with Top
Network Radio. If you're just tuning in, you're listening to
Empowered Living with Jack Bird. If you've missed any part
of today's message, you can hear it again online as
well as the entire archive of Empowered Living.
Speaker 4 (23:24):
At www dot Topnetwork Radio dot com or search keyword
hashtag empowered Living. We would like to acknowledge our music
partners Sound Ideas for Corporate to the Max and Kevin
McLeod for Airport Lounge. Any scriptures read during this broadcast
(23:44):
are from the New American Standard version of the Holy Bible.
If you would like to learn more about Jeffrey Bird Coaching,
visit www dot Jeffbirdcoaching dot com that is j ff
b y r D Coaching dot com.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Do have Facebook search for at coaching rocks or drove
Jeff aligne at Jeff at Jeffbirdcaching dot com. Again j
e f f b y r D coaching dot com.
Let Jeff's coaching rocks be the building blocks of your
empowered success.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Now let's go back to Jeff.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
For the rest of today's message.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
All righty, welcome back up. So I've got a few
applications for you today on these topics that we've talked
about about creating the winning culture. The first one is
on forgiveness where we started. When it comes to forgiveness,
it's very helpful to recall our own failings and those
who have forgiven us and what difference it's made in
(24:52):
our lives. You may recall it's recorded that Jesus once
said that whoever has been forgiven much will love much.
When we realize and recognize and own our own failings
and shortcomings and what other people that put up with
putting up with us, it makes us all the more
compassionate and loving towards other people. We want to remember
(25:12):
to see their potential and their value beyond their immediate performance.
The person that fails today might overcome that and might
be the greatest success tomorrow. But we don't want to
attach a person's value to their temporary performance. We want
to remember the value and treat them just as valuable
(25:32):
on their best days as on their worst days. And
that's going to really help them succeed. And keep in mind,
just like that story I told about with my backing
the car into the garage door, when somebody else fails,
they don't like it any better than you do. For
some of us, failures can seem really really devastating, and
we really have to work hard to overcome that. And
it's so helpful to have somebody come along and say, hey,
(25:54):
I still see your value. I believe you're going to
get through this and we're going to get better.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
Number two on health is increase your antioccidants. Okay, Now,
this could be in every area of your life. On
the physical level, maybe you just need to take a
good supplement every day. On the other levels, we need
to bring in those people who are our antioxidants who
(26:19):
help us identify and overcome that negative, stinking thinking and
help us bring in the right thinking. And we can
ask ourselves, you know, who adds health to us in
our thinking, in our acting, in our lives, in our living.
Who are those people? Let's let's be sure and remember
to thank them. And also maybe it's time to have
(26:39):
a talk with one of them. Maybe it's time to
grab a coffee. Maybe a person who's always been helpful
and positive in an area that you're struggling with right now,
maybe it's time to just reach out to them and say, hey, hey,
can we catch up for coffee. I'm you know, it
always does me so much good to be around you,
and let's sit down and chat for a while. Okay,
number three, it's redemptive, So remember to distinguish, but between
(27:00):
a person's performance and their intention and their potential. Don't
throw we say, don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.
Remember every baby is messy, but every great thing has
come from someone putting up with the baby. Where would
we be if we threw our babies out with the bathwater?
So we want to be sure and distinguish that rightly.
(27:22):
And also you can ask who shows signs of greatness
but could use some help. Think of the right brothers, Boy,
they had the greatness they had the drive, they had
the passion, they had the vision, and they needed help.
They needed help from some other engineers, from some mechanics,
from They needed backers so they could keep doing it.
Who can you help who shows signs of greatness and
needs that extra little push to get down the road
(27:42):
to their potential. Number four is being loving and compassionate,
and on this truly care for people, not just the
job they do. Yes, the job is absolutely important, and
we want we want people who do it well, but
value the people more than just the job. Make sure
you find people who are gifted in the areas that
need to be developed, but also care for those people
(28:05):
beyond those abilities and beyond that development. And remember, when
it comes to communicating with people, only seven percent of
our communication is in what we say, thirty eight percent
of how we communicate is in how we say it,
and fifty five percent or in our mannerisms, our body language.
So remember it's not just what you're saying. That's only
(28:27):
seven percent of communication is about what you say. The
rest is how you say it and the way you
say it. So remember that. Then keep in mind if
you're a manager department, and if you have people who
report to you. Keep in mind this quote by Patrick
Lencioni that says people will walk through fire for a leader.
That's true in human Just remember that when we're creating cultures,
(28:48):
and even if you're not the leader in any culture
that you're a part of, just remember that to be
true in human in everything you do.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
Number five Sharing good things.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
Just I gave you a list just a minute ago,
or remember what what has happened good in your life
and your organization lately that you can share. Who has
handled something difficult and done a very good job at
it that you can praise. What are we planning that
will be good for others? What positive difference are others
around us making. Let's recognize it, and let's let him know. Hey, hey,
her y'all did that over there, even if it's not
(29:17):
your organization, Her j'all did this great thing, and that's
so awesome. So proud to know you. So those are
the takeaways for today. I hope that this has been
as encouraging to you as it has been for me
to share it. On creating a winning culture. So I
hope that you're part of one, and I hope that
wherever you're at that you're helping it grow. So that's
(29:38):
all for today. Thank you so much for tuning in.
This is jeff with Jeffrey Bird Coaching. We'll see you
next time.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
About at the back BA
Popular Podcasts
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
My Favorite Murder is a true crime comedy podcast hosted by Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark. Each week, Karen and Georgia share compelling true crimes and hometown stories from friends and listeners. Since MFM launched in January of 2016, Karen and Georgia have shared their lifelong interest in true crime and have covered stories of infamous serial killers like the Night Stalker, mysterious cold cases, captivating cults, incredible survivor stories and important events from history like the Tulsa race massacre of 1921. My Favorite Murder is part of the Exactly Right podcast network that provides a platform for bold, creative voices to bring to life provocative, entertaining and relatable stories for audiences everywhere. The Exactly Right roster of podcasts covers a variety of topics including historic true crime, comedic interviews and news, science, pop culture and more. Podcasts on the network include Buried Bones with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes, That's Messed Up: An SVU Podcast, This Podcast Will Kill You, Bananas and more.
24/7 News: The Latest
The latest news in 4 minutes updated every hour, every day.
Dateline NBC
Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Follow now to get the latest episodes of Dateline NBC completely free, or subscribe to Dateline Premium for ad-free listening and exclusive bonus content: DatelinePremium.com