JCLP EP. 40--Ways to Infuse Culture: An Interview with Ashley Warren

01/28/20 • 41 min

Building an extraordinary team culture is NOT a one-and-done task. It requires consistent, intentional care. In an imminently practical conversation about how to infuse great team culture throughout seasons of an organization's life, Jenni interviews long-time friend and colleague Ashley Warren. Ashley is a former educator and ministry leader who now serves as a Culture Consultant with the 4 Sight Group. She's passionate about helping leaders build healthy teams.

Jenni and Ashley discuss:

key seasons during which to pay close attention to team culture
ways to implement intentional culture at various stages of the employee life cycle
distinguishing between organizational values and team values
the role of the senior leader in building team culture

Connect with Ashley
[email protected]

As you seek to infuse culture in your organization, be sure to check out these two resources:

Registration is open now for our online Culture Group - this is a 6-week live online course that walks you through the specifics of building an extraordinary team culture. If this is the year you’re committed to building a great culture, this is the group for you. Click HERE for details!

We also have a free Culture Workbook that will walk you through the steps of defining your culture. THIS is a great resource to walk through with your team to kick start the conversation. Keep leading well!

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Jenni and Ashley discuss:

key seasons during which to pay close attention to team culture
ways to implement intentional culture at various stages of the employee life cycle
distinguishing between organizational values and team values
the role of the senior leader in building team culture

Connect with Ashley
[email protected]

As you seek to infuse culture in your organization, be sure to check out these two resources:

Listen, Review, and Subscribe!

Previous Episode

JCLP EP. 39--3 Mindsets You Must Embrace to Make Culture Work

As leaders, there are times we have to think differently to lead better. There are some mindsets that we simply MUST embrace if we want the culture we’re leading toward to actually permeate the organization. And these mindsets involve getting honest with ourselves about whether or not we’ve given in to a common fallacy: the idea that culture should be gleaned through osmosis - an effortless, unconscious assimilation.

Some highlights and key points from Jenni's teaching:

Shaping the culture for your team is arguably the most important work you’ll do. You can’t accomplish your mission without a team that is aligned and working effectively together.
Culture is not an episodic event of writing value statements, displaying them and hoping they catch on. Culture is living and breathing and needs your attention every day.
Both the organization and a new employee have a responsibility in helping the new employee succeed in the culture.

She also explores the Employee Life Cycle that William Vanderbloemen defines in his book Culture Wins. There are some incredible applications to make concerning culture at each stage in the Employee Life Cycle--places like hiring, daily and monthly rhythms, review processes.

Jenni provides a series of guiding questions to ask yourself as you consider truly embedding team culture that will align your team and lead to organizational success.

As you seek to embed culture in your organization, be sure to check out these two resources:

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JCLP EP. 41--How to Create a Culture Guide: An Interview with Jennifer Martin

It really is too bad that those we lead aren't mind readers, isn't it? If they were, then they would just KNOW what to do and when. They'd know the nuances to how to pursue goals in ways that truly reflect not just what they should do but HOW they should do it. But alas, our team members can't read our minds. This is why it's so crucial that we're intentional to take what comes intuitively to us, the things that are core to the culture we're trying to create and the vision we're trying to achieve, and to communicate it to those we lead. Bonus points if it's communicated in an easily understood and easily reproducible way.
In this episode, Jenni Catron interviews Jennifer Martin, Executive Pastor of Ministries at NorthRock Church in San Antonio, Texas, about how to do just that. Jennifer shares about the intentional steps she's taking to infuse culture throughout her team and how she's seeking to institutionalize it by creating a Culture Guide.
Connect with Jennifer Martin: [email protected]
NorthRock Church

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