Episode Description: Your WORK is your ministry! Jordan Raynor, the author of four best-selling books and Executive Chairman of Threshold 360 - a venture-backed tech startup, tells us you don't need to plant a church to have a ministry because your 9-5 has eternal value. Jordan and Bobby dig into how to prioritize the essential from the noise, why true silence is needed in your quiet time, and (Continue)
Workplace Culture
True North Leader Podcast – Episode 41
Episode Description: Bobby dives into how he grew revenue by over 500% from 2005 to 2011 during the Great Recession. I bet you could guess that organizational culture has something to do with it! Bobby challenges leaders to reflect on who they are in their bones to form the building blocks that lead to long-term organizational success and increased revenue. This episode has no easy answers, but (Continue)
True North Leader Podcast – Episode 40
Episode Description: Leading like Jesus is simple, but it's not easy. Guest Mike Willich, Director of Network Engagement for Unconventional Business Network, reminds us that our Mondays shouldn't look different from Sundays and challenges listeners to live out faith at work every day. Matthew 5:16 says, "Let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works (Continue)
True North Leader Podcast – Episode 39
Episode Description: Bobby says that the gift of leadership is misused when it doesn't demonstrate appreciation. Today's guest on True North Leader, Holly Tate, capitalizes on this idea and says while a good leader drives outcomes and holds people accountable, they also demonstrate care, drive development, and celebrate wins. Holly is the SVP of Growth at Leadr, a people development (Continue)
Empowered Teams Follow Through
I recently reviewed the results that followed our first Operation QIC® workshop, and the numbers are astounding! Would you like to experience significant financial success in your business? Read on to learn what happened in my business, and how you can use the same principles to grow your business. For the next three years following my company’s first Operation QIC (pronounced “quick” for (Continue)
Tune up Your Organization and Check its Core Values Alignment
The other day I took my car into the shop to get the oil changed, tires rotated, and wheels aligned. As you may know, the failure to correct misalignment of your wheels usually results in uneven tire wear and your vehicle pulling to the left or to the right. This misalignment leads to the expense of frequent tire replacement, driver fatigue, and even danger resulting from the (Continue)
See How Easily You Can Validate Your Values
Imagine you, as the leader, want to recreate the highest quality organization with the very best attributes on another planet…But you only have enough seats on the rocket ship for five people. Who would you send? They would most likely be people who: Exemplify the organization’s core values and purpose Have the highest level of credibility with their (Continue)
Four Steps to Prepare Your Core Values for Maximum Impact
Leaders are communicators. If you don’t communicate well, chances are you won’t lead well. One of the most important messages I’ve ever communicated to my team is our core values. I knew that I had to get this right. After I determined my core values, I took four steps to prepare and position them for maximum, company-wide impact. Once you discover “Who Are You?”, every leader can (Continue)
Escape the Cycle of Self-Defeat
Have you ever felt a sense of guilt because you couldn’t make things work? Then you think…If I just try harder? Then you become fatigued? And then you want to quit? Finally, the cycle starts over again, and again, and again… Author John Ortberg has a name for this cycle – he calls it the “Cycle of Self-Defeat” in his book, The Me I Want to Be. My father died when he was 57 (Continue)
True North Leader Podcast – Episode 29
Episode Description: Are you wondering what makes employees stick around during the Great Resignation and what it takes for long-term organizational success? Years of C-Suite level leadership taught host Bobby Albert that the secret ingredient to genuine engagement and ownership from employees lay in a lesson he learned as a young boy, and it leads to something bigger - workplace culture. Like (Continue)