Day: October 15, 2019

Why Culture Matters-Episode 2, What Factors Influence a Company’s Culture

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Welcome to this special five-part podcast series with Jay Rosen, VP of Business Development for Affiliated Monitors, Inc. (AMI), who is the sponsor of this podcast series. Corporate culture exists in the space between what an organization professes and what it does. It is important to pay attention to corporate culture as disconnects in this reality can be quite costly. Yet what factors influence corporate culture. In this series Jay and I will be exploring key aspects of corporate culture, including why it matters, what influences culture, the CCOs role in culture, assessing corporate culture and how to use that information to improve culture. In this Part II, we consider what can influence an organization’s ethical culture, starting at the top with senior leadership. We consider such questions as whether your senior leaders practice what they preach as employees can spot a disconnect from a mile away.
Highlights include:

A company does not have an ethical culture unless top management commits to it.
Equally important is a sense of organizational justice and fairness.
One of the key elements of effective leadership is listening and that also applies to a company’s culture.
Do senior leadership give their people the opportunity to be heard?
Do senior leaders get out of the ivory tower, go out into the field and meet with employees?
Are there town halls or other types of group interactions?
Do the employees see whether their leaders are living those kinds of values?
It is crucial for perception to equal reality.
The bottom line is there must be alignment between what top management says and the company’s core values – between what the organization says and what it does.

Please join us for Episode 3, where we explore the role of a Chief Compliance Officer in strengthening the ethical culture of the organization.
For more information see Jay’s blog post What Factors Influence a Company’s Ethical Culture? on Corporate Compliance Insights.
For more information on Affiliated Monitors, Inc. check out their website here.

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STAKE: The Leadership Podcast

Rise-Up from a Slip-Up and How to Kill the Beef At Work

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Rise Up from a Slip Up

Can leaders recover from a mistake?
How should leaders handle their mistakes?
In this episode, I am diving headfirst into my proven 3-step process leaders should follow if and when they make mistakes. How leaders handle their mistakes will determine if their leadership rises or falls. Use this process to rise up from a slip-up.
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Kill the Beef at Work

How can leaders stop drama at work?
Whether you are an experienced leader or a new leader, at one time or another you will have to deal with drama–or beef–between the people you work with. How leaders handle interpersonal issues at work affects themselves and the people they lead–negatively or positively. In this episode, I am sharing three practical insights into how leaders should approach drama at work in order to drive performance results.
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Innovation in Compliance

Training Millennials with Alyson Van Hooser

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Alyson Van Hooser is a self-described ‘old school millennial’. From being on her own from age 13, to putting herself through college, to leadership positions in the retail and finance industries, Alyson has worked hard to achieve her goals. She now works with Van Hooser Associates, where she has to opportunity to dedicate herself to her passion for leadership development.
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Leadership is Twofold
Alyson says that leadership is twofold: you lead yourself and you can lead others. The first step in leadership is personal development, she says. She learned early on in life that if she wanted to be successful, she had to first lead herself. As she got older, the leaders in her life helped her develop into a successful person. It was because they chose to serve her, she says, that she listened and learned and followed them where they wanted her to go. Great leaders are able to connect and relate to their people. When you have influence over your people, you can get the results you want from them.
Listening is Essential
Tom admires Alyson’s ability to really listen to others. He asks her how she developed this great skill. She describes how, from her childhood, she paid attention to her role models. You’re not going to learn if you’re not willing to listen, she emphasizes. She focuses on the little things that people say that give insight into who they are, what they want, and what motivates them. As a leader, that’s the information you have to know if you’re going to get better results out of your team, she says.
Leadership Is Influence
You need to have influence if you want people to follow you. In fact, leadership is influence. The only way to get that influence is to serve others. Leadership, Alyson says, is about taking the superior position, which is not about you being on top, but rather putting everyone else before yourself.
Training Millennials
Leaders need to serve their Millennial and Gen Z employees by giving them educational opportunities to help them become valuable members of the team. Despite how unfavorably mass media has portrayed Millennials, they bring many skills to the table, and can provide value that older generations may not be able to. If you want the best from them however, you have to give them the opportunity to share their ideas without fear of repercussions. Honor their desire to make a difference, to add value to the team, Alyson says. When she trains Millennials, she teaches them that their responsibility is to be a leader for themselves, to be professional and hold themselves to a high standard. This is necessary to get buy in from the people above and below you, she says. Stay true to who you are, but adapt in order to relate to people and gain influence with people all across the organization.
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