Lead Culture with Jenni Catron

When you think of connection and engagement, do you automatically think about “in-person” opportunities? Many leaders, especially in the non-profit and ministry space feel a disconnect between genuine connection and technology, but with intention and the right tools, technology can help you cultivate connection and enhance engagement.In this week's episode, Jenni has a conversation with Kacie Frazier, Senior Manager of Channel Development and Alliances at Ministry Brands, an organization that offers more than 25 solutions and services that support more than 90,000 faith-based organizations throughout North America. Their mission is to empower churches, ministries, and faith-based organizations with leading technology solutions so that they can succeed in their mission to serve others and their communities.Kacie talks about discovering the right tools to help us connect with others, and how those tools can help leaders focus on doing what they’re called to do, while also creating healthy teams.For a next step, we encourage you to purchase the Culture Conference 2022 All Access Pass, hosted by The 4Sight Group. Culture Conference is a digital conference that provides practical talks from today’s top leaders - including today’s guest, Kacie Frazier,  to help you continue to build thriving teams, cultivate inspiring workplaces, and achieve mission. Leadership can be frustrating when you feel ill-equipped to face the daily challenges of leading yourself and leading a team. The 4Sight Group’s new “6 Traits of an Extraordinary Leader” training is designed to equip you to not only navigate those challenges effectively, but learn how to lead yourself and others well. Enroll today! Connect with Ministry Brands:www.ministrybrands.comEmail Kacie: partners@ministrybrands.comWe need your help to get the LeadCulture podcasts in front of more leaders! There are three simple things you can do that truly help us: Review us on Apple podcasts Subscribe - we’re available wherever you listen to podcasts. Share - let your friends know about the podcast by sharing your favorite episode on social media!

Have you ever wondered if you’re experiencing burnout, or if you’re just tired? How do you know the difference, and what steps should you take to avoid burnout or heal from it, so you can lead yourself well and lead others better?In this week's episode, Jenni has a conversation with Dr. Sasha Shillcutt, a renowned cardiac anesthesiologist, professor, bestselling author and CEO/Founder of Brave Enough. She’s the author of the new book, Brave Boundaries: Strategies to Say No, Stand Strong and Take Control of Your Time and host of The Brave Enough Show podcast. Sasha is a Christian, wife and mom who has walked through seasons of loneliness, anxiety, and complete burnout. She has written her new book out of a tender place in her heart for those who have found themselves in a similar place. Today Sasha helps us unpack what burnout looks like and coaches us in setting - and communicating - healthy boundaries. For a next step, we encourage you to connect with one of our trained and experienced 4Sight Group: Leadership Coaches. All leaders agree that the culture of your organization matters. But culture starts with you! Transform your team from disengaged to thriving, from divided to collaborative, and from toxic to trusting.Resources:Check out Sasha’s new book: Brave Boundaries: Strategies to Say No, Stand Strong and Take Control of Your TimeConnect with Sasha:Instagram: becomebraveenoughWebsite: www.becomebraveenough.comPodcast: The Brave Enough ShowWe need your help to get the LeadCulture podcasts in front of more leaders! There are three simple things you can do that truly help us: Review us on Apple podcasts Subscribe - we’re available wherever you listen to podcasts. Share - let your friends know about the podcast by sharing your favorite episode on social media!

As we come out of the past two years, it’s safe to say we’re all feeling restless. Seasons of disruption force us to ask the bigger, deeper questions and reflect on where we are, and what might be next.  If we’re not asking those questions in the company of wise counselors, we might not be getting the perspective we need to know if we need to move on or root ourselves deeper.In this week's episode, Jenni has a conversation with Nate Taylor, 4Sight coach and Executive Pastor about how coaching can help leaders navigate these seasons of change, and the two things he believes will make the biggest impact for leaders who feel exhausted and overwhelmed. Nate is passionate about the Gospel, his family and helping others to flourish in leadership using their unique wiring. He emphasizes a collaborative approach to leadership and loves to work with teams and leaders on implementing staff culture, self-leadership and staff leadership development, strategy and org-charts.For a next step, check out our 4Sight: Culture Blindspot Assessment. This survey will help you discover where you should be investing your time and efforts to make a bigger impact in your team. Our free assessment will help you identify your biggest culture blind spot so your team can thrive.Resources:Get4Sight FREE Discovery Call - Let’s go over your assessment results!4Sight Group: Leadership Coaches - connect with one of our trained and experienced coaches!Connect with Nate:Instagram: @natektaylor on InstagramEmail: nate@get4sight.comWe need your help to get the LeadCulture podcasts in front of more leaders! There are three simple things you can do that truly help us: Review us on Apple podcasts Subscribe - we’re available wherever you listen to podcasts. Share - let your friends know about the podcast by sharing your favorite episode on social media!

According to a recent Gallup study, 85% of employees are disengaged in their work; however, teams where employees have weekly interaction with their manager have the most employee engagement. If employee engagement is the lagging indicator, research has shown that consistent, intentional 1:1 meetings are the leading indicator. But how do we increase employee engagement, especially in the new hybrid work-world we’re living in?In this week's episode, Jenni has a conversation with Holly Tate, Senior Vice President of Growth at Leadr about the three key indicators that impact employee engagement, and how 1:1 meetings can amplify your influence across your organization, while avoiding them robs our team of the opportunity to seek clarity, ask for help, seek development, and receive feedback. Leadership development and great culture creation require consistent and repetitive action.Holly is passionate about connecting leaders with tools that help them discover a context to consistently apply the leadership content they’re learning. She is a growth strategist, entrepreneur, speaker, and member of the Forbes Communication Council who believes that organizations move at the speed of trust.For a next step, we encourage you to connect with one of our trained and experienced 4Sight Group: Leadership Coaches. All leaders agree that the culture of your organization matters. But culture starts with you! Transform your team from disengaged to thriving, from divided to collaborative, and from toxic to trusting.Resources:Leadr (Mention “Jenni” for 25% off)Connect with Holly:Email holly.tate@leadr.comWe need your help to get the LeadCulture podcasts in front of more leaders! There are three simple things you can do that truly help us: Review us on Apple podcasts Subscribe - we’re available wherever you listen to podcasts. Share - let your friends know about the podcast by sharing your favorite episode on social media!

As leaders, we all agree that the culture of our organization--the unique DNA that makes up our team's identity--is crucial. But we don't always know just how to build it in such a way that our culture is healthy, authentic and an environment in which those we lead can thrive. In this week's episode, Jenni Catron illuminates the HOW of building an extraordinary culture among those we lead. She encourages patience as we lead through clarifying purpose and laying the foundation for behaviors that reflect what our organizations truly value. Ultimately, the strategies we employ to accomplish our mission will flow out of these building blocks. With practical examples and stories of culture in action, Jenni will help you lead well as you seek to build an environment of healthy success for your team.We need your help to get the LeadCulture podcasts in front of more leaders! There are three simple things you can do that truly help us: Review us on Apple podcasts Subscribe - we’re available wherever you listen to podcasts. Share - let your friends know about the podcast by sharing your favorite episode on social media!

Did you know that currently over 60% of new hires are requesting flexible work schedules upon interviewing? In the newest report from ADP Research Institute, “two thirds (64%) of the workforce would consider looking for a new job if they were required to return to the office full time.” While the office may still be here to stay - its function may indeed be changing. Because interestingly enough, 87% of employees actually report that one of their top rated needs is to be able to collaborate and build relationships - which typically happens in an office type setting. In this week's episode, Jenni shares five crucial areas you can focus on to promote clarity and consistency within your organization and find success leading in a hybrid culture. If you're looking for more practical ways to invest in the health of your staff culture, I encourage you to register for Culture Conference.  Culture Conference is a free online conference designed to help leaders build thriving teams, cultivate inspiring workplaces, and achieve your mission. This year’s speakers include Marcus Buckingham, Nona Jones, Mark Batterson, Jeff Henderson and many more. Register for FREE here. We need your help to get the LeadCulture podcasts in front of more leaders! There are three simple things you can do that truly help us: Review us on Apple podcasts Subscribe - we’re available wherever you listen to podcasts. Share - let your friends know about the podcast by sharing your favorite episode on social media!

According to recent studies, the connection between employee well being and employee engagement are inseparable. Trends show that investment and development of human capital should be our top priority. Healthy employees are more mindful, happier and show higher rates of job satisfaction. Engaged employees show up to work with a bounce in their step, are less distracted and overall are less vulnerable to negative stress. Where engagement is low - morale is low. Where engagement is high - cultures thrive and organizations show 21% greater profitability. In this week's episode, Jenni has a conversation with Heath Wilson, Co-Founder of Aro, about how we as leaders and chief vision casters can be more intentional about modeling what it looks like to manage a very real distraction that hinders us from truly seeing our people and leaning into more meaningful interactions with those whom we lead. Heath is passionate about helping leaders, families, and organizations reclaim their time without technology and Aro is his way of doing that. Prior to Aro, Heath’s 20+ year career was primarily spent at eVestment, a financial technology company he co-founded and ultimately sold to NASDAQ in 2017.As leaders, we have the ability to set the tone in our cultures by creating new habits and establishing rhythms to increase authentic engagement. Small habits are the building blocks to take you from where you are to where you want to go. In our everyday interactions, it is our responsibility to bend culture and create moments that hold the possibility of quantity for the sake of quality. For a next step, we encourage you to REGISTER for the Culture Conference 2022 hosted by The 4Sight Group. Culture Conference is a FREE digital conference, taking place Aug 11th that will provide practical talks from today’s top leaders to help you continue to build thriving teams, cultivate inspiring workplaces, and achieve mission. Resources:Gallup ArticleLeadr (Mention “Jenni” for 25% off)Church Disruption SummitConnect with Heath:LinkedInWe need your help to get the LeadCulture podcasts in front of more leaders! There are three simple things you can do that truly help us: Review us on Apple podcasts Subscribe - we’re available wherever you listen to podcasts. Share - let your friends know about the podcast by sharing your favorite episode on social media!

More than ever employees are looking to belong and engage in an organization that offers purpose and meaning. Not only are people being attracted to organizations with stronger and clearer cultures, partnering with a mission and vision bigger than themselves, but they are also interested in being a part of a team that encourages their own growth and development.   In this week's episode, Jenni has a conversation with 4 Sight Coach Trey McKnight about the critical moment we face to rise up to the challenges proposed in our current climate in order to seize the opportunities we have to invest in what we can control. Trey serves as the Executive Director of Staff Culture and Development at Orange and has worked in ministry for over 20 years with organizations such as: Global Leadership Network, The John Maxwell Company, North Point Ministries, and Chickfila. Amidst a major shift in “How We Work”, it is important that we as leaders consistently take steps to move forward towards creating regular rhythms of communication to increase trust and connection within our organization. Asking clarifying questions, taking the time to listen and recognizing that culture work takes both patience and persistence is worth it and will make your organization stand out among the rest. For a next step, we encourage you to REGISTER for the Culture Conference 2022 hosted by The 4Sight Group. Culture Conference is a FREE digital conference, taking place Aug 11th that will provide practical talks from today’s top leaders to help you continue to build thriving teams, cultivate inspiring workplaces, and achieve mission. Resources:Blog: 6 Questions to Ask (and answer) to Improve CultureBlog: Patience + Persistence Equals What?Connect with Trey:TreyMcKnight.comFacebookInstagramWe need your help to get the LeadCulture podcasts in front of more leaders! There are three simple things you can do that truly help us: Review us on Apple podcasts Subscribe - we’re available wherever you listen to podcasts. Share - let your friends know about the podcast by sharing your favorite episode on social media!

It can be frustrating for a high capacity leader when you don’t find yourself in a chief decision making seat. It can be hard figuring out where to show up or how to affect culture. But the truth is culture always exists. You are always influencing culture and culture is always influencing you. However, if we do not become aware of the responsibility that comes with our seat of influence, within that culture, and learn how to calibrate that influence well, we can become passive in our leadership ultimately moving us into a victim mindset.  In this week's episode, Jenni has a conversation with Ed Ollie Jr. about how we can effectively lead and affect culture from any seat of influence by asking the questions: “What is the current culture? What am I bringing to the culture? And How do we diagnose the culture to move forward together with clear mission, vision and values?”. Ed graduated with athletic and academic honors in Political Science and Sociology and holds a Masters of Public Administration. Ed enjoys serving on the international board of InterVarsity USA and MOPS and has served as chaplain for the Miami Hurricanes as well as other professional teams. In 1995 New Man Magazine named him one of the "Top Five Young Christian Leaders" in America. In 2020, Ed accepted the position of Campus Pastor of the historic Willow Creek Community Church’s North Shore Campus where he serves as part of the Senior Leadership and Teaching Team.For any leader, it is important to take regular inventory of the lanes and roles you can control, in order to positively impact the culture and spaces in which you do have influence over. No matter what position we may hold we can always affect culture positively when we ask ourselves: “What is right? What is true? And What can I do?”For a next step, we encourage you to REGISTER for the Culture Conference 2022 hosted by The 4Sight Group. Culture Conference is a FREE digital conference, taking place Aug 11th that will provide practical talks from today’s top leaders to help you continue to build thriving teams, cultivate inspiring workplaces, and achieve mission. Resources:ThriventConnect with Ed:FacebookInstagramLinkedInWe need your help to get the LeadCulture podcasts in front of more leaders! There are three simple things you can do that truly help us: Review us on Apple podcasts Subscribe - we’re available wherever you listen to podcasts. Share - let your friends know about the podcast by sharing your favorite episode on social media!

Great culture is not hard to spot. Culture matters.  It matters for the people you’re trying to reach.  It matters for the people you are trying to lead whether they are staff or volunteers. The environment you create in your organization is either attracting or repelling.  There is rarely a middle ground.  And as leaders we set the tone for the culture.  We have to own it.  We have to steward it.  We have to set it, and we have to maintain it.  In this week's episode, Jenni discusses the five steps to the “Employee Engagement Funnel”, reminding us that we don’t drift towards extraordinary culture; it takes time, attention and commitment. When culture is well defined we know “who” we are and “why” we do the work we do.”The gaps that exist between “who we want to be” and “what we are” hold the keys of opportunity we have to invest in and develop culture. But if we have not yet done the work to clarify culture we cannot truly determine the health of something that is unclear to begin with. We must create organizational rhythms of cultural inputs that consistently provide a steady reminder of the values, beliefs and behaviors that define our aspirational culture. The more employees are actively engaged in achieving mission…the more compelling your culture will become!To dive in deeper, check out our 4Sight: Values Course. In this course, Jenni Catron walks you through how you can begin to define values, beliefs, and behaviors that will become the anchor for everything you do.Resources:Leadr.com (tell them “Jenni sent you” for 20% off)Register: Culture Conference Aug 11th 2022Tool: 4 Steps to Writing Values FREE PDF (Values Grid)We need your help to get the LeadCulture podcasts in front of more leaders! There are three simple things you can do that truly help us: Review us on Apple podcasts Subscribe - we’re available wherever you listen to podcasts. Share - let your friends know about the podcast by sharing your favorite episode on social media!