SUMMARY

A healthy and effective team culture is essential to organizational success, but building a culture of excellence is not automatic. Today’s episode is a live recording of a workshop led by GLN President and CEO David Ashcraft. In the workshop, David shares how to establish team culture in a practical and effective way and explains how values and behaviors help drive successful outcomes for a team. In addition, David also runs through some of the specific values and behaviors that currently define the culture at the GLN.

IN THIS EPISODE

0:00 Intro

2:43 What makes up culture

7:23 Knowing who you are as an organization

8:10 Values of the GLN

17:40 Key behaviors at the GLN

27:35 Lessons learned

38:35 Outro

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STANDOUTS AND TAKEAWAYS

• “Culture” is made up of what you celebrate and what you say, “no” to.

• Knowing your identity—what business you are in—is critical for an organization.

• The values of the Global Leadership Network:
  2. 2. Excellence
     4. Authenticity
     6. Collaboration
     8. Humility

• Key behaviors at the GLN:
  2. 2. Pray about everything
     4. Live a spiritually-yielded life
     6. Work with a spirit of intensity
     8. Allocate resources strategically
     10. Intercept entropy at its earliest stages
     12. Build relationships
     14. Be authentic
     16. Recognize that life change is a process
     18. Possess a winning attitude
     20. Communicate truth with grace

• Don’t settle for what’s good for your organization at the expense of what is best.

• Do not be afraid to borrow good ideas from others.

• Never stop learning.

• Dream big: people follow big dreams.

• Act like the organization you hope to be, not the one you are right now.

• Remember that you can’t please everyone, so don’t try.

• Strive to make 90% of your people wildly enthusiastic about what you’re doing, and allow 10% to be wildly upset with you.

• Always keep one eye on eternity.

LINKS MENTIONED

• Website: Global Leadership Network

• Website: Team365

• Website: Global Leadership Summit 2025