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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.
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
LISTEN
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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:
- Excellence
- Authenticity
- Collaboration
- Humility
- Key behaviors at the GLN:
- Pray about everything
- Live a spiritually-yielded life
- Work with a spirit of intensity
- Allocate resources strategically
- Intercept entropy at its earliest stages
- Build relationships
- Be authentic
- Recognize that life change is a process
- Possess a winning attitude
- 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
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