Research has found that leadership development is critical in many ways throughout an organization. By delaying development and not giving leaders a chance to advance and grow, the company is effectively cutting its profits by up to 7%.  Episode Summary: Rod and Brian interviewed Lou (Coach) Roddy, who shares some key best practices, lessons learned, […]

Leadership, employee engagement, and building/sustaining an organization’s culture are all contact sports – each requires people to work in parallel and are reliant on each other to be successful. Building and maintaining professional relationships is critical.          Episode Summary: Special guest Kelly Wojda, – recently retired VP of Global Learning and Development at Caterpillar Inc., shares […]

  Commitment requires sacrifice, purpose, and determination. It can’t be assigned. It needs to be a personal choice at every level of the organization. Ultimately, an organization’s Executive Team must model and coach commitment to make it ‘stick’ in their culture.   Episode Summary: Special guest Victor Davis – SVP of Supply Chain at Royal […]

  Culture determines whether healthy relationships can naturally develop and thrive in an organization. What is your organization proactively doing to assist professional, quality relationships to thrive in your workplace?   Episode Summary: Rod and Brian discuss a simple assessment of key processes to help determine if your organization is developing and nurturing healthy boundaries […]

    The research is compelling. Only 1 in 4 employees feel they received meaningful recognition and praise for doing good work in the last week. 70% of employees report their most meaningful recognition had NO $ value. Non-cash recognition provides a higher return on investment than cash by almost 3-1.   Episode Summary:  Rod […]

    Research has found that hopeful employees are 14% more productive and up to 69 times more likely to be engaged than their counterparts.   Episode Summary: Rod and Brian explore key areas that all employees want to feel hopeful about in their workplace. They then suggest three specific things individual leaders can do […]

    Rod and Brian interview Al Lucia and recap a number of key takeaways from the last six months of Latitude episodes using Al’s technique of harmogenizing – using music as a memory anchor.     Episode Summary: Research has concluded, as a general rule, a human’s forgetting curve is that in about 1 […]

  Rod and Brian conclude this two-part series by discussing three additional ways executives can embed quality or non-quality elements into their organization’s culture.     Episode Summary: Three additional ways executives embed culture are discussed, and examples of each are given. These include:  What executives model, coach, and teach Perceived way employees believe they […]

  Rod and Brian start a two-part series on the cost of cultural non-quality on overall performance.   Episode Summary: The cost of cultural non-quality is defined as the costs and performance waste that would disappear in an organization if employees’ mindsets and behaviors were consistently: ·       Aligned to the organization’s ‘common’ goals and objectives […]

  Rod and Brian conclude their two-part series on communication by reminding listeners of some key ‘basics’ that all leaders need to be brilliant in modeling, coaching, and teaching their employees.   Episode Summary: How much is LOST between communication intent, delivery, and understanding? How can you illustrate the importance of nonverbal communication? How well […]