Transformational Leaders Creating a Win/Win Workplace

The Transformation Network™

Transformational leaders are passionately convicted about inspiring and motivating their people through healthy culture practices so they achieve meaningful, positive change and exceed expectations. The excellence they create is palpable in the relationships, productivity and engagement of their staff. Such leaders hold a compelling vision for developing leadership in everyone in the workforce, including themselves. They consciously promote creativity, collaboration, and critical thinking to ensure innovative solutions and a strong sense of meaning and purpose.
My guests today are such transformational leaders. For the past 10 years, they have been committed to investing time and money in creating a healthy workplace culture. And…they practice what they preach by modelling strong ethical principles themselves so they inspire others to live in the kind of integrity that builds mutual trust and respect. This not only occurs within the staff but also with customers they serve.
These guests are two of my favorite leaders ever! They adopted the LifeWork Systems’ CultureEX transformation model; an unconventional, shared power culture transformation process. My guests know first-hand that helping people live from personal responsibility, internal motivation, and emotional and social intelligence is what strengthens their organization and it is not for the faint of heart. These two are both founding members of CMIT Solutions St. Louis, a managed IT Services and cybersecurity provider.
These are transformational leaders committed to their people. They onboard them with the promise of helping each develop personally and professionally so everyone supports the wild success of one another. To do this, they have adopted and promote common concepts, terms, tools, support strategies, and organizational processes from our CultureEX model. I am so happy to introduce these two amazing leaders to you. I am so happy to introduce these two transformational leaders to you.
Questions we may discuss are:
1. What made you decide back in 2015 to transform your workplace culture using LifeWork Systems CultureEX™ guided change process and model and what makes you remain committed to this culture model?
2. What have been some of the most rewarding experiences that have come from this? Why? Can you share stories?
3. What evidence do you have that your people have retained what they’ve learned, find it relevant and use it? Can you share stories?
4. What do you think most leaders miss out on by not considering the health of their workplace culture and the emotional intelligence of their people?
5. When you’ve told others about your culture, what do you tell them and what do they say or ask you?
6. Have you received feedback from staff and customers that make you feel proud about your investment into the development of your people and culture?
7. When you went through the pandemic or other challenges, what things help you to keep your people encouraged, cohesive, and purpose-based?
8. As you know, we encourage people to own their own tasks and to support each other in picking up responsibility to manage their relationships, productivity and engagement in the mentoring process. Does this help you as leaders of the company? Why and how?
9. Do you agree that trustworthiness is foundational to success in your business?
10. Which of the 8 values that build trust seems to be the one your people struggle with the most? (honesty, straightforwardness, disclosure, receptivity, respect, recognition, seeks excellence and keeps commitments.)
11. Do you think most of your people maintain a high level of trust with each other? With you?
12. What do you notice is the most striking thing about employees who are personally responsible?
13. What concepts in your culture change process have meant the most to you and why?
14. What tools do you find most relevant and helpful? Why?
15. What are some positive changes in yourself and your employees over the years?
16. Are your people self-directed? Personally responsible? Emotionally intelligent? Internally motivated? Can you share some stories?
17. As we wrap up this episode, what words of wisdom would you like to leave with our listeners?