Sustainable Culture Quick Tips

Trust is the foundation for all relationships - both personal and at work. When we trust each other, we feel better about ourselves and our work and our companies do better.  Eveyone has a personal responsibility to build trust. This episode presents 4 questions that you can ask yourself to assess whether you are trustworthy.  

Are you an organizational activist whose boss doesn't always listen to you?  Great!  This episode is for you.  Today I take a look at how you can become more influential with your company's decision-makers as you attempt to persuade them to so more good!

Hey all of you organizational activists, in order to find solutions to all of the thorny sustainability and CSR problems we are tackling, we must be innovative.  And what is the enemy of innovation? Status quo thinking!  In this episode, I explore why close to half of people working in our companies say that they are uncomfortable challenging the status quo and what we can do about it.  I offer some quick tips that you can try out immediately to eliminate status quo thinking in your own organization.  And please send me an email with your own tips for eradicating this widespread challenge!  kathy@millerconsultants.com

I hear employees complain frequently that they don't see their leaders acting according to the company values.  Maybe that is because we don't all know exactly what the values should imply for our day to day behaviors.  In this episode, I offer 3 quick tips for how companies can make the values live through the actions of leaders - and all of us in companies, no matter where we sit, can lead.  That means that each of us can act with the company values guiding us. 

All of us change-makers know that changing almost anything in an organization can be tough. Why? Because change always involves people.  Whether you are a CEO, an entrepreneur, a Corporate Citizenship or Corporate Social Responsibility professional -  or any other kind of change maker working in an organization, this short episode provides you with 3 simple steps that can improve the results of your change initiatives immediately. 

I'll bet every one of you has had that experience of the "aha" moment at some point in your life.  These epiphanies are rare and very powerful.  But they don't come out of nowhere.  Whether you are working in Corporate Social Responsibility, Corporate Citizenship,  Sustainability or you are just passionate about these issues, you can become a more effective change agent by understanding the role of epiphanies in transformations, and by learning how to create the conditions for these epiphanies to occur.  This podcast tells you how to increase the liklihood of sustainability-related epiphanies - your own and others'.  

In this first of what I hope to be many podcasts, I talk about what I mean by sustainable culture. While my new book Leadership and Purpose: How to Create a Sustainable Culture will be released in a couple of weeks,  I couldn't cover everything that I have learned about these cultures.  Also I keep learning!  I want to continue to share with you the new tips, tools, lessons learned, insights as I gain greater understanding every day about what makes sustainable cultures unique and how companies make the transformation from the more traditional to the more sustainable cultures.  I end this episode by introducting the next substantive episode: Epiphany or Tipping Point: How leaders' transformations guide organizational transformations.