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Inspired and Intentional Business Podcast - Open Book Management, Business Vision, Employee Engagement, Balancing Profit and Social Impact

In the United States, according to Gallup, nearly 70% of employees are not engaged in their work. Disengagement negatively affects profitability and productivity. I believe there are 3 ways businesses can improve engagement. One, they inspire with a clear vision. Two, they practice open-book management. Three, they intentionally build collaborative, accountable, strength-focused teams. My intention is to inspire owners considering a new way to run their business and to encourage those currently fighting the good fight to balance profits and social impact. Let’s be inspired. The show will touch on business strategy, vision, internal communication, finance, accounting, organizational development, team-building, marketing, sales, and operations. Inspirations for the show include The Great Game of Business, by Jack Stack; Zingermans Community of Businesses, Ari Weinzweig, Paul Saginaw, Small Giants by Bo Burlingham, Open Book Managment by John Case, Zappos, and others.
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Jul 27, 2016

ZingTrain has graciously allowed me to replay their webinars on my channel. I've collected 16 of them into a series of deep dive business lessons. This is part two of series 1 on the broad topic of Visioning and Leadership. This gets into the specific topic of managing ourselves to be good leaders. Screen Shot 2016-07-18 at 10.49.31 PM

I've found in my discussions with leaders in the area of inspired and intentional organizations, self-reflection and starting with ourselves is a big part of creating a more human culture.

Enjoy.

Show page links to resources etc http://wp.me/p6jkSJ-6M

Jul 26, 2016

This is my repodcast with Amy Emberling, Managing Partner of Zingerman’s Bakehouse and Candy Manufactory.

Amy Emberling, Managing Partner of Zingerman’s Bakehouse, has been an avid food lover and baker since her childhood in Nova Scotia, Canada where she often treated friends to after-school concoctions. She grew up in a family business and always hoped to have her own business one day.

In addition to her work at the Bakehouse, Amy also teaches seminars for ZingTrain in two seminars: Leading with Zing and Bottom Line Training. She is also one of the partners of Zingerman’s Candy Manufactory (with Charlie Frank), which was developed in the bakery.

In this episode we talk a bit about:

Letting systems help during those times when your people aren’t at their best.
Finding and hiring the right kind of people.
One way of defining success for each member of your team.
Training systems
Culture and pulling dissenting opinions to make the team stronger.
Having the difficult conversations.
Keeping excitement and focus for a long term vision.
Entrepreneurship and Innovation
A process for nurturing change within your organizationSuccession planning and what keeps Amy inspired to keep improving
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http://inspiredandintentional.com/episode43

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Jul 20, 2016

This is the first in a series of 16 ZingTrain webinar replays. They've been kind enough to give me permission to present these on the channel and I've curated 16 of the episodes into 4 distinct series that will help you change and intentionally create an inspiring culture.

This one covers mindfulness.

http://inspiredandintentional.com/deepdive1

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Jul 20, 2016

The group at ZingTrain were kind enough to give me permission to share episodes from their free webinar series. I've collected a few into 4 areas of business.

Series one is based on getting a good start with Visioning and Leadership. Begin with yourself by understanding the concept of mindfulness and self management. Learn the importance of being a servant leader. And then move onto creating a vision you and your team can believe in.

Once you have a vision you can move onto series 2 and begin to work on building the team around you to reach those goals. Here you learn how to tune up your team so they operate at full capacity. Once they're running you learn how to effectively measure their success with performance reviews. Because change is constant you will learn how to undertake bottom-line change.

In order for your team to work independently and fully engaged in how the company generates cash and runs profitably, you will deep deep dive into Open Book Management, or OBM. You'll learn what it is. Then you will learn how to make the concept of tracking numbers fun by playing games. After running OBM for a while, the ZingTrain crew share the lessons they've learned. Some years you will struggle hitting those targets. If so, listen to FIVE FANTASTIC TIPS TO MEET YOUR ANNUAL TARGETS.

You're in a perfect state of zen, have a great team, and are operating with open book management like no one's business. How do you handle the growth? They've got you covered with series 4. Instead of necessarily growing your core business, why not start a community of businesses? Who's going to run all these new businesses? Why not create a system to make employees owners and the processes used to accomplish this?

Here's the entire library of free webinars you can find at ZingTrain's site.

When you click the links below you will be directed to each webinar's specific page where you will find the audio files, the slides, and many other resources. The amount of material available for each webinar varies.

Intro Episode where I tell you briefly what I'm doing with the series. - http://inspiredandintentional.com/deepdive

Jul 19, 2016

This is a rebroadcast, or is that repodcast, of my entire chat with Cindy Stein, Greene County Missouri Auditor.

In this election season, and frankly a season of discontent and anger over government, I felt it important to look at one way of bring trust back to government. Opening up books and being more transparent should be the default of all government, but sadly it's not and we've let it become that way.

But Cindy shows that there is another way and that it can work.

I would love to see your thoughts and comments - go on over to http://inspiredandintentional.com

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This show is copyright 2016 by it's owner.

The music is Funk Game Loop, Kevin McLeod, Royalty Free from Incompatech.

Jul 12, 2016

Join me as I replay my entire session with Ari Weinzweig. This was episodes 1-3.

Comment your ideas for future shows and what you want to hear about.

http://inspiredandintentional.com/episode41

Jul 7, 2016

My 2nd featured podcaster is Shawn Murphy of the Rebel Leader podcast. He's talking to leaders who are working to change the way business is run. Go check him out.

The Rebel Leader Podcast on iTunes.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-rebel-leader-podcast/id1086483346?mt=2&ign-mpt=uo%3D4

Switch and Shift, Shawn's primary website for his business and podcast. http://switchandshift.com/

Jul 5, 2016

Taking a break for the summer and getting my wits about me. Here I talk for a few minutes to share what will be happening on the show for the next 6 weeks.

In addition, I mention briefly the upcoming webinar replay series featuring the ZingTrain team. They've given me permission to share their webinars, 'cause that's the nice kind of people they are.

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