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Josh Levine, author of Great Mondays: How to design a company culture employees love, and podcast host of Great Mondays Radio for candid conversations with culture leaders. Josh is a Professor, author and speaker on the power of corporate culture and communication; and contributing writer to Fast Company and Forbes magazines. [0:00] Why values such as “accountability” need be framed as choices between viable options, not absolutes. [2:03] Why Josh started Great Mondays Radio podcast to spotlight culture as a business tool. [3:40] Defining company culture as the cause-and-effect of everyday workplace decisions. [6:08] How addressing small emotional “pinches” can build trust instead of resentment. [7:38] Overview of the six components of culture outlined in Great Mondays book and the field guide format. [9:09] Why values should be limited to 3 to 5 and how this forces leaders to prioritize behaviors. [11:18] The importance of expressing values as choices between strategic trade-offs like innovation vs. efficiency. [13:29] Introduction to the four types of recognition based on formality and source. [16:00] The 2x2 recognition model: formal and informal, from leaders and peers, with practical examples. [20:26] How informal leader recognition becomes a ritual and overlaps with other culture-building elements. [22:04] Where to download free exercises and tools from the Great Mondays website. Contact Josh Levine Websites https://www.youtube.com/@GreatMondays https://greatmondays.com/ https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/great-mondays-radio/id1671863469 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Welcome to foHRsight – a podcast about making work better brought to you by future foHRward.In this week's episode, Naomi Titleman has a cross-over podcast guest with Josh Levine.Josh Levine is on a mission to help organizations harness its power. His book, Great Mondays: How to Design a Company Culture Employees Love, presents the tools business leaders need to understand, design and manage their own culture. He also has his own podcast – Great Mondays Radio!You can learn more about Josh and his work here – https://www.greatmondays.com/Josh and Naomi have a far-reaching conversation about hybrid work and the importance of relationships in building successful cultures. Josh introduces his framework for culture with 6 components that he talks through.Quick reminderDon't forget to sign up for our weekly newsletter foHRsight at www.futurefoHRward.com/foHRsight.Follow us on LinkedIn:Mark - www.linkedin.com/in/markedgarhr/Naomi - www.linkedin.com/in/naomititlemancolla/future foHRward - www.linkedin.com/company/future-fohrward/And on Instagram - www.instagram.com/futurefohrward/foHRsight+ is a private digitally-powered community for forward thinking senior HR leaders committed to making work better. Sign up here to join us at our virtual Open House on March 7th and here to express interest in the next cohort!Support the show
In this episode of The Thoughtful Entrepreneur, your host Josh Elledge speaks with the CEO and Founder of Great Mondays, Author of Great Mondays: How to Design a Company Culture Employees Love, Josh Levine.Josh shares his passion for helping leaders create the kind of company culture they want for their employees. He says defining corporate culture and creatively designing it, as they see fit, is something leaders can do proactively. He guides them through his 6 components of corporate culture that will enable employees to work better. He says the secret to making employees more invested and engaged is to make them feel loved and understood. He advises companies to create a culture where employees can feel their impact, understand that they are part of something important, and work with a team they can trust.Josh also addresses the issue of deteriorating employee relationships, especially when the pandemic hits, and offers practical ways to rebuild and strengthen them again for future investment and productivity. He says relationships are the synapses of culture - if you want people to connect around a shared set of values, beliefs, and commitments, you have to make sure those synapses continue to be built and strengthened.Key Points from the Episode:How Important is Corporate Culture today? Practical Tips to Improving Employee Engagement6 Components of Corporate CultureThe Biggest Challenge Most Leaders Face Right NowEngagement, Recruiting & Retaining TalentsAbout Josh Levine: Josh is a best-selling educator, designer, and author. He's on a mission to help organizations design a cultural advantage. His new book Great Mondays: How to Design a Company Culture Employees Love, provides the framework and tools business leaders need to understand, design and manage their own culture.For over 15 years, Josh has helped build culture-driven brands, and as Director of Great Monday, he continues his work with technology and social enterprises. He is best known for co-founding the nonprofit Culture LabX in 2013 and, as executive director, overseeing its growth into an international community. Each year, tens of thousands of culture professionals attend Culture LabX events and engage in in-depth conversations about promoting and defending culture as a strategic advantage for business.Josh is sought after for his entertaining, inspirational and educational speeches that not only reveal new ideas, but inspire new action. He spoke to SXSW, Disrupt HR, and Wellness Council of America. And because he just can't get enough, you will also find him sharing his ideas as an instructor in the groundbreaking MBA program in Design at the California College of the Arts and in articles across the web. His highly entertaining and accessible writing has been featured in Huffington Post, Fast Company, and the Design Management Journal. Josh holds a BS in Engineering Psychology from Tufts University, and BFA in design from the Academy of Art University.About the book Great Mondays: How to Design a Company Culture Employees Love The book is about creating a vibrant work culture that inspires employees and promotes organizational growth. Evidence shows that culture drives budget performance. It's no secret that a toxic work culture can scare away employees and drive down profits. Creating a dynamic work culture that promotes both employee and business growth is essential to an organization's success. However, culture is a moving and difficult target.In Great
In this solocast of the Equipping Leaders Podcast, I share my top ten favorite leadership books of 2021. The list includes:1. Impact Players: How to Take the Lead, Play Bigger, and Multiply Your Impact by Liz Wiseman 2. Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know by Adam Grant 3. The Eight Paradoxes of Great Leadership: Embracing the Conflicting Demands of Today's Workplace by Tim Elmore4. Love Works: Seven Timeless Principles for Today's Leaders by Joel Manby5. Fierce Conversations: Achieving Success at Work and in Life One Conversation at a Time by Susan Scott 6. TEDTalk: The Official TED Guide to Public Speaking by Chris Anderson 7. Good Authority: How to Become the Leader Your Team is Waiting For by Jonathan Raymond 8. Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein 9. Change Enthusiasm: How to Harness the Power of Emotion for Leadership and Success by Cassandra Worthy 10. Great Mondays: How to Design a Company Culture Employees Love by Josh Levine
Josh Levine believes in great Mondays. Every employee can feel energized and ready to go to work each week by clearly defining their purpose. Purpose is more than earning a paycheck, it's being interested in the work you are doing, understanding why you are doing it, and bringing energy to the big idea you are serving. When you understand your purpose, the tedious work you do has a reason…even on Mondays. In this episode, Josh asks us all a relevant question: with all of this disruption in the workplace, is your purpose still relevant? This is employee engagement in the digital workplace. If your purpose is still clearly defined and relevant, it doesn't matter if you are in the office or not. Employees can work from anywhere and be aligned on the reason why they are there. It's a powerful tool for driving performance and productivity. Thank you Josh for your timely insights as we built the future of work. Josh's Book! Great Mondays: How to Design Company Culture Employees Love https://www.amazon.com/Great-Mondays-Company-Culture-Employees/dp/126013234X/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=great+mondays&qid=1601996311&sr=8-1 Josh's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/akajoshlevine/ Website: https://www.greatmondays.com/
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In this episode of the HRchat show, Bill Banham chats with Josh Levine, speaker and Consultant at Great Mondays about ways to mix up HR and related events to present content in new and fun ways. Josh is author of Great Mondays: How to Design a Company Culture Employees Love. He has been featured on Forbes, Marketplace and many more awesome places!
If you're like most people, your Sundays suck something terrible because it means Monday is just around the corner. But what if we said it's possible to be excited about Monday? Josh Levine is on a mission to do just that - to make Mondays...great. Josh is the author of Great Mondays: How to Design a Company Culture Employees Love and he shares with us why culture is more than just touchy feely mumbo jumbo. According to Josh, you can design a great company culture by focusing on 6 key attributes. And at the end, he gives an exercise you can do to share creating a company culture that makes Mondays great for your company. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/life-on-brand/message
Author of GREAT MONDAYS, ‘one of the best culture books of all time' Josh Levine shares awesome insights about how to design a culture employees love. Why you should listen: Why you absolutely should NOT reward outcomes, and what to reward instead Learn the six steps to culture design Why Peak Perks has hit Silicon Valley and how it's a waste of money if you want to build a company to last Simple culture hacks that are easy to implement for effective employee recognition We explore: How work can improve life, rather than detract from it Culture ‘synapses' - and building connections between people beyond their role The difference between wanting to build and flip, and building something enduring and meaningful
About this Episode What's the best way to create lasting, scaleable employee engagement? If you answered pingpong tables, you really need to listen to this podcast episode! ;) In this episode, my guest, author Josh Levine, and I discuss the importance of consciously creating specific values for your organization. We also go into how leveraging your values in a precise, methodical way can help your company build stability during volatile growth, while giving your organization a clear competitive advantage. Specifically we talk about: a) The Six Components for driving cultural change in any organization. b) The problems with "culture by accident," and how that can cost your organization. c) Cultural pitfalls and how to avoid them. d) And of course, a lot more. About Our Guest, Josh Levine Josh Levine is the best-selling author of the book Great Mondays: How to Design a Company Culture Employees Love (see below for a link to where you can order your copy). Josh is an educator, designer, and above all, he is on a mission to help organizations design a culture advantage. For more than 15 years Josh has helped build culture-driven brands and as Principal of Great Mondays continues his work with technology and social enterprise organizations. He is co-founder of the non-profit Culture LabX, and as executive director has overseen its growth into an international community. Josh is sought after for his unique and entertaining keynotes, that not only reveal new insights, but inspire new action. Click here to order the book, Great Mondays: How to Design a Company Culture Employees Love For tons of other info and tools you can use to help design culture in your business, visit the GreatMondays.com website. About Pat Perdue In addition to his consulting, social media, and branding work, Pat Perdue is founder of YCASTR Podcast Solutions - driving employee engagement through custom designed podcasts for your organization. Pat is also a recognized Customer Experience and Sales Leadership professional. Pat's podcast, Pat Perdue's Customer Experience Podcast, is one of the leading podcasts on customer experience. Training and Skills Development Pat works with clients of all sizes across N. America, helping them drive sales and improving CSAT scores. Contact Pat to see how he can help your organization. You can reach Pat on Twitter at @patperdue or connect on Linkedin here: Linkedin.com/in/patperdue/
On this episode of Silicon Valley Insider, Keith Koo's special guest is Josh Levine, Principal of Great Mondays culture design consulting firm and Founder of Culture LabX a non-profit. Josh is also the author of "Great Mondays: How to Design a Company Culture Employees Love". Josh is also a Forbes HR contributor. Josh and Keith discuss the importance of defining corporate culture and the critical six elements that Josh lays out in his book to achieve success. More information on Josh Levine and "Great Mondays" can be found at: www.greatmondays.com On this week's Cyber-Tip, Keith discuss how hackers are advancing in their techniques to defeat multi-factor authentication (MFA).. www.svin.biz Listen Fridays 1-2pm on 1220AM KDOW Silicon Valley | San Francisco Listen and subscribe to the "Silicon Valley Insider" Podcast ahead of time to make sure you don't miss this show. First airing is 1-2pm on 1220AM KDOW Download the podcast at www.svin.biz For questions or comments, email: info@svin.biz Be sure to subscribe and listen to the podcast. You can also listen to past podcasts here: Castbox: https://castbox.fm/channel/The-Silicon-Valley-Insider-Show-with-Keith-Koo-id1100209?country=us iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-silicon-valley-insider-show/id1282637717?mt=2 Android, Spotify (and iTunes): https://omny.fm/shows/the-silicon-valley-insider-show Email us at info@svin.biz or find us here: www.svin.biz https://stitchengine.drishinfo.com/index.jsp?sId=15540&source=sh Artificial Intelligence, AI, Blockchain, Big Data, Data Analytics, Cyberrisk, Information security, VC, Venture Capital, Angel Investments, Fundraising, Capital Raising, Investor, Human Rights, Technology for Good, UN SDGs, Emerging Technology, #Patreon
In this episode, we chat with Josh Levine, author of Great Mondays: How to Design a Company Culture Employees Love. Josh is also a speaker at DisruptHR San Francisco happening Tuesday, October 15. Great Mondays is a culture design company based in Berkely, California. Its mission is to help technology and social enterprise organizations improve the way they work.
Josh Levine has a disturbing message for HR and executives in the C-Suite: ignore company culture at your own risk. New SHRM stats prove his point. 1 out of 4 Americans dread going to work. Nearly 1/2 of all workers are thinking about leaving. A bad company culture is not only bad for employees. It’s bad for business. Company culture is the difference between a vibrant business and one that flounders. (Yes, we talk about the rise and fall of WeWork and Uber too!) Listen while Josh discusses his new book Great Mondays: How to Design a Company Culture That Employees Love. Where do you start? Click play. Buy Great Mondays View SHRM's 2019 Culture Report
Write Your Company's Obituary: Identify or Rediscover Your Company's Purpose Having to write your company's obituary sounds a bit morbid but there's a good reason why doing this is important. One result is that doing so will help you identify and rediscover your company's purpose. Josh Levine is a culture company strategist and works with technology, social enterprise organizations, and firms to help them improve their work. His goal is to make the employees love what they're doing by building strong relationships, higher trust, and deeper engagement. Josh published a book called Great Mondays: How to Design a Company Culture That Employees Love. It talks about all his learnings for the past 10 years in advancing the idea of company culture as a strategic advantage. It defined what culture is and gives people the tools that they need to improve the culture. Write your company's obituary This was a tool that Josh's mentor used and many clients would react negatively upon hearing it. There is more to sales than just putting the product out there and selling it. It's more than just the numbers. Doing business isn't only about the money; it's also about understanding what you are trying to do with your company and with your life. This is also about knowing your own purpose and helping the organization discover its ‘why?' Imagine that your business closes its doors after 30 years. Don't think of the reason why it shut down. Your goal is to write down two or three short paragraphs about why your company will be remembered and will be most missed. This will give you the opportunity to see what you achieved that made the difference. Josh's team works with a board executive team and leadership peers together. They make teams write because what matters isn't just the end result. They also consider the kind of language, the words, and the phrases used together. Obituary exercise Don't stop short of the fantastic. When you start writing your company obituary, you need to go beyond how far you think you can make it. Be bold about the things that you think your company can achieve. #Salessuccess The point of the exercise is to come up with your achievements and look for the possible ways that you're going to achieve those. Josh had a client who said that they would solve poverty. It's a far-fetched goal and impossible to do but it didn't keep them from aiming to do so. When the discussion happened, the team thought of how to make it work and figured out that their technology connects communities together. The community that works together will solve poverty. With that, their previously written achievement of solving poverty now sounds plausible. Define your purpose Next, you have to define your purpose. The company's values are the hows and the company's purposes are the whys. Businesses and companies need to figure out the why behind what they're doing. You won't be able to find your purpose if you're thinking about this quarter's return or this quarter's sales numbers. As a sales leader, you can help define the purpose by shaping the culture of your company according to the company's vision. You can help strengthen the team and find the values and purpose of the company over time. Components of a company's culture There are six components mentioned in the book Great Mondays. The first three are as follows: Purpose Values Behaviors The first two define the company's purpose and values. The third component is behaviors. Behavior is the center point of culture and is what you are trying to adjust to help people make better business decisions. The next three are the following: Recognition Rituals Cues Recognition and rewards have been used in businesses. These are effective strategies in aligning behaviors to build and strengthen the synapses of culture. Your goal is to spread your culture and share the behaviors. Keep reminding your peers why they're in the business and getting the people back to the top of the pyramid. Love what you and find something that you believe in to make everything worthwhile. “Write Your Company's Obituary” episode resources Great Mondays: How to Design a Company Culture That Employees Love is available on Amazon. The purpose of the Write your company's obituary exercise is laid out in the book. You can download the supporting materials for free at free@greatmondays.com. You can also sign up for newsletters, one minute Monday, and case studies. We will e-mail you all the necessary information for building cultures that matter. Connect with Josh Levine via Twitter and LinkedIn. This episode is brought to you in-part by TSE Certified Sales Training Program. It's a helpful guide for sales reps and sales leaders to improve their pitches and presentations. It has 12 courses and you can get the first two modules for free! 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September – 2019 Monthly Leadership Session with Josh Levine UPDATE: NEW GREAT MONDAYS GIVEAWAY CONTEST! Josh Levine is an educator, designer, and best-selling author, but above all, he is on a mission to help organizations design a culture advantage. His new book Great Mondays: How to Design a Company Culture Employees Love, is a must […]
For episode show notes, please visit http://bit.ly/HRSP-JoshLevine As the founder of Great Mondays, a culture design agency, Josh Levine is passionate about helping clients improve the work they do every day. He is an educator, designer, and best-selling author, but above all, he is on a mission to help organizations design their culture so that it is an advantage. In this episode, Josh defines culture and explains why it is so important to a company’s success today. He describes the six components involved in defining, designing, and delivering a successful culture, sharing examples of how organizations ‘live’ their cultures. In this episode, Josh defines culture and explains why it is so important to a company’s success today. He describes the six components involved in defining, designing, and delivering a successful culture, sharing examples of how organizations ‘live’ their cultures. Josh’s book, Great Mondays: How to Design a Company Culture Employees Love, presents the framework and tools business leaders need to understand, design, and manage their culture. He may be known best for helping found the non-profit, Culture LabX, and has overseen its growth into an international community. He has also written for Forbes.com, Huffington Post, Fast Company, and the Design Management Journal about organizational culture, why it is important, how to achieve it, and how to build a culture advantage.
What does it take to design a culture that employees will love? In this episode of the Extraordinary podcast, I interview Josh Levine, Founder of Great Mondays, a culture-design company from San Fransisco. Josh shares his insights and experiences from his new book Great Mondays - How to design a company culture employees love. Connect with Josh and check out Great Mondays at www.greatmondays.com If you like the episode, make sure you subscribe and leave a review :) Also, if you want more content from me, sign up for my newsletter at www.thefutureacademy.com ...and check out our course offerings.
Josh Levine is an educator, designer, and best-selling author, but above all, he is on a mission to help organizations design a culture advantage. Josh is on a mission to help organizations design a culture advantage. He helped create Culture LabX, which are global communities connecting like-minded individuals on the topic of the future of work. Josh talks about rituals and how he utilizes them to help organizations build not only a great culture but one that is sustaining. Josh Levine’s new book, Great Mondays: How to Design a Company Culture Employees Love, presents the framework and tools business leaders need to understand, design, and manage their own culture. For more information about Josh: Great Mondays Website Great Mondays on Twitter Great Mondays on Instagram iTunes - Subscribe, Rate and Review Find us on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify and anywhere you listen to podcasts
“It’s imperative. You must design your culture. It plays such a big role.” Educator, author, and designer Josh Miles has made his mission helping organizations understand the need for culture design in our rapidly changing digital world. His new book Great Mondays charges organizations with developing a company culture that employees will love. We talked about how to think and act differently when it comes to culture this week on the On Brand podcast. About Josh Levine Josh Levine is an educator, designer, and author, but above all, he is on a mission to help organizations design a culture advantage. Even though his day job is Principal of Great Mondays, a 10-year-old culture design company, Josh is best known as Executive Director and Co-Founder of the international non-profit Culture LabX. His new book Great Mondays: How to Design a Company Culture Employees Love is available on Amazon. You can find him around the web @akajoshlevine Episode Highlights The problem with culture problems. Josh began the episode by sharing that most culture engagements don't present as culture problems. “No one asks for help with their culture. They talk about their values. They need help refreshing their values.” How do you address culture? Josh has a six-step system: (1) purpose, (2) values, (3) behaviors, (4) rituals, (5) recognition, (6) and cues. What brand has a great culture? Specifically, I asked Josh for a brand with a great culture who we might not normally think of. He told the story of a friend who was interviewing someone at Airbnb. The company was holding on-site job interviews at the same time and he observed them working to prepare the space with signs welcoming the potential new hires. This is a cue that says a lot about how they value team members. “There’s a real culture-brand alignment." What brand has made Josh smile recently? “I have two companies. First, Slack, who just launched a new logo. They also align with my personality.” Josh also shared another example – his friend that just started a new bike shop Full Metal Cycles. To learn more, go to greatmondays.com. What brand has made Steve smile recently? Steve shared how his adopted hometown of Nashville makes him smile every time he sees the skyline as he descends in a plane returning from a trip. That's a good community brand! To learn more about Steve, check out the book at claritywins.org, connect with The King of Clarity on Facebook, and visit his company website clarityfuel.com. As We Wrap … Did you hear something you liked on this episode or another? Do you have a question you’d like our guests to answer? Let me know on Twitter using the hashtag #OnBrandPodcast and you may just hear your thoughts here on the show. On Brand is sponsored by my new book Brand Now. Discover the seven dynamics to help your brand stand out in our crowded, distracted world. Order now and get special digital extras. Learn more. Subscribe to the podcast – You can subscribe to the show via iTunes, Stitcher, TuneIn, and RSS. Rate and review the show – If you like what you’re hearing, head over to iTunes and click that 5-star button to rate the show. And if you have a few extra seconds, write a couple of sentences and submit a review. This helps others find the podcast. OK. How do you rate and review a podcast? Need a quick tutorial on leaving a rating/review in iTunes? Check this out. Until next week, I’ll see you on the Internet!
Great work cultures don't just happen. As a leading indicator of adaptability, paying attention to the six components of great work cultures helps you and your company avoid the slippery slope into confusion that takes place when company growth fails to match cultural health. Author of Great Mondays, Josh Levine, talks to host Dawna Jones about why relationships are synapses of culture, why culture is bigger than ping pong tables, and how to design your culture to engage. Part workbook, Josh also offers a framework for continuously evolving immediately applicable.Josh Levine is an educator,designer, and author but above all, he is on a mission to help organizations design a culture advantage. His day job is Principal of Great Mondays, a 10-year-old culture design company. In 2013, he co-founded an international non-profit Culture LabX. You will find his book Great Mondays: How to Design a Company Culture Employees Love is available on Amazon, Barnes and Noble and other outlets. http://www.GreatMondays.com See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.