Podcast appearances and mentions of mark babbitt

Work is part of our lives, and it can be difficult. Melissa Swift thinks we can do better for the world and make a living and it doesn't have to suck. She joins Kevin to discuss how work can be transformed to be less challenging and more successful. According to Melissa, work has intensified, and we are facing the psychological equivalent of the early days of factory work, which is indirectly killing us. Organizations need to re-engineer how their team operates. If work doesn't suck, you will have better productivity. Key Points Melissa Swift shares why she thinks work is broken and how it has changed.  She discusses the negative impact of the “work anxiety monster” and the “boss baby customer”. Meet Melissa Name: Melissa Swift  Her Story:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/swiftmelissa/ How Leaders Can Create a Company Culture That Doesn't Suck with S. Chris Edmonds and Mark Babbitt

Mark S. Babbitt is President of WorqIQ, a community and change management consultancy that helps organizations understand leadership's impact on culture and the company's collective level of Workplace Intelligence (WQ). Mark is also CEO and Founder of YouTern. This career-focused community enables college students, recent graduates, and young professionals to find their first or next internship or job with the right organizational culture for them. Mark co-authored A World Gone Social: How Companies Must Adapt to Survive and is co-author of the upcoming (September 28, 2021 | Matt Holt and BenBella Books) Good Comes First: How Today's Leaders Create an Uncompromising Company Culture That Doesn't Suck. Followers also find Mark's advice in Entrepreneur, Inc., Forbes, and many other publications. An in-demand speaker, Mark was named one of Inc. Magazines' Top 100 Leadership Speakers. S. Chris Edmonds helps leaders create and sustain purposeful, positive, productive work cultures. He is a speaker, author, and executive consultant who is the founder of The Purposeful Culture Group. He's one of Inc. Magazine's 100 Top Leadership Speakers and was a featured presenter at South by Southwest 2015. Chris is the author of the Amazon best seller The Culture Engine and is co-author of the upcoming title, Good Comes First. Chris' blog, podcasts, and videos are at DrivingResultsThroughCulture.com. Chris' short, rich Culture Leadership Charge video episodes can be found on YouTube. Learn more about Mark & Chris and their Book - Click Here

Culture is more than eye candy on the wall; it is how we show up every day. Matt Mayberry joins Kevin to discuss creating a positive and thriving culture. According to Mayberry, a positive culture must be clearly defined and integrated into every aspect of your company, from top to bottom. He says there must be a clear distinction between what constitutes a positive culture and what does not. Culture must be at every piece of your organization and connected to your purpose. This is how you create buy-in; this is how you create a positive culture; this is how you create organizational success. Key Points Matt Mayberry defines culture and why it is misunderstood.  He describes a Cultural Purpose Statement.  He shares his thoughts about culture at a distance. Meet Matt Name: Matt Mayberry His Story: Matt Mayberry is the author of Culture Is the Way: How Leaders at Every Level Build an Organization for Speed, Impact, and Excellence. He is an internationally acclaimed keynote speaker and leading global expert in leadership development, culture change, and organizational performance. His insights on leadership and business performance have been featured in Forbes, Fox News, Business Insider, Fortune, NBC, ESPN, and several other major media outlets. Worth Mentioning:  http://mattmayberryonline.com/ https://www.facebook.com/LikeMattMayberry/ How Leaders Can Create a Company Culture That Doesn't Suck with S. Chris Edmonds and Mark Babbitt

Second part of our interview with the authors of Good Comes First: How Today's Leaders Create An Uncompromising Company Culture That Doesn't Suck. They present proven strategies for creating purposeful, positive, and productive work cultures. Follow Mark Babbitt on Twitter @MarkSBabbitt Follow Chris Edmonds on Twitter @@scedmonds Free book excerpt https://culturecornerstones.com/freeexcerpt/v4

In this episode, Jeff and Lason discuss leadership principles and wisdom with the authors of Good Comes First: How Today's Leaders Create An Uncompromising Company Culture That Doesn't Suck. They present proven strategies for creating purposeful, positive, and productive work cultures. Follow Mark Babbitt on Twitter @MarkSBabbitt Follow Chris Edmonds on Twitter @scedmonds Free book excerpt https://culturecornerstones.com/freeexcerpt/v4

Companies around the globe are short-staffed. Leaders have tried to boost hiring through higher wages and even bonuses, but staffing shortages continue. The problem? Many business leaders want to return to the “old normal” but employees and candidates don't want “old normal.” A new Deloitte study found the top four things Gen-Y and Gen-Z workers want include work/life balance, development opportunities, higher salaries, and a positive culture.  Money isn't their primary driver. What must leaders do? They must build and sustain a work culture where employees of all generations are respected and validated for their ideas, efforts, and accomplishments. Let's examine a shining beacon. Radio Flyer is a 100+ year old company famous for their original red wagons. For the last decade, they've been rated as one of the best companies to work for by Glassdoor,  Crain's, The Inc. 5000 list, and many others. Glassdoor tracks employee ratings in seven critical categories. Radio Flyer's scores average a 4.9 on a 5-point scale. How did Radio Flyer's senior leaders create their uncompromising culture? Mark Babbitt and I interviewed Chief Wagon Officer Robert Pasin for our 2021 book, Good Comes First. Their efforts followed our culture model. First, they defined their desired culture - with input from all staff. “We did a very intentional culture transformation where we started to articulate our vision, mission, and values,” Pasin explained.  “We plastered the cafeteria walls with huge posters,” letting every employee participate by writing their thoughts. “This is when the behaviors we want were articulated,” Pasin said. Second, they aligned all plans, decisions, and actions to their desired culture.  Robert said, “You get better at what you measure and become what you celebrate as a team. We started to develop a lot of awards and recognition for people who demonstrated our values.” Third, as the company articulated and celebrated its values and behaviors, Pasin said, “We had to have zero tolerance for bad behavior.” When people behaved in disrespectful ways, they were coached and mentored. If they aligned to desired behaviors, they stayed. If they did not  align, they were lovingly set free. Pasin says, “People are so grateful to not have the distractions, the politics, etc., here because we have no tolerance for drama.” That's what it takes to sustain an uncompromising work culture. It requires months of steady modeling, measuring, and mentoring of everyone - by every formal leader. This episode was published on https://DrivingResultsThroughCulture.com on July 10, 2022.

The Practicality and Profit of Putting Good First Trying to get back to normal is not only foolish, it's ignorant of the pandemic's gravity and psychological impact. The pandemic gave way to the Great Resignation and a massive labor shortage. Values have shifted from to family, but we still have companies to run. So, what can we practically do about it? What if success moving forward means, first and foremost, doing Good? If it's true that Good Comes First, how can Today's Leaders create an uncompromising company culture based on doing Good? Our guests for the next two episodes are Chris Edmonds and Mark Babbitt. They are the coauthors of Good Comes First: How Today's Leaders Create an Uncompromising Company Culture. Chris Edmonds is a sought-after speaker and bestselling author, He is a highly regarded executive consultant, CEO and founder of The Purposeful Culture Group. Chris is the author of 2 bestsellers, The Culture Engine and, most recently, Good Comes First. Chris has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, SmartBrief, People, CNN, Fox31, NBC, and Fast Company. Chris's coauthor is Mark Babbitt. Mark is an Inc. Magazines' Top 100 Leadership Speaker. He's an author, blogger, culture architect, executive coach, and career mentor. Mark serves as president of WorqIQ, CEO, and founder of YouTern. He is an in-demand speaker. In addition to the bestselling, Good Comes First, Mark also co-authored A World Gone Social. Mark writes for Entrepreneur, CEOWORLD, Inc., USA TODAY, Forbes, and many other publications. Website: https://GoodComesFirst.com Mark - https://WorqIQ.com Chris - https://DrivingResultsThroughCulture.com Part 2) The Practicality and Profit of Putting Good First Good at a practical Tactical level How to collectively define good Why we all need 3-5 values and 3-5 supporting behaviors Performance targets and respect targets Why "Good" is god for business How to grow profits by 30-40% Leadership and Respect Getting the Turds out of the Barrel No More Drama

There is No Labor Shortage! Trying to get back to normal is not only foolish, it's ignorant of the pandemic's gravity and psychological impact. The pandemic gave way to the Great Resignation and a massive labor shortage. Values have shifted from to family, but we still have companies to run. So, what can we practically do about it? What if success moving forward means, first and foremost, doing Good? If it's true that Good Comes First, how can Today's Leaders create an uncompromising company culture based on doing Good? Our guests for the next two episodes are Chris Edmonds and Mark Babbitt. They are the coauthors of Good Comes First: How Today's Leaders Create an Uncompromising Company Culture. Chris Edmonds is a sought-after speaker and bestselling author, He is a highly regarded executive consultant, CEO and founder of The Purposeful Culture Group. Chris is the author of 2 bestsellers, The Culture Engine and, most recently, Good Comes First. Chris has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, SmartBrief, People, CNN, Fox31, NBC, and Fast Company. Chris's coauthor is Mark Babbitt. Mark is an Inc. Magazines' Top 100 Leadership Speaker. He's an author, blogger, culture architect, executive coach, and career mentor. Mark serves as president of WorqIQ, CEO, and founder of YouTern. He is an in-demand speaker. In addition to the bestselling, Good Comes First, Mark also co-authored A World Gone Social. Mark writes for Entrepreneur, CEOWORLD, Inc., USA TODAY, Forbes, and many other publications. Website: https://GoodComesFirst.com Mark - https://WorqIQ.com Chris - https://DrivingResultsThroughCulture.com Part1) There is No Labor Shortage! The Respect Issue The Illusion of a Labor Shortage Did COVID Kill the "Hustle Culture" Why 48 Million works quit in 2021 and another 4.2 Million in Jan 2022 Challenge of Old White Men What is "Boomer Male Syndrome"?

The Practicality and Profit of Putting Good First Trying to get back to normal is not only foolish, it's ignorant of the pandemic's gravity and psychological impact. The pandemic gave way to the Great Resignation and a massive labor shortage. Values have shifted from to family, but we still have companies to run. So, what can we practically do about it? What if success moving forward means, first and foremost, doing Good? If it's true that Good Comes First, how can Today's Leaders create an uncompromising company culture based on doing Good? Our guests for the next two episodes are Chris Edmonds and Mark Babbitt. They are the coauthors of Good Comes First: How Today's Leaders Create an Uncompromising Company Culture. Chris Edmonds is a sought-after speaker and bestselling author, He is a highly regarded executive consultant, CEO and founder of The Purposeful Culture Group. Chris is the author of 2 bestsellers, The Culture Engine and, most recently, Good Comes First. Chris has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, SmartBrief, People, CNN, Fox31, NBC, and Fast Company. Chris's coauthor is Mark Babbitt. Mark is an Inc. Magazines' Top 100 Leadership Speaker. He's an author, blogger, culture architect, executive coach, and career mentor. Mark serves as president of WorqIQ, CEO, and founder of YouTern. He is an in-demand speaker. In addition to the bestselling, Good Comes First, Mark also co-authored A World Gone Social. Mark writes for Entrepreneur, CEOWORLD, Inc., USA TODAY, Forbes, and many other publications. Website: https://GoodComesFirst.com Mark - https://WorqIQ.com Chris - https://DrivingResultsThroughCulture.com Part 2) The Practicality and Profit of Putting Good First Good at a practical Tactical level How to collectively define good Why we all need 3-5 values and 3-5 supporting behaviors Performance targets and respect targets Why "Good" is god for business How to grow profits by 30-40% Leadership and Respect Getting the Turds out of the Barrel No More Drama

There is No Labor Shortage! Trying to get back to normal is not only foolish, it's ignorant of the pandemic's gravity and psychological impact. The pandemic gave way to the Great Resignation and a massive labor shortage. Values have shifted from to family, but we still have companies to run. So, what can we practically do about it? What if success moving forward means, first and foremost, doing Good? If it's true that Good Comes First, how can Today's Leaders create an uncompromising company culture based on doing Good? Our guests for the next two episodes are Chris Edmonds and Mark Babbitt. They are the coauthors of Good Comes First: How Today's Leaders Create an Uncompromising Company Culture. Chris Edmonds is a sought-after speaker and bestselling author, He is a highly regarded executive consultant, CEO and founder of The Purposeful Culture Group. Chris is the author of 2 bestsellers, The Culture Engine and, most recently, Good Comes First. Chris has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, SmartBrief, People, CNN, Fox31, NBC, and Fast Company. Chris's coauthor is Mark Babbitt. Mark is an Inc. Magazines' Top 100 Leadership Speaker. He's an author, blogger, culture architect, executive coach, and career mentor. Mark serves as president of WorqIQ, CEO, and founder of YouTern. He is an in-demand speaker. In addition to the bestselling, Good Comes First, Mark also co-authored A World Gone Social. Mark writes for Entrepreneur, CEOWORLD, Inc., USA TODAY, Forbes, and many other publications. Website: https://GoodComesFirst.com Mark - https://WorqIQ.com Chris - https://DrivingResultsThroughCulture.com Part1) There is No Labor Shortage! The Respect Issue The Illusion of a Labor Shortage Did COVID Kill the "Hustle Culture" Why 48 Million works quit in 2021 and another 4.2 Million in Jan 2022 Challenge of Old White Men What is "Boomer Male Syndrome"?

About that title? We'll get to Bruno in a minute. The foundational principle of our book, Good Comes First, is that today's leaders must make RESPECT as important as RESULTS, every day. My colleague and co-author, Mark Babbitt, and I were keynoting a conference. In our presentation, we share this fundamental model - the Performance-Values Matrix. Once you formalize performance expectations AND values expectations, players categorize themselves into one of four quadrants. The upper right is where you want all players to operate. You want them to exceed performance expectations while demonstrating your positive values. You must recognize and retain folks in that quadrant. The bottom left is not a good place for people to operate. They're missing performance standards and don't model your values. You must give them a chance to align to both. If they do, great. If they don't, they can't stay in your organization. You must lovingly set them free. The bottom right is a slightly better place for people to be. These folks are role models of your positive values - but they're unable to consistently deliver required results. You must guide them to contribution - through training, coaching, or even finding a role where their skills match needed results. If they boost contribution, great. If they don't, they can't stay in your organization. You must lovingly set them free. The upper left brings interesting challenges. Folks in this quadrant deliver the results you want - but they do so while treating others disrespectfully. This brings us back to Bruno. In our keynote, we asked learning partners to discuss the impact of players operating in any quadrant except the upper right. A few minutes into the pairs' conversations, a loud voice said, “Nobody talks about Bruno.” We asked what this woman meant. She described a top salesperson in their company who always beats sales targets - and always bullies those around him. For years staff have complained about Bruno's treatment of others - sexist and racist comments, yelling if he doesn't get his way, etc. Yet, senior leaders don't do anything. They don't want to lose the profits this guy generates. So, nobody talks to Bruno - and nobody talks about Bruno. An uncompromising work culture is built and sustained by positive behaviors modeled and rewarded. An uncompromising culture is destroyed by the demeaning, discounting, and dismissive behaviors tolerated - of anyone, by anyone. For players who operate in the upper left quadrant, you must mentor them to alignment, to deliver needed results while treating others respectfully. If they do, great. If not, you must lovingly set them free. Only then will you sustain a purposeful, positive, productive work culture, every day. This is episode was originally published on https://DrivingResultsThroughCulture.com on June 12, 2022.

The Practicality and Profit of Putting Good First Trying to get back to normal is not only foolish, it's ignorant of the pandemic's gravity and psychological impact. The pandemic gave way to the Great Resignation and a massive labor shortage. Values have shifted from to family, but we still have companies to run. So, what can we practically do about it? What if success moving forward means, first and foremost, doing Good? If it's true that Good Comes First, how can Today's Leaders create an uncompromising company culture based on doing Good?  Our guests for the next two episodes are Chris Edmonds and Mark Babbitt. They are the coauthors of Good Comes First: How Today's Leaders Create an Uncompromising Company Culture. Chris Edmonds is a sought-after speaker and bestselling author, He is a highly regarded executive consultant, CEO and founder of The Purposeful Culture Group. Chris is the author of 2 bestsellers, The Culture Engine and, most recently, Good Comes First. Chris has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, SmartBrief, People, CNN, Fox31, NBC, and Fast Company. Chris's coauthor is Mark Babbitt. Mark is an Inc. Magazines' Top 100 Leadership Speaker. He's an author, blogger, culture architect, executive coach, and career mentor. Mark serves as president of WorqIQ, CEO, and founder of YouTern. He is an in-demand speaker. In addition to the bestselling, Good Comes First, Mark also co-authored A World Gone Social. Mark writes for Entrepreneur, CEOWORLD, Inc., USA TODAY, Forbes, and many other publications. Website: https://GoodComesFirst.com  Mark - https://WorqIQ.com Chris - https://DrivingResultsThroughCulture.com  Part 2) The Practicality and Profit of Putting Good First Good at a practical Tactical level How to collectively define good Why we all need 3-5 values and 3-5 supporting behaviors Performance targets and respect targets Why "Good" is god for business How to grow profits by 30-40% Leadership and Respect  Getting the Turds out of the Barrel No More Drama Curious to discover how tapping into the Anatomy of Meaning can #actualize your #business, #culture, #Leadership and #tribe DovBaron.com "Those Who Control Meaning for The Tribe, Also Control The Movement of The Tribe" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There is No Labor Shortage! Trying to get back to normal is not only foolish, it's ignorant of the pandemic's gravity and psychological impact. The pandemic gave way to the Great Resignation and a massive labor shortage. Values have shifted from to family, but we still have companies to run. So, what can we practically do about it? What if success moving forward means, first and foremost, doing Good? If it's true that Good Comes First, how can Today's Leaders create an uncompromising company culture based on doing Good?  Our guests for the next two episodes are Chris Edmonds and Mark Babbitt. They are the coauthors of Good Comes First: How Today's Leaders Create an Uncompromising Company Culture. Chris Edmonds is a sought-after speaker and bestselling author, He is a highly regarded executive consultant, CEO and founder of The Purposeful Culture Group. Chris is the author of 2 bestsellers, The Culture Engine and, most recently, Good Comes First. Chris has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, SmartBrief, People, CNN, Fox31, NBC, and Fast Company. Chris's coauthor is Mark Babbitt. Mark is an Inc. Magazines' Top 100 Leadership Speaker. He's an author, blogger, culture architect, executive coach, and career mentor. Mark serves as president of WorqIQ, CEO, and founder of YouTern. He is an in-demand speaker. In addition to the bestselling, Good Comes First, Mark also co-authored A World Gone Social. Mark writes for Entrepreneur, CEOWORLD, Inc., USA TODAY, Forbes, and many other publications. Website: https://GoodComesFirst.com  Mark - https://WorqIQ.com Chris - https://DrivingResultsThroughCulture.com  Part1) There is No Labor Shortage! The Respect Issue The Illusion of a Labor Shortage Did COVID Kill the "Hustle Culture" Why 48 Million works quit in 2021 and another 4.2 Million in Jan 2022 Challenge of Old White Men What is "Boomer Male Syndrome"? Curious to discover how tapping into the Anatomy of Meaning can #actualize your #business, #culture, #Leadership, and #tribe DovBaron.com "Those Who Control Meaning for The Tribe, Also Control The Movement of The Tribe" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In our new book, Good Comes First, co-author Mark Babbitt and I propose four culture cornerstones that are the foundation of an uncompromising work culture. These cornerstones help align people and practices to your ideal work culture. Our first cornerstone, “Live Our Servant Purpose,” enables leaders, employees, contractors, and even customers to see that your company serves a purpose other than just making money. What is a “servant purpose”? A servant purpose describes how or what your company does and how it improves the quality of life for employees, customers, and the communities served. Essentially, your servant purpose is your company's present-day reason for being—other than making a profit. That higher purpose shifts your organization's primary focus from making money (or making red wagons, circuit boards, or sandwiches—none of which are innately inspiring to employees) to serving others: generating tangible benefit to your customers and your communities. When a leader lives her servant purpose, she doesn't just serve that servant purpose—she also acts daily in service to her people.  In a Good Comes First company, a leader must ensure she is not the only leader in the organization modeling its servant purpose. Unfortunately, too many employees experience a crappy boss who is more concerned about compliance and conformity than creative work—a boss who doesn't care about their people (respect), only about their bottom line (results). In today's world of work, this is a significant reason far too many of our workplaces suck (and why many of those 48 million US workers voluntarily left their crappy jobs—and crappy bosses and crappy colleagues—in 2021).  Good Comes First companies employ and promote the leaders who are fully capable of embracing the servant purpose—and their people. Moreover, those servant-first leaders genuinely care about personal and professional growth and see each employee, contractor, vendor, and partner as an integral part of that growth. Just as important, these leaders treat any sign of inequality and bias as the cancer they represent in any workplace. And they insist their fellow leaders do the same. Soon, the entire leadership team is focused on not just results but on making people's lives better. That, in turn, inspires your team members to model the servant purpose, as well. This episode was first published in video format on DrivingResultsThroughCulture.com on April 12, 2022. All rights reserved.

Culture seems to be the latest buzzword, yet the employee experience is important. Let's face it, employees have a choice of where they want to work. Chris Edmonds and Mark Babbitt sit down with Kevin to talk about culture and that it doesn't have to suck. You have a role to play and when you equally value respect and results, profits go up. Key Points Chris and Mark define good and why it is more important now than ever before. They share their thoughts around “servant purpose”. They discuss how you can create or adjust the culture if you aren't senior leadership. They talk about how remote work impacts culture. Meet Chris and Mark Names: S. Chris Edmonds and Mark Babbitt Their Story: Chris and Mark are the authors of Good Comes First: How Today's Leaders Create an Uncompromising Company Culture That Doesn't Suck. Chris is also a speaker, executive consultant, and founder of The Purposeful Culture Group. Mark is also a speaker, executive coach, and President of WorqIQ. Worth Mentioning: Chris is one of Inc. Magazine's 100 Top Leadership Speakers and was a featured presenter at South by Southwest. Mark is also CEO and Founder of YouTern. This career-focused community enables college students, recent graduates, and young professionals to find their first or next internship or job with the right organizational culture for them. This episode is brought to you by… Future of Work Newsletter, a free weekly e-newsletter. It's full of articles and resources to help you, your team and your organization be more successful in the ever-changing remote work environment. Book Recommendations Good Comes First: How Today's Leaders Create an Uncompromising Company Culture That Doesn't Suck by S. Chris Edmonds and Mark S. Babbitt The Long Game: How to Be a Long-Term Thinker in a Short-Term World by Dorie Clark Impact Players: How to Take the Lead, Play Bigger, and Multiply Your Impact by Liz Wiseman Related Podcast Episodes Turning Culture into Competitive Advantage with Jeff Grimshaw. Creating Courageous Cultures with Karin Hurt and David Dye. Solving the Culture Puzzle with Mario Moussa and Derek Newberry.

There's a "quiet revolution" happening in businesses of all sizes according to today's guests. Employees now realize they have a voice and aren't satisfied with "classic industrialized working environments." But what do employees want? A company that does good, according to Mark Babbitt and Chris Edmonds. They recently co-authored the book, "Good Comes First: How Today's Leaders Create an Uncompromising Company Culture that Doesn't Suck." Mark and Chris say company culture was mostly ignored by past generations, but it's important to millennials and Gen Z. If bosses don't create a culture employees value, younger workers will leave, and not think twice about it. They add, younger workers' behavior is making an impression with other workers, who are more willing to leave bad culture as well. So, how do you build a good culture? Chris and Mark have some ideas. You'll have to listen to this episode and find out. Buy "Good Comes First": https://goodcomesfirst.com/ Join the C-Suite Network: https://c-suitenetwork.com/executive-membership Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Chris Edmonds and Mark Babbitt about how leaders need to focus on creating a purposeful, positive, and productive work environment for their employees, customers, and stakeholders. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3Ipdz5j Subscribe to our newsletters: - The InfoQ weekly newsletter: https://bit.ly/24x3IVq - The Software Architects' Newsletter [monthly]: https://www.infoq.com/software-architects-newsletter/ Upcoming Events: QCon London: https://qconlondon.com/ - April 4-6, 2022 - March 26-31, 2023 QCon Plus online: https://plus.qconferences.com/ - May 10-20, 2022 - Nov 29 - Dec 9, 2022 QCon San Francisco: https://qconsf.com/ - Oct 24-28, 2022 - Oct 2-6, 2023 InfoQ Live: https://live.infoq.com/ - June 21, 2022 - July 19, 2022 - August 23, 2022 Follow InfoQ: - Twitter: https://twitter.com/InfoQ - LinkedIn: https:// www.linkedin.com/company/infoq - Facebook: https://bit.ly/2jmlyG8 - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/infoqdotcom/ - Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/infoq

Rob Anspach interviews Mark Babbitt and Chris Edmonds about their new book Good Comes First which centers around the concept of creating positive work cultures and better leaders. The post Ep 178 – Good Comes First first appeared on Rob Anspach's E-Heroes.

Mark S. Babbitt is President of WorqIQ, a community and change management consultancy that helps organizations understand leadership's impact on culture and the company's collective level of Workplace Intelligence (WQ). Mark is also CEO and Founder of YouTern. This career-focused community enables college students, recent graduates, and young professionals to find their first or next internship or job with the right organizational culture for them. Mark co-authored A World Gone Social: How Companies Must Adapt to Survive and is co-author of the upcoming (September 28, 2021 | Matt Holt and BenBella Books) Good Comes First: How Today's Leaders Create an Uncompromising Company Culture That Doesn't Suck. Followers also find Mark's advice in Entrepreneur, Inc., Forbes, and many other publications. An in-demand speaker, Mark was named one of Inc. Magazines' Top 100 Leadership Speakers. S. Chris Edmonds helps leaders create and sustain purposeful, positive, productive work cultures. He is a speaker, author, and executive consultant who is the founder of The Purposeful Culture Group. He's one of Inc. Magazine's 100 Top Leadership Speakers and was a featured presenter at South by Southwest 2015. Chris is the author of the Amazon best seller The Culture Engine and is co-author of the upcoming title, Good Comes First. Chris' blog, podcasts, and videos are at DrivingResultsThroughCulture.com. Chris' short, rich Culture Leadership Charge video episodes can be found on YouTube. Learn more about Mark & Chris and their Book - Click Here

What if low salaries, the absence of benefits, or lack of training aren't the leading causes of the labor shortage almost every industry is experiencing? What if companies struggle to find collaborators not because people pursue higher payments but because many leaders still follow an archaic leadership model: an autocratic, command, and control model. Today's guests, Chris Edmonds and Mark Babbitt believe what we are witnessing is not a labor shortage; it's a respect shortage. Chris Edmonds is a coveted Speaker, Author of two Amazon bestsellers: "Good comes first" and "The Culture Engine." He is also an executive consultant, and Founder and CEO of The Purposeful Culture Group. Chris has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, SmartBrief, People, CNN, Fox31, NBC, and Fast Company.Mark Babbitt is a Speaker, Author, Blogger, Culture Architect, Executive Coach, and Career Mentor. He serves as President of WorqIQ and CEO and Founder of YouTern. Mark also co-authored "Good comes first" and "A world gone social." Mark was also named one of the Inc. Magazines' Top 100 Leadership Speakers.Our conversation spins around the role of poor leadership in the current labor shortage. Chris and Mark analyze why oppressive leadership styles are still accepted in some companies and what impact this type of leadership has on people. We explore the impact leadership has on companies' employees and their families, how increasing respect is the best way to get more results, and more. In This Episode, You Will Learn:About the impact leaders have on their employees and their families lives (6:35)Leadership hasn't changed in more than 50 years (10:03)A new paradigm. Now, employees have voice and choice (14:32)Focusing on the measurability of culture, value, and respect (21:27)Some actionable inspiration from Chris and Mark ( 29:05)What kind of environment leaders should focus on creating to get better results (33:40)Resources:The Purposeful Culture Group websiteBook: Chris Edmonds, Mark Babbitt - Good Comes FirstBook: Chris Edmonds - The Culture EngineBook: Ted Coine, Mark Babbitt - A World Gone SocialWorqIQ websiteConnect with Chris:LinkedInYouTubeConnect with Mark:LinkedInLet's Connect!WebsiteLinkedInInstagram See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Listen as Co-author of Good Comes First, Mark Babbitt sits with the Win Make Give team and shares his thoughts on creating a great culture in your organization, from home to the office. Hear his different thoughts and ideas on building company culture. Get the book Good Comes First: https://goodcomesfirst.com/ ---------- Be sure to leave a rating, review, subscribe and join our Facebook group at www.facebook.com/groups/winmakegive Part of the Win Make Give Podcast

Original release date: March 16, 2009 This week I was in Houston at the Laff Stop with my buddy Jason Kanter. Jason introduced me to Mark Babbitt. Mark is the former managing partner of the Houston Laff Stop and he's the voice you hear introducing Mitch Hedberg on Mitch's first CD, Strategic Grill Locations. Along with Mitch, Mark talks about Doug Stanhope, Margaret Cho, Greg Fitzsimmons and Richard Lewis.

For decades, businesses have exhausted billions of dollars and spent countless hours developing strategies to increase employee engagement, decrease burnout, and improve productivity. And yet, most workplaces still—to put it bluntly—suck. The reason? The corporate world has always been driven primarily by results, so leaders are not hard-pressed to actually change their ways.  S. Chris Edmonds and Mark S. Babbitt, co-authors of Good Comes First, join The Business Communicators for a conversation on why for today's blended workforce and future generations, this old-school corporate approach of profit and productivity above all else is no longer acceptable. Nor should it be, especially as organizations frame their return-to-work strategies with the intention of bringing their likely-reluctant workforce back into the office. Music Credit: Smoke (with Lostboycrow) – Feather  KEY LINKS FOR THE WEEK

If you're trying to hire staff right now, you're not having fun. The US Federal Reserve Bank in September estimated that the average time required to fill an open job rose from 20 days to 50 days over the previous four months. And a new global McKinsey study found that 40% of respondents are somewhat likely to quit in the next three to six months. 18% of those said their intentions to quit ranged from likely to almost certain. This study also revealed why so many employees are ready to walk out your door. The three driving factors were 1) employees didn't feel valued by their organization (54% said this), 2) employees didn't feel valued by their managers (stated by 52%), and 3) employees didn't feel a sense of belonging at work (stated by 51%). The pandemic has changed what people expect of their workplaces, colleagues, and bosses. Leaders don't know how to meet those changing expectations. Leaders want to go back to “the way it was” because that's the only way they know how to manage. Employees have learned they have a voice and they have a choice. How can business leaders change their mindset and change their work cultures? By making respect as important as results. In our new book, Good Comes First, co-author Mark Babbitt and I outline a proven approach that boosts engagement, service, and results and profits within 18 months of implementing our change process. The process requires three things of leaders and team members. First, it requires partnership. Leaders must invite team members to co-create an uncompromising work culture that treats everyone with respect in every interaction. By defining the behaviors required for respect and validation, leaders and team members can co-create an uncompromising culture. Second, it requires role modeling. Leaders must be proactive champions of the new behaviors – modeling them, celebrating them, measuring them, coaching them, and mentoring others to embrace those behaviors. Third, it requires accountability. Leaders must recognize and validate team members' ideas, efforts, and contributions while re-directing behaviors that discount, demean, or dismiss people or efforts. Leaders can no longer tolerate disrespectful treatment by anyone. Change is not easy – but “staying the old course” is not an option. Not today. Move forward, together with team members, to sustain a purposeful, positive, productive work culture. This is episode ninety-eight of my Culture Leadership Charge video series. In these concise videos, I share the best practices for creating and sustaining a purposeful, positive, productive culture – where good comes first. You'll find my Culture Leadership Charge episodes, Good Comes First interviews, and more on my YouTube, iTunes, and Amazon Podcast channels. If you like what you learn, please subscribe. Have you responded to this month's culture leadership poll? Add your ratings to two questions. It'll take less than a minute. Once you vote, click “results” to see the responses from around the globe. Learn more at DrivingResultsThroughCulture.com.  

Employees of all generations desire—and deserve—workplaces where they feel respected and are validated for their ideas, efforts, and contributions, every day. As we're witnessing right now, when a company culture falls short of those expectations, top talent is cutting the lifeline that has tethered them to their old employers and old, autocratic leaders (often afflicted with what we call Boomer Male Syndrome or BMS). In record numbers, good people are leaving bad companies—or at least bad company cultures. To retain and attract top talent, today's leaders must now work with all stakeholders (not just shareholders) to co-create an uncompromising company culture where employees can expect respect while helping drive results. In other words, they must ensure good comes first. 

Good Comes First: Mark Babbitt, President of WordIQ and Chris Edmonds, founder and CEO of the Purposeful Culture Group and authors of Good Comes First speak with host Richard Levick of LEVICK. How do we find balance in a workplace where angry and judgmental labels are thrown around to the point that they lose their meaning and yet some of the underlying problems remain unaddressed? How do managers and employees work together to take responsibility and improve culture? Is it mentoring or micromanaging? Is it an important deadline or a toxic work culture? Is it leadership or microaggression? Mark and Chris provide insight for both sides of the equation to help us manage the 21st Century workplace.

Mark Babbitt and his coauthor Chris Edmonds wrote their latest book, Good Comes First, to challenge companies to lead by doing what's right for employees and not the status quo. You want to find a company that practices “good” ahead of the agenda as a job seeker, right? Mark is my featured guest on today's […]

Mark S. Babbitt is President of WorqIQ, a community and change management consultancy that helps organizations understand leadership's impact on culture and the company's collective level of Workplace Intelligence (WQ). Mark is also CEO and Founder of YouTern. This career-focused community enables college students, recent graduates, and young professionals to find their first or next internship or job with the right organizational culture for them. Mark co-authored A World Gone Social: How Companies Must Adapt to Survive and is co-author of the upcoming (September 28, 2021 | Matt Holt and BenBella Books) Good Comes First: How Today's Leaders Create an Uncompromising Company Culture That Doesn't Suck. Followers also find Mark's advice in Entrepreneur, Inc., Forbes, and many other publications. An in-demand speaker, Mark was named one of Inc. Magazines' Top 100 Leadership Speakers. S. Chris Edmonds helps leaders create and sustain purposeful, positive, productive work cultures. He is a speaker, author, and executive consultant who is the founder of The Purposeful Culture Group. He's one of Inc. Magazine's 100 Top Leadership Speakers and was a featured presenter at South by Southwest 2015. Chris is the author of the Amazon best seller The Culture Engine and is co-author of the upcoming title, Good Comes First. Chris' blog, podcasts, and videos are at DrivingResultsThroughCulture.com. Chris' short, rich Culture Leadership Charge video episodes can be found on YouTube. Learn more about Mark & Chris and their Book - Click Here

For full show notes, go to GetCareerClarity.com/Episode125. Today on the Career Clarity Show, we're talking about one of the biggest factors that can go into dissatisfaction with your job and with your workplace - organizational culture. If you have worked in any sort of work environment, you know what a difference the energy of the organization makes, the values of the organization makes. And you know what an incredible difference there is between a healthy happy culture where you feel like you can thrive and do great work, and maybe not so healthy and happy culture where you don't feel like you have psychological safety or can bring your best stuff to the office or to the workplace.  Authors Chris Edmonds and Mark Babbitt are here to talk about what the elements are that go into culture, why culture matters, how to be intentional, how to think about it, and perhaps even how to screen it from afar. Their book Good Comes First is available now and shares similar insight into maring career discernment decisions and finding a great place to land and build a career. Show Notes: Good Comes First Book Roadmap to a Fulfilling Career eBook

Today I'm joined by Chris Edmonds and Mark Babbitt. They are co-authors of a new book called: Good Comes First: How Today's Leaders Create an Uncompromising Company Culture That Doesn't Suck. One of the most important things a leader must do is create and maintain the right culture in their organization. Listen in to this essential leadership topic. Good Comes First Website Good Comes First on Amazon _____ Purchase my latest bestselling leadership book now All in the Same Boat - Lead Your Organization Like a Nuclear Submariner Visit our sponsor Bottom Gun Coffee Company use the discount code "DEEP" Become a leader worth following today with these powerful resources: Purchase my bestselling leadership book "I Have the Watch: Becoming a Leader Worth Following" use the discount code "DEEP" Subscribe to my leadership newsletter Follow Jon S Rennie on Twitter Follow Jon S Rennie on Instagram Follow Jon S Rennie on YouTube Follow Jon S Rennie on Substack

#398: In this episode, Michael Gardon chats with Mark Babbitt. Mark S. Babbitt is President of WorqIQ, a community and change management consultancy that helps organizations understand leadership's impact on culture and the company's collective level of Workplace Intelligence (WQ). Mark is also CEO and Founder of YouTern, a career-focused community enables college students, recent graduates, and young professionals to find their first or next internship or job with the right organizational culture for them. In addition to writing the upcoming Good Comes First (September 28, 2021 | Matt Holt and BenBella Books), Mark co-authored the bestseller A World Gone Social: How Companies Must Adapt to Survive. Followers also find Mark's advice in Entrepreneur, Inc., Forbes, and many other publications. An in-demand speaker, Mark was named one of Inc. Magazines' Top 100 Leadership Speakers.

https://www.alainguillot.com/mark-babbitt/ Mark S. Babbitt is the President of WorqIQ, a consultancy focused on improving leadership, building “good comes first” company cultures, and developing Workplace Intelligence (WQ). His latest book is Good Comes First: How Today's Leaders Create an Uncompromising Company Culture That Doesn't Suck. Get the book here: https://amzn.to/3CsFJd9

Today's video features Good Comes First book co-authors Mark Babbitt and yours truly discussing a core foundation of a purposeful, positive, productive work culture. Here's an excerpt. Mark: “I often say, Chris, that most of what I learned about leadership was on the baseball field as a coach for three decades now. On the diamond, I learned that if you set rules and then you don't follow those rules yourself – for instance, if you say showing up late to practice is unacceptable, but then you show up late – you've not only destroyed the values. You've not only destroyed the culture. You destroyed integrity, trust, respect.” Chris: “How do they know what to believe?” Mark: “In writing this book and in our work together, we got to learn from good bosses, the great bosses, and those that weren't so great. It's been interesting and in a couple of places within Good Comes First, we compare good comes first cultures with not so good cultures and good leaders with not so good leaders. And it's been very interesting to put in words what makes a great leader and, and what makes a leader untrustworthy. Some of these examples from clients helped us see where the failures are coming from. Leaders bring us in. They say they want their culture to steer toward good. But then when we actually get in there, you find out the leaders aren't the problem solvers. They're actually the problem. The best leaders by far we've discovered over the years and now with Good Comes First are the mentor-based leaders, the servant leaders. That's why mentorship is so important within Good Comes First. If you say that one of our values is we respect each other enough to show up on time and to be fully present, you have to follow the rules you set. I have to model them. I have to coach them. I have to expect them, not just from other people, but from myself and every leader. That's not a common characteristic of many leaders. They don't hold themselves accountable. Leaders can't just keep doing what they've been doing and expect their culture to change. in Good Comes First, we help you develop an uncompromising company culture, where everybody knows what to expect every single day. And people are expected to live up to those expectations every single day. And so we can't keep leading as we used to lead.” Good Comes First publishes on September 28, 2021. Learn more and order your copy at GoodComesFirst.com. This is episode six of our Good Comes First video series. You'll find Good Comes First and Culture Leadership Charge episodes and more on my YouTube, iTunes, and Amazon Podcast channels. Have you responded to this month's culture leadership poll? Add your ratings to two questions – it takes less than a minute. Once you vote, click “results” to see the responses from around the globe. Video production was brilliantly handled by Phelos Productions – Chris Archuleta and David Towers.

Today's podcast features Good Comes First book co-authors Mark Babbitt and Chris Edmonds discussing a core foundation of uncompromising work cultures - making values measurable AND socially relevant. Here's an excerpt. Chris: “What I find when I, you and I both experienced that as we work with leaders to help them define what values mean, what does respect mean? What are the two or three behaviors that you want? Teamwork? To demonstrate with each other, with their bosses. You want bosses to demonstrate with current staff, potential hires, customers, etc. You have to get very, very specific in essence, create measurable behaviors that define what your values are. And then most leaders would say, “Cool. Let's announce those. And then everyone will magically embrace them.” Well, that's not what happens. So just as leaders have been taught and trained and incented over decades, maybe centuries to formalize performance expectations and monitor the tar out of them and then don't celebrate much, but redirect a lot, mentor a lot.” Mark: “The definition is key to Good Comes First, to create an uncompromising company culture. You and I worked with a client and we ask them to define integrity. And we asked 20 people what integrity means and we got 14 different answers. How do we get people on the same page? Even when your company says that's a core value there's no agreement on what it looks like. 14 different answers! And so it becomes a war of words. And I think that's what Good Comes First does: Clearly define that value. So it's not ambiguous. It's not open to interpretation. No, this is how we see integrity here. Here's what integrity means to us. And here's another key thing that came from that work was a lot of people, especially younger employees, tied integrity to social issues. They said, “We can't act one way inside the walls and then ignore what's going on in the outside of the world.” We started writing this book three years ago, but from the very beginning, one of our cornerstones for Good Comes First was to use our voice for good. Now, since we started writing that we've had several issues, including black lives matter, police injustice, and other social inequities that, that have surfaced. And it's just magnified almost in a way that the hybrid, the remote workforce that we started talking about three years ago in the book, it, companies started perfecting that as the book was being written. Corporate America has gotten a lot better at remote work over the last 18 months, but we haven't gotten better yet at the social issues. We're still fighting those every day. And, the cornerstone user voice. We can no longer sit back and go, ‘All we care about is our shareholders. All we care about is market share.' We have to have a voice in the world and we have to stand up for what's right.” Good Comes First will be released on September 28, 2021. Learn more and pre-order your copy at GoodComesFirst.com. This is episode five of our Good Comes First video series, published on http://DrivingResultsThroughCulture.com on September 2, 2021. You'll find Good Comes First and Culture Leadership Charge episodes and more on my YouTube, iTunes, and Amazon Podcast channels. Have you responded to this month's culture leadership poll? Add your ratings to two questions – it takes less than a minute. Once you vote, click “results” to see the responses from around the globe. Video production was brilliantly handled by Phelos Productions – Chris Archuleta and David Towers.

Today's video features Good Comes First book co-authors Mark Babbitt and yours truly discussing what it takes to build and sustain an uncompromising work culture. Here's an excerpt. Chris: Once leaders get to a stage where they realize “This is not sustainable. We're not going to be able to attract the kind of talent we need. We're not going to be able to manage using, you know, everybody around the conference room table so I can yell at you!” A toxic work culture doesn't translate to global remote digital nomads, which, which in a lot of cases is what employees are able to do. We want leaders who understand that it could be better – who understand it could be different – to be able to look at our process. In essence, the process is three pieces. It's define the culture you want. then align practices, people, behaviors, decisions to that defined uncompromising culture and third, refine it over time. The idea of, as you say, if leaders promote good comes first, they must make respect as important as results. We have to teach leader how to implement this change. Mark: The teaching part is what excites me most about working with you on this book. We both take a mentor approach to everything we do in our businesses and in our personal lives. And it was fun to actually create a model where we could teach people – not talk at them – but work with them to model the behaviors themselves, coach those behaviors, to monitor, measure the behaviors, and mentor people through the change. Occasionally when you have people that aren't living up to the new expectations. What can you do? Too many business books talk at you, not with you. They tell you exactly what to do at what moment, but in a, not in an actionable way. In this book we actually create the steps where if you first model and then you coach, and then you measure, well, now you have something quantifiable to go back to an individual and say, look, your performance is actually really good, but you're not showing the level of respect that we demand now within our new culture and we're going to work on that. We're very happy with this, but we're going to work with you on this. And Good Comes First walks a leader through that. So it's, it's not a personality thing. It's not a toxic thing. It's not even a negative thing. It's like, “No, you have to be both a high performer and you have to have high values. And we're going to measure both. We're going to monitor both and we're going to help get you into the, into the higher sector of both of those areas – results and respect. And then you're a model corporate citizen.” Good Comes First will be released on September 28, 2021. Learn more and pre-order your copy at GoodComesFirst.com. This is episode four of our Good Comes First video series, published on http://DrivingResultsThroughCulture.com on August 3, 2021. You'll find Good Comes First and Culture Leadership Charge episodes and more on my YouTube, iTunes, and Amazon Podcast channels. Have you responded to this month's culture leadership poll? Add your ratings to two questions – it takes less than a minute. Once you vote, click “results” to see the responses from around the globe. Video production was brilliantly handled by Phelos Productions – Chris Archuleta and David Towers.

Today's video features Good Comes First book co-authors Mark Babbitt and Chris Edmonds discussing what it takes to build and sustain an uncompromising work culture. Here's an excerpt. Mark: Chris, in the book we talk about not just what it takes for leaders to become change champions, but how to build a team that will support, live, model a good comes first work culture. And the reality is this is not always an easy process. It takes months and years to actually execute. One of the criteria that we talk about is that attrition is your best friend. Not everybody's going to thrive within a good comes first culture. There will be players that you must lovingly set free. Let them go work somewhere else where it's okay just to collect a paycheck. Where integrity doesn't matter. Where values aren't monitored and measured, and certainly where respect isn't on the same pedestal as results. That's not what you want in a good comes first culture. The premise of a good comes first culture is good people doing good work in a good place to work. Chris: I'm so taken by some of the conversations we've had with leaders. I've had a senior leader demonstrate such anger at a player on the leadership team. She said, “He drives performance. His sales team is doing great. But I can't trust anything this guy says! The next day I find that it's not truthful, that that's not honest, that's not the full story.” It's an issue of high performance and low values. And I asked, “How long has this guy been here?” “10 years.” I asked, “Have there been good times? Have there been validating times?” “Not enough,” she said. “Not enough.” Watch this video for the authors' insights on how holding everyone accountable for both respect and results has such a powerful positive impact. Good Comes First will be released on September 28, 2021. Learn more and purchase your copy at GoodComesFirst.com. This is episode two of our Good Comes First video series. You'll find Good Comes First and Culture Leadership Charge episodes and more on my YouTube, iTunes, and Amazon Podcast channels. Have you responded to this month's culture leadership poll? Add your ratings to two questions – it takes less than a minute. Once you vote, click “results” to see the responses from around the globe. This episode was first published in video form on July 6, 2021 on my website, Driving Results Through Culture. This is episode three of our Good Comes First video series. You'll find Good Comes First and Culture Leadership Charge episodes and more on my YouTube, iTunes, and Amazon Podcast channels. Video production was brilliantly handled by Phelos Productions – Chris Archuleta and David Towers. Have you responded to this month's culture leadership poll? Add your ratings to two questions – it takes less than a minute. Once you vote, click “results” to see the responses from around the globe.

Today's video features Good Comes First book co-authors Mark Babbitt and Chris Edmonds (yours truly) discussing what it takes to build and sustain an uncompromising work culture. Here's an excerpt. Mark: “Let's talk about this ‘old normal, new normal.' What we're doing with Good Comes First is creating a new normal or creating a means by which to generate a new normal. We don't have to go back to a toxic work culture. One of the things we're seeing in the news as we talk today is this concept of a labor shortage. There is no labor shortage. There's a respect shortage, and people don't need to go back to work. Why go back to work if all you're going to get is disrespect? If you're going to have to work with a toxic colleague or worse, a toxic boss – the government has set it up now and eventually those benefits will run out. Why go back to work if you're less happy than you are sitting at home watching Netflix?” Chris: “I think people can afford to be choosy. Some are in a different position with that, Some have a greater ability to wait two or three months. Even folks that are jumping in and taking what is available now, they're looking for something more. They're looking for a leader they can respect, a leader that inspires them, a leader that drives the company to serve others. Those needs are not just post-pandemic. Now this is a team that I'm interested in, right? This is a purpose that I'm inspired by. But it also gets to the idea that younger generations are not inspired by some of the things that our boomer males – we talk about boomer male syndrome in the book – about old school thinking and procedures and systems and disrespectful treatment – and younger generations are simply not going to put up with that.” This episode was first published in video form on July 19, 2021 on my website, Driving Results Through Culture. This is episode three of our Good Comes First video series. You'll find Good Comes First and Culture Leadership Charge episodes and more on my YouTube, iTunes, and Amazon Podcast channels. Have you responded to this month's culture leadership poll? Add your ratings to two questions – it takes less than a minute. Once you vote, click “results” to see the responses from around the globe.

Today's video features Good Comes First book co-authors Mark Babbitt and me discussing what it takes to build and sustain an uncompromising work culture. Here's an excerpt. Mark: Chris, a question I get often is not so much why this book, but why now? We're coming out of this strange phase of business with a pandemic. And so, what does why now mean to you? Chris: The idea of having leaders be interested in doing better, doing different . . . they can see the flaws of their operation, but often their focus is so exclusive to results and productivity and performance that the way people treat each other doesn't appear on their radar screens at all. And yet, as we think of our best bosses and the great bosses that we've studied for 30 years, they're very much in tune with the way people are treated in the workplace. And so relationships are critical. And yet we don't necessarily define what we mean by respect or integrity or honesty. We don't measure it. There's this belief that if we announce it, then it's going to magically influence everyone to be civil. And we know that does not happen. And particularly now with the tremendous negative, devastating impacts on many businesses that the pandemic has had globally, we're now seeing businesses try to reopen. There's a belief that we'll plug people into the old system, the old structure. And we'll operate from our, as leaders, old assumptions – and there could not be a bigger disaster headed your way if you try. Watch this video for Mark's insights on the “new normal.” (It's not pretty.) Good Comes First will be released on September 28, 2021. Learn more and purchase your copy at GoodComesFirst.com. This episode was first published in video form on June 15, 2021 on my website, Driving Results Through Culture. This is episode one of our Good Comes First video series. You'll find Good Comes First and Culture Leadership Charge episodes and more on my YouTube, iTunes, and Amazon Podcast channels. Have you responded to this month's culture leadership poll? Add your ratings to two questions – it takes less than a minute. Once you vote, click “results” to see the responses from around the globe.

I’m grateful to tell you about my upcoming book, Good Comes First. Written with the amazing Mark Babbitt, Good Comes First is a practical, step-by-step guide to creating a work culture that’s better for morale and for your bottom line. For decades, business leaders around the globe have spent billions of dollars and countless hours attempting to improve employee engagement, decrease burnout, increase retention, and improve productivity. Yet most workplaces still suck: employees don’t feel valued, workplaces aren’t fun or compassionate, and performance is often lagging. You’ve probably run into these issues in your organization, but like so many professionals today, you don’t have a clear understanding of how to fix them. In Good Comes First,  Mark and I go beyond theory, offering proven tools and actionable insights for achieving a work culture that treats employees with respect while inspiring amazing results.  Here are two of the key takeaways from the book. You'll learn to: * Appreciate why a good comes first culture is a business imperative – especially for younger generations. * Identify what “good” means for your company in today’s business climate – and in the future of work. Watch today's 3-minute Culture Leadership Charge video episode to learn an additional ten key takeaways. This is episode ninety-six in that series. Each episode is a 3-4 minute video that describes proven culture leadership and servant leadership practices that boost respect and results across your work teams, departments, regions, companies, homes, and communities. You’ll find my Culture Leadership Charge episodes and more on my YouTube, iTunes, and Amazon Podcast channels. If you like what you learn, please subscribe. Have you responded to this month’s culture leadership poll? Add your ratings to two questions. It’ll take less than a minute. Once you vote, click “results” to see the responses from around the globe. This content was released in video format on my website, http://DrivingResultsThroughCulture.com, on May 18, 2021. Check out my YouTube channel to view all of my 3-minute Culture Leadership Charge video episodes.

For decades, talented people have tolerated old-school leaders that put results before respect. Now is the time for leaders to create a work culture where good comes first for every employee—in every interaction – and where the doing of good leads directly to improved productivity, better customer service, increased retention rates, passionate employees, and higher profits. Employees – your team leaders and team members – deserve a work environment that treats them, their efforts, their ideas, their contributions, and their accomplishments with respect. And yet employees experience far more disappointment than good in today’s workplaces. Pent up frustration with unjust systems and practices, demeaning treatment, self-serving decisions, unfair or unequal compensation, rare recognition, bullying, and worse have led employees to the boiling point. In the coming years, employees will seek out and join organizations and leaders that validate employees’ efforts, serve their communities, and make life better for their customers. Like metal to magnets, employees will seek out companies where good comes first. The problem is that we’ve always been driven by results, so we’ve never asked leaders to change their work cultures. Even if we did, most leaders don’t know how. My upcoming book with Mark Babbitt is titled Good Comes First. Step by step, this book provides proven, actionable strategies for leaders to create and sustain a vibrant, uncompromising work culture. Good Comes First guides you to successfully implement three phases of our culture refinement process: Define your desired work culture through a formalized organizational constitution, which specifies your servant purpose, values and behaviors, strategies, and goals. Align your desired work culture by modeling, coaching, measuring, and celebrating aligned players and practices. Refine your desired work culture by coaching and mentoring players and adjusting practices that don’t align with your organizational constitution. Culture refinement is not easy. As a leader, you already know most change efforts stall or fail. But after reading this book, you will see that, done right, change is not just possible . . . change is practical, powerful, and profitable. And you—the reader—will be the right person, at the right time, to make that change happen. Good Comes First is available for preorder now. The publication date is September 28, 2021. This is episode ninety-four of my Culture Leadership Charge series. In these concise episodes, I present the best practices for creating and maintaining a purposeful, positive, productive culture - at work, at home, and in your community. This content was released in video format on my website, http://DrivingResultsThroughCulture.com, on March 19, 2021. Check out my YouTube channel to view all of my 3-minute Culture Leadership Charge video episodes.

In this episode, Mark Babbitt, the President of WorqIQ, founder and CEO of YouTern shares why creating a people-centered company culture while maximizing the impact of social media using workplace intelligence is important. Mark is also a leadership and career mentor, blogger, speaker and author of “A World Gone Social: How Companies Must Adapt to Survive.” He is included in Inc. Magazine's Top 100 Leadership Speakers and he is among the “Top 50 Leadership Innovators” with his notable contributions in the business community that are mentioned in Entrepreneur, Forbes, Inc and HBR. He is very passionate in creating exceptional experiences at work, empowering professionals and leaders — including college graduates and CEOs — to improve their current levels and competitive advantages.Mitchell Levy is the Global Credibility Expert at AHAthat, the first AHA leadership (Thought Leadership) platform on the market for thought leaders, experts and companies to unleash their genius to the world. His passion is helping entrepreneurs, business owners and C-Suite Executives get known as thought leaders & become best-selling authors with the AHA platform. He is an accomplished entrepreneur who has created 20 businesses in Silicon Valley including four publishing companies that have published over 800 books. Mitchell is an international best selling author with 60 business books, has provided strategic consulting to over 100 companies, has advised over 500 CEOs on critical business issues, and has been chairman of the board of a NASDAQ-listed company.Visit https://www.credibilitynation.com to learn more about the Credibility Nation community.Visit https://www.ahathat.com/author to learn how you can become an Amazon best-selling author in 4 months.

Get to know these successful thought leaders and find out how they present themselves and their crafts as experts in their fields. Debbie Lynn Grace (http://aha.pub/DebbieLynnGrace) is the CEO at Debbie Lynn Grace International. She is a transformational leader, author and international speaker. Debbie Lynn helps individuals who are highly sensitive and empathic from around the globe on a spiritual path, identify and remove the energy blocks in their lives that hinder them from fulfilling their greater purpose. If you’re on a spiritual journey but have an energy block and need support, you should consider reaching out to Debbie Lynn Grace by visiting her website at https://debbielynngrace.com or http://aha.pub/DebbieLynnGrace. Jeff Munn (https://aha.pub/JeffMunn) is the founder and CEO of Jeff Munn, LLC and a certified professional Presence-Based Coach who is passionate about creating extraordinary futures and maximizing endless possibilities for business executives and entrepreneurs and their respective teams. Jeff spent 25 years in the corporate world as a lawyer, executive and consultant, so, he is well-versed in how CEOs and professionals can expand and rework their businesses in order to create new roles with a collaborative team that supports their greater meaning and purpose. If you feel that your value is based only on what you do and what you produce in the world, and you desire to do well at work and still have a personal life, consider reaching out to Jeff Munn by visiting his website https://jmunn.com/ and going to https://aha.pub/JeffMunn. Mark Babbitt (https://aha.pub/MarkBabbitt) is the President of WorqIQ, founder and CEO of YouTern, leadership and career mentor, blogger, speaker and author of “A World Gone Social: How Companies Must Adapt to Survive.” Mark is included in Inc. Magazine’s Top 100 Leadership Speakers and he is among the “Top 50 Leadership Innovators” with his notable contributions in the business community that are mentioned in Entrepreneur, Forbes, Inc and HBR. He is very passionate in creating exceptional experiences at work, empowering professionals and leaders — including college graduates and CEOs — to improve their current levels and competitive advantages. To learn more about Mark Babbitt, go to https://aha.pub/MarkBabbitt. For more details about #WorkplaceIntelligence and Mark’s book about the impact of social and digital media on business cultures, visit his website www.worqIQ.com. Global Credibility Expert, Mitchell Levy is a TEDx speaker and international bestselling author of over 60 books. As The AHA Guy at AHAthat (https://ahathat.com), he helps to extract the genius from your head in a two-three hour interview so that his team can ghostwrite your book, publish it, distribute it, and make you an Amazon bestselling author in four months or less. He is an accomplished Entrepreneur who has created twenty businesses in Silicon Valley including four publishing companies that have published over 800 books. He’s provided strategic consulting to over one hundred companies, and has been chairman of the board of a NASDAQ-listed company. Mitchell has been happily married for thirty years and regularly spends four weeks in Europe with family and friends. Visit https://mitchelllevy.com/mitchelllevypresents/ for an archive of all the podcast episodes. Connect to Mitchell Levy on: Mitchell Levy Present AHA Moments: https://mitchelllevy.com/mitchelllevypresents/ Thought Leader Life: https://thoughtleaderlife.com AHAthat Radio: https://AHAthatRadio.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Employee engagement was a great idea 30 years ago but it’s become a buzz phrase with no clout, according to today’s guest, Mark Babbitt. Mark’s passionate about taking the right approach to a stellar workplace experience. He’s on #WorkTrends to talk about how to finally get past the myth of employee engagement, and about the five essential factors of what really matters: Workplace Intelligence.

Today's interview is with Ted Coiné and Mark Babbitt, co-authors of a new book called: A World Gone Social: How companies must adapt to survive. They join me to talk about their book, the challenges that they see many firms facing, how to address these challenges and why customer service is not only an issue for whole organisations but is also a leadership issue. This interview follows on from my recent interview: Find and fix customer problems by hiring a Customer Advocacy Manager – Interview with Carey Smith and Dave Waltz of Big Ass Fans – and is number 123 in the series of interviews with authors and business leaders that are doing great things, helping businesses innovate, become more social and deliver better service.

Today's interview is with Stew Bloom, CEO of Aspect, who help enterprise contact centres deliver their customer experiences across every channel through their software platform. Stew joins me today to talk about proactive customer service and why proactive customer service drives customer loyalty. This interview follows on from my recent interview: Social leadership and why the C-Suite has to go social – Interview with Ted Coiné and Mark Babbitt – and is number 124 in the series of interviews with authors and business leaders that are doing great things, helping businesses innovate, become more social and deliver better service.

This week we welcome Mark Babbitt, President and Senior Partner of WorqIQ, a consultancy that helps organizations and their leaders improve the experience of work by helping them understand, then raise, their collective level of Workplace Intelligence, or “WQ.” We will discuss the role of Workplace Intelligence (WQ) in future-proofing your organization and creating a great place to work. We will also explore the seven elements of Workplace Intelligence: Organizational Culture and Workplace Climate Transformational Leadership Employee Engagement (Reimagined) Purpose-driven Performance Creating an Optimistic Workplace Social Intelligence Community Building A prolific blogger, Mark's thought leadership can be found on Entrepreneur, Inc., Harvard Business Review and many other outlets. An in-demand speaker, Babbitt was also named to Inc. Magazines Top 100 Leadership Speakers. Mark is co-author of A World Gone Social: How Companies Must Adapt to Survive. (AMACOM, August 2014). Tens of thousands of followers benefit from Babbitt's daily doses of workplace, leadership and social intelligence how-tos on Twitter at @MarkSBabbitt‪.

Diligence in contact marketing can feel like you’re banging your head against a wall.   Believing that persistence means doing the same thing over and over again and expecting something different to happen is similar. In this episode I got to chat with Mark Babbitt, CEO of WorqIQ and YouTern and author of A World Gone Social about how he and his team perceive persistence. Give your head a break and think about how creative persistence might help you break through to potential clients and change your level of success. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ask better questions, be assertive, and create a conversation. These are the interview strategies that lead to job offers. Our guest Mark Babbitt shares tips and tricks to turn a job interview from an interrogation into a productive dialogue. All it takes is solid preparation and a few simple approaches to guide the interview in a positive direction. About Our Guest: Mark Babbitt Mark Babbitt is founder of YouTern (http://www.youtern.com/), a social resource for young professionals that Mashable calls a "Top 5 Online Community for Starting Your Career." Mark is also President of WorqIQ, a community that looks at the key factors that contribute to our collective workplace intelligence. And he’s co-author of the best-seller A World Gone Social: How Companies Must Adapt to Survive: http://aworldgonesocial.com. Resources in this Episode: 10 Myths About Negotiating Your First Salary: https://hbr.org/2017/07/10-myths-about-negotiating-your-first-salary The team answers Kate Hendricks’ question about how to find a job before she moves: https://www.macslist.org/new-job-new-city-how-to-land-job-before-you-move/ 

Breakthrough Radio is a global business radio show that delivers high impact & pioneering knowledge for leaders in business. Entrepreneurs, startups, sales/marketing/IT professionals join us every Monday. Fractional CMO, Digital Marketing Strategist, and Leadership Keynote Speaker Michele Price bring you weekly access to the top minds to Master the Inner and Outer Game of business.  Mary Lamia, author What Motivates Getting Things Done - Procrastination, Emotions, and Success. Finka Jerkovic, Fascinate facilitator, delivers Breakthrough tip on human behavior in business. Andrea Waltz, author Go For No and keynote speaker. Breakthrough Byte on your business success mindset.  We love rewarding engagement. You are invited to visit radio show blog at www.TheBreakthroughRadio.com #BBSradio

Release the inner 12 year old as Joel speaks to his friend and fellow Colorado native, Mark S Babbitt. Mark discusses escaping from his career in Silicon Valley, white river rafting and taking a look at the human side of business. The guys also discuss Mark’s love of baseball, the most fun thing about his job, why outliving his grandchildren is on his bucket list and a challenge is set for the pair to face their biggest fear…standing on stage and being funny.   http://www.youtern.com/ Mark on Facebook Mark on Twitter Mark on Instagram

Mark Babbitt is CEO and Founder of YouTern, a social resource for young professionals that Mashable calls a "Top 5 Online Community for Starting Your Career." Babbitt is also President of the leadership community Switch and Shift and will serve transitioning military veterans as co-founder of ForwardHeroes.org, scheduled to launch in early 2018.A prolific blogger; Mark’s work can be seen on Entrepreneur, Forbes, HBR and many other outlets. An in-demand speaker, he was named one of Inc. Magazines Top 100 Leadership Speakers. Babbitt is co-author of the best-seller A World Gone Social: How Companies Must Adapt to Survive.Tens of thousands of followers benefit from Babbitt’s daily doses of personal and organizational branding how-to's, career advice and insight into Social Age leadership on Twitter at @MarkSBabbittLearn More: http://youtern.comInfluential Influencers with Mike Saundershttp://businessinnovatorsradio.com/influential-entrepreneurs-with-mike-saunders/

Mark Babbitt is CEO and Founder of YouTern, a social resource for young professionals that Mashable calls a "Top 5 Online Community for Starting Your Career." Babbitt is also President of the leadership community Switch and Shift and will serve transitioning military veterans as co-founder of ForwardHeroes.org, scheduled to launch in early 2018.A prolific blogger; Mark’s work can be seen on Entrepreneur, Forbes, HBR and many other outlets. An in-demand speaker, he was named one of Inc. Magazines Top 100 Leadership Speakers. Babbitt is co-author of the best-seller A World Gone Social: How Companies Must Adapt to Survive.Tens of thousands of followers benefit from Babbitt’s daily doses of personal and organizational branding how-to's, career advice and insight into Social Age leadership on Twitter at @MarkSBabbittLearn More: http://youtern.comInfluential Influencers with Mike Saundershttp://businessinnovatorsradio.com/influential-entrepreneurs-with-mike-saunders/

Mark Babbitt was always the man behind the curtain. He was the engineer in back that figured out how to get stuff done. But then his role changed. He had to blog and be vulnerable. He had to take a stand. As the guy who would vomit before public speaking., Mark had to get over the hump fast.

In this episode of our new partner podcast, WorkingTech, Kevin W. Grossman interviews YouTern’s CEO and Founder, Mark Babbitt. Mark is also co-author of the best-seller A World Gone Social: How Companies Must Adapt to Survive.

Mark Babbitt serves up a double portion of insight on the topics of working with interns and working your personal brand.You'll Learn:How internships can be more mutually beneficial than you thinkA step by step guide to building high-quality internshipsTwo simple questions for accelerating your careerAbout MarkMark Babbitt is a career and leadership mentor, and the CEO and founder of YouTern, a community for young talents looking for internships, mentorships, and actionable advice. He is also the President of Switch & Shift, a consultancy firm looking to bring leaders to the Social Media age. He has written for the likes of the Business Insider, the Huffington Post, and the Harvard Business Review. He has published two books, The Ultimate Guide to Internships and A World Gone Social. Items Mentioned in this Show:Website: YouTernBook: A World Gone Social by Ted Coine & Mark BabbittApp: GlipApp: NozbeApp: SlackTED talk: Adam GrantBook: In Search of Excellence by Tom Peters & Robert WatermanResearch: Gallup on State of the American WorkplaceWebsite: ForwardHeroes.org (coming soon!)Program: Enhanced Thinking & Collaboration TrainingView transcript, show notes, and links at https://awesomeatyourjob.com/ep130See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Mark Babbitt serves up a double portion of insight on the topics of working with interns and working your personal brand. You'll Learn: How internships can be more mutually beneficial than you think A step by step guide to building high-quality internships Two simple questions for accelerating your career   About Mark: Mark Babbitt is a career and leadership mentor, and the CEO and founder of YouTern, a community for young talents looking for internships, mentorships, and actionable advice. He is also the President of Switch & Shift, a consultancy firm looking to bring leaders to the Social Media age. He has written for the likes of the Business Insider, the Huffington Post, and the Harvard Business Review. He has published two books, The Ultimate Guide to Internships and A World Gone Social. View transcript, show notes, and links at http://AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep130

Mark Babbitt serves up a double portion of insight on the topics of working with interns and working your personal brand. You'll Learn: How internships can be more mutually beneficial than you think A step by step guide to building high-quality internships Two simple questions for accelerating your career   About Mark: Mark Babbitt is a career and leadership mentor, and the CEO and founder of YouTern, a community for young talents looking for internships, mentorships, and actionable advice. He is also the President of Switch & Shift, a consultancy firm looking to bring leaders to the Social Media age. He has written for the likes of the Busin

Mark Babbitt co-authored one of the definitive, best-selling books on social media and what it means for the world of business.  On this session, Mark talks about how social media impacts the Contact Marketing mission, of connecting with the people who can most help us change the scale of our careers and businesses.

In this episode, our guest is Mark Babbitt. He is the Founder & CEO of YouTern and an Inc. Magazine Top 100 Leadership Speaker. Mark shares his journey from being a military officer to life in Silicon Valley. We also talk about the role and status of high school and college education. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/reachingthefinishline/support

Mark Babbitt, leadership and career mentor, blogger, speaker and author will share his insights on the new business imperative for individuals and companies to embrace social media to drive growth and competitiveness. Not for the sake of social media, but to ignite collaboration, partnerships, and most importantly improve the bottom line. Social media has become a disruptive force and has taken many companies by surprise and driving innovation in others; Mark will share solid recommendations on how companies can transform their vision.  Mark is CEO and Founder of YouTern, President of Switch and Shift, and author of A World Gone Social: How Companies Must Adapt To Survive. Mark has been named one of the Top Leadership Thinkers by Inc magazine, recommended as one of the top 15 Twitter Accounts Every Entrepreneur Should Follow by Business News Daily, and is recognized as a Top Leadership Speaker by, Inc in 2014.      

Welcome to moving month on the BRAND New You Show. This month we're heading back into the archives to revisit old friends. Today's guest first appeared in episode 11 way back in Feb of 2015. He and his co-author had just released the book, A world gone social How companies must adapt to survive. Our conversation covers everything social from how you can use social media to stand out in your career to twitter chats and of course a discussion about his book. So without any further ado, let me re-introduce to you, Mark Babbitt. Mark Babbitt is the founder of YouTern. At YouTern, Mark and his team enable young talent to become highly employable by connecting them to high-impact internships, and mentors as well as offering them contemporary career advice through their blog, The Savvy Intern. In addition, Mark is the president of Switch and Shift. A company Focused on the Human side of business. He is also an author, a highly sought after mentor, keynote speaker, and blogger. Mark has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, Mashable, Forbes and Bloomberg News regarding social media's impact on business, leadership in the Social Age, and career development. Mark is the co-author of the book, A World Gone Social; How companies must adapt to survive. The book is designed to help companies and it's leaders transition from the industrial age into the social age. And last but certainly not least, Mark is a husband, father of five, a grandfather and a recovering engineer. Do you know what your online profile says about you?  Find out by taking my Online Brand Assessment.Discover your score and the ways you can start to improve your score today! Take the Assessment   CONNECT WITH RYAN RHOTEN LinkedIn | Twitter | Facebook   

Mark Babbitt is President of SwitchandShift.com, a site and consultancy dedicated to leadership in the Social Age. He is co-author of "A World Gone Social." In this interview, we talk about how the world, and the world of work, has changed and how leaders have to adapt to survive.

What does mindful leadership look like? We know it’s a completely different animal than when many of us were young. Things looked fine when we were in a manufacturing environment, and now all of us are working in idea factories. Now everything is knowledge based, being thoughtful, mindful, and creative. Mindful social leadership is so much more than social media. It’s about active listening and being self aware at this moment. It’s about putting the device down and having a conversation. Learn more on the blog: http://bit.ly/2iH2eqb --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jfouts/support

Mark Babbitt, President of Switch & Shift, and Geoff Dubiski, Global Talent Executive at WilsonHCG join host Chris Dyer on this episode of TalentTalk.This show is brought to you by Talk 4 Radio (http://www.talk4radio.com/) on the Talk 4 Media Network (http://www.talk4media.com/).

David is a civic communication specialist for University of Missouri Extension and has responsibilities throughout the 17 counties of southwest Missouri. He is headquartered out of the Extension office in Springfield, Mo.   David is an award winning member of the extension as well as an award winning fiction writer.   In part 1 of 3 episodes, David gets into what open book management is for a small government/non-profit/complicated organization like his, how the great game has changed the mindset of the team, and how they’ve overcome skepticism.   Social Shareables from part 1 Open Book Management is both a life preserver and a motor boat. It helped pull us out of the financial crisis and at the same time moving us forward.   Literal notes taken while listening to the show: Open book management is also financial transparency, financial education, team-building, and a philosophy that gets people on the same page on decision making and strategic planning.   After open book management we’re not just thinking, “what’s in it for me?”.   Questions Are you and your people thinking about the day-to-day habits that are costing your organization money and time?   The extension has a complicated mission, management structure, and funding process. If they’re able to use open book management, do you think your department or company could manage it?   Might there be skepticism in your organization to open book management working? What could help convince your team to buy-in? At the end of this episode is a quick interview with Shawn Murphy, co-creator of The Rebel Leader Podcast. This is the first podcaster highlight i wanted to share with you. I will choose a podcaster that I believe will help you run your business and life in such a way that you will intentional inspire yourself and those around you.   These interviews will normally be their own episode on the Inspired and Intentional channel, but I wanted to share the first one with you.   From the Rebel Leader Launch: The Rebel Leader promises to bring together executives, leaders (both formal and informal), entrepreneurs, authors and influencers who make a difference by leading rebelliously. We’ll interview people you already know and admire, and many purpose-driven leaders you’ve never heard of – but should.   Through stories, interviews and analysis we’ll help you understand how much leadership is changing as we leave the Industrial Age behind – and embrace the Social Age.   The show will be hosted by the CEO and Founder of Switch & Shift, Shawn Murphy. He’ll be joined by Mark Babbitt, our President and Senior Partner.   The Rebel Leader on Switch and Shift - http://switchandshift.com/category/the-rebel-leader-podcst   To get the show sent to your phone automatically, subscribe via itunes at https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/inspired-intentional-business/id1049626659?mt=2   Sign up for email updates at http://inspiredandintentional.com/subscribe   http://inspiredandintentional.com/episode28   Resources Greene County Extension Council Business Plan - http://extension.missouri.edu/greene/documents/PlansReports/businessplan-GreeneCountyExtensionCOUNCIL.pdf   Greene County Extension Great Game of Business  Presentation http://extension.missouri.edu/greene/ggob.aspx   Diagram and explanation of how Greene County Extension is implementing the Great Game of Business -  http://extension.missouri.edu/greene/documents/GGOB/Information%20chart%20to%20explain%20-%20LARGE.pdf   Explanation of how the Extension began using the Great Game - http://southwestregionnewsservice.blogspot.com/2015/04/greene-county-extension-begins-playing.html The inspired and Intentional podcast is copyright 2016 by its owner. The music is Funk Game Loop, Kevin MacLeod Royalty Free from Incompatech. Thank you for sharing your talent.

Mark Babbitt, President of Switch & Shift, and Geoff Dubiski, Global Talent Executive at WilsonHCG join host Chris Dyer on this episode of TalentTalk.

Episode 13 of Livestream Stars with Ross Brand of Livestream Universe. Subscribe to the podcast: https://rossbrandrecordings.com/ (https://rossbrandrecordings.com). Mark Babbitt is CEO at http://youtern.com/ (YouTern.com), where he offers career, business and personal branding advice to millennials through a variety of platforms, including The Savvy Intern blog and the #InternPro Twitter Chat (Mondays, 9pm ET). Mashable called YouTern a “Top 5 Online Community for Starting Your Career.” Mark is also President at http://switchandshift.com/ (Switch & Shift), an organization focused on the human-side of business and the second-most socially shared leadership site on the internet. Switch & Shift produces the Work That Matters podcast and hosts the #SocialLeader Twitter Chat (Mondays, 8pm ET). Mark is the co-author of http://www.amazon.com/World-Gone-Social-Companies-Survive/dp/081443326X (A World Gone Social: How Companies Must Adapt to Survive) with Ted Coine. He is the CMO & co-founder of http://forwardheroes/ (ForwardHeroes.org), helping improve the lives of veterans by developing their employability skills and connecting them with opportunities. A mentor, entrepreneur, blogger and keynote speaker, Mark was selected to Inc.‘s list of  “100 Great Leadership Speakers for Your Next Conference” and has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Mashable and numerous other publications on the impact of social media on businesses and careers. Show TopicsAre organizations more receptive to social media than in 2014 when A World Gone Social was released? What is the impact of livestreaming? Thoughts on social media automation and Twitter auto direct messages What role can Anchor.fm fill for businesses in their social strategy? How are university career services departments helping students to compete in the social age? Benefits to young professionals of using social media, livestreaming and blogging How will education change? Importance of degrees vs self-directed learning and non-university educational options How the older generations are adapting to social media for business and making connections This was the first episode to play audio questions received from viewers via Anchor.fm waves.

This week's Military Entrepreneur is Mark Babbitt, a renowned business speaker, author, and leadership expert. He served four years in the United States Air Force, he managed to master the art of building relationships in his transition. Mark's hard work and innovativeness really paid off, he subsequently had six job offers in Silicon Valley following his military service. The post Mark Babbitt | USAF Vet Turned Leadership Expert & Entrepreneur appeared first on Dan Evans Blog.

Mark Babbitt is the co-author of A World Gone Social: How Companies Must Adapt to Survive, an Amazon best-seller that takes an inspiring look at the impact of social media on today's business world. Mark is the CEO and Founder of YouTern, an award-winning social community for young professionals and was recently named to Inc.’s 100 Great Leaderships Speakers and to Business News Daily’s Top Entrepreneurs to Follow on Twitter. Mark is a contributor to Harvard Business Review, Inc., and Huffington Post; his work has been featured in Forbes, the Wall Street Journal, USA TODAY, Bloomberg News and many other publications and media outlets.   Secret -- timesaving technique Mark is a morning person -- kickstart your day early -- take advantage of the extra hours. ONWARD! Daily habit that contributes to success Mark takes the time to build mutually beneficial relationships with his client base -- know them on a personal level. Could have ruined your business -- but now -- an invaluable learning experience Mark had to rethink his B2B model during the recession -- and Mark tells the whole story here. Most critical skill you think business owners need to master to be successful “A business owner can benefit greatly by becoming a mentor -- teaching is invaluable.” Most influential lesson learned from a mentor “You have to learn the art of pace -- shut it down once in awhile -- without a reasonable pace we become overbearing.”     Final Round -- “Breaking Down the Recipe for Success”   What systems would you go back and put into place sooner? I would have gone back and put a system in place versed in continually upgrading our team. What one strategy or “recipe” would compound into big wins for business owners? Cohesiveness -- we have to create a team that is comprised of passionate individuals who take ownership. How to exceed expectations and add the most value? An individual who is passionate about the mission -- has grit -- as well as some good old-fashioned ingenuity. What strategy would you recommend new business owners focus on to best ensure success? Develop a personal board of advisors Surround yourself with people that are smarter than you How best to connect with Mark: http://www.youtern.com/   You can also find us here: ------ OnwardNation.com ------ 

In their book A World Gone Social, Ted Coiné and Mark Babbitt engage us with how important is is for companies to adapt to survive. Social media is playing an ever bigger role in the way companies function. From recruitment of new staff to how senior executives behave. Our world has gone social, that’s a fact that companies have to contend with. The example above is just one of many. News is traveling faster and faster. It is fueled by hash-tags and mobile phone penetration even in rural areas. You can’t hide from your customers anymore.

Ted Coine is the CMO of Meddle and his previous experiences in leadership and entrepreneurial positions throughout his career make him someone I've long desired to have on the show. He's also co-author of "A World Gone Social" with previous Why I Social guest Mark Babbitt.  Get to know Ted, as we discuss co-writing "A World Gone Social", joining Meddle.it and English as a Second Language. Note: Starting today, every Tuesday will be the day new episodes go live. In weeks that include two episodes, you'll get a new episode on Tuesday and Friday.  Connect with Ted on Twitter: @TedCoine As always, share YOUR thoughts on the latest episode using #WhyISocial. Of course, you're also invited to subscribe on iTunes or Stitcher Radio if you'd like to get updates when the latest episode is live. You can also follow the podcast on Twitter at @WhyISocial. Thank you to BenjoBeats (@BenjoBeats) and Jeff Januszek (@JeffJanuszek) for their contributions (music and voiceover) to the podcast.

In this episode of You University, I interview Mark Babbitt. Mark is the CEO of YouTern, a talent community that Forbes has twice named a “Top Website for Your Career.” Mark also serves as President of Switch and Shift, a site that champions social leadership is a founder of ForwardHeroes.org which launches in 2015 to help our military veterans transition successfully into civilian careers.  Mark is the co-author of A World Gone Social: How Business Must Adapt to Survive with Ted Coiné (AMACOM | September 2014). An in-demand speaker and mentor, Mark has been named as a Top 100 leadership speaker by Inc. and one of the “15 Twitter Accounts Every Entrepreneur Should Follow" by Business News Daily.  Ready to build your brand? Get your 15 Free Videos RIGHT NOW http://goo.gl/oDCqdL

Mark Babbitt | Social Media | Personal Branding SHOW NOTES:  http://ryanrhoten.com/mark Today we welcome to the BRAND New You show, Mark Babbitt the founder of You Tern.  At YouTern, Mark and his team enable young talent to become highly employable by connecting them to high-impact internships, mentors and contemporary career advice through their blog, The Savvy Intern. Mark is also a co-founder of ForwardHeroes.org.  A non-profit organization whose mission is to help U.S. veterans transition into the civilian workforce.   Mark is the president of Switch and Shift.  A company Focused on the Human side of business.  At Switch and Shift there is no gray area , they believe you're either actively making the world better, or you're passively helping keep the status quo.   In addition to all of this, Mark is also an author, a highly sought after mentor, keynote speaker and blogger. Mark has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, Mashable, Forbes and Bloomberg News regarding social media's impact on business, leadership in the Social Age, and career development. Mark is the co-author of the book A World Gone Social; How companies must adapt to survive.  A book designed to help companies and it's leaders transition from the industrial age into the social age.    And last but certainly not least, Mark is a husband, father of five, a grandfather and a recovering engineer. Best way for the listeners to get in touch with Mark. Twitter: @marksbabbitt Website: http://youtern.com  Website: http://forwardheros.org Website: http://switchandshift.com email:   mark@youtern.com Mark left the listeners with this final thought when it comes to your career. “Be Bold.  Be bold enough to be different.”  

The world of career services, recruiting and personal branding is a tricky one. No one knows that better than Mark Babbitt, CEO of YouTern. His journey to the role of CEO hasn't been an easy one and it's a story worth hearing. We also debate the stigma around the term "personal branding". Get to know Mark as he shares the origins of YouTern, great tips for building your personal brand and talks about the power of authenticity.  There's more! Listeners will have an opportunity to win a copy of his and Ted Coine's book "A World Gone Social". How? Simple - listen to the podcast and you'll find out! Also, I make an announcement about an additional Why I Social project coming to a (video) channel near you! As always, share YOUR thoughts on the latest episode using #WhyISocial.  Note: Contest winner will be selected 7 days after the release of the podcast.

On this episode, I'm joined by Ted Coiné, Chief Marketing Officer of Meddle.it, the next generation of content marketing for organizations and individuals. Ted is a Forbes Top 100 Social Media Power Influencer, Inc. Top 100 Leadership Expert, and Inc. Top 100 Speaker. A three-time CEO, Ted Coiné is also the co-author with Mark Babbitt of "A World Gone Social: How Companies Must Adapt to Survive." This episode is sponsored by Cision. Reserve your copy of the Social Business Journal Volume 2, the How to Guide in Influencer Marketing to publish in March. Of course, it's free. You can reserve your copy today at  socialbusinessengine.com/cision.  

The TalentCulture #TChat Show is back live on Wednesday, January 7, 2015, from 7-8 pm ET (4-5 pm PT). Happy New Year!  During the last show of 2014, we talked about how to make waves and initiate positive change, and this week we're going to talk about a world gone social and the power of OPEN (Ordinary Person | Extraordinary Network). Thankfully, the Industrial Age is gone, and finally so is autocratic, dictatorial leadership style that came with it. Today's business world has entered a new era—one in which social media has fundamentally changed the way companies innovate, market, scale, build teams, and serve customers.  Welcome to a world gone social!  Companies that build socially enabled teams and put the customer experience first are the ones with the competitive advantage today. Join TalentCulture #TChat Show co-founders and co-hosts Meghan M. Biro and Kevin W. Grossman for the first show of 2015 as we learn about a world gone social and the power of OPEN with this week’s guests: Ted Coiné, Co-Founder of Switch and Shift and Forbes Top 10 Social Media Power Influencer; and Mark Babbitt, CEO and Founder of YouTern, President of Switch and Shift and a co-founder of ForwardHeroes.org. Thank you to all our TalentCulture sponsors and partners: Dice, Hootsuite, SAP/SuccessFactors, GreatRated! of Great Place to Work, IBM Smarter Workforce, CareerBuilder, PeopleFluent, Fisher Vista and HRmarketer Insight.

Ted Coiné and Mark  Babbitt are authors of the new book - 'A World Gone Social: How Companies Must Adapt to Survive' - plus they run a multi-author leadership blog called SwitchandShift.com, which attracts close to a million readers a year. In this episode of Reputation Revolution, Ted and Mark riff on the importance of being human in business today; why 'displaying your character' is a key to success in social media; and how they've grown their respective followings on Twitter (Mark has 33,000 followers; Ted has 400,000). And finally, we discuss the question posed by Ted and Mark in their book: "Are experts obselete"?

October 16, 2014 Productivity Expert David Allen & YouTerns Mark Babbitt

Tom Hopkins carries the standard as a master sales trainer and is recognized as the world's leading authority on selling techniques and salesmanship.Over 4 million people on five continents have attended Tom's high-energy live seminars. He is the author of 17 books, including “How to Master the Art of Selling™,” which has sold over 1.6 million copies worldwide. This mega-selling book is considered a must-have reference guide for top selling producers in every field of sales  Sheila Kennedy THE Confidence Coach.She did the hard work and filled her tool chest with what she needed to achieve confidence at her core the kind of confidence that delivers better relationships, decision making, health and success in her business.  In her best-selling book, You Had It All Along, 5 Keys to Unlocking the POWER of Confidence at Your Core  Josh Rednik President and CEO of the Diabetes Research Institute Foundation. DRIF is the fundraising arm for the world-renown Diabetes Research Institute at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, which is at the forefront of research to cure diabetes Ted Coiné co-founder of Switch and Shift, a leadership community that believes organizations  in order to thrive in the Social Age  must build trust-based relationships, lead with purpose, and enable employees to do work that matters. A noted blogger and speaker, Ted was recently named a Forbes “Top 10 Social Media Power Influencer.”   Mark Babbitt CEO and Founder of YouTern, a social community for college students, recent graduates and young professionals that Mashable calls a "Top 5 Online Community for Starting Your Career." A prolific blogger and speaker, he is also President of Switch and Shift and a co-founder of Forward Heroes.org  

Mark Babbitt, author of A World Gone Social - How Companies Must Adapt to Survive explains why social media is like an asteroid that has slammed into the earth and will take out the businesses that are like dinosaurs. (Ouch!) Plus we show you two new new Facebook features that'll make using Facebook for business, easier.

Mark Babbitt @MarkSBabbitt at Lunch with DriveThruHR with @bryanwempen (Emeritus), @williamtincup & @thehrbuddy DriveThruHR was designed to be a captivating and easy-to-digest lunch discourse that covers topics relevant to HR professionals.  Each 30-minute episode features a guest speaker who shares her or his knowledge and experience in human resources. Our hosts and special guest cover a wealth of topics, including HR Technology, Recruiting, Talent Management, Leadership, Organizational Culture and Strategic HR, every day at 12:00 pm Central Time.  The radio program is hosted by @bryanwempen (Emeritus), @williamtincup and @thehrbuddy The #1 HR show, with amazing HR conversations and follow us on the twitters at  @drivethruhr and #dthr. http://www.drivethruhr.com/ http://www.facebook.com/drivethruhr http://www.linkedin.com/company/1651206 http://twitter.com/drivethruhr  

Mark Babbitt is CEO of YouTern, a community that enables young talent to become highly employable by connecting them to high-impact internships, mentors and contemporary career advice. YouTern’s advocacy of mentor-based career development and self-learning – as well as its work with companies building engaging company cultures that attract Millennial talent – has received national attention: • Mashable calls YouTern a “Top 5 Online Community for Starting Your Career” • Forbes named the start-up a “Top Website for Your Career” in 2012 and 2013 • In 2013, About.com listed YouTern a Top 5 finalist for “Best Career Blog” and “Best Job Site for Students” Mark is a keynote speaker, author and blogger who contributes to The Huffington Post, Bloomberg News and SwitchandShift.com. Mark’s upcoming books include: • “A World Gone Social: How Business Must Adapt to Survive” with Ted Coine | AMACOM | July 2014 • “The Ultimate Guide to Internships (and Making Your College Years Matter Again)” | Allworth Publishing New York | Sept 2014 On this podcast episode we discuss: The kind of skills someone should you work on developing and how. The power of networking. What social media is best for you. How Yourtern can help people of all ages find a mentor. Advice on ways to transition into your career or entreprenuership. Websites to Check Out http://under30ceo.com http://under30careers.com http://internsover40.blogspot.com http://comerecommended.com http://www.brazencareerist.com Twitter: @youternmark Email - Mark@yourtern.com Website: http://www.youtern.com Career Spotlight Transcription www.transciptionist.jobs.com- transcription job listings www.mtjobs.com- medical transcription careers

Join us each week as experts help us explore issues shaping the world of work! #TChat Radio show is back live on Wednesday, October 16, 2013, at 6:30 pm ET (3:30 pm PT). Immediately after, our entire community will continue the conversation on #TChat Twitter from 7-8 pm ET.   Last week, the TalentCulture community discussed age discrimination in the workplace. This week, we look at age in the workplace from another perspective -- specifically through the lens of Generation X.   Why Gen X? Many say that Boomers and Millennials capture most of the attention -- leaving little on the table for those in the middle. But does evidence really support that perception? Is Gen X suffering in silence somehow? If so, what are the consequences for business, as Boomers retire from the workforce, and organizations require new leaders, experts and innovators?   This week, we're giving Gen X the attention it deserves.   Join #TChat co-creators and hosts Meghan M. Biro and Kevin W. Grossman as we welcome expert guest, Mark Babbitt, CEO of YouTern and COO of SwitchandShift.   This is a topic that affects us all -- regardless of our age or profession. So be sure to tune in and join the conversation!  

Join Eric Woodard of Great Intern and Mark Babbitt of YouTern for a no holds conversation about all things related to internships!   Our guest for this episode of Intern Pro Radio is Kinsey Holloway of The Washington Center. We will be discussing the "life stuff" students often need to deal with while performing well as interns, including living arrangements, adapting to a professional environment and leading an independent "adult" life while tackling what is, for many, their first work-related experience.   We invite you to join in the inspiring discussion, either by dialing into the show at 347-843-4970 or by using the #InternPro hashtag on Twitter. Join us at 9pm ET/6pm PT on Tuesday, September 10!

Join Eric Woodard of Great Intern and Mark Babbitt of YouTern for a no holds conversation about all things related to internships!   Our guest for this episode of Intern Pro Radio is Kinsey Holloway of The Washington Center. We will be discussing the "life stuff" students often need to deal with while performing well as interns, including living arrangements, adapting to a professional environment and leading an independent "adult" life while tackling what is, for many, their first work-related experience.   We invite you to join in the inspiring discussion, either by dialing into the show at 347-843-4970 or by using the #InternPro hashtag on Twitter. Join us at 9pm ET/6pm PT on Tuesday, September 10!

In this broadcast, Mark Babbitt of YouTern will talk with David Shindler of The Employablity Hub about their collaboration on an e-book titled "Internships in the 21st Century: How to Get a Job Before Graduation" -- now available on Bookboon!  

In this broadcast, Mark Babbitt of YouTern will talk with David Shindler of The Employablity Hub about their collaboration on an e-book titled "Internships in the 21st Century: How to Get a Job Before Graduation" -- now available on Bookboon!  

Join Eric Woodard of Great Intern and Mark Babbitt of YouTern for an important conversation around the paid versus unpaid internships with Dr. Robert Shindell, Ph.D. of Intern Bridge. We'll get an update from Robert on what is happening in the world of internships today, go deep into both sides of the unpaid internship debate and learn how we can ensure our internship programs are not only competitive, but doing the right thing as we mentor young talent. We invite you to join in the inspiring discussion, either by dialing into the show at 347-843-4970 or by using the #InternPro hashtag on Twitter. Join us at 9pm ET/6pm PT on Tuesday, July 2nd!

Join Eric Woodard of Great Intern and Mark Babbitt of YouTern for an important conversation around the paid versus unpaid internships with Dr. Robert Shindell, Ph.D. of Intern Bridge. We'll get an update from Robert on what is happening in the world of internships today, go deep into both sides of the unpaid internship debate and learn how we can ensure our internship programs are not only competitive, but doing the right thing as we mentor young talent. We invite you to join in the inspiring discussion, either by dialing into the show at 347-843-4970 or by using the #InternPro hashtag on Twitter. Join us at 9pm ET/6pm PT on Tuesday, July 2nd!

Join hosts Mark Babbitt of YouTern and Eric Woodard of Great Intern for a no hold discussion about all things related to Internships and early career development! This episode features a conversation with Marc Luber of Careers Out There about finding a career that is the right fit by answering the "what careers are out there?" and "what career is right for you?" questions. We invite you to join in the conversation, either by dialing into the show at 347-843-4970 or by using the #InternPro hashtag on Twitter. Join us at 9pm ET/6pm PT on Tuesday, June 25th!

Join hosts Mark Babbitt of YouTern and Eric Woodard of Great Intern for a no hold discussion about all things related to Internships and early career development! This episode features a conversation with Marc Luber of Careers Out There about finding a career that is the right fit by answering the "what careers are out there?" and "what career is right for you?" questions. We invite you to join in the conversation, either by dialing into the show at 347-843-4970 or by using the #InternPro hashtag on Twitter. Join us at 9pm ET/6pm PT on Tuesday, June 25th!

Join Eric Woodard of Great Intern and Mark Babbitt of YouTern for a conversation that will cover the world of internships. Topics will cover how to make the most of your summer internships, the continuiing controversy around paid vs. unpaid internships and more. We invite you to join in the discussion, either by dialing into the show at 347-843-4970 or by using the #InternPro hashtag on Twitter. Join us at 9pm ET/6pm PT on Tuesday, June 4th!

Join Eric Woodard of Great Intern and Mark Babbitt of YouTern for a conversation that will cover the world of internships. Topics will cover how to make the most of your summer internships, the continuiing controversy around paid vs. unpaid internships and more. We invite you to join in the discussion, either by dialing into the show at 347-843-4970 or by using the #InternPro hashtag on Twitter. Join us at 9pm ET/6pm PT on Tuesday, June 4th!

Happy New Year! #TChat Radio is all new on Tuesday, January 8, 2013, at 7:30 pm ET (4:30 pm PT).   2013 is upon us. What does it mean for careers? With the true U.S. unemployment rate still high and employee engagement still low, who out there is still looking, who’s given up and who’s about to start? How do we make ourselves more marketable and relevant in an ever-changing world of work? How do we skill up, keep our jobs, find new jobs and transition if we’re looking for a new career path? This week’s #TChat Radio and Twitter #TChat welcome career management experts and candidates alike to help to answer these questions and give us all hope for a better employment outlook.   Join co-creators and Hosts, Meghan M. Biro and Kevin W. Grossman and this week's fantastic #TChat Radio guests Miriam Salpeter, Founder of Keppie Careers, Mark Babbitt, CEO of YouTern, and Andy Osburn, CEO of Equals6.com. And Kevin W. Grossman will shamelessly plug his new career management book Tech Job Hunt Handbook. We'll see you here!