Episode Description: Creating disciples is part of the Great Commission, but is it part of our mandate as Christian business leaders? Today on True North Leader, Darren Shearer dives deep into the message of Bobby's heart - an organization's culture is an extension of the Christian values executives live out at work. Darren is the founder and director of the Theology of Business Institute. It Continue →
Workplace Culture
Leaders Need To Earn Trust To Lead Like Jesus with Douglas Lindemann
Episode Description: Douglas Lindemann, the Chief Information Officer at ArcBest Technologies, challenges listeners to earn the trust of their employees. Trust is not something you can mandate or buy. Whether you've gone through a merger and acquisition or just tried to onboard a new employee, you know the key to success is getting people to opt into the vision and process of the organization. Continue →
Pour Into The Few To Lead Like Jesus with Holly Tate
Episode Description: Bobby says that the gift of leadership is misused when it doesn't demonstrate appreciation. Today's guest on True North Leader, Holly Tate, capitalizes on this idea. She says while a good leader drives outcomes and holds people accountable, they also demonstrate care, drive development, and celebrate wins. Holly is the SVP of Growth at Leadr, a people development software Continue →
See How Easily You Can Validate Your Values
Validate Your Values Understanding what you value is an integral part of understanding yourself but also how your team will operate. If knowing what your core values are and if they are central to growing a team that is engaged and happy then don't miss out on reading the rest and learning how to validate your values. Imagine you, as the leader, want to recreate the highest quality Continue →
Empowered Teams Follow Through
I recently reviewed the results that followed our first Operation QIC® workshop, and the numbers are astounding! Would you like to experience significant financial success in your business? Read on to learn what happened in my business, and how you can use the same principles to grow your business. For the next three years following my company’s first Operation QIC (pronounced “quick” for Continue →
Tune up Your Organization and Check its Core Values Alignment
The other day I took my car into the shop to get the oil changed, tires rotated, and wheels aligned. As you may know, the failure to correct misalignment of your wheels usually results in uneven tire wear and your vehicle pulling to the left or to the right. This misalignment leads to the expense of frequent tire replacement, driver fatigue, and even danger resulting from the Continue →
Four Steps to Prepare Your Core Values for Maximum Impact
Leaders are communicators. If you don’t communicate well, chances are you won’t lead well. One of the most important messages I’ve ever communicated to my team is our core values. I knew that I had to get this right. After I determined my core values, I took four steps to prepare and position them for maximum, company-wide impact. Once you discover “Who Are You?”, every leader can Continue →
You Can’t Lead Like Jesus And Ignore Workplace Culture with Bobby Albert
Episode Description: Are you wondering what makes employees stick around during the Great Resignation and what it takes for long-term organizational success? Years of C-Suite level leadership taught host Bobby Albert that the secret ingredient to genuine engagement and ownership from employees lay in a lesson he learned as a young boy, and it leads to something bigger - workplace culture. Like Continue →
True North Leaders Create Values-Driven Cultures with Bobby Albert
Episode Description: Hear Bobby Albert's vision for the show and his journey as a leader. He was thrown into the fire when his Dad passed away, and he had to lead the family business that was heavily in debt. You'll hear how his time as a CEO and business builder led to profound realizations. Understanding that the traditional top-down organizational chart doesn't work and why that model has led Continue →
Living a Sacred Life in This Secular World with Larry Griffith
Episode Description: There are a lot of broken hearts and troubled minds in the workplace. Fortunately, folks from Corporate Chaplains of America are deployed in workplaces all over the country every day. In this episode of True North Leader, CEO Larry Griffith shares how chaplains touch lives and improve workplaces in the process. He firmly believes there is no secular/sacred Continue →