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Culture Is Everything

Join 1,108 owners of growing service-based businesses getting simple, practical tips, and experience-backed advice on business culture from Tristan White.

🎯 CULTURE TIP: Your talent stack is your leadership super-power 🧐

Brought to you by the Culture Is Everything private podcast. Hi Reader, How're things?Below are learnings, lessons, and tools to help build an even stronger culture in your business - enjoy! Love your work,Tristan PS - What's the biggest culture challenge you're facing at the moment? Please hit reply and fill me in - I might be able to help or point you in the right direction :) LEADERSHIP CULTURE LEARNING 'You have the only TALENT STACK that looks like yours in the world' How highly do you...

🎯 CULTURE TIP: To hire A-players, you must become an A-player 🧐

Brought to you by the Culture Is Everything private podcast. Hi Reader, How're things?Below are this week's learnings, lessons, and tools to help build an even stronger culture in your business - enjoy! And by the way - the Think Big Act Small podcast is back! There's a link below to two brand-new episodes that I think you'll be inspired by. Love your work,Tristan PS - I hope you have a great Christmas 🎄 LEADERSHIP CULTURE LEARNING 'Steve Jobs had a saying that A players hire A players. But B...

🎯 CULTURE TIP: Are high standards your BIGGEST leadership FLAW? ❌

Brought to you by Tristan's first book: Culture Is Everything - the story and system of a start-up that became Australia's Best Place to Work. Hi Reader, How're things?Below are this week's learnings, lessons, and tools to help build an even stronger culture in your business - enjoy! Love your work,Tristan PS - There will be a re-launch of the Think Big Act Small podcast from next week. If you're keen to get a head start on the learning, make time to recap the episodes linked below ⬇️...

🎯 CULTURE TIP: Do you CONNECT before you CORRECT? 🤔

Brought to you by Tristan's first book Culture Is Everything Hi Reader, How're things?Below are this week's learnings, lessons, and tools to help you build an even stronger culture in your business - enjoy! Love your work,Tristan LEADERSHIP CULTURE LEARNING 'You must CONNECT before you CORRECT' Plenty of leaders I've met seem to believe their job is to 'manage' their team to achieve results. I disagree. In my experience, high-achieving teams usually have a leader who has learned to connect...

🎯 CULTURE TIP: How FIXED is your GROWTH mindset? 🤔

Brought to you by Tristan's favourite: Full Focus Planner Hi Reader, How're things?Below are this week's learnings, lessons, and tools to help you build an even stronger culture in your business - enjoy! Love your work,Tristan LEADERSHIP CULTURE LEARNING 'Is a person with a growth mindset really that FIXED?' Carol Dweck is the researcher who introduced the terms 'growth mindset' and 'fixed mindset'. Some of the basics of the theory are: A person who embraces mistakes to learn is said to have...

🎯 CULTURE TIP: You CAN'T MANAGE TIME (but you can manage yourself)

Brought to you by Tristan's favourite: Full Focus Planner Hi Reader, How're things?Below are learnings, lessons, and tools to help you build an even stronger culture in your business - enjoy! Love your work,Tristan LEADERSHIP CULTURE LEARNING 'Claim your calendar before someone else does.' - Michael Hyatt Some experts will say that we leaders need to become experts at 'managing time'. I disagree. No one can manage time. Whether you are organised or not, time will pass. Managed or unmanaged....

👉 [CHECK, CHECK] - How to GIVE better feedback 👈

G'day Reader, How're things? It's likely you've had another hectic week leading your business as best you can - is that about right? If so, I get it. Me too 😀 Despite your 'hectic-ness' have you taken any action to enhance your leadership potential since last week? If not, there's still time :) ✅ HOW TO GIVE BETTER FEEDBACK Here are two quick tips to give better feedback** 1 - CHIEF NOTICING OFFICER If you're a leader or owner of your business, you're also the CNO (Chief Noticing Officer!)....

[LEADERSHIP CULTURE] - When and how to be an assertive communicator.

G'day Reader, How're things? Being a better communicator needs to be a priority for all of us service-based business owners. Here's why... 'Communication is the MASTER SKILL of leadership.' 🤔 In 2018, when my leadership growth had plateaued, I discovered that I couldn't even bring myself to say the word assertive; let alone communicate in an intentionally assertive way. At that point, I was an overly-empathetic service-based business owner and was confusing the word assertive with the word...

[LEADERSHIP CULTURE] - Tips for Leading MORE ENGAGING & EFFECTIVE Team Meetings

Hello Reader, How're things? Are you keen to create a stronger leadership culture in your business? If so, this will help... Below are links to watch the replay of the Leading Effective Team Meetings mini-workshop that I presented on YouTube last Friday. If you're in a hurry, try these links to specific parts of the mini-workshop: [0.00] - The very start [5.16] - The PROBLEM with most team meetings [8.10] - How meetings ARE the playing field for leaders like you [10.28] - The SOLUTION to more...

[CULTURE QUESTION] - How to get people engaged when you're NOT in the building.

G'day Reader! How're things? Do you sometimes feel like you have to be EVERYWHERE in your business to stimulate and support your CULTURE? If so, this will help... CULTURE QUESTION '(I) would love to know how to get people engaged when you are not in the building (I have over 20 locations)?' Last week, on my Culture Is Everything YouTube channel, service-based entrepreneur Paul Elmslie asked the question (above) about culture when the owner is NOT in the building. (It's a great question,...

Join 1,108 owners of growing service-based businesses getting simple, practical tips, and experience-backed advice on business culture from Tristan White.