Are You Changing Your Company’s Culture?

But here’s a secret: Most often, the job I’m paid to do is to support one person. To coach one executive, one leader.

Some come to me hungry for learning and growth, they are skyrocketing and inspired. But sometimes, they come to me because they are desperate.

And here’s what I’ve learned about the Path of the Desperate Leader (hm, future book title?):

Change begins with just ONE FRUSTRATED PERSON.

In the land of the desperate and frustrated, the one who finally gets change started is the one who is most willing to change themselves. Often, they’ve simply had enough and they are at the end of their rope. They don’t know what else to try. They are ready.

As leaders we sometimes may feel like this:

Can you relate? Have you ever felt this way?

Well…. it’s not just about them. They didn’t just do this to you.

It’s YOU too. It starts with you (probably not the answer you were looking for).

Change, inevitably (even within an organization) starts with you and until you learn to recognize your role and how you created your situation, you will have a hard time seeing the opportunities for you change it.

But, this is fantastic news because you can do this.

In my podcast episode, Transforming Your Business Through Conscious Leadership, we walk you through exactly this sort of situation. My instructional conversation with Diana Chapman, author of 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership , gives you the steps you can take now to start to affect change not only in yourself and your leadership but also in those around you. (CEOs and Founders — definitely listen in for tips on how you can bring this to your entire organization — hint: it starts with you too)

Take the steps to end your suffering and create the change that in your best days, you are inspired to create. But can you?

Oh yes you can.

Highlights:

• 1:31 — How do we swim against the tide as leaders and change the whole culture of our company? Diana Chapman says look at yourself first and locate yourself.
• 2:30 — Diana and Caneel role-play a typical conversation between coach and leader about changing culture.
• 5:15 — After a leader has learned to locate their own self where do they go from here? Diana discusses changing organizational culture from above the line by using the write the recipe technique.
• 8:39 — What are the steps to changing culture? Diana discusses clear agreements and clear commitments.
• 10:57 — Diana discusses the culture of Alene Candles and the success that CEO Rod Harl has had in building culture while working with Diana as a leadership coach.
• 13:26 — Start with conscious leadership in your home and commit to being that way all the time. This makes it easier to transition that conscious leadership into your company. Start as soon as you can building the culture you want in your company because it takes practice and commitment.
• 17:12 — Diana talks about why investing in conscious leadership as a leader is worth the work because of the massive changes you are able to make in your company and lessen the suffering of yourself and your team.
• 18:17–60 percent of startups with co-founders fail because of the co-founder relationship. There is a really big cost in the amount of time we can spend being in drama. Think about it as a drama tax and think about what it would be like if you didn’t have to pay that tax and could move out of drama.

Originally published at https://caneel.com.