The OrgHealth Podcast

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Go under the surface on organizational health and on how to build a thriving culture in your leadership team—at the board and executive levels. In conversations with business coaches and consultants Jim Brown and Margot Thompson, you'll hear real life stories, get practical steps to implement on your team, and demystify the essential elements in every wildly successful company's culture: organizational health. With new episodes every Thursday and downloadable resources for each episode, The OrgHealth Podcast is here to help you grow and navigate your role as a leader.

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Creating Culture with Gifts - ft. Kris Rudeegraap, CEO of Sendoso

Apr 29 2022 41 mins

Jim sits down with Kris Rudeegraap of Sendoso, a sending platform that delivers gifts with personalized care. What goes into making gifts feel special? What solutions are there for leaders who want to show their care but aren't "good at gifts"? And what has it looked like for Kris to build a company with a culture of fun that has risen to incredible success in only a few years? Con

Humble, Hungry, Smart Leadership Teams

Apr 02 2020 23 mins

Hiring and firing are… expensive, among other adjectives. Pat Lencioni’s book, The Ideal Team Player, provides a simple but incredibly helpful framework that can help leaders find the right people to join their teams, and also works as a great tool for reflection and growth. In this episode, Jim and Margot discuss the model and share stories and tips for how you can use this to

How to Run Weekly Tactical Meetings Pt 2

Mar 26 2020 13 mins

In Part 2, Margot and Jim cover steps 4-6 of the weekly tactical meeting. Imagine having a fruitful meeting as a leadership team every week that NEVER goes more than 90 minutes. That’s really the whole point of this, and it’s structured to make sure that’s exactly what happens! What you’ll learn:Review the first 3 stages of tactical meetings [00:01:14]Introduction to Stage

How to Run Weekly Tactical Meetings Pt 1

Mar 19 2020 10 mins

It's not surprising that leadership teams abandon weekly meetings—it's so rare to see teams running these meetings effectively! In this episode, Margot and Jim present the framework which leans on the Thematic Goal and gives leadership teams the ability to run productive, energized weekly meetings together in just 90 minutes. We'll take two episodes to cover this topic, so make s

Daily Standup Meetings

Mar 12 2020 13 mins

How do you catch issues before they blow up, keep from building silos between different departments, and even lower the amount of emails you receive in a day? The daily standup meeting. Jim and Margot continue their series on meetings and explain how to not let these meetings go ANY longer than 10 minutes—because if it does, you're not doing it right! What you’ll learn:Are dail

Strategic Meetings

Mar 05 2020 14 mins

There are topics that come up for every leadership team that take longer than 10 minutes to get through. But even the biggest questions and decisions to be made can be tackled well in just 90 minutes, with the right approach. Strategic meetings are the first of the three foundational meeting types that will enable your leadership team to actually spend less time in meetings and get

Vulnerability & Leadership

Feb 27 2020 21 mins

The paradigm shift in society and our workforce in the past twenty years means that using the old model of leaders presenting themselves as impenetrable, perfect, and having all the answers no longer works. Margot and Jim get very candid as they talk about the ways they are seeing vulnerability impact leadership teams and how leaders can enter into it more. What you’ll learn:A co

People-Focus vs Analysis-Focus, Part 3

Feb 18 2020 15 mins

Correcting the imbalance on leadership teams is challenging, but possible. In the closing episode of our series on the dynamics of people-focus and analysis-focus, Jim and Margot share practical steps for how people-focus leaders can communicate their data to analysis-focus leaders, an exercise leadership teams can do to create better understanding of and value for each other's dif

People Focus vs Analysis Focus, Part 2

Feb 13 2020 15 mins

What is the data that people focus leaders see instantly and most leadership teams are sorely blind to? How do leadership teams get that perspective and information into their meetings so better decisions can be made? In Part 2, Jim and Margot share some stories of how real leaders and teams are succeeding with improving the disturbing imbalance of information in most leadership me

People Focus vs Analysis Focus: Part 1

Feb 06 2020 15 mins

People are wired to have either more of an analysis focus or a people focus. In this first part of our 3-part series on these two different wirings that leaders have, Jim and Margot introduce the terminology and explain some of the differences, similarities, and common misconceptions leaders have about each other and themselves. Consider your own wiring and the composition of your