Time — the measure of how long you get to be alive on Earth — is finite.
It’s no wonder you want to make the most of it.
You’re the type of person who wants to be on top of things. You want to accomplish what you set out to do. You want to do things you enjoy and do them well. You want to make a real impact. You may even want to make your mark on history.
To make the most of your time, you need to spend your time in three ways: doing things that allow you to obtain value for yourself, doing things that deliver value to someone else, and doing things with people who leave you feeling valued.
The best way to achieve that goal is to transform your business culture. In other words, you must deliberately design your business around the value it exists to deliver.
Teamwork provides a unique opportunity.
The work you do as a member of a team creates an environment where you can obtain value for yourself and deliver value to others in a manner and with people who leave you feeling valued.
What’s more, you spend a third of your day at work. Being fulfilled here puts you in a better place for the rest of your day.
You can get value out of your work.
You seek meaning more than profit. The two elements that make work meaningful for most people are earned success (a sense of accomplishing something valuable) and service to others. Additionally, work provides an opportunity to learn new things, master your skills, and build relationships — all while securing the financial resources you need to take care of yourself.
Your work can deliver value to others.
Delivering value to others is essential to living a fulfilling and meaningful life. Your work should contribute to improving the lives of your clients or customers.
You can do work in a manner and with people who make you feel valued.
You can also deliver value to your team members by doing work in a way that respects their time, cultivates their agency, and values not only their contributions but who they are as people.
True leaders want to do work differently.
They’re looking to decentralize decision-making. Break down silos. Simplify their structure. Empower their team members. Increase flexibility. Focus their priorities. Do less better.
They’re tired of band-aids, flavor-of-the-month initiatives, top-down mandates, red tape, performative work, and the endless pursuit of more.
They care about the work they do and the people they do it with. They’re ready to dig in and are willing to try new approaches. That's where we come in.
We center your business on value.
Your business exists to deliver specific value to the specific people you serve. That’s the focus of your culture. Everything else — your direction, practices, structure — should advance your ability to deliver that value effectively.
We actively engage the people you serve in the process so you truly understand your value.
With a clear focus, you can make deliberate choices about what you do and how you do it — as well as what you don’t do.
We don’t all value the same things for the same reasons. As a result, the specific value you deliver to the specific people you serve necessitates specific actions and ways of taking those actions. There's no one-size-fits-all answer to these choices.
We provide the structure, facilitate the process, and ask the right questions. You, as a team, choose what you do and how you do it.
Activity doesn't equal productivity.
You aim to deliver value effectively. To do so, you need to convene your team regularly to discuss choices, make decisions, and assess the results.
Consistent deliberateness takes effort, thought, and most critically, discipline. We partner with you over the long haul to facilitate these touchpoints and provide you with tools to grow past the culture ossified in habituated behaviors and old ways of doing things.
It’s all about choices.
Making the most of your time requires you to choose what you do and how you do it.
Work delivers innate value to us as human beings. It gives us structure. It engages our minds. It tethers us to others. And it gives us an opportunity to make an impact.
When we do something we enjoy in a way that delivers value to someone else and as members of a culture that values us, we take a pivotal step toward leading a fulfilling life.
Together, we can create the future of work.
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