When we work with clients in culture strategy, we suggest becoming very intentional regarding moments that really matter in the employee experience and by extension, the company culture.

Personal LeadershipGarrett RubisNovember 5, 2024Culture, Focus, Goals, Leadership, Learning, Lessons, Success, The Character Triangle, 1000 Blogs, belonging, belongify, growth, performance

How Kindness Heals A Heart

Whatever trepidation I had from the physical toll I was undertaking was positively overwhelmed by being in a place of continuous abundance and generosity.

Personal LeadershipGarrett RubisOctober 29, 2024Culture, Focus, Goals, Leadership, Learning, Lessons, Success, The Character Triangle, 1000 Blogs, belonging, belongify, growth, performance

Four Days With Unreasonable People!

Somewhere in your life, however modest, try to make the world adapt to you and your beliefs, rather than the other way around.

Personal LeadershipGarrett RubisOctober 22, 2024Culture, Focus, Goals, Leadership, Learning, Lessons, Success, The Character Triangle, 1000 Blogs, belonging, belongify, growth, performance

Want a More Resilient Culture? Find the Optimists

When our team helps cultures advance, we insist on finding positive influencers throughout the organization.

Personal LeadershipGarrett RubisOctober 15, 2024Culture, Focus, Goals, Leadership, Learning, Lessons, Success, The Character Triangle, 1000 Blogs, belonging, belongify, growth, performance

New Collaboration: Between Humans and Machines

When employers assess our collaboration capability, that will include our personal proficiency to ALSO effectively collaborate with machines. This is happening NOW!

Personal LeadershipGarrett RubisOctober 8, 2024Culture, Focus, Goals, Leadership, Learning, Lessons, Success, The Character Triangle, 1000 Blogs, belonging, belongify, growth, performance

Leadership Learning from the GOATs

Brady recognizes that influencing and leading about 100 people (the number associated with an NFL team) is less complex than leading in large human systems. Still, much insight is transferable.

Personal LeadershipGarrett RubisOctober 1, 2024Culture, Focus, Goals, Leadership, Learning, Lessons, Success, The Character Triangle, 1000 Blogs, belonging, belongify, growth, performance

The Lazy ‘Dog’ in Workplace Dogma

It is wasteful to have leaders complaining about workers slacking off and employees feeling overworked when it’s opinion rather than data.

Personal LeadershipGarrett RubisSeptember 24, 2024Culture, Focus, Goals, Leadership, Learning, Lessons, Success, The Character Triangle, 1000 Blogs, belonging, belongify, growth, performance

Big or Small it’s Always Culture

It continues to amaze me how many organizations allow their culture to simply evolve without intentionality.

Personal LeadershipGarrett RubisSeptember 17, 2024Culture, Focus, Goals, Leadership, Learning, Lessons, Success, The Character Triangle, 1000 Blogs, belonging, belongify, growth, performance

Too Many Pebbles in Employees' Shoes?

This addresses the No. 1 issue that helps people either flourish or fail at work. It is also the cornerstone of high morale and employee retention.

Personal LeadershipGarrett RubisAugust 20, 2024Culture, Focus, Goals, Leadership, Learning, Lessons, Success, The Character Triangle, 1000 Blogs, belonging, belongify, growth, performance

Staying Upright on Life’s Balance Beam

The “so what?” for me is that we get to achieve a medal or personal best everyday for how we treat ourselves and others.

Personal LeadershipGarrett RubisAugust 13, 2024Culture, Focus, Goals, Leadership, Learning, Lessons, Success, The Character Triangle, 1000 Blogs, belonging, belongify, growth, performance

We Compete in Daily Olympics

The “so what?” for me is that we get to achieve a medal or personal best everyday for how we treat ourselves and others.

Personal LeadershipGarrett RubisAugust 6, 2024Culture, Focus, Goals, Leadership, Learning, Lessons, Success, The Character Triangle, 1000 Blogs, belonging, belongify, growth, performance

Is the Office Birthday Party Alive and Well?

Similar thinking moves leaders and organizations more towards hospitality behavior that satisfies and replenishes, rather than force feeds.

Personal LeadershipGarrett RubisJuly 30, 2024Culture, Focus, Goals, Leadership, Learning, Lessons, Success, The Character Triangle, 1000 Blogs, belonging, belongify, growth, performance

Three Strikes & NOT Out!

People who get in the game try, fail, try, fail, and always learn. They continuously propel forward to make themselves better.

Personal LeadershipGarrett RubisJuly 23, 2024Culture, Focus, Goals, Leadership, Learning, Lessons, Success, The Character Triangle, 1000 Blogs, belonging, belongify, growth, performance

Let’s Bowl Together Again

Enlightened organizations measure employee engagement, well-being, retention, and facsimile metrics. The very best also measure organizational cultural health.

Personal LeadershipGarrett RubisJuly 16, 2024Culture, Focus, Goals, Leadership, Learning, Lessons, Success, The Character Triangle, 1000 Blogs, belonging, belongify, growth, performance

Slang and Next Gen Workers

Being aware of how language/slang is used and intended, builds understanding between generations.

Personal LeadershipGarrett RubisJuly 9, 2024Culture, Focus, Goals, Leadership, Learning, Lessons, Success, The Character Triangle, 1000 Blogs, belonging, belongify, growth, performance

‘Inside Out’ in the Workplace

Interestingly, a large number of adults of all ages are showing up for Inside Out 2 in theaters. Curious as to why?

Personal LeadershipGarrett RubisJuly 2, 2024Culture, Focus, Goals, Leadership, Learning, Lessons, Success, The Character Triangle, 1000 Blogs, belonging, belongify, growth, performance

Forgiveness in Work (And Life)

Advancing oneself and others comes from forgiveness. Yet, the act of forgiveness seems allusive or even counterintuitive. Why?

Personal LeadershipGarrett RubisJune 25, 2024Culture, Focus, Goals, Leadership, Learning, Lessons, Success, The Character Triangle, 1000 Blogs, belonging, belongify, growth, performance

The Problem with ‘Carewashing’

Each employee's circumstance is so unique in place/time/context, that it may not even be possible to develop ubiquitous care support arrangements. One size fits all doesn’t work.

Personal LeadershipGarrett RubisJune 18, 2024Culture, Focus, Goals, Leadership, Learning, Lessons, Success, The Character Triangle, 1000 Blogs, belonging, belongify, growth, performance

Hurting Myself Today at Work

I’m sharing this because it seems we have way too many people in pain around us. Too many of us are hurting alone.

Personal LeadershipGarrett RubisJune 11, 2024Culture, Focus, Goals, Leadership, Learning, Lessons, Success, The Character Triangle, 1000 Blogs, belonging, belongify, growth, performance

I Want to Know Your Story

I’ve often said that if I had ONLY ONE strategy to use, I’d have every person in an organization meet in mixed groups of 15 to 20 people, for one to two hours to simply share their personal stories.

Personal LeadershipGarrett RubisJune 4, 2024Culture, Focus, Goals, Leadership, Learning, Lessons, Success, The Character Triangle, 1000 Blogs, belonging, belongify, growth, performance