Why the 'Conversation is the Relationship'

Too often, I find the workplace missing opportunities to have the right conversations at the right time.

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

The Cost of a Toxic Culture

A culture is a reflection of an organization’s leadership, current and to some extent, historical. What does Boeing’s culture say about its leadership today?

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

What Were You Made For?

Clarity of purpose and a commitment to meaningful values helps sustain an organization through market turbulence.

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

Return to Work’s Last Stand?

Strong, confident leaders know that impactful results balanced with consistent constructive behavior is the key to staying employed.

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

Celebrating the ‘Elvis of the Grill’

So what if we ALL viewed this group as A KEY source of accelerating progress? What if we equipped them for greater success? What if we treated them as the “kings/queens of the grill”.

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

‘Rather Lose With You Than Win With Anyone Else!’

There you go, 11 guidelines that are accessible to all of us.

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

Is Burnout a Brain Injury?

When we are burned out, we end up in the danger zone that often leads to sickness and/or shutting down in some way.

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

Why People Hate ‘Icebreakers?’

Most people hate classic ice breakers because they are often dumb and literally silly.

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

Searching For and Finding a Little Light

searching for and finding joy in little things that flicker light, pokes a hole in that ever present darkness.

Personal LeadershipGarrett RubisDecember 26, 2023Culture, Focus, Goals, Leadership, Learning, Lessons, Success, The Character Triangle, 1000 Blogs, belonging, belongify, growth, performance

Check Out the Self Checkout

Replace tedious, unsafe transactions riddled with waste and design with People First in mind.

Personal LeadershipGarrett RubisDecember 19, 2023Culture, Focus, Goals, Leadership, Learning, Lessons, Success, The Character Triangle, 1000 Blogs, belonging, belongify, growth, performance

What is ‘Productivity Theater?’

I love the arts, but it’s time to dramatically reduce the need for Productivity Theater.

Personal LeadershipGarrett RubisDecember 12, 2023Culture, Focus, Goals, Leadership, Learning, Lessons, Success, The Character Triangle, 1000 Blogs, belonging, belongify, growth, performance

Dangerous and Unmanageable Workloads Becoming the Norm?

Surely we’ve advanced from the late 1800’s? Haven’t we?

Personal LeadershipGarrett RubisDecember 5, 2023Culture, Focus, Goals, Leadership, Learning, Lessons, Success, The Character Triangle, 1000 Blogs, belonging, belongify, growth, performance

Lessons in Hockey Chemistry

To live and work well with ourselves, one another, and the earth, we need to cherish the “genuine” in each other and all things.

Personal LeadershipGarrett RubisNovember 28, 2023Culture, Focus, Goals, Leadership, Learning, Lessons, Success, The Character Triangle, 1000 Blogs, belonging, belongify, growth, performance

The BIG BOSS BULLY

We will likely need a decade to assess the impact of the “get back in the office, or else” approach of command and control CEOs.

Personal LeadershipGarrett RubisNovember 21, 2023Culture, Focus, Goals, Leadership, Learning, Lessons, Success, The Character Triangle, 1000 Blogs, belonging, belongify, growth, performance

When the Coaches Get Fired?

Overall, a team is a reflection of its direct leadership. This is a principle that applies in all organizations, and likely most poignant in the world of sports.

Personal LeadershipGarrett RubisNovember 14, 2023Culture, Focus, Goals, Leadership, Learning, Lessons, Success, The Character Triangle, 1000 Blogs, belonging, belongify, growth, performance

What’s the Performance VS Growth Culture Difference?

It’s important to recognize that strong growth cultures have the highest standards and expectations.

Personal LeadershipGarrett RubisNovember 7, 2023Culture, Focus, Goals, Leadership, Learning, Lessons, Success, The Character Triangle, 1000 Blogs, belonging, belongify, growth, performance

Post Surgery Reflections

There is a felt difference when an organization devotes itself to being people first. The following are examples of indicators that this principle is working well.

Personal LeadershipGarrett RubisOctober 31, 2023Culture, Focus, Goals, Leadership, Learning, Lessons, Success, Susan Scott, The Character Triangle, 1000 Blogs

Revisiting the 20 Littles that Become BIG

We first published the 20 Rubis Maxims back in 2019, and perhaps it’s worth a revisit nearly four years later. How are these resonating with you now?

Personal LeadershipGarrett RubisOctober 24, 2023Culture, Focus, Goals, Leadership, Learning, Lessons, Success, Susan Scott, The Character Triangle, 1000 Blogs

It’s the Little Things… Lots of Them!

Great cultures are made up of literally thousands of small wins, and positive storytelling that affirms desired action. Like we say, it's that easy and that hard.

Why Do So Many Workers Feel Exhausted?

I’ve stressed many times that the most important condition for high employee engagement and satisfaction is bringing value to others on a daily basis.