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

Fighting Well and Great Cultures

My observation is that successful teams really find a way to fight well as a constructive norm.

Personal LeadershipGarrett RubisMay 28, 2024Culture, Focus, Goals, Leadership, Learning, Lessons, Success, The Character Triangle, 1000 Blogs, belonging, belongify, growth, performance

Organization Culture Change and Open Space Technology

Imagine bringing a group of people together and applying these principles. For buttoned down executives, it was as uncomfortable as hell in the early 90’s and still would make a lot of them squirm today.

Personal LeadershipGarrett RubisMay 21, 2024Culture, Focus, Goals, Leadership, Learning, Lessons, Success, The Character Triangle, 1000 Blogs, belonging, belongify, growth, performance

Oilers’ Remind Us to Have Your Teammates’ Back

In order to have a winning culture, you need to know your teammates will support you this way. This is the understanding that when facing difficulty, your colleagues and/or leaders will come to your defense.

Personal LeadershipGarrett RubisMay 14, 2024Culture, Focus, Goals, Leadership, Learning, Lessons, Success, The Character Triangle, 1000 Blogs, belonging, belongify, growth, performance

The Frying Pan Goodbye

People leave work for many reasons. In almost every case, the person leaving and people staying have gained something together. Why not acknowledge that?

Personal LeadershipGarrett RubisMay 7, 2024Culture, Focus, Goals, Leadership, Learning, Lessons, Success, The Character Triangle, 1000 Blogs, belonging, belongify, growth, performance

Why Lock People In?

Invest in conditions that encourage people to stay, contribute and flourish, rather than legislation or tools to force them to stick around.

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

Should We Trip Out Together at Work?

I guess this makes the mystical wish to find a magic pill for business success somewhat literal?

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

Dirty Water Hot Dog Theory

Regardless of our industry or market, engaging team members to provide unreasonable service to a “customer of one” is a mindset and strategy worth pursuing!

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

Details Make ALL the Difference

The more I watch difference makers in action, the more I appreciate the people that can live both in strategy and detailed tactics at the same time.

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

Wasp Therapy to Test Courage in the Workplace

A company (who you all know) uses wasps to test strength of character.

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

Reflecting on the Death of My Dear Friend

Through it all though, his unwavering North Star of family, love, fun and joy made him totally magnetic. We just wanted to be in his orbit so that we could be part of the dance.

Personal LeadershipGarrett RubisMarch 26, 2024Culture, Focus, Goals, Leadership, Learning, Lessons, Success, The Character Triangle, 1000 Blogs, belonging, belongify, growth, performance

Should Netflix Change its Culture Values?

When executives see examples of entitlement, they risk overreacting with rules to tighten the ship.

Personal LeadershipGarrett RubisMarch 19, 2024Culture, Focus, Goals, Leadership, Learning, Lessons, Success, The Character Triangle, 1000 Blogs, belonging, belongify, growth, performance

Work Adaptability and Rapid AI

People at all levels ideally can be active participants in co-creating new ways of working, versus hiding from replacement.

Personal LeadershipGarrett RubisMarch 12, 2024Culture, Focus, Goals, Leadership, Learning, Lessons, Success, The Character Triangle, 1000 Blogs, belonging, belongify, growth, performance

Workers Just Want to Have Fun

Getting to our jobs, whatever that means these days, is so much more enjoyable when you know your day will be filled with smiles and laughter.

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

Investing Differently in Our Future

The biggest challenges seem to revolve around our economic and social systems that are begging to be revamped.

Personal LeadershipGarrett RubisFebruary 27, 2024Culture, Focus, Goals, Leadership, Learning, Lessons, Success, The Character Triangle, 1000 Blogs, belonging, belongify, growth, performance

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