Season 6 Episode 23: Habits: Building or Deteriorating Culture?

Season 6 Episode 23: Building or Deteriorating Culture?
Season 6 Episode 23: Building or Deteriorating Culture?

Are you aware of the positive habits that are enhancing your performance and the development of your culture? Are you aware of the habits that are making your performance and culture more difficult or negative? Habits are powerful.

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Jason introduces Season 6 episode 23 of the podcast, Habits: Building or Deteriorating Culture? Welcome back to the podcast on corporate culture and leadership and thank you for listening. We engage thought leaders like CEOs, CFOs, managers, VPs, directors, and more for this podcast. We wish to create content that engages your mind and heart and allows you to step back and think and add some positivity to your life. We deep dive into today’s topic.

We can’t control everything but what we can control is our response. Still a lot of work to do but wanted to remind the audience what is within our control is the temperature we create in the organizations and teams we work with. If you have a suggestion, please send it to info@jasonvbarger.com

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“The first step is about stepping back and creating understanding and awareness of what are the habits that bring out the best in us and what habits are holding us back.”

4:03 – Jason introduces today’s topic about authentic leadership and what it means to be a thermostat for the people around us. Setting the temperature around us for ourselves and others. Today we are talking about the power of habits. How they relate to our own leadership, the culture we form with others, and our personal lives. Habits are some of the most important pieces in leadership and culture shaping. So we are talking about how important habits are in shaping the culture around us.

6:20 – Every human on the planet has good habits and bad habits. Some have things we want to change or improve and so the habits that we form are really powerful in shaping the world around us. Jason describes good and bad habits and how they support our life and work and how some habits make it harder for us to be performing at our best. The first step is about stepping back and creating understanding and awareness of what are the habits that bring out the best in us and what habits are holding us back.

Warren Buffet gives O-H-I-O
Warren Buffet and staff give O-H-I-O. Photo of Warren Buffet by Aaron Friedman via Flickr

“The chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken” – Warren Buffet

10:00 – Jason talks about the quote from Warren Buffet and what forming bad habits mean to us and how difficult they can be to break. Habits can be positive or negative that can be formed like chains around us or they could be like growing wings to help lift us up where we belong.

11:20 – Jason talks about James Clear, the author of the book Atomic Habits. Clear says the problem isn’t you, the problem is our system. Often as individuals, we get into a faulty system that isn’t supporting healthy habits.   

13:11 – Clear also talks about standardizing before optimizing. Jason talks on this topic and how to focus our habits and methods to develop ourselves better. Here are four quick things about habit forming

  1. Focus on Awareness around our personal biorhythms – How our own rhythms we experience in our bodies occurs during an average day and average week. When are your energy levels high and low throughout the day? You can even chart that over a few days to see when you are most creative in the day. Are you building habits to support you to be at your best or building habits negatively? What are the habits we put into place that support our best energy level and our biorhythms?
  2. What are those daily habits we have formed? Make a list of habits and routines. Which habits make things easier for you, what make them harder? This could be staying up too late. Waking up and immediately looking at your phone and getting negative about social media items.
  3. What we allow lingers and what we teach triggers. Where are the opportunities in your team and operations to let go of habits that are opposite of the culture that we want? Be aware of what that might be. Then, what are the new habits that you need to teach to better culture shape the team?
  4. The Four Laws of Habit-Forming. Jason refers to the 6 A’s of leading change which you can watch here. The four laws are as follows:
    1. Make it Obvious. Clarity on what you want to change.
    2. Make it attractive. You got to want to change or else why do it?
    3. Make it easy. Don’t overthink it. Establish the next action.
    4. Make it satisfying. Anchor it as something that solves something for you and others.

13:10 – Jason talks about the launch team and if you want to be part of the message here that inspires and helps us amplify these messages and promote the book with us then we want to have you on our team as well! Email info@jasonvbarger.com before time runs out.

Questions to Ponder

  1. What daily habits do you have that might be positively or negatively impacting your path? Make a list of them.
  2. What conversations within your team or operations could help teach new habits? 
  3. What new habits could you make obvious, attractive, easy, and satisfying?

“We all breathe energy into new habits, whether positive or negative every day.” 

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A thermostat is proactive. It sets the temperature in a room. Controls the temperature. Regulates the temperature. But in today’s distracted, fast-paced and digital world, it’s easy for individuals and organizations to act more like thermometers, slipping into reactionary thinking, becoming scattered and inconsistent. The most compelling leaders, teams, organizations, families, or collection of humans of any kind operate in thermostat mode. They calibrate their mind and heart to set the temperature for the vision and culture they want to create. Jason Barger, globally celebrated author, keynote speaker, and founder of Step Back Leadership Consulting, is the host of The Thermostat, a podcast journey to discover authentic leadership, create compelling cultures and find clarity of mission, vision, and values.

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