Culture Matters Deep Dive

Speaker

John Spence

Managing Partner

John Spence, LLC

John Spence’s Biography

Duration: 1 hour and 30 minutes

Option 1: Monday, February 1st at 3:00pm ET

Option 2: Friday, February 26th at 9:00am ET

This session will be interactive with group discussion and breakouts.

Course Description

This session explores the challenges of managing multicultural/multilocation teams and how to define best practices for your organization. John will lead interactive discussions and exercises to build awareness of the importance of sharing empathy. John will present ways to keep personnel focused and engaged by modeling a positive attitude and innovative mindset and how it can help the long-term stability of your employees and business.

Learning Objectives:
  • Ideas to support team members that may or may not be working remotely. They may be juggling children, monitoring distance learning, other inevitable distractions, health concerns, experiencing overall fatigue with a new set of unforeseen pressures, and a myriad of other factors
  • Recognizing and acting to support your employees or reports to maintain contact and collaborative efforts with their colleagues. Create practices to avoid erosion of connectedness and distancing from high-functioning teamwork mindsets (silos)
  • Maintaining focus and the discipline to produce exceptional work and on time
  • Allowing for empathy for yourself, your employees, and others when their social, work, health, and financial lives may be in a great state of flux

This session will give attendees the ideas and takeaways to assess the culture of their organization. It will encourage leaders to explore inclusive and nimble ways to guide their teams in a positive and productive direction.