Are you viewing your employees as costs or investments? This perspective is extremely important when it comes to retention and productivity. In this week’s podcast, Dennis and LIsa explain the difference between these two ways of thought and the value that comes from seeing employees as investments. Thinking of everything (people, time, and energy) as investments where you want to have a solid return has the ability to change how you lead and how you make decisions.

The Leadership Development Group is a consulting firm led by Dennis and Lisa McIntee that exists to help you create a better work culture through drama free strategies, leadership coaching, and training. Since 2005, they have helped over 2,000 companies become drama free and significantly increase their productivity as a result. Discover the freedom of a better work culture today at leadershipdevgroup.com.

Dennis and Lisa are on a mission to help you create team meetings that actually yield results and can help you with retention. This week’s episode explains how to do that and introduces a few new tools that can help listeners become better managers. Our goal is to help you lead valuable meetings that are encouraging and motivational—so you can encourage and empower your people.

The Leadership Development Group is a consulting firm led by Dennis and Lisa McIntee that exists to help you create a better work culture through drama free strategies, leadership coaching, and training. Since 2005, they have helped over 2,000 companies become drama free and significantly increase their productivity as a result. Discover the freedom of a better work culture today at leadershipdevgroup.com.

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Team Talks

Dennis and Lisa have found frustration to be a recurring theme with their coaching sessions, consulting practices, and in the Leadership Roundtable program. In today’s episode, they are walking listeners through the four-step framework created to help you harness the power of your frustration to release your creativity. While using the tool, you will actually find yourself thanking the frustration for leading you to solutions you might not have discovered otherwise.

The Leadership Development Group is a consulting firm led by Dennis and Lisa McIntee that exists to help you create a better work culture through drama free strategies, leadership coaching, and training. Since 2005, they have helped over 2,000 companies become drama free and significantly increase their productivity as a result. Discover the freedom of a better work culture today at leadershipdevgroup.com.

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The Frustration Reducer

Inspired by a quote, Dennis and Lisa are tackling the relationship between how you define success and where you put your energy in this week’s episode. They discuss how to determine what success means to you, how to use your past to shape a brighter future, and how to answer the question of who you want to become. A perfect book end to last week’s episode on what it means to truly live a drama free life, this episode is one you will want to come back to in times of stress or worry.

The Leadership Development Group is a consulting firm led by Dennis and Lisa McIntee that exists to help you create a better work culture through drama free strategies, leadership coaching, and training. Since 2005, they have helped over 2,000 companies become drama free and significantly increase their productivity as a result. Discover the freedom of a better work culture today at leadershipdevgroup.com.

Every so often, Dennis and Lisa will get a question about what it actually means to pursue drama free living. Isn’t there supposed to be some kind of drama? In this week’s episode, they answer that question and explain what living drama free really looks like for them, in 2022 with years of experience honing this approach. If you are new to the concept of drama free living, this is a great first episode to start your journey.

The Leadership Development Group is a consulting firm led by Dennis and Lisa McIntee that exists to help you create a better work culture through drama free strategies, leadership coaching, and training. Since 2005, they have helped over 2,000 companies become drama free and significantly increase their productivity as a result. Discover the freedom of a better work culture today at leadershipdevgroup.com.

Dennis and Lisa continually preach the importance of feedback in all kinds of relationships. But, as humans we often struggle with receiving it. In this week’s episode, they dive into the differing ways we tend to receive feedback as men and women. The foundation for giving and receiving feedback is creating safe spaces to do so. This foundation is built by being brave, strong and confident or curious, transparent, and humble. Dennis and Lisa walk through these six mindsets and offer ways to strengthen your feedback receiving foundation.

The Leadership Development Group is a consulting firm led by Dennis and Lisa McIntee that exists to help you create a better work culture through drama free strategies, leadership coaching, and training. Since 2005, they have helped over 2,000 companies become drama free and significantly increase their productivity as a result. Discover the freedom of a better work culture today at leadershipdevgroup.com.

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Before we get an explicit label on this podcast description, know we are talking about feedback here. For many of you, it gets the nickname of the “F word” because you absolutely hate it. Feedback is viewed as a negative thing meant to only ruin your day. However, withholding feedback can actually be extremely damaging…perhaps more damaging than thinking you are doing someone a favor by keeping it quiet. If you struggle with giving feedback, this episode helps provide tips for giving feedback well. It is a skill we all need to be better leaders!

The Leadership Development Group is a consulting firm led by Dennis and Lisa McIntee that exists to help you create a better work culture through drama free strategies, leadership coaching, and training. Since 2005, they have helped over 2,000 companies become drama free and significantly increase their productivity as a result. Discover the freedom of a better work culture today at leadershipdevgroup.com.

The catchy phenomenon of “quiet quitting'' has been sweeping social media and traditional media in recent weeks and months. On the heels of “The Great Resignation,” this concept is intricately linked to the impact COVID-19 has had on the labor market as well as forcing people to introspect about what they want out of life. Dennis and Lisa discuss quiet quitting in this week’s episode, with perspective from the employee and employer sides of the coin. Ultimately, their hope is to have employers who have their team’s best interests at heart and employees who are fascinated and motivated.

The Leadership Development Group is a consulting firm led by Dennis and Lisa McIntee that exists to help you create a better work culture through drama free strategies, leadership coaching, and training. Since 2005, they have helped over 2,000 companies become drama free and significantly increase their productivity as a result. Discover the freedom of a better work culture today at leadershipdevgroup.com.

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Episode 73: Building a Culture with Trey Ingram https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/lF6REwoh0sb

Episode 69: An Interview with the Best Lawn and Landscape Company to Work for in the United States

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Dennis and Lisa continue their discussion on the powerful tool of feedback. After discussing the importance of feedback in overcoming blindspots in Episode 72, they answer the question of why people tend to be afraid of receiving feedback. For many, the fear is associated with being criticized and brings back pain from past experiences. However, by shifting our thinking to view feedback as a positive thing that can bring us power to become better, all negativity melts away.

The Leadership Development Group is a consulting firm led by Dennis and Lisa McIntee that exists to help you create a better work culture through drama free strategies, leadership coaching, and training. Since 2005, they have helped over 2,000 companies become drama free and significantly increase their productivity as a result. Discover the freedom of a better work culture today at leadershipdevgroup.com.

Special guest Trey Ingram, partner at Holliday Ingram Real Estate Law in Greenville, SC, joined Dennis and Lisa to share his stories and experiences building a culture at his firm. Trey is a Leadership Roundtable participant and was able to grow his business from five to 65 team members in just four and a half years. He is adamant about building a workplace culture where balance between home and work life is kept in check and team members are happy to come to work every day. In this episode, Trey shares his approaches to retention and culture-building with applications for every kind of industry.

The Leadership Development Group is a consulting firm led by Dennis and Lisa McIntee that exists to help you create a better work culture through drama free strategies, leadership coaching, and training. Since 2005, they have helped over 2,000 companies become drama free and significantly increase their productivity as a result. Discover the freedom of a better work culture today at leadershipdevgroup.com.