Scott McGohan - McGohan Brabender and author of Culture Is An Inside Job

Real Life Advice You Can Use: "What if we just stood in front of the workforce and just said, "Hey, I just I just wanna be better." That's a lot more honest than saying, I wanna be great."

Every company has a culture.  Just like any relationship between a group of people does.

The challenge is being aware of what the culture is and knowing if the culture your company has is serving your company and it's employees well, or if it is causing some negative results.

Scott McGohan, entrepreneur and author of Culture Is An inside Job, details how important company culture is, what to look for to find out what your employees believe is your company's culture and what you can do to make sure the culture you want is more aligned with the culture your business has.

Enjoy!

Visit Scott at: https://www.mcgohanbrabender.com/

Culture Is an Inside Job Book: https://www.amazon.com/Culture-Inside-Job-Self-Awareness-Organization/dp/B0C31F5WYV

Podcast Overview:

03:47 Supporting employees financially, including retirement and shares.

08:29 Tax benefits for businesses to reinvest profits.

11:27 New employees seek rules and rewards. Culture shapes.

13:49 Self-awareness, emotional intelligence, rebuilding, founder's kid, revenue management.

19:10 Revealing personal growth and self-acceptance journey.

20:35 Reflecting on change, coaching, and self-awareness.

24:10 Dichotomy between pursuing goals and their consequences.

29:15 Balancing ego and time as a business owner.

31:43 Business owners frustrated with excessive paperwork piles.

33:31 Learning from life mistakes and experiences.

37:44 Improving honesty, not greatness, is essential.

40:23 Storytelling reinforces organization's values and behavior.

48:03 Perception of caring versus actual care.

51:22 Resistance to change leads to confusion and disapproval.

54:40 Authentic Business Adventures features business owner stories.

Podcast Transcription:

James [00:00:01]:

You have found Authentic Business Adventures, the business program that brings you the struggle stories and triumphant successes of business owners across the land. Downloadable audio episodes can be found in the podcast link found at draw in customers.com. We are locally underwritten by the Bank of Sun Prairie. My name is James Kademan, entrepreneur, author, speaker, a helpful coach to small business owners across the country. And today, we're welcoming slash preparing to learn from Scott McGowan of McGowan Broadbender. But I am excited to talk to Scott because we're talking about company culture, which is something that I didn't even know was a thing until I got employees. So, Scott, why don't you tell us let's just start with what is, McGowan Broadbender, and then we can dive into company culture.

Scott McGohan [00:00:44]:

Yeah. Well, hey. Thanks for having me. I really appreciate it. We represent, about 1500 employers. So what we really do is actually help Employers make decisions in regards to their benefit structure, their health plans, disability, dental, and help them, orchestrate those financially, communicate those to the workforce strategically, and then reach back and service the those employers and those, those employees along the way. So about a 100,000 employees that we represent inside of our customers, Roughly about, maybe I say, quarter of a 1000000 belly buttons, moms, dads, kids, families, and about a 1000000000 and a half of health care health care spend. And,