Gordy Rush and Maurice Velasquez of Guaranty Media and Team Real World talk the Alignment model, a system which helps businesses keep their employees engaged and working efficiently. They overview the five different factors which are necessary to achieve true alignment and dive into the details of the first important element: the four phases of any team’s progress. The number one mistake managers make? Not having clearly defined metrics for their staff to live up to.

In a moving interview, Maurice and Janet Simmons, the president of HOPE Ministries of Baton Rouge, discuss their model that works. The work they are doing is incredible - providing a pantry to address immediate needs and provide professional and financial skills training to help individuals become self-dependent. It is in the spirit of everything we are about, where everyone is "winning in the workplace".

Managers are successful when they can help their employees perform well and perform well consistently. However, when managers are not able to help their employees perform well, everything begins to break down. To avoid this, managers and supervisors must have the correct tools, processes and training to effectively help their employees perform well consistently. In this series, we will cover these one step at a time and dissect them as we make progress.

Everyone wants to have good conversations at work. However, when we do not have good meetings, problems go unresolved, ideas are not considered and progress is slowed down. Maurice and his team break down the 9 steps to turn your meetings from frustrating to productive.

Join Kelsye and Leah, two junior consultants from Team Real World discuss the first three chapters of the book, describe what storming feels like in the workplace and the first steps on how to resolve it.

Storming is real. It's when internal turmoil keeps the business from getting to the next level. Maurice reads his new book, "Journeying Beyond the Storm".

Storming is real. It affects every company and keeps them from growth. Maurice gives an informative overview of his book, "Journeying Beyond the Storm", and answers questions from his team on the process of writing his first book.

Most executives and managers are stuck using only 1 leadership style. They tend to overuse that style and it hurts their leadership. However, good leaders know how to use the 3 different styles of leadership, when to use each style and when NOT to use which style. Maurice and his team discuss and break down the 3 different styles of leadership.

Leadership is not tied to titles nor positions. See how to increase your leadership skills whether you're an executive, manager or front-liner.

There is a big difference between leaders and managers. Maurice and his team discuss the six biggest differences between a manager and a leader.