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Empowering those around you is consistently a trait of all great leaders. Teams of empowered people can achieve amazingly high levels of success.

“I just want some respect. Give me some respect!” What a silly comment. Everybody wants some respect. Everybody wants to be respected for something whether they acknowledge it or not. Who in their right mind would ask for some disrespect?

I just finished a two-hour conversation and walked away without a single answer. Frustrating!

Changing your businesses culture is hard work.

So far, we have decided what we want our culture to be, we have converted that culture into a written and published set of corporate values, and we have included those values into all of our documented procedures and manuals.

Simply selecting a set of corporate vales and hanging them in the lobby is not a guarantee that changes will be made.

I see four overall steps to changing your current corporate culture.

To this point you have acknowledged that: Knowing your business’s culture is important.

From your list of feedback on what others think of your reputation, you have divided them into groups of positives and negatives.

From the exercise listed in the previous blog, you have collected a list of what others think of your reputation from three different sources: employee exit interviews, business peers such as your banker and accountant, and the competitive world through clients and consultants.