Episode 25

Insider Tips: Turning Around Troubled Company Culture

Business leadership and culture expert Paul Boomer joins Dennis Collins and Leah Bumphry to discuss how to recognize and transform dysfunctional workplace culture into a high-performing environment.

Transcript
Dennis Collins:

Hello, everyone.

Dennis Collins:

Thanks for tuning in to another episode of Connect and Convert,

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where we share insider secrets to small business owners on how to

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make your sales grow like lightning.

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We have a very special follow up episode.

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You may have seen our episode of with Paul Boomer, a conversation with Paul Boomer.

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We're going to do part two.

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But first of all, let me introduce myself.

Dennis Collins:

I'm Dennis Collins, and my co host is Hi, Leah

Leah Bumphry:

Bumfrey from Sunny Saskatoon.

Dennis Collins:

Hi, I like that, Sunny Saskatoon.

Dennis Collins:

I'll bet I have more sun here than you have, though.

Dennis Collins:

Oh

Leah Bumphry:

We, yeah, this time of

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year for sure.

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Yeah, for sure.

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Yeah.

Dennis Collins:

So welcome back.

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We had an enjoyable, productive conversation with Paul Boomer.

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Now, Paul Boomer, let me give you, he's got one of the longest

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titles in the world, but I loved reading every bit of it.

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It's a good one.

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It's employee and leadership optimization, company culture advisor,

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wizard of ads, managing partner.

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How about that?

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And he deserves every bit of that and more.

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Okay.

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Paul is, someone that I've known for several decades.

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Leah, I think you probably just met him recently, but he is a true subject matter

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expert on business leadership and culture.

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And if you, don't believe me, go to wizardofads.

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org.

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And when you see a class with his name on it, Take it.

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Take it.

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It will transform the way you think about leadership and culture.

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Okay?

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To add to his accolades, one more accolade, hopefully the next time

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we interview Paul, will be author.

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Yes.

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Yes,

Leah Bumphry:

that's right.

Leah Bumphry:

He is working on his book and I'm excited to read that.

Leah Bumphry:

But you know what, anybody who teaches at the Academy, anybody

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who starts dipping their toes into writing, specific to small business.

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It always makes me think of Wizard Academy, the fact that

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they sponsor our podcast.

Leah Bumphry:

They do.

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I they all think small business is what's important.

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And just, if you go onto the website and check out some of the

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courses, Paul's included, wow.

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It is just, what you need to learn is there.

Dennis Collins:

Couldn't agree more.

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I have participated in that class and it changed a lot of my old views

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for 153 some years that I've held on.

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Yeah, it's, going to be 154 soon.

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So anyway two other things I want to mention about Paul.

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He has two certifications that are very unique.

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Most people have heard of the Myers Briggs.

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Survey.

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Guess what?

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He is certified to facilitate a Myers-Briggs survey.

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And even more important, he is a certified Leadership circle, facilitator.

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And I'm gonna let him tell you about both of those during our chat.

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But for now, he's a friend, he's a colleague, but most

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importantly Leah, he produces this.

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Podcast.

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Can you believe it?

Leah Bumphry:

Thank goodness.

Leah Bumphry:

Otherwise, what would we

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do?

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Yeah.

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We would do nothing because we would be floundering around

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on the ocean of uncertainty.

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We would have no idea.

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So we want to thank him for that.

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But today he is our guest and this is part two.

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If you didn't see part one, you got to go back and pick up part one.

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Okay.

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Because part one was about leadership.

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But today.

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We're going to focus on business culture.

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Now, are you there, Boomer?

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We don't see you.

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Hello, Paul Boomer.

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Did he go out for a cup of coffee?

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There

Leah Bumphry:

he comes.

Leah Bumphry:

He's making a grand entrance.

Leah Bumphry:

I love it.

Leah Bumphry:

I love it,

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Paul.

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Have some fun.

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A dramatic reveal.

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Yes.

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Last time we spoke about the fact that you're a husband, a father, and we talked

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a little bit about your personal story.

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Do you want to share that again?

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Paul M. Boomer: Sure.

Dennis Collins:

Well, which part of it, but I'll, so there's so many things.

Dennis Collins:

Yeah, there

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are.

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But you mentioned your wife and your your family, and that was, a nice.

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Paul M. Boomer: Yeah.

Dennis Collins:

So I'll go back to the previous episode and you asked me what,

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why am I doing this thing?

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It it goes down to my life experiences and for whatever reason was in special

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education, which is not easy when you're being bullied and, such and

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in a very large school, you And then you find yourself a lot of times

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being in leadership positions, and you're like, why am I don't get it.

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And I've never understood why I was put in so many leadership,

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positions during my, education.

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And then, unfortunately a few years ago, my wife was diagnosed

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with breast cancer and then metastatic breast cancer after that.

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A few years after that, my, my father, unfortunately passed away suddenly.

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And that topic by the way is mental health is very dear to me because when he was

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working for the one company he worked for his entire life he had some rough

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spots that caused some issues to happen.

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And in our conversations, his, my conversations, it surrounded around

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leadership and where he's been in such.

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And since his passing, I've really just said, you know what?

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I want to become.

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Who I've always been, which makes very little sense the way

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I said it, but understanding, Hey, I have this thing over here.

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I'm not using it.

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I want to start using it now because as you can see as I light up when

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I start talking about these topics.

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So I know earlier off air, we were talking about my my wife and how

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she's doing, wonderful actually.

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And lots of little stories.

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The best story I can tell you right now is she's always been

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in these weird categories of 0.

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2 percent chance of this or that.

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She's actually now in the, I don't know what you'd call it, but very

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small, percentage of somebody who might be cured of cancer.

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Ooh.

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Wow.

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And that's a long story, but it's, it is possible that she might

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actually be cured of metastatic, which is traditionally uncurable.

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Boy, is that great news?

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Paul M. Boomer: Wow.

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I can't.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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You have been, an outstanding partner and supporter and advocate.

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You, you advocate in social media for the husband, the partner

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the spouse of the cancer victim.

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I know that you advocate for your wife and so good on you.

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Paul M. Boomer: Don't forget about my kids.

Dennis Collins:

Oh, I know.

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Oh I don't, forget them.

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I happen to, I don't know Paige but oh, I shouldn't say the name on there.

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That's alright.

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That's alright.

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Your daughter she has helped me out in creating some nice.

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Gifts for clients.

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So yes, we know about page.

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But anyway, we digress.

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Let us jump headfirst into culture.

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Paul, that word culture when I ran radio stations for all those years, and you

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listen to all the gurus and all the Smart people with the big brains and Harvard and

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Wharton and MIT and all these, the culture word, man, is that word thrown around?

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Can you give our listeners a solid working definition of what in the

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hell is business culture anyway?

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Paul M. Boomer: The easiest way to put it is it's what

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happens when the boss is gone.

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That's it.

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What happens when the boss is gone?

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Now, that is a very short explanation of what it is.

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But it encompasses everything that goes into culture.

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Which is a lot of the assumed processes.

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Which includes a lot of the, The underlying flow of why and

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how people do what they do.

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Lots of assumptions.

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And the way the communication style, everything, there's so

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many things that go into it.

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So that's why I just shrunk it down to what happens when the boss is gone.

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So

Leah Bumphry:

based on that, you're telling me that every

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business has a culture.

Leah Bumphry:

Even if they don't have one that they've defined or am I misunderstanding?

Leah Bumphry:

Paul M. Boomer: No, you're absolutely right.

Leah Bumphry:

And that's one of the biggest things that I find is.

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Because culture than the word and everything is seen as that fluffy thing.

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I don't need to really worry about, I don't know, I don't know what it is.

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I don't, I'm not a people person, whatever it is, what they

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typically don't understand is you have a culture regardless if

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you put effort into it or not.

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The difference is, and this is something that, that just eats me a little bit

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is there's no bad or good culture.

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Did you know that there's no bad or good.

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There is a functional or a dysfunctional culture.

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You can still run and operate a business as a dish with a dysfunctional culture.

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Now you're handcuffed a little bit, but you can still run it.

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And there are many organizations that have a dysfunctional

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culture and are doing great.

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So

Dennis Collins:

now that you mentioned that, can you give us.

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It's an example of a dysfunctional culture and what does it look like?

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What does it feel like?

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And how does it affect the business?

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Paul M. Boomer: Dennis, I might need to go get a dinner and I'll be back.

Dennis Collins:

I know this goes on, but I'll, explain briefly.

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I have one in mind.

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I want to have two or we only have two or three hours to go.

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Paul M. Boomer: Okay.

Dennis Collins:

The.

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One that comes to mind is a current client and they have, an an owner

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who is, and actually this is the same client I mentioned in past podcasts.

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I'll just let that be known.

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Do you want me to go talk about another one?

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Whichever one

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comes to mind.

Dennis Collins:

There's just so many

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Paul M. Boomer: that come to mind.

Dennis Collins:

I just, I, yeah.

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You could, any one you want.

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Paul M. Boomer: I'll just pick them.

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I'll just pick on them.

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Because they love me and I love them.

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I won't tell.

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The owner is I would say, if he were to talk to their

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employees, he's a control freak.

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And, he wants to know every single thing that's happening and jumps in on, in his

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parachute Fixes everything in his mind and bails and then the managers have to

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go in and fix everything that they might be able to knowing that this person might

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come back and do it again and that's just at the very top of this pinnacle

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mountain of culture and what that does that specific culture is it puts doubt in

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everybody's mind am I doing my job right?

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Okay.

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Because you now have a boss who comes in, does it for you almost tells you how

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to do it, tells you how not to do it.

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You're doing something that probably is the best way to do it for whatever.

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That's why they hired you.

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But then they're being told no, That way I'm the boss do my way.

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It creates toxic relationships.

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And again, they're successful business, but they are a dysfunctional culture.

Leah Bumphry:

Okay.

Leah Bumphry:

So how would that be turned around to be a positive culture?

Leah Bumphry:

I want to use the same example.

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You think it's an owner that cares, right?

Leah Bumphry:

This owner cares what's going on.

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Paul M. Boomer: That's the key.

Leah Bumphry:

That's the key is when a dysfunctional organization culture is operating

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and they're making money and they're, happy and such, they don't

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see a reason to fix this thing.

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It's hard for them to want to, because they're like, Oh, we're fine.

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We're good.

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I'm I'm a good boss.

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That actually reminds me of another one of, which is important.

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This is also another very common thing.

Leah Bumphry:

I'll get back to you that answer there, Leah.

Leah Bumphry:

Sorry.

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My mind goes all over because I'm the CEO that I met was talking and he was really

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proud of himself in the organization for.

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Shifting everything in his plan, business plan when COVID hit he was just proud

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and he should be because he, skyrocketed his his, revenue and everything.

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And then it was a group of us and somebody asked him, so what about your, employees?

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How do you manage them?

Leah Bumphry:

Oh, we're good.

Leah Bumphry:

we we, didn't touch that.

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We've never touched that because it works so well,

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but you know what?

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I started to snoop around a little bit and started to ask

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some questions of employees.

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They looked happy.

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They look like they're excited to be working and such.

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But when you secretly ask them, Hey, what's it like to work here?

Leah Bumphry:

Oh, no, I'm getting out of here as soon as I can.

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As soon as I find another job, I'm leaving.

Leah Bumphry:

Why is that?

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And they'd explain all these things.

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A lot of it had to go with micromanaging.

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So that CEO was blind to the fact.

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That he could be better by looking at culture.

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Now, the way you look at culture and accelerate it, or look at it, Leah,

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and turn it to the positive is that CEO, president, leader, whatever,

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they have to be willing to look in the mirror and ask themselves, what am I

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contributing positively and negatively?

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How am I helping this boat go faster?

Leah Bumphry:

How am I possibly hindering it from going faster?

Leah Bumphry:

Until they do that culture is, gonna be managed not by them, which by the way,

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it can be managed not by that leader.

Leah Bumphry:

Actually, they are managing it, they just don't know it, but it's

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being managed by the employees.

Dennis Collins:

Would Paul, would that be would you consider

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that man culture by default?

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Or, it's just the way things are done around here, but nobody planned it.

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It's just the way it is.

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Is that, yeah.

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Paul M. Boomer: That's a great phrase, Dennis culture by default

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is this is just the way it is and we're not willing to adjust because

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and that's, a blind spot.

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Is it not?

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That's a huge blind spot.

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Paul M. Boomer: Yeah, it is a huge blind spot,

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not able to be easily seen and clearly not something that's top

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of mind with most small business owners.

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Would that be fair to say?

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Paul M. Boomer: Absolutely.

Dennis Collins:

It goes back to that thing about we're making money.

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So why do I need to focus on culture?

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But let me tell you,

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let me Yeah, go ahead, answer that

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Paul M. Boomer: question.

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Go.

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I think I know where you're going already, but go for it.

Dennis Collins:

I was,

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going to ask you that question that you just posed.

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Hey, we're doing great.

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Why should I worry about this culture crap?

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Paul M. Boomer: Gee, Dennis, it's like we're on a show together or something.

Dennis Collins:

We do stuff together.

Dennis Collins:

I'm just

Leah Bumphry:

glad one of you asked the question already, because

Leah Bumphry:

I was getting ready to do it.

Leah Bumphry:

The

Leah Bumphry:

Paul M. Boomer: question, the question.

Leah Bumphry:

What was the question?

Dennis Collins:

We're making a lot of money.

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Everything is rosy.

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Why in the, should I go to this culture nonsense?

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I don't understand it anyway.

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So why

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Paul M. Boomer: bother?

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Why bother?

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You built a company for a reason, right?

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Yeah.

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I have never met somebody who has a reason and says, eh, I want to work on it.

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I really don't want to.

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I'm passionate about it.

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Eh.

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But I'm not willing to.

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Be better or help others be better within my organization.

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When you work on culture, when you are self reflective, what happens in

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a business is a accelerates profits.

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It's just, there's no question about it because people are

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more willing to be productive.

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They want to be productive.

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People are willing and wanting to come to work.

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They want to come to work because it matters to them.

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And if it matters to them, they're willing to bend over backwards to

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do some work and it becomes easier to keep them and it becomes easier

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to read, to to recruit new people.

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And with that, and, yeah, that's what I'm talking about.

Dennis Collins:

There's so many things of why you do this.

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And when you do that, you read, you increase your profit margin because

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you're not having to hire people all the time and retrain them.

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Which.

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Depending on your industry absolute minimum is at least

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4, 000 per person to train.

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So

Leah Bumphry:

this isn't a bunch of fluffy.

Leah Bumphry:

Oh, Kumbaya.

Leah Bumphry:

Let's all have a group hug here.

Leah Bumphry:

There are solid business reasons why you want to be able to change

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your non functional culture into a functional culture.

Leah Bumphry:

Paul M. Boomer: Absolutely.

Leah Bumphry:

And for any business owner, it usually comes down to revenue and profit,

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margins, because they want to, please their stakeholders, whoever it is.

Leah Bumphry:

Let it be the org, the employees themselves, let it be their

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peers, let it be a board of directors, let it be the community.

Dennis Collins:

So Paul, let's say you have made the unfortunate discovery

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that you have a dysfunctional culture.

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How easy is it and how, I know we could spend days on this,

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but in brief, how easy is it?

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What's the way to make it a functional culture?

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How do

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Paul M. Boomer: we do that?

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First, look at yourself, look at your, organization.

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My recommendation is for you as the boss to, to walk literally away

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from the business for a few days and, reflect on what am I doing?

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What am I not doing?

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And while you are doing that, you pose that same question to your leadership

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team and they do the same thing of, okay, how am I contributing or not contributing

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such, and then you set a time.

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That all of you sit down away from the company, not in your office, but

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actually outside and have a frank and honest conversation with each other.

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That's the, that's it.

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And then there's many steps after that.

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It becomes down to change management and processes and such, and

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what exactly needs to change.

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But that is what I'd recommend for somebody who wants to do it.

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Do it themselves is just start understanding.

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Hey, I have a contribution in this.

Leah Bumphry:

And I have to be some, there has to be some solid ground rules

Leah Bumphry:

though, because it's, you talked about establishing that trust, because if

Leah Bumphry:

I'm going to tell Dennis at Dennis, I don't like when you wear that red

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and white checkered shirt, I had to know, Dennis, isn't going to be mad

Leah Bumphry:

at me and say, Lee, I don't like when you wear that black, one all the time.

Leah Bumphry:

There's gotta be, you gotta establish the ground rules here, I would think.

Leah Bumphry:

Paul M. Boomer: Yeah.

Leah Bumphry:

And that's, it goes in sync with that conversation is if.

Leah Bumphry:

You are not sure if you don't know, if you have psychological safety, a ask,

Leah Bumphry:

honestly, your leadership team should be a leadership team that you're willing

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to have frank conversations with, right?

Leah Bumphry:

Why would you want them on your leadership team otherwise?

Leah Bumphry:

And ask them or simply ask, Hey, can we honestly tell each other what's going on?

Leah Bumphry:

Do I have your permission?

Leah Bumphry:

Even ask that, do I have your permission to be honest with you?

Leah Bumphry:

That way.

Leah Bumphry:

By the way, Dennis, I like your shirt.

Leah Bumphry:

Just saying, I do

Dennis Collins:

your shirt,

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That I was getting very concerned.

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I almost started crying.

Dennis Collins:

I, could

Dennis Collins:

Paul M. Boomer: tell that question myself.

Dennis Collins:

I'm so

Dennis Collins:

sensitive.

Leah Bumphry:

Paul.

Leah Bumphry:

He's so

Dennis Collins:

sensitive.

Dennis Collins:

Oh, I,

Dennis Collins:

Paul M. Boomer: I don't know the half of it.

Dennis Collins:

153 years old.

Dennis Collins:

Geez.

Dennis Collins:

. Paul M. Boomer: See right here, we have a culture, the three of us.

Dennis Collins:

Yeah.

Dennis Collins:

. Everybody has a culture

Dennis Collins:

and is it function, is it functional or dysfunctional?

Dennis Collins:

Paul M. Boomer: It leans on the functional side.

Dennis Collins:

There's some dysfunctions here and there, but

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Leans on the functional side.

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I

Dennis Collins:

Paul M. Boomer: like that.

Dennis Collins:

I want a

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t shirt.

Dennis Collins:

Very diplomatic answer, Paul.

Dennis Collins:

Paul M. Boomer: I'll be honest, Leah, I want to answer that, but that is a hard

Dennis Collins:

long answer that requires understanding the organization itself, and every

Dennis Collins:

organization is a little different.

Dennis Collins:

There is no templates or that's how we're going to do it.

Dennis Collins:

The first thing really comes down to that conversation and knowing your

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leadership team has your back and you have theirs and they have yours.

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But yeah, there is psychological safety that has to come into play to that.

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And again, that's why you start at the very top where they're better already.

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Be some trust amongst everybody.

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Better be.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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It sounds like in our, as per our last episode on leadership.

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The, common denominator is it's really hard to do this on your own.

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You really need to reach out.

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So when they reach out to you, how do they find you?

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Paul M. Boomer: The easiest way is to simply email me.

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Paul Paul Boomer at wizard of ads.

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com.

Dennis Collins:

I forgot my email address.

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Paulboomeratwizardofads.

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com or go to wizardofads.

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com and look under the partners list and you'll see me in there.

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Those are the two easiest ways to get ahold of me.

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Now, by the way, earlier, you as your producer, I'm going to say something.

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Oh, we're

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going to get some notes.

Dennis Collins:

We're going to get some notes, Leah.

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Be

Leah Bumphry:

prepared.

Leah Bumphry:

We knew it was.

Leah Bumphry:

We knew

Leah Bumphry:

Paul M. Boomer: it was coming.

Leah Bumphry:

Because we can do this because we trust each other.

Leah Bumphry:

I noticed that you said wizard of ads.

Leah Bumphry:

org for Wizard Academy.

Dennis Collins:

Oh gosh.

Dennis Collins:

I just, that's a terrible, so am I.

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It's, am I gonna get

Dennis Collins:

Paul M. Boomer: fired?

Dennis Collins:

, but it's wizard academy.org.

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academy.org.

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Yes.

Dennis Collins:

Wizard academy.org is where you'll find it's wizard of

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ads.com for the email.

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But wizard academy.org for the academy.

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You got

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Paul M. Boomer: it.

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And that there, which you did.

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Yeah.

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Is another way to get a hold of me.

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Like you said, I have a course on cultural leadership and teamwork.

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And the last time, the inaugural I had so much peop so many of the people saying,

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When you do the next one, let me know.

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Yes.

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And that would come

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in as well.

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I knew you got a lot, I knew you got a lot of good feedback.

Dennis Collins:

Both, cause I was at that class.

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Yes.

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You got feedback both right then and there and afterwards.

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You had people reaching out to you.

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Which, to me, is the mark of a great course.

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So when you see that course come up, wizardacademy.

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org, go take it.

Dennis Collins:

Paul, thank you.

Dennis Collins:

Again, we could spend more hours and hours, but again,

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we've reached our time limit.

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So what can I say?

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You're a subject matter expert.

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You've shared a big piece of your brain with us that has inspired

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and informed and encouraged.

Dennis Collins:

Thank you for being our producer and what you know about

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business culture and leadership.

Dennis Collins:

That's this episode of Connect and Convert.

Dennis Collins:

Stay tuned, because we're going to be back shortly.

Dennis Collins:

Stay tuned.

Dennis Collins:

Bye.

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I help businesses grow up after they've grown their revenue. Think about that for a moment. You'll understand what I mean.