The Startup Gambit Podcast - Ep.9 - Emile Studham

This week’s guest on Emile Studham is Founder / Director of Performance by Design. Performance by Design empowers leaders and teams to focus on results provided through facilitated workshops and online training systems. Emile routinely facilitates corporate teams to achieve optimal performance, has helped countless sports franchises dismantle and eradicate poor performance and is more than comfortable speaking on stage to groups of thousands about getting active.Culture is the underpinning of your entire company.Major points for leadership:Ask questions. Ask more questions than you provide answers.Continuously think about how you want to be described and follow that up by deciding the behaviour you need to display.Be the one that gets the most feedback.Create an environment for others to perform.Invest in understanding yourself and what you stand for. Take a psychometric test.As a company leader, schedule regular time with your direct reports, find out what's going on in your company - Howard Schultz, CEO of Starbucks mystery shopped for 2 years Creating the “Culture Code” by Performance by Design Diagnostics - to determine:Why do we exist?What do we stand for?What are you going to reward as a team? As a team, you’ve got to reward, recognize and challenge each other with a focus on behaviour:Psychometric profiling provides an understanding of communication styles which we can then use to build strong relationshipsImplement review and maintenance of your Culture Code in your workflow.Have regular “Real Talk” sessionRead this book: No Rules Rules Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention - Reed HastingsSomething really cool that Emile said -“The buzz of building your business is really the buzz of watching your people grow.”  Something really cool that was said to Emile - “You’re in our way.”