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Declaring Meeting Bankruptcy: A Strategy for Leadership EfficiencyIn this episode of the For Love of Team podcast, host Winston Faircloth introduces Chapter Eight: 'Declaring Meeting Bankruptcy' from his upcoming book, 'Team Love, 28 Ways to Demonstrate Caring at Work.' Winston discusses the overwhelming nature of back-to-back meetings and offers a radical approach to regain control of one's schedule. Through practical steps, Faircloth outlines how leaders can inventory their meetings, assess their necessity, and reset their calendar for increased productivity and deeper work. A courageous case study of a client who successfully implemented quarterly 'meeting bankruptcies' is highlighted, offering a blueprint for other visionary leaders to follow. 00:00 Introduction to Season Three00:28 Chapter Eight: Declare Meeting Bankruptcy00:43 The Burden of a Packed Calendar03:14 The Big Rocks Analogy05:00 A Client's Bold Move: Meeting Bankruptcy06:57 Steps to Declaring Meeting Bankruptcy08:54 Conclusion and Next StepsText us feedback on this episode #TeamLOVE Book. Join the bold book writing journey as we write and share our first draft chapters from our upcoming book - Team Love: 28 Ways to Demonstrate Caring at Work here in season 3 of the For Love of Team podcast. Be notified each week about a new episode and follow our journey at TeamLoveBook.com

S3 E109: Clarify Communications ChannelsIn this episode of the For Love of Team podcast, Winston Faircloth delves into Chapter Seven of his new book, 'Team Love: 28 Ways to Demonstrate Caring at Work,' titled 'Clarify Communication Channels.' Winston narrates the challenges of managing multiple communication platforms and the chaos it can bring, using a relatable scenario of miscommunication and lost information. He shares practical strategies to streamline communication within a team, such as setting intentions for email usage, leveraging company tools, and minimizing interruptions to protect productive time. Winston provides a step-by-step approach to enhance clarity and efficiency in team communications, ensuring that technology serves the team's needs. Listeners are encouraged to adopt these methods to improve their organizational communication and overall team performance.  00:00 Introduction to Season Three 00:28 Introducing Chapter Seven: Clarify Communication Channels 02:14 The Chaos of Communication 03:07 Strategies for Streamlining Communication 06:18 Practical Steps for Better Communication 08:37 Conclusion and Next Steps Text us feedback on this episode #TeamLOVE Book. Join the bold book writing journey as we write and share our first draft chapters from our upcoming book - Team Love: 28 Ways to Demonstrate Caring at Work here in season 3 of the For Love of Team podcast. Be notified each week about a new episode and follow our journey at TeamLoveBook.com

S3 E108: Protecting Productive Times  In this episode of the For Love of Team podcast, host Winston Faircloth discusses Chapter 6 'Protect Protective Times' from his new book, 'Team Love: 28 Ways to Demonstrate Caring at Work.' Winston emphasizes the importance of recognizing and protecting individual productive times within teams to enhance work efficiency. He explains that, as leaders, understanding when team members are most creative, alert, and energized is crucial for balancing productivity with necessary collaboration. Leaders are encouraged to review meeting patterns and adjust schedules to protect these productive periods, empowering both early birds and night owls. Winston offers practical advice on piloting this approach to foster a happy, productive team. Listeners are invited to share their feedback on the podcast's blog.  00:00 A Bold Writing Experiment Continues 00:24 Chapter 6: Protect Protective Times 00:51 Understanding Team Productivity 02:15 Balancing Productivity and Collaboration 03:01 Action Steps for Leaders 04:09 Conclusion and FeedbackText us feedback on this episode #TeamLOVE Book. Join the bold book writing journey as we write and share our first draft chapters from our upcoming book - Team Love: 28 Ways to Demonstrate Caring at Work here in season 3 of the For Love of Team podcast. Be notified each week about a new episode and follow our journey at TeamLoveBook.com

S3 E107 – Stay in our Strengths   In this episode of the For Love of Team podcast, host Winston Faircloth delves into Chapter 5 of his upcoming book, 'Team Love: 28 Ways to Demonstrate Caring at Work.'  This chapter, 'Stay in Our Strengths,' scrutinizes the traditional self-review process. Winston critiques the typical approach as a compliance task that often overlooks team members' growth and contributions, proposing instead a shift towards emphasizing daily acknowledgments of team efforts and celebrating achievements.  He advocates for protecting time for deep work, making assignments based on unique contributions, and fostering clarity through a compelling 'why.'  Listeners are encouraged to reimagine feedback processes, aspiring to deliver continuous and supportive care beyond annual evaluations, nurturing team love in the workplace.  00:00 Introduction to Chapter 5 00:23 Chapter 5: Stay in Our Strengths 00:31 The Dreaded Self-Review Email 01:09 Breaking Down the Self-Review Process 02:54 Challenges of Traditional Feedback Processes 04:08 Reimagining Leadership Practices 05:09 Conclusion and Invitation for FeedbackText us feedback on this episode #TeamLOVE Book. Join the bold book writing journey as we write and share our first draft chapters from our upcoming book - Team Love: 28 Ways to Demonstrate Caring at Work here in season 3 of the For Love of Team podcast. Be notified each week about a new episode and follow our journey at TeamLoveBook.com

S3 E 106: Identify Unique Contributions  In this episode of the For Love of Team podcast, host Winston Faircloth delves into Chapter 4 of his book 'Team Love: 28 Ways to Demonstrate Caring at Work,' focusing on identifying unique contributions.  The chapter discusses the importance of recognizing and utilizing individual talents and passions within a team to enhance productivity and satisfaction. Winston advises leaders to reflect on tasks that bring effortless engagement versus those that feel burdensome and to seek team members who find joy in tasks others might avoid.  By matching tasks to natural gifts rather than rigid roles, leaders can unlock innovation and promote a more dynamic workplace environment. 00:00 Introduction to Team Love, Chapter 4 00:24 Identifying Unique Contributions 01:17 Understanding Work Preferences 02:13 Discovering Team Strengths 02:40 Practical Steps for Leaders 03:50 Reflecting on Team Dynamics 04:31 Conclusion and Next StepsText us feedback on this episode #TeamLOVE Book. Join the bold book writing journey as we write and share our first draft chapters from our upcoming book - Team Love: 28 Ways to Demonstrate Caring at Work here in season 3 of the For Love of Team podcast. Be notified each week about a new episode and follow our journey at TeamLoveBook.com

S3 E105: Your Team Owns the How  In this episode of the For Love of Team podcast, Winston Faircloth delves into Chapter Three of his upcoming book 'Team Love: 28 Ways to Demonstrate Caring at Work.' The focus is on empowering teams by letting them own the 'how.' After hiring top talent, leaders should provide the 'why' and success metrics but avoid micromanaging. Insights include the importance of not dictating detailed processes to experienced team members, fostering innovation through trust, and ensuring clarity in communications. Faircloth emphasizes the role of leaders in enabling creativity and collaboration, asking for feedback from listeners engaged in leadership transformation.  00:00 Introduction to Season Three 00:23 Chapter Three: The Team Owns the How 00:59 The New Executive's Feedback 02:10 The Importance of Trust and Delegation 02:59 Empowering Your Team 04:20 Practical Tips for Leaders 05:59 Conclusion and Listener Engagement Text us feedback on this episode #TeamLOVE Book. Join the bold book writing journey as we write and share our first draft chapters from our upcoming book - Team Love: 28 Ways to Demonstrate Caring at Work here in season 3 of the For Love of Team podcast. Be notified each week about a new episode and follow our journey at TeamLoveBook.com

S3 E104: Defining Clear Success In this episode of For Love of Team podcast, host Winston Faircloth delves into Chapter 2 of his new book, 'Team Love: 28 Ways to Demonstrate Caring at Work.' Winston shares insights on the importance of clearly defining success for your team. He recounts a metaphorical race with no finish line to illustrate the necessity of setting clear markers of achievement to maintain momentum and alignment. Winston provides practical steps for leaders to establish observable success markers and pair them with a compelling why, enhancing team alignment and accountability. Listeners are encouraged to translate these steps into their projects for optimal success.  00:00 Introduction to Season Three 00:23 Chapter 2: Defining Clear Success 01:50 Defining Success and Setting Goals 03:19 Action Steps for Team Success 04:30 Conclusion and Listener Engagement Text us feedback on this episode #TeamLOVE Book. Join the bold book writing journey as we write and share our first draft chapters from our upcoming book - Team Love: 28 Ways to Demonstrate Caring at Work here in season 3 of the For Love of Team podcast. Be notified each week about a new episode and follow our journey at TeamLoveBook.com

In the season three premiere of the For Love of Team podcast, host Winston Faircloth introduced his new book, 'Team Love: 28 Ways to Demonstrate Caring at Work.' This episode shares insights from Chapter One, focusing on the importance of starting with a compelling 'why.' Winston narrates the challenges of an executive team facing an uncertain future and highlights how a clear vision can galvanize a team. Through personal anecdotes and practical advice, Winston underscores the significance of answering 'why' to foster creativity, ownership, and trust within the team. He provides actionable steps for leaders to prioritize ideas and communicate their 'why' effectively, reinforcing the overarching theme of spreading team love across the organization.  00:00 Introduction to Season Three 00:24 Chapter One: Start with the Compelling Why 01:21 The Visionary Leader's Superpower 02:47 Embracing the Why 04:29 Practical Steps to Define Your Why 06:21 Conclusion and Call to Action Text us feedback on this episode #TeamLOVE Book. Join the bold book writing journey as we write and share our first draft chapters from our upcoming book - Team Love: 28 Ways to Demonstrate Caring at Work here in season 3 of the For Love of Team podcast. Be notified each week about a new episode and follow our journey at TeamLoveBook.com

In the first episode featuring first-draft audio chapters from his new book, “Team Love: 28 Ways to Demonstrate Caring at Work”, Winston shares the introductory chapter, reflecting on his journey as an executive leader and the pivotal moments that led him to prioritize team love over merely focusing on solutions and client satisfaction.  The discussion highlights the stages of a visionary leader's journey, the challenges of maintaining a visionary path, and the importance of nurturing a team-centric culture. Winston emphasizes that loving and prioritizing teams ultimately accelerates vision and supports client care. Listeners are invited to join Winston in exploring innovative approaches to fostering team love. 00:00 Introduction to Season Three 00:31 Chapter Zero: The Blind Spot 02:12 The Visionary Leader's Journey 06:33 The Importance of Team Love 07:59 Conclusion and Invitation Text us feedback on this episode #TeamLOVE Book. Join the bold book writing journey as we write and share our first draft chapters from our upcoming book - Team Love: 28 Ways to Demonstrate Caring at Work here in season 3 of the For Love of Team podcast. Be notified each week about a new episode and follow our journey at TeamLoveBook.com

In this premiere episode of Season 3 of the For Love of Team podcast, host Winston Faircloth reintroduces the podcast after a three-year hiatus. Winston shares personal and professional updates since the last season, including his transformation into an avid writer and his 'Reunion Tour' exploring personal spirituality. Winston recounts his extensive career in leadership roles, primarily in the United Way and nonprofit sectors. He unveils a bold new experiment for this season: writing a book called 'Team Love,' based on a successful blog series from the past. Each episode will feature an audio first draft of a chapter from the book, inviting listeners to provide feedback and help shape the final version. This innovative journey aims to engage visionary leaders and anyone interested in fostering a loving team culture.  00:00 Welcome to Season Three 00:51 Personal and Professional Growth 02:07 Career Journey and Leadership Lessons 05:02 Introducing the Team Love Book 07:26 Join the Book Writing Journey 08:03 Conclusion and Next Steps Text us feedback on this episode #TeamLOVE Book. Join the bold book writing journey as we write and share our first draft chapters from our upcoming book - Team Love: 28 Ways to Demonstrate Caring at Work here in season 3 of the For Love of Team podcast. Be notified each week about a new episode and follow our journey at TeamLoveBook.com

This week, we wrap up Season 2 with a significant milestone - our 100th episode! To celebrate, we're having fan favorite Mark Ross return to interview Winston about his entrepreneurial journey to creating, For Love of Team. “You know the term “For love of the Game”? I was on a walk one day, and somehow, it just came to my mind that for love of team was what I was missing as the CEO of a very successful multi-million dollar company. I had started a business because I had an idea of how I could help other people with a product and a service that I loved. When that was established, I moved to loving the client. I wanted to give them the ultimate experience that was just as good or not better than the product itself. I knew that if they had a great experience with what we were offering it would help us win more business.But I only kept my focus right there. Instead of looking at my team as the foundation of our success, I saw them as an impediment to being more creative and serving our clients. More often than I should have I took the side of the client. Even though our team had a good process, had good boundaries, and good guardrails, they were to blame if client expectations were not met. My team was looking for how we could protect the quality of the service, they were looking for ways to protect and scale how we could do it. And I would inevitably take the side of the client and I put our team under tremendous pressure. That works for maybe a short season, but if that's constantly the culture that you're creating - it's a toxic work culture. That was a reflection of me as a toxic leader back then. Now I see our work here at  ‘For Love of Team’ as a redemption story. Helping founders and leaders avoid the mistakes I made and instead multiplying their impact and income by…"Doing work you love, in a business you love, with a team you love.”- WinstonText us feedback on this episode #TeamLOVE Book. Join the bold book writing journey as we write and share our first draft chapters from our upcoming book - Team Love: 28 Ways to Demonstrate Caring at Work here in season 3 of the For Love of Team podcast. Be notified each week about a new episode and follow our journey at TeamLoveBook.com

Amy Alexander is Co-Founder and Executive Director of The Refuge Center for Counseling in Franklin, Tennessee, where the Center serves more than 30,000 counseling sessions to over 4,000 clients annually. As a nonprofit, Amy is always wrestling with how to retain quality people on her team. And for her, it's the culture they create day-to-day that retains the best people.Amy encourages and supports culture through her ‘Three C’s approach’ of connection, character, and continuous growth within the organization.“Our team has to be the first priority and Client Services has to be the second priority. Because if we're not healthy, if we're not in a good place, if we're not taking care of ourselves and one another, then the quality of our work is not going to be what it should be. And our clients deserve us to be at our best.” - Amy AlexanderShe has a very unique way of framing leadership and culture and values within her organization by modeling a ‘servant first perspective’.Listen to our full episode to learn more about Amy’s Three C’s approach! Connect with AmyWebsite - https://refugecenter.org  Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-refuge-center-for-counseling Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/therefugecenter Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/refugecenterforcounseling YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxzP8YpKRKo Email - [email protected] Connect with WinstonLinkedIn     https://www.linkedin.com/in/winstonfaircloth    Facebook   https://www.facebook.com/forloveofteamInstagram   https://www.instagram.com/forloveofteam Twitter        https://twitter.com/forloveofteamText us feedback on this episode #TeamLOVE Book. Join the bold book writing journey as we write and share our first draft chapters from our upcoming book - Team Love: 28 Ways to Demonstrate Caring at Work here in season 3 of the For Love of Team podcast. Be notified each week about a new episode and follow our journey at TeamLoveBook.com

In this week’s episode, we're chatting with Dr. Kristy Goodwin who is on a mission to promote employee wellbeing and bolster workplace productivity. With the pandemic accelerating the work from home (WFH) movement, how we work online and how we disconnect while living in the same place is more important than ever.  “I've never had a genius idea looking in my inbox or working in an Excel spreadsheet. I have most certainly had one when I've been swimming or been for a run, or in the shower. And this is because our brain needs that mind-wandering mode. And we just don't get enough of that because we now fill every moment of whitespace with a digital device.”  - Dr. Kristy GoodwinPut simply, she helps people thrive online. We have all accepted that technology is an integral part of our professional and our personal lives to the point that it's impacting our physical and mental health. We also know that it's having a very significant and pronounced impact on our productivity. Kristy studies how our brain and body operate in this digital landscape. She takes research and science on this issue and translates it into practical realistic strategies that people can use to utilize technology in a way that aligns with our neurobiology. Listen to our full episode to see how Kristy works with companies to help teams with their digital well-being by implementing her peak performance strategies in this digital landscape.Connect with KristyWebsite - https://drkristygoodwin.com  Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-kristy-goodwin  Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/drkristygoodwinInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/drkristy  Connect with WinstonLinkedIn     https://www.linkedin.com/in/winstonfaircloth Facebook   https://www.facebook.com/forloveofteamInstagram   https://www.instagram.com/forloveofteam Twitter        https://twitter.com/forloveofteamText us feedback on this episode #TeamLOVE Book. Join the bold book writing journey as we write and share our first draft chapters from our upcoming book - Team Love: 28 Ways to Demonstrate Caring at Work here in season 3 of the For Love of Team podcast. Be notified each week about a new episode and follow our journey at TeamLoveBook.com

In this week’s episode, we're continuing our series on how values drive success in business. We are chatting with industry experts to gain their insight on developing Core Values that create a winning team. We're bringing back one of our favorite guests Victoria Mininger, Founder of Bear Creek Outdoor Living. Victoria strives to see each one of her team members thrive, learn, and grow. She shares her journey on how this core value became such a centerpiece of her business.“We (my husband and I) once had employers that saw us for who we were, and not just what we brought to the table, they cared for us greatly. That left a definitive mark on our life. When we started this company, I said to myself, I want to treat people the way that I was treated during my career. We have learned over the years that when we care for people, the rest takes care of itself. And when we do that, we serve our clients even better. It's wanting to have a greater mission and reason for existing other than just getting to the next great project or bringing in revenue. All of those are great, but what I want to leave behind is the impact I've had on people, because other people have impacted me in such a great way”. -- Victoria MiningerOur episode with Victoria does a deep dive into how when we care for our teams we empower them to find greatness in themselves, and how this leads to a business that can gain success beyond the bottom line. Connect with Victoria Website - https://www.victoriamininger.com/ Business Website - https://bearcreek.co/ Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/victoriamininger Episode 60 - https://www.forloveofteam.com/blog/060-building-your-people-victoria-miningerEpisode 59 - https://www.forloveofteam.com/blog/059-ba-daring-to-fight-with-victoria-mininger Connect with WinstonLinkedIn     https://www.linkedin.com/in/winstonfaircloth/Facebook   https://www.facebook.com/forloveofteamInstagram   https://www.instagram.com/forloveofteam/Twitter        https://twitter.com/forloveofteamText us feedback on this episode #TeamLOVE Book. Join the bold book writing journey as we write and share our first draft chapters from our upcoming book - Team Love: 28 Ways to Demonstrate Caring at Work here in season 3 of the For Love of Team podcast. Be notified each week about a new episode and follow our journey at TeamLoveBook.com

In this week’s episode, we're continuing our series on how values drive success in business. We are chatting with industry experts to gain their insight on developing Core Values that create a winning team. We're bringing back one of our favorite guests Craig Wood, CEO of Premier International. Craig is a seasoned CEO and Board member who understands how to get the best out of a company and its employees. He is passionate about personal development for his team and the impact that culture has on a company, its growth and its eventual success.As leaders, you make the best decisions you can with imperfect data. And then you ask your team to commit to it. And that's what one team united is about. It's about agreeing. It's about committing. And it's about being aligned. And that's certainly what we have built here.Our episode with Craig a few months ago is what spurred this core value series and how drilling into how our corporate values drive day-to-day action, brings alignment to our team, and delivers an excellent client experience.Connect with CraigThe Premier Way valuesWebsite - http://www.premier-international.com Linkedin - ​​https://www.linkedin.com/in/craigmwood Twitter - @craigmwoodEpisode 78 - https://tinyurl.com/7djkrcpw Connect with WinstonLinkedIn     https://www.linkedin.com/in/winstonfaircloth/Facebook   https://www.facebook.com/forloveofteamInstagram   https://www.instagram.com/forloveofteam/Twitter        https://twitter.com/forloveofteamText us feedback on this episode #TeamLOVE Book. Join the bold book writing journey as we write and share our first draft chapters from our upcoming book - Team Love: 28 Ways to Demonstrate Caring at Work here in season 3 of the For Love of Team podcast. Be notified each week about a new episode and follow our journey at TeamLoveBook.com

On this week's podcast  we introduce a new interview series where we will be chatting with industry experts to gain their insight on developing Core Values that create a winning team. We kick off this interview series with Teresa McCloy -- a Certified Coach, Speaker, and Enneagram Professional.Teresa was once a workaholic who spent much of her time looking for affirmation through her productivity. After her family experienced a personal crisis, Teresa knew it was time to look inward and work through her need to always take on more. During this journey, she was able to find her REALSELF and is now helping others do the same through her REALIFE Process program. We talk to Teresa about core values and her own breaking points of when she realized she needed to depend on other people to achieve the success she was envisioning for herself. Text us feedback on this episode #TeamLOVE Book. Join the bold book writing journey as we write and share our first draft chapters from our upcoming book - Team Love: 28 Ways to Demonstrate Caring at Work here in season 3 of the For Love of Team podcast. Be notified each week about a new episode and follow our journey at TeamLoveBook.com

On this week’s episode, we discuss how by building a business from a state of ‘love’ you will see your success grow exponentially. When you surround yourself with people working in their gifting and focused on a common mission, not only do you get to spend more time working where you're most gifted, but you also create this virtuous cycle where your clients are being loved and your product just keeps getting better. So, as a leader where can you show love in your business? Love of Product: Face it, most of us founders are “idea” people. We love to solve problems, seize opportunities, and create solutions. Yet, we often have more ideas than bandwidth. But there’s something about seeing a solution that others cannot see and bringing that to the marketplace.  Love of Clients: You finally get traction. Money is starting to flow and now your idea is serving others.  The focus begins to shift to creating a client experience as good as your original product idea or service. We know what a remarkable client experience feels like and we’re committed to delivering for our clients.  Love of Team: Your client experience will only rise to the level of your team’s satisfaction in your business. Your client can always feel it when they work with people that love what they do. You surround yourself with people working in their gifting, focused on a common mission, so you can spend more of your time working where you are most gifted.  A business you love, supported by a team you love. What could be better than that? Want to learn more? Listen to the full episode now! Text us feedback on this episode #TeamLOVE Book. Join the bold book writing journey as we write and share our first draft chapters from our upcoming book - Team Love: 28 Ways to Demonstrate Caring at Work here in season 3 of the For Love of Team podcast. Be notified each week about a new episode and follow our journey at TeamLoveBook.com

Hall of Fame. Shrines to outstanding achievement.  A place to remember and recognize legends in sports, business and arts.  Many of these accomplishments focus on individual accomplishments.  Others recognize a team effort.  Imagine for a moment, what it would be like to be on a HOF team. In this week’s episode, I’d like to focus on another use of the letters HOF.  It’s the opposite of Hall of Fame work.  Can you guess what this HOF stands for?  Hair on Fire. What does the “Hair On Fire” organization look like?  The urgent items of the day overtakes the important tasksWe have back to back to back Zoom meetings with little to no breaksIf internal emails are not responded to immediately, it’s a sign of disrespect The shiny new object bumps last week’s priorities Every situation seems to require a custom response There are multiple answers to the question what’s our missionLittle accountability for others deadlines Every person for themselves Often, the visionary leader is a significant contributor to a HOF team. Once I worked for a leader who loved “ideation”, he prided himself on being able to generate lots of solutions to issues.  He’d say, “I can always come up with 20 ideas, I throw them against the wall and hopefully one of them will stick”.  If you’ve ever worked with a leader like this, you know how exhausting it can be.  Last week, our priority for the quarter was hitting our sales goals.  This week, it is redoing the website and marketing plan.  The visionary always has more ideas than bandwidth. Many severely underestimate the time interval it takes to complete a task, so once delegated, they are moving onto the next visionary initiative.  Listen to the full episode now! Text us feedback on this episode #TeamLOVE Book. Join the bold book writing journey as we write and share our first draft chapters from our upcoming book - Team Love: 28 Ways to Demonstrate Caring at Work here in season 3 of the For Love of Team podcast. Be notified each week about a new episode and follow our journey at TeamLoveBook.com

In this week’s episode, we talk about a familiar expression that founders and leaders of businesses often face.  “It’s lonely at the top”.  Tim Cook, CEO of Apple famously said, “It’s sort of a lonely job. The adage that it’s lonely — the CEO job is lonely — is accurate in a lot of ways. I’m not looking for any sympathy. You have to recognize that you have blind spots. We all do.”As Cook notes, it’s in these blind spots where the feeling of loneliness can be most apparent. As a business grows, a founder can no longer keep up wearing all of the hats so a TEAM begins to form.Even with the most capable leadership team, there is only ONE person who has their mind on the team -- YOU the founder.  And in many established organizations, the founder/CEO is also the only person with a deep, historic understanding of all of the key performance indicators (KPIs) over time.  Many leadership team members know their part but they don’t see the entire picture in the same way you do -- blending an overall mastery of the individual trends with the context and history of the road that brings you to this moment in your business, which can leave you feeling isolated. There is a way to NOT be lonely at the top - We call it UNLOCK Innovation™UNLOCK Innovation™ starts by rounding up the data points which tell the story about your business over the past 3-5 years.  And over a two-day intensive workshop, we unpack those metrics, discovering trends and coming to a shared understanding about which ones are most important to the business.Want to learn more? Listen to the full episode now! Text us feedback on this episode #TeamLOVE Book. Join the bold book writing journey as we write and share our first draft chapters from our upcoming book - Team Love: 28 Ways to Demonstrate Caring at Work here in season 3 of the For Love of Team podcast. Be notified each week about a new episode and follow our journey at TeamLoveBook.com

In this week’s episode, I want to share a hard lesson from my time leading a team of 30 people distributed across four time zones.  A popular acronym from that time was MBWA (Management by Wandering Around). It was the practice of leaders wandering around the office, in an unstructured manner, at random, to check with employees, equipment, or on the status of ongoing work. One of the greatest benefits to the WFH (work from home) movement is that it has dramatically reduced the interruptions of MBWA by both leaders AND team members.  So, what’s happening instead?  A new flavor of OCD (Omni-Channel Demands).  We now sense this unwritten expectation to be always available in real time, nearly around the clock. Our ability to have focused time to work within our gifting and our purpose is competing with incessant notifications and unwritten expectations from everyone from the top to the bottom to reply immediately. Back when I managed that team of 30 people we worked together to define communication guidelines across the team that gave everyone space to breathe. Those same methods can be used in today's new WFH landscape.  Want to know how we executed this plan? Listening to our full episode! Text us feedback on this episode #TeamLOVE Book. Join the bold book writing journey as we write and share our first draft chapters from our upcoming book - Team Love: 28 Ways to Demonstrate Caring at Work here in season 3 of the For Love of Team podcast. Be notified each week about a new episode and follow our journey at TeamLoveBook.com

What would it be like to have a 24/7 coach for each of your team members?On this week’s podcast episode we talk about how you can achieve this.Core value statements serve as a 24/7 coach to your team members, providing practical guidance for how you and your team show up for one another, and how you handle your clients and your customers.Imagine having a set of core values so well stated and clear that you no longer have to be the go-to person in every situation that comes up in your organization. To have this effect you need to ensure that your core values are memorable, intuitive, and simplifying.Team members who are self-aware and growth-oriented want to find alignment with your business values and their own. Not only do they want to see it in writing, but they also want to experience it in their day-to-day work. It fortifies their why for working with you. If you’re not willing to use your core values to hire people, help those people improve, and ultimately fire people who don't align with these values, you're going to lose a lot of good people as a result. Want to learn more? Listen to our full episode!Connect with WinstonLinkedIn     https://www.linkedin.com/in/winstonfaircloth/Facebook   https://www.facebook.com/forloveofteamInstagram   https://www.instagram.com/forloveofteam/Twitter        https://twitter.com/forloveofteamText us feedback on this episode #TeamLOVE Book. Join the bold book writing journey as we write and share our first draft chapters from our upcoming book - Team Love: 28 Ways to Demonstrate Caring at Work here in season 3 of the For Love of Team podcast. Be notified each week about a new episode and follow our journey at TeamLoveBook.com

In this week’s podcast episode, we dig into two essential leadership decisions in business, creating a compelling why and a clear what to build a team you love. But before you can define these, you need to be clear on your mission, vision, and values.Why does this matter? Without defining your business's purpose first, you won't be able to clearly define the what and why of your team’s purpose. By doing so you create a feeling of vagueness and disconnection between the person and the goal. A company vision reveals what your business hopes to be, and hopes to achieve over the long term.A mission statement describes what your organization needs to do to achieve that vision. Company values explain how you're going to achieve your vision and mission by implementing a set of beliefs into your team's day-to-day tasks.Overall, these values help shape a team member’s experience, and through their experience you develop strong relationships with your clients, customers, partners, and providers. So what are your vision, mission, and value statements for your business? Are they strong enough to build a team you love?Want to learn more? Listen to our full episode here. Connect with WinstonLinkedIn     https://www.linkedin.com/in/winstonfaircloth/Facebook   https://www.facebook.com/forloveofteamInstagram   https://www.instagram.com/forloveofteam/Twitter        https://twitter.com/forloveofteamText us feedback on this episode #TeamLOVE Book. Join the bold book writing journey as we write and share our first draft chapters from our upcoming book - Team Love: 28 Ways to Demonstrate Caring at Work here in season 3 of the For Love of Team podcast. Be notified each week about a new episode and follow our journey at TeamLoveBook.com

Hiring is a business cost that I can't afford right now. In this week’s episode , we get to the problem faced the most by solopreneurs building their very first team, the cost.  Let us ask you, what kind of cost is hiring? Do you look at a gym membership as just a cost? or an investment in your future health? Is your mortgage a household cost? Or an investment in your future? So is hiring a team a business cost? Or is it an investment in you? We’d argue it's the latter. Think about your time, it is a non-renewable resource. We will both leave this earth at some point, and every moment that ticks by is a moment that we never get back. Freeing your time up produces multiples on your investment by allowing you to focus on the tasks that you do best and that only you can do. You also get another return, you get to lean into the confidence that your skills, your gifting as a leader, which will gain you more confidence, more gifting, more time doing what only you can do. And the funny thing is, these tasks we dread or procrastinate on or are not gifted at, there are hundreds of people and businesses who love doing this work. They're gifted in areas where you're not, so they're delivering value, and results that are multiples of what you could do within your gifting and your resources. So what would you like to do? Would you like to focus on this as a short-term cost? Or start thinking about building a team that you love? It has nothing to do with your checking account. It has everything to do with your belief and willingness to bet on yourself. Want to learn more? Listen to our full episode here. If you'd like to get started on your own for love of team journey, reach out via email, at [email protected] with the subject line Multiplier Max, and we'll be glad to send you out a sample of our fillable PDF.Connect with WinstonLinkedIn     https://www.linkedin.com/in/winstonfaircloth/Facebook   https://www.facebook.com/forloveofteamInstagram   https://www.instagram.com/forloveofteam/Twitter        https://twitter.com/forloveofteamText us feedback on this episode #TeamLOVE Book. Join the bold book writing journey as we write and share our first draft chapters from our upcoming book - Team Love: 28 Ways to Demonstrate Caring at Work here in season 3 of the For Love of Team podcast. Be notified each week about a new episode and follow our journey at TeamLoveBook.com

In this episode we do a deep dive on this question: What does it cost to do everything yourself? The bottom line is that as the leader of your organization, doing something you don't like or are not good at is the largest expense to your company, bar none. This is because there's 10 times more energy and time wasted trying to master a new skill, or procrastinating on the action due to lack of interest or time. Therefore, when you start to create a team, you're already getting a 10x return on your investment. The talent that you bring in is going to free you up for the tasks only you can do.So how do you start? There are four simple steps for hiring that first person: 1) Define success:  We use a tool within our business we call Multiplier Max.  What is the desired result? Why will this make a difference?  What are the consequences for NOT taking action?  What are the benefits OF taking action?  What does success look like?  (Observable) 2) Value of the role:  What time will this free up for you and how will you grow the business with this newfound time? Put a dollar value on this per month.  3) Develop a single page overview of the role. Using the work you’ve done to this point.  Add your company mission/vision/values (if known). Share this role with friends, team members, colleagues and ask for recommendations and referrals.  4) Pay them for a small, time bound project. Give them a real world, tangible project to do that you would like help with. Compensate them fairly for that project. See how they interact with you and how they deliver on the project. The project should take 1-2 weeks, max.  Hiring is a decision that every business goes through and I think it's better to take these steps early so you have the space and time to excel where you are needed most. ***If you'd like to get started on your own for love of team journey, reach out via email, at [email protected] with the subject line Multiplier Max, and we'll be glad to send you out a sample of our fillable PDF.Connect with WinstonLinkedIn     https://www.linkedin.com/in/winstonfaircloth/Facebook   https://www.facebook.com/forloveofteamInstagram   https://www.instagram.com/forloveofteam/Twitter        https://twitter.com/forloveofteamText us feedback on this episode #TeamLOVE Book. Join the bold book writing journey as we write and share our first draft chapters from our upcoming book - Team Love: 28 Ways to Demonstrate Caring at Work here in season 3 of the For Love of Team podcast. Be notified each week about a new episode and follow our journey at TeamLoveBook.com

“Here's the deadline and this is how I want you to do it.  And if you don't do it the way I want, you may have to do it over and over until it’s right.” As a team member, there's nothing more demotivating than this. A+ talent will not hang around to find out what the next job is and the step by step ‘how’ you want it done. In today's podcast episode we explore leadership methods, and how one can lead to a spiral of unenjoyment and damaged working relationships, while the other can set you and your team up for continued success. Delegation is a kind of a top-down experience: we're giving people the leftovers---telling them how work is to be done, often in an area where we’re not our best.  Whereas, collaboration creates a win-win situation that allows our teammates to thrive using the gifts where they are most talented. How can we create this kind of collaboration within our teams and kick the word delegation to the curb? It's a four-step process. Clarify what the desired result of this role or project or assignment looks like. Follow this up with why  this role makes a difference.List the consequences of not taking action and the benefits of taking action now.Pick a future point,(whether it's three months, six months, or twelve months away) and  then list out four to six success criteria for this role or position to complete in this time. Now notice, the word ‘how’ is not used in any of these descriptions? We leave the ‘how’ to the team member we’ve hand-selected because this IS their area of expertise. Want to learn more? Listen to our full episode linked here! If you'd like to get started on your own for love of team journey, reach out via email, at [email protected] with the subject line Multiplier Max, and we'll be glad to send you out a sample of our fillable PDF.Connect with WinstonLinkedIn     https://www.linkedin.com/in/winstonfaircloth/Facebook   https://www.facebook.com/forloveofteamInstagram   https://www.instagram.com/forloveofteam/Twitter        https://twitter.com/forloveofteamText us feedback on this episode #TeamLOVE Book. Join the bold book writing journey as we write and share our first draft chapters from our upcoming book - Team Love: 28 Ways to Demonstrate Caring at Work here in season 3 of the For Love of Team podcast. Be notified each week about a new episode and follow our journey at TeamLoveBook.com

Six years ago, Winston Faircloth stepped down from the technology organization he helped to build over a 15 year period.  As a founder, one of the hardest things you can do is to “let your baby go”.  Yet, the prior 12 months had been filled with turmoil and internal discord -- it was no longer fun, senior leaders were at odds with one another, and the organization was experiencing higher than normal turnover.  After an extensive search process, UPIC Solutions found their new leader from within. J.R. Howard had a front-row seat to the chaos and decided in advance there was a better way to lead.  A people-first way.  In this revealing interview, Winston sits down with his successor J.R. Howard to talk about the amazing transformation UPIC has experienced over the past six years. Taking a founder's vision, enhanced by a culture that loves the team Leading with positivity and how the team reflects the leader Importance of the leader as a storyteller Building a culture of accountability and consistency How building raving fans is an inside job first Keeping a remote team together with Virtual Coffees with the CEO Connect with J.R. Howard at:Email: [email protected]: J.R. Howard Website: https://UpicSolutions.org****When you’re ready to Multiply your Impact, your Income, and your Freedom in business...The Team Map™ Method is your roadmap to a perfect-fit, big enough business.  We believe that every business is as unique as fingerprints.  It’s not the product or the clients that make you unique.  It’s your people: the collection of unique talent, experience, perspectives all working together towards a compelling why.  The WHY you started your business in the first place.  Yet, for most founders, our teams are an afterthought or worse, an expense.  What if your team was your key differentiator in the marketplace?  Find out how.  Text Winston at 1-754-800-9461 to begin your Team Map™ journey.  ***Connect with WinstonLinkedIn     https://www.linkedin.com/in/winstonfaircloth/Facebook   https://www.facebook.com/forloveofteamInstagram   https://www.instagram.com/forloveofteam/Twitter        https://twitter.com/forloveofteamText us feedback on this episode #TeamLOVE Book. Join the bold book writing journey as we write and share our first draft chapters from our upcoming book - Team Love: 28 Ways to Demonstrate Caring at Work here in season 3 of the For Love of Team podcast. Be notified each week about a new episode and follow our journey at TeamLoveBook.com

In the Indian fable about the blind men who each touched a different part of the element, we aren’t surprised to see that an argument breaks out. Each man trusted his own perception to guide him. Until someone with sight coached them on their error, they made assumptions about the whole.Within an organization, leaders can easily find themselves in the shoes of blind men. With a limited field of view, they make assumptions about the entire organization, process, and team. Just before recording this podcast episode, I was speaking with the founder of a large, complex organization. She’s found herself at the center of a problem where she’s the sole person resolving conflicts, making decisions, and charting innovative waters. In thinking about our conversation, I reflected on the blind men and the elephant and discovered some important business truths hiding inside the story.  In this episode, you’ll get:How to avoid being the bottleneck, even when you are the visionary founder of the organizationThe challenge when leaders focus too much attention on their own specialization and why it’s a roadblock for the teamWhy having historical and real-time context for business decisions may be the most important data to share across the organizationThe 6 steps to UNLOCK innovation in any business in any industryAnd, you’ll hear how you can bring a WHOLE picture workshop to your own organization to see how revealing the truth drives business success.****Connect with WinstonLinkedIn     https://www.linkedin.com/in/winstonfaircloth/Facebook   https://www.facebook.com/forloveofteamInstagram   https://www.instagram.com/forloveofteam/Twitter        https://twitter.com/forloveofteamText us feedback on this episode #TeamLOVE Book. Join the bold book writing journey as we write and share our first draft chapters from our upcoming book - Team Love: 28 Ways to Demonstrate Caring at Work here in season 3 of the For Love of Team podcast. Be notified each week about a new episode and follow our journey at TeamLoveBook.com

The impact of the pandemic over this past year has hit everyone. While no one would argue that healthcare and frontline workers have felt it the hardest, the next largest industry might just be the change management professionals.  These individuals have worked for years to persuade businesses and teams to embrace needed change in organizations. But few people and employers are comfortable trying new things when the comfortable, old way of doing things is still an option. But, in 2020, everything changed. Over the course of one weekend, office workers began working from home and supervisors struggled to figure out how to lead remote teams. Plans were upended. Goals revised. And change happened, over and over again, at an accelerated pace. Both personally and professionally. Nimble organizations embraced the changes, reacted quickly, and thrived.  But the past 14 months have put a tremendous burden on everyone. Rapid changes aren’t something most people easily embrace.It takes courage for a business to look at its small team culture at this point in time. And bravery to share the results with the team...especially when everyone is tired and overwhelmed.  That’s where I found myself recently and the lessons learned are applicable to all businesses and teams. The best way to navigate organizational change is to show up as “You, Inc.” and that’s the topic of this podcast episode.In this episode, you’ll get:A brave reveal for a small team culture Why focusing my attention on the defeated was criticalThe exact reason building a workplace culture isn’t leadership’s jobHow you can take responsibility when there are limited growth opportunities The 5 words that should be deleted from the dictionary (at least when it comes to business)And, you’ll hear the worst thing a business can do after an annual employee engagement survey and what they should do instead.****Connect with WinstonLinkedIn     https://www.linkedin.com/in/winstonfaircloth/Facebook   https://www.facebook.com/forloveofteamInstagram   https://www.instagram.com/forloveofteam/Twitter        https://twitter.com/forloveofteamText us feedback on this episode #TeamLOVE Book. Join the bold book writing journey as we write and share our first draft chapters from our upcoming book - Team Love: 28 Ways to Demonstrate Caring at Work here in season 3 of the For Love of Team podcast. Be notified each week about a new episode and follow our journey at TeamLoveBook.com

Comic strips and funny stories abound with humorous anecdotes about clogged sinks and how homeowners make things worse before calling in a professional to fix the problem. There’s a reason they are funny. Because it’s a universal experience. We have a problem. We think we can fix it. Only to discover that the fix we tried made the problem worse.After several experiences like this, most people will call a plumber before they attempt anything other than running the garbage disposal or trying drain cleaner.Because the truth is, for most of us, plumbing isn’t something that we’re good at or that we enjoy.You can probably think of a variety of tasks within your business like that. Things that need to be done but that you don’t like or aren’t good at doing. Just like most people end up realizing that hiring a plumber saves them time and money, hiring team members will save you time and money in your business. In this episode, you’ll get:Why you should hire your first team member before you think you’re readyHow to calculate the actual cost of NOT hiring5 Multiplier Max questions every CEO needs to ask before making a hiring decisionThe vision that turns you from anxious to confident when hiring The exact strategy successful businesses use to test a new hire’s skills (while treating them as a valuable team member)And you’ll hear why hiring a single team member will change your business forever.  ****Connect with WinstonLinkedIn     https://www.linkedin.com/in/winstonfaircloth/Facebook   https://www.facebook.com/forloveofteamInstagram   https://www.instagram.com/forloveofteam/Twitter        https://twitter.com/forloveofteamText us feedback on this episode #TeamLOVE Book. Join the bold book writing journey as we write and share our first draft chapters from our upcoming book - Team Love: 28 Ways to Demonstrate Caring at Work here in season 3 of the For Love of Team podcast. Be notified each week about a new episode and follow our journey at TeamLoveBook.com

Whether it’s a home improvement weekend adventure, a quick renovation, or flooring or paint refresh, Americans love DIY projects. In fact, in 2020 the total sales of all 3 types of home improvement stores totaled more than $450 billion dollars.And HGTV’s website attracts an average of 10.2 million visitors each month.That’s a lot of DIY!But when it comes to your business, trying to DIY-ing it is holding you back.You’ll get further, faster, when you build a team. And you may be thinking that you aren’t ready yet for a team. Or that you aren’t sure how to best build your team. Or you may feel stuck because you aren’t sure who to hire next.In this episode, you’ll get:Why building a team is the best way to build your side hustle into a thriving businessThe assumptions you may be making about hiring that are holding you back 5 steps to go from struggling solopreneur to thriving team leader And, you’ll hear how continuing to DIY your business is the ultimate bottleneck to your business growth.****Connect with WinstonLinkedIn     https://www.linkedin.com/in/winstonfaircloth/Facebook   https://www.facebook.com/forloveofteamInstagram   https://www.instagram.com/forloveofteam/Twitter        https://twitter.com/forloveofteamText us feedback on this episode #TeamLOVE Book. Join the bold book writing journey as we write and share our first draft chapters from our upcoming book - Team Love: 28 Ways to Demonstrate Caring at Work here in season 3 of the For Love of Team podcast. Be notified each week about a new episode and follow our journey at TeamLoveBook.com

It’s easy for businesses to get caught up in the day-to-day and not look at the current trends and how things are shifting and changing. But when that happens, big names like Blockbuster and Kodak go the way of dinosaurs and buffalo. To stay current, you have to be aware of fundamental shifts in how businesses operate. And one of the most significant is the move away from traditional leadership and management with employees and staff to integrated teams - whether you’re working with W2s or 1099s.And while the common phrase is “there’s no ‘i’ in team” there’s a lot more to consider when building For Love Of Team. In this episode, you’ll get:The 2 “i” words that are critical for a team to succeedA surprising glue that keeps a team togetherHow your language about leadership may be stopping you from building a team you loveWhy focusing your intention on this one thing is the key to your business growth2 unique tools to build For Love of TeamAnd, you’ll hear how the tools we’ve developed help founders craft a vision for success and identify the team that helps them get there.If you’re ready to get started on The Team Map™ Journey, send me an email at  [email protected] with the Subject Line: FLOT Tracker. Or text me with the words FLOT Tracker to my personal number: 1-754-800-9461. ****Connect with WinstonLinkedIn     https://www.linkedin.com/in/winstonfaircloth/Facebook   https://www.facebook.com/forloveofteamInstagram   https://www.instagram.com/forloveofteam/Twitter        https://twitter.com/forloveofteamText us feedback on this episode #TeamLOVE Book. Join the bold book writing journey as we write and share our first draft chapters from our upcoming book - Team Love: 28 Ways to Demonstrate Caring at Work here in season 3 of the For Love of Team podcast. Be notified each week about a new episode and follow our journey at TeamLoveBook.com

There are around 400,000 different flowering plants, over 60,000 tree species, and 8.7 million species of animals! Clearly God designed, created, and appreciates variety. All too often in business, though, new employees get hired based on cultural fit which can lead to hiring team members who think the same, act the same, have similar experiences, and agree with each other. But when team members are hired for the culture “add” of bringing more variety to the workplace it benefits everyone.In this episode, you’ll get:What you need to unlearn to build For Love of TeamHow to fund a teamBest practices when hiring team members 4 questions to hire for cultural fit The answers you should look forAnd you’ll hear the specific differences between cultural fit and cultural add and how you can use that to build a team you love.****Connect with WinstonLinkedIn     https://www.linkedin.com/in/winstonfaircloth/Facebook   https://www.facebook.com/forloveofteamInstagram   https://www.instagram.com/forloveofteam/Twitter        https://twitter.com/forloveofteamText us feedback on this episode #TeamLOVE Book. Join the bold book writing journey as we write and share our first draft chapters from our upcoming book - Team Love: 28 Ways to Demonstrate Caring at Work here in season 3 of the For Love of Team podcast. Be notified each week about a new episode and follow our journey at TeamLoveBook.com

The 1980s were filled with money-hungry firms who were getting rich at all costs. As my podcast guest, Craig Wood, mentions in our interview, that was reflected in the entertainment of the time. Like fictional Wall Street character, Gordon Gekko, who famously stated, “Greed is good.” But Craig’s father-in-law, Jim, wanted to do things differently. He and his wife, Dune, started Premier International, a software consulting company rooted in ethics and built on relationships. They hired college graduates, trained them in the Premier way, and trusted that doing the right thing for their employees and their clients would work.And it did.For about 34 years. Then Jim passed away in 2018 and everyone wondered what would happen next.Craig was asked to take the helm and continue the Premier legacy.That’s an honor Craig doesn’t take lightly. And over the past 3 years, he’s seen how the employee-first AND client-first mentality has built a culture that’s been successful and sustainable.In this episode, you’ll get:The challenge of continuing a business after the founder has passed awayHow the founders were ahead of their time on their views of team The impact COVID has had on their business - and how they’ve benefitted from the change Why you want to hire for culture add and not just culture fitHow Premier is using the EOS (Entrepreneurial Operating System) to continuously learn and improveWhy having a lens of gratitude changes your entire mindset and can change your entire business And you’ll hear Craig mention how love can be a 4-letter word in the business world and he views For Love of Team.Connect with Craig and Premier International here:Website: www.premier-international.comThe Premier Way (values): https://www.premier-international.com/about-us/valuesLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/craigmwood/Twitter: @craigmwood****Connect with WinstonLinkedIn     https://www.linkedin.com/in/winstonfaircloth/Facebook   https://www.facebook.com/forloveofteamInstagram   https://www.instagram.com/forloveofteam/Twitter        https://twitter.com/forloveofteamText us feedback on this episode #TeamLOVE Book. Join the bold book writing journey as we write and share our first draft chapters from our upcoming book - Team Love: 28 Ways to Demonstrate Caring at Work here in season 3 of the For Love of Team podcast. Be notified each week about a new episode and follow our journey at TeamLoveBook.com

Did you start your business to keep track of the bookkeeping? Or to become a marketing expert? Or write all the copy? Or maybe you looked forward to taking care of the mail and holding meetings? Probably not. If I had to guess, I’d say that you started your business because you were passionate about providing a product or service that you love.But then you discovered that running a business is so much more than just fulfilling the services you offer. And now you may be feeling stuck. You’d like to do more, serve more, make a bigger impact but you feel like you’re on a hamster wheel running faster and faster without getting anywhere. In this episode, you’ll get:Why delegation doesn’t workHow changing your perspective to collaboration gives you better results4 steps to identifying collaboration opportunities in your businessBonus: A copy of the exact Google spreadsheet I use for the exercise we’ll go through together on the podcastWhy grading your activity is critical to collaboration The outsourcing option that gets you the biggest ROI  And, you’ll hear how to determine what holding on to these tasks is costing you and how you can change it.When you grade your activities, here are the ratings you’ll use:N - NOVICE.  These are tasks you don’t do well at all.  You’d need to research HOW to do this work.  It causes you stress, you feel incompetent, it causes stress and conflict.  The learning curve is likely steep.  You either avoid these or you judge these purely not worth your time.  S - SKILLED.  You can get the task done, you’re proficient especially in a pinch,  evaluate yourself as adequate.  Others could do this task much better and with less effort.  These feel repetitive, monotonous.  Overall, feels draining and blocks your growth and that of your business. E - EXCELS. You have great skill at this. Your team, even your business, counts on you to deliver in this area. You perform these tasks better than most others.  Yet, it lacks spark or energy for you. While checking the box has some satisfaction, working in this area is not very rewarding to you and doesn’t support your growth. You may even feel trapped or captive to these tasks, keeping you from doing the fun stuff.  G - GIFTED.  Of all of the items on your checklist, these are your favs. If we had heart emojis on the tracker, they’d earn the love.  You do these exceedingly well and love to do them. These are the tasks that fuel your passion, accelerate your impact and you feel in your flow or in the Zone. Time flies by when you are doing these. In fact, you love this work so much, you’d do it even without pay. Most importantly, you are fascinated by this and always are striving to grow and improve in this area.  ****Connect with WinstonLinkedIn     https://www.linkedin.com/in/winstonfaircloth/Facebook   https://www.facebook.com/forloveofteamInstagram   https://www.instagram.com/forloveofteam/Twitter        https://twitter.com/forloveofteamText us feedback on this episode #TeamLOVE Book. Join the bold book writing journey as we write and share our first draft chapters from our upcoming book - Team Love: 28 Ways to Demonstrate Caring at Work here in season 3 of the For Love of Team podcast. Be notified each week about a new episode and follow our journey at TeamLoveBook.com

From movies to concerts or sports - everywhere you look in the field of entertainment, you see how specialists come together to create a whole that’s better than its parts. Those specialists aren’t order-takers. They’re captains of their own work...even when that work is part of someone else’s whole. When leaders forget that, chaos ensues.This week’s podcast episode explores the mistake most leaders make when they delegate (a word I believe should never be spoken again) and what they should do instead to build a business they love, supported by a team they love. In this episode, you’ll get:Why most leaders fail to successfully delegate workThe 2 sides of delegation - and how neither of them workHow collaboration creates impact for a businessWhat most business owners are doing wrong when it comes to making hiring decisionsThe 3 questions that need your laser focus to build a business you loveAnd...when you have a business you love, supported by a team you love, that’s For Love Of Team.****Connect with WinstonLinkedIn     https://www.linkedin.com/in/winstonfaircloth/Facebook   https://www.facebook.com/forloveofteamInstagram   https://www.instagram.com/forloveofteam/Twitter        https://twitter.com/forloveofteamText us feedback on this episode #TeamLOVE Book. Join the bold book writing journey as we write and share our first draft chapters from our upcoming book - Team Love: 28 Ways to Demonstrate Caring at Work here in season 3 of the For Love of Team podcast. Be notified each week about a new episode and follow our journey at TeamLoveBook.com

You can find all kinds of leadership quotes that talk about being a captain. And there’s some truth in most of them but a pithy quote doesn’t capture all of the critical aspects of becoming a captain in your business. As you grow in your leadership journey you may find yourself on the same journey as many of my clients - sailing from captive to captain. If you want to grow your business and, at the same time, multiply your impact, income, margin and freedom, it’s time to take the wheel.Join me in this podcast episode, to get:What being captive feels likeHow it feels to be captain of your businessThe questions I ask to guide clients from captive to captainWhat procrastination is telling you and how to harness its powerThe exact homework assignment I give clients to get to the root of problem What you can do today to move forward in your business and identify how a team can help you sail with easeAnd, you’ll hear how a conversation with me about your business has the potential to get you started on your journey to captain...with calmer seas than you were expecting.****Connect with WinstonLinkedIn     https://www.linkedin.com/in/winstonfaircloth/Facebook   https://www.facebook.com/forloveofteamInstagram   https://www.instagram.com/forloveofteam/Twitter        https://twitter.com/forloveofteamText us feedback on this episode #TeamLOVE Book. Join the bold book writing journey as we write and share our first draft chapters from our upcoming book - Team Love: 28 Ways to Demonstrate Caring at Work here in season 3 of the For Love of Team podcast. Be notified each week about a new episode and follow our journey at TeamLoveBook.com

When your organization is tasked with taking care of the community’s needs, it seems obvious where your focus should be.But listen to my conversation with Matthew Purkey, CEO of United Way of Allen County, and his For Love of Team story and you’ll hear some surprising things.“Instead of focusing on all the community needs, I focused on the team and the team took care of the community needs.”That sounds like For Love of Team to me!Tune into this episode and you’ll get:The 2 surprising leadership options a teacher gave Matthew The lessons from serving in the Marine Corps that easily translated to civilian lifeThe cliche business word that actually drives leadership excellence How overcomplicating our work can lead to crisisWhat you need to focus on for long-term successHow serving our team internally led to massive outward resultsWhy measuring success might be the wrong measure in your businessListening to the community and telling the community are 2 different thingsWhy you never want to say, “I wasn’t here when that decision was made”How to clearly communicate the organization’s priorities to the teamHaving a big “why” is critical for mission successMoving beyond transactions to relationshipsAnd you’ll hear the For Love of Team retreat options and why making the investment today will serve you for years to come.***Connect with WinstonLinkedIn     https://www.linkedin.com/in/winstonfaircloth/Facebook   https://www.facebook.com/forloveofteamInstagram   https://www.instagram.com/forloveofteam/Twitter        https://twitter.com/forloveofteamText us feedback on this episode #TeamLOVE Book. Join the bold book writing journey as we write and share our first draft chapters from our upcoming book - Team Love: 28 Ways to Demonstrate Caring at Work here in season 3 of the For Love of Team podcast. Be notified each week about a new episode and follow our journey at TeamLoveBook.com

Business owners don’t start a business because they love running a business; they start a business because they love providing a specific product or service and want the freedom that comes with being their own boss.  All too quickly, the demands of running a business overwhelm the joy of providing the product or service. This is where many business owners burn out and hit the wall. You can’t make more money or have more time because you’re doing everything yourself, or your customers aren’t being taken care of because your team is non-existent. Or you put off building a team and now you’re scrambling to cobble one together but you don’t have a solid plan because you never really believed your team wouldn’t just be a headache in your business.  Those are the same scenarios I hear over and over again from business owners.In this episode, you’ll get:The 3 steps you need to take to move from captive to captain of your businessWho you might think you’re competing with and who you actually areHow you can get time to relax, renew, and refocus on building a business AND a team you will absolutely love The opportunity for a small group intensive experience to transform your businessHow having the right roadmap can turn confusion into confidenceAnd you’ll hear the For Love of Team retreat options and why making the investment today will serve you for years to come.****Connect with WinstonLinkedIn     https://www.linkedin.com/in/winstonfaircloth/Facebook   https://www.facebook.com/forloveofteamInstagram   https://www.instagram.com/forloveofteam/Twitter        https://twitter.com/forloveofteamText us feedback on this episode #TeamLOVE Book. Join the bold book writing journey as we write and share our first draft chapters from our upcoming book - Team Love: 28 Ways to Demonstrate Caring at Work here in season 3 of the For Love of Team podcast. Be notified each week about a new episode and follow our journey at TeamLoveBook.com

In this episode, Team Klinck’s Bobby Klinck and Katie Chase join me for the second half of our conversation about building a team you love.The 3 of us tackle the big question about what is your purpose in your life and how does that relate to running a business. And we look at how Team Klinck is promoting a counter-intuitive “Serve First” philosophy and, while that could be seen as a sales tactic, it has already made HUGE ripple effects in and on their community.In addition to the prank they pulled on their audience during their live event, in this conversation, you’ll also get:How Bobby’s dad modeled true marketing When there’s no “catch” and how that confuses peopleThe key to connect with your audience and with your team that drives your successHow going against what everyone else is doing may be the perfect way to grow your business What business decisions make team members proud to be part of the teamWhen going all-in makes the difference between an offer succeeding or notHow the leader/founder views the team is critical to the success of the teamAnd when all the pieces come together you can see magic happen.****Connect with WinstonLinkedIn     https://www.linkedin.com/in/winstonfaircloth/Facebook   https://www.facebook.com/forloveofteamInstagram   https://www.instagram.com/forloveofteam/Twitter        https://twitter.com/forloveofteamText us feedback on this episode #TeamLOVE Book. Join the bold book writing journey as we write and share our first draft chapters from our upcoming book - Team Love: 28 Ways to Demonstrate Caring at Work here in season 3 of the For Love of Team podcast. Be notified each week about a new episode and follow our journey at TeamLoveBook.com

Ever heard: “When people pay, they pay attention” or “The transformation is in the transaction”? That’s just one of the myths that we’re busting in the next 2 episodes of For Love of Team. I’m joined by the powerhouse duo of Team Klinck - Bobby Klinck and Katie Chase.  Bobby is the founder/visionary and Katie is the integrator and team lead for the business.The three of us take a deep dive into everything team - including the 2 different times Bobby’s peers told him that he was making a big mistake in who he hired and how he paid them...and what happened when he ignored them all.And we explore how Bobby and Katie work together to develop a team of individuals who are excited to work for Team Klinck, are proud of the work they’re doing, and who support the vision wholeheartedly. In this conversation, you’ll get:One way online marketers have been playing a never-ending game of “telephone” and how you can stop itThe joy of building a team you love when the “puzzle pieces just fit together” The answer to the age-old question of the chicken or the egg when it’s time to build your teamExactly how the visionary and integrator work together to build and integrate the teamHow the best team members support each other to focus on the vision and feel safe at work When to go against common wisdom to grow your businessThe ONE word you have to coach your team to use!What happens when your team isn’t just a cog in the business but is actually part of itThe 3 personalities that you need in a businessCore values aren’t just about how you run your business and what offers you have...it’s also how you treat each otherAnd, tune in next week to hear about how Bobby pranked his entire audience during his live event and what happened afterward.Link:  BobbyKlinck.com****Connect with WinstonLinkedIn     https://www.linkedin.com/in/winstonfaircloth/Facebook   https://www.facebook.com/forloveofteamInstagram   https://www.instagram.com/forloveofteam/Twitter        https://twitter.com/forloveofteamText us feedback on this episode #TeamLOVE Book. Join the bold book writing journey as we write and share our first draft chapters from our upcoming book - Team Love: 28 Ways to Demonstrate Caring at Work here in season 3 of the For Love of Team podcast. Be notified each week about a new episode and follow our journey at TeamLoveBook.com

Tampa Bay. In years past no one would’ve predicted that my new hometown would be a championship city like it is today. With winning hockey, baseball, and football teams, this has been a fantastic 5 months of sports!  Whether you are a sports fan or not, those championship teams also have winning leadership and business lessons.In this episode, you’ll get:The dark side of blindly believing business mantrasThe leadership insights you can take from #ChampaBay3 Lessons every champion needs to learnHow a daily text message created a championship mindsetOne reason LOVE drives results And, you’ll hear the secret to Super Bowl Success that you can apply in your business TODAY.****Connect with WinstonLinkedIn     https://www.linkedin.com/in/winstonfaircloth/Facebook   https://www.facebook.com/forloveofteamInstagram   https://www.instagram.com/forloveofteam/Twitter        https://twitter.com/forloveofteamText us feedback on this episode #TeamLOVE Book. Join the bold book writing journey as we write and share our first draft chapters from our upcoming book - Team Love: 28 Ways to Demonstrate Caring at Work here in season 3 of the For Love of Team podcast. Be notified each week about a new episode and follow our journey at TeamLoveBook.com

Scroll through your favorite social media platform feed and you’ll find an unusually high percentage of perfectly arranged bookcases in the background, funny pets, and selfies captured with ideal lighting. Curated images.  No one else sees the hundreds of deleted images taken and discarded before the “right” one shows up in your feed.  It’s simple to present a polished image online...and all too easy to believe that if you just tried a little harder, pushed a little farther, hustled a little longer, you’d have the same magic unicorn success as the gurus whose ads show up over and over again. But no magic pills, potions, or unicorns will lead to success if you aren’t leading your team with the right heart. That’s why in this episode, you’ll get:The true confessions of a Level 2 Leader Why “the customer is always right” may be dead wrongHow knowing the 3 levels of leaders may prevent burnout and chaos...and knowing that means you can take advantage of it today WHAT the two main roles in every business are, how they intersect and the exact question each one needs to take 100% responsibility for   Three characteristics every successful leader needs to embracePlus how it all works together as a solid foundation for building and keeping a team you love.****Connect with WinstonLinkedIn     https://www.linkedin.com/in/winstonfaircloth/Facebook   https://www.facebook.com/forloveofteamInstagram   https://www.instagram.com/forloveofteam/Twitter        https://twitter.com/forloveofteamText us feedback on this episode #TeamLOVE Book. Join the bold book writing journey as we write and share our first draft chapters from our upcoming book - Team Love: 28 Ways to Demonstrate Caring at Work here in season 3 of the For Love of Team podcast. Be notified each week about a new episode and follow our journey at TeamLoveBook.com

Teams. Building a team. Managing a team. Delegating tasks or projects to a team member. Finding and hiring a team member. When you hear those words and phrases, what pops into your mind?If you’re like most solopreneurs or entrepreneurs that have a small team, you probably struggle to get excited about having or growing a team. It may sound like more trouble than it’s worth. You may wonder if it’ll even be worth it. And, if you’ve had a bad experience before, you may question how or why it’ll be different this time.  Which is why I’m so excited about this week’s podcast episode! In this episode, you’ll get:Why knowing the 3 levels of leaders may prevent burnout and chaos...and how you can take advantage of it today Three characteristics every successful leader needs to embraceThe four simple steps to simplify your business How to evaluate your activities to know EXACTLY what to changeWhat the two main roles in every business are, HOW they intersect and WHAT each one needs to take 100% responsibility for   And, how that all works together is the solid foundation for building and keeping a team you love.****Connect with WinstonLinkedIn     https://www.linkedin.com/in/winstonfaircloth/Facebook   https://www.facebook.com/forloveofteamInstagram   https://www.instagram.com/forloveofteam/Twitter        https://twitter.com/forloveofteamText us feedback on this episode #TeamLOVE Book. Join the bold book writing journey as we write and share our first draft chapters from our upcoming book - Team Love: 28 Ways to Demonstrate Caring at Work here in season 3 of the For Love of Team podcast. Be notified each week about a new episode and follow our journey at TeamLoveBook.com

For some the college experience is filled with parties and fun while for others it’s a grind of school work and studying. For me, it was an exciting opportunity to pave the way as the only male in an all-female freshman dorm! As the Head Resident the position wasn’t as much fun-and-games as it was leading, inspiring, and guiding. And a big part of that was building and leading a team of 6 female RAs who eagerly embraced their mission to make freshman year unforgettable and rewarding for all the incoming freshman girls in our dorm.   Those leadership lessons I learned on the College of William and Mary campus have stayed with me as I’ve worked within the teams others built and went on to build businesses and teams myself.In this episode of the podcast, you’ll hear:The EXACT leadership lesson I’ve had to relearn over and over again and I’m sharing it with you so you learn from my experience2 questions that are 100% your responsibilityOne question you should NEVER spend another moment on Why most leaders can’t attract and keep A+ team players and how you can And so much more!Leaders Simplify Teamwork and focusing on the right questions helps you grow For Love of Team™. ****Connect with WinstonLinkedIn     https://www.linkedin.com/in/winstonfaircloth/Facebook   https://www.facebook.com/forloveofteamInstagram   https://www.instagram.com/forloveofteam/Twitter        https://twitter.com/forloveofteamText us feedback on this episode #TeamLOVE Book. Join the bold book writing journey as we write and share our first draft chapters from our upcoming book - Team Love: 28 Ways to Demonstrate Caring at Work here in season 3 of the For Love of Team podcast. Be notified each week about a new episode and follow our journey at TeamLoveBook.com

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.  --Hans Hofman.In our noisy world, it’s all too easy to allow the unnecessary to gain control of our businesses and of our lives. But a big part of leadership is being self-aware and that awareness can help you see what is necessary. We believe that one thing that’s necessary is:Leaders Simplify Teamwork. After focusing on Leaders, Leadership, and how to be a Level 3 Leader for the last couple of episodes, today we’re moving to the second pillar of Simplify.As Hans Hofman said, we need to simplify so that the necessary can speak. In our businesses, that’s our mission, vision, and impact. You’ll want to grab a pen and paper to take notes as you listen in to:A brief recap of the characteristics you want to model to be a great leaderThe fastest way to build a team you loveHow the power of simplicity turned a recent retreat into a “wow” experience The 4 steps to SIMPLIFYING your business, including a foundational evaluation that you’ll want to return to again and again as you grow and scale your businessThe breakdown of the 4 steps are the perfect way to implement Leaders Simplify Teamwork so you can build an amazing team.***Connect with WinstonLinkedIn     https://www.linkedin.com/in/winstonfaircloth/Facebook   https://www.facebook.com/forloveofteamInstagram   https://www.instagram.com/forloveofteam/Twitter        https://twitter.com/forloveofteamText us feedback on this episode #TeamLOVE Book. Join the bold book writing journey as we write and share our first draft chapters from our upcoming book - Team Love: 28 Ways to Demonstrate Caring at Work here in season 3 of the For Love of Team podcast. Be notified each week about a new episode and follow our journey at TeamLoveBook.com

You can’t help but be aware of the leadership, lack of leadership, and the leadership inconsistencies that we’ve seen recently here in America.  Regardless of where you are on the political spectrum (or political awareness spectrum), the recent events have been part of everyone’s consciousness. I’m not talking politics in this episode but we can all take leadership lessons from the events that have occurred.This week, you don’t want to miss diving into:Who you have to lead first to be successfulThe question of whether mastery is attainableA surprising twist to looking at richness in businessHow love actually is leadershipWhy being called to be generous isn’t necessarily talking about moneyAnd, you’ll hear how exemplifying the characteristics of a Level 3 Leader can transform your business...and, dare I say, the world?*** Connect with WinstonLinkedIn     https://www.linkedin.com/in/winstonfaircloth/Facebook   https://www.facebook.com/forloveofteamInstagram   https://www.instagram.com/forloveofteam/Twitter        https://twitter.com/forloveofteamText us feedback on this episode #TeamLOVE Book. Join the bold book writing journey as we write and share our first draft chapters from our upcoming book - Team Love: 28 Ways to Demonstrate Caring at Work here in season 3 of the For Love of Team podcast. Be notified each week about a new episode and follow our journey at TeamLoveBook.com

Have you ever picked up an old business book from the shelves of a library or a used book store and tried to read it? In the words of a famous ad, “You’ve come a long way, baby.” What we think of as effective management has changed over the years. From the psychology of motivation to new technology and, especially today, with our remote workplaces, what worked “back then” isn’t effective today. Today’s leaders need to shift their mindset and their practices to build a sustainable, thriving, business. Level 3 leaders make those shifts. There are 3 words that describe the journey of a Level 3 Leader: Leaders, Simplify, and Teamwork. Regardless of where you are on your own leadership journey, this episode will give you food for thought about changes to make in your business.Listen in to hear:Why self-awareness is the key to business successWhat your most precious resource is and how to spend it wiselyThe 2 extremes that kill our business processes What you need to unify your teamThe best tool to maximize your team’s effortsAnd I share the secret to business success that I found after 40 years of leading teams.*** Connect with WinstonLinkedIn     https://www.linkedin.com/in/winstonfaircloth/Facebook   https://www.facebook.com/forloveofteamInstagram   https://www.instagram.com/forloveofteam/Twitter        https://twitter.com/forloveofteamText us feedback on this episode #TeamLOVE Book. Join the bold book writing journey as we write and share our first draft chapters from our upcoming book - Team Love: 28 Ways to Demonstrate Caring at Work here in season 3 of the For Love of Team podcast. Be notified each week about a new episode and follow our journey at TeamLoveBook.com

A false choice can be defined as something that you have to pick between...something that looks like an either/or situation when, in reality, it’s a both/and opportunity instead.   Growing a business has a multitude of moments like that. You find yourself facing a choice and only see 2 options but, often, it isn’t just 2 options...there’s more choices than what you first see. There are 3 pillars of growing a mission-based business. Many business owners mistake those pillars as either/or choices instead of seeing them as both/and opportunities. Join me in this episode, where you’ll get:The most dangerous time in the growth stages of a businessWhy throwing money at the problem doesn’t solve itThe needed mindset shift to achieve team building success A simple question that horrified my successful business mentorsMy personal story where a single comment changed everything for my familyAnd, you’ll hear how cultivating a healthy respect (and dare I say, love) for all 3 pillars is the key to being ready...****Connect with WinstonLinkedIn     https://www.linkedin.com/in/winstonfaircloth/Facebook   https://www.facebook.com/forloveofteamInstagram   https://www.instagram.com/forloveofteam/Twitter        https://twitter.com/forloveofteamText us feedback on this episode #TeamLOVE Book. Join the bold book writing journey as we write and share our first draft chapters from our upcoming book - Team Love: 28 Ways to Demonstrate Caring at Work here in season 3 of the For Love of Team podcast. Be notified each week about a new episode and follow our journey at TeamLoveBook.com

The year of 2020 was supposed to be one of perfect vision and clarity. But we ended up with “pandemic,” “unprecedented,” and new phrases like “social distancing” and “Don’t forget your mask.” Twenty years ago, no one could have predicted that 2020 would end this way. But I wasn’t even focused that far into the future. I was too busy founding and building a social enterprise business that grew to a $4.5 million dollar revolutionary business. And that’s the same business I left 5 years ago after I fired myself. If you missed that story, you can catch up on podcast episode 61.  That business was also the location of the biggest failure of my career and is the same thing that I’d bet is the biggest challenge for you as your business begins to flourish.In this episode, you’ll get:What keeps your business mission-driven without burn-outA counterintuitive way to look at the stages of business growthThe challenge with loving an idea or product The problem when you can’t take care of your clients by yourself any longer3 steps to SIMPLIFYING your businessAnd, you’ll hear the For Love of Team mission and how we can help you during the next 25 years...with perfect vision and clarity.***Connect with WinstonLinkedIn     https://www.linkedin.com/in/winstonfaircloth/Facebook   https://www.facebook.com/forloveofteamInstagram   https://www.instagram.com/forloveofteam/Twitter        https://twitter.com/forloveofteamText us feedback on this episode #TeamLOVE Book. Join the bold book writing journey as we write and share our first draft chapters from our upcoming book - Team Love: 28 Ways to Demonstrate Caring at Work here in season 3 of the For Love of Team podcast. Be notified each week about a new episode and follow our journey at TeamLoveBook.com

Public speaking. A favorite assignment for many people. Right?!?How about presenting an unscripted, unrehearsed 18 minute keynote speech without notes?  On a topic you just decided upon last night?   In front of your peers, being videotaped and critiqued in real time?  Welcome to season 2. Episode 61 of the newly renamed For Love of Team podcast.  It’s the #BeginAgain moment for the podcast.That was me a few months ago at my friend Kent Julian’s Speak it Forward bootcamp.  I began the keynote with a story about my dream business.  A service born out of necessity.  Reaching multi-million dollar status. Employing team members across 10 different states.  Enjoying a reputation for excellent customer service.  Growing market share.  Paradise, right? There was a dark side. One I share during this keynote.  Yet delivering  this speech gave me another unexpected benefit.  An insight about other businesses which ultimately fail to meet their potential.  So, let’s take you to that keynote, a few months ago outside of Atlanta.  The precise moment when For Love of Team was born.  Listen in to hear the first time I ever publicly said…“I fired myself.”The podcast also reveals: My first entrepreneurial venture and how I got my sister to pay a nickel to read her own bookThe leadership lessons I learned along my own journeyThe key role each leader needs to ensure they’re getting and also filling for othersWhat’s worse than an ill-equipped leader and how to avoid itHow God directed me to 1 Corinthians 13 and opened my eyes to For Love of Team The one surprising thing every leader needs to do to multiply their impact And so much more.***Connect with WinstonLinkedIn     https://www.linkedin.com/in/winstonfaircloth/Facebook   https://www.facebook.com/forloveofteamInstagram   https://www.instagram.com/forloveofteam/Twitter        https://twitter.com/forloveofteam***Subscribe and leave a review  with your favorite podcast player Apple PodcastsSpotifyStitcherGoogle PodcastsOr your favorite playerText us feedback on this episode #TeamLOVE Book. Join the bold book writing journey as we write and share our first draft chapters from our upcoming book - Team Love: 28 Ways to Demonstrate Caring at Work here in season 3 of the For Love of Team podcast. Be notified each week about a new episode and follow our journey at TeamLoveBook.com