Kindness by Design
Randall McNeely
KINDNESS INFLUENCER | EXECUTIVE PRODUCER - THE KINDNESS FACTOR | KEYNOTE SPEAKER| KINDNESS WORLDWIDE AMBASSADOR | AUTHOR | KINDNESS HABIT NEWSLETTER | LET'S CONNECT TODAY! | SCROLL DOWN TO FOLLOW MY POSTS.
? Personal and Professional Take away - It's systems that make the difference. Learning a system and implementing it to create a repeatable, ingrained Kindness Habit will produce the desired results.
SHOUT OUTS
I'm all about shouting out about great books I've read. Today I'll share two more.
First, a shout out to David J. Friedman , CEO at CultureWise . Well really two shout outs - one for his book Culture by Design: 8 simple steps to drive better organizational performance, and one for the second edition, Culture by Design: How to Build a High-Performing Culture, Even in the New Remote Work Environment.
The first book offers a practical guidance for designing a lasting organizational culture, one that will be around for decades. The second book builds on that, more fully introducing what the author calls the Culturewise cultural operating system, and adds in specific guidance for building a thriving, high-performing culture even if your organization is mixed with both remote and in-office workers or fully remote.
David Friedman is an excellent story teller and his engaging writing style will keep your attention riveted as you read. His system has been used by hundreds of companies to build thriving cultures. His deliberate design has highly influenced my thinking (more on that later). I highly recommend both books you can get them at the links shown above.
My second shout out is to James Clear groundbreaking author of Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones.
Mr. Clear shares his powerful daily improvement framework, years in the making, that has helped him and millions of others to create powerful habits and the systems around them to produce tremendous results. The author shares events from his personal life, including getting drilled in the head with a baseball bat and all the difficult work and effort that went in to recovering from that challenge. It is that work and effort that led him down the atomic habit road that was the inspiration for his book.
I found the book engaging, powerful and tremendously insightful. As I've striven to apply what I've learned, I have already started reaping the benefits and I am confident you will too. Highly recommended reading.
Kindness by Design.
As I indicated, David J. Friedman 's writing greatly influenced my thinking. Total transparency, I am a huge CultureWise fan. I advocate for them everywhere I can. I am not under any contract to do so. I do it because in all the research I have done on how to build a positive, thriving culture in your organization, I have yet to come across a better system for identifying and ingraining specific behaviors that intentionally create a lasting, thriving environment that acts as magnet for top talent.
Systems Make the Difference
Notice my use of the word "system." Culturewise has created a cultural operating system that empowers organizations to tailor and design a culture attracts and retains top talent. It also enables organizations to attract and retain great customers and turns them in to raving fans that are happy to spread the word about them.
It is systems, as James Clear points out in Atomic Habits that make the difference.
Goals are about the results you want to achieve. Systems are about the processes that lead to those results.
Clear, James. Atomic Habits (p. 23). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
NOTE: To be clear, I AM NOT saying goals don't matter. What I am saying is that you won't achieve them if you don't have a solid system in place to attaining them.
The end goal for the Kindness Habit is to create and maintain the powerful, trustworthy relationships that enable an enhanced personal and professional culture which is the keystone of all personal and professional success.
In Culture by Design David Friedman introduces an 8 step framework, or system, for creating a thriving culture.
This is basically the same system, with some slight changes, that I use to teach how to use the kindness habit to intentionally create your personal and professional kindness cultures. Below are the Kindness habit systems
Personal Kindness Habit System
Professional Kindness Habit Value and Appreciation System
Those are the outline steps for a system that anyone can use to ingrain the kindness habit that will create a thriving personal and professional culture.
Why Bother?
That's a question worth answering. In short, building the kindness habit and ingraining it personally and professionally will result in increased, richer, and more powerfully trustworthy relationships - the kind that always lead to an increased bottom line. Over the next few weeks I'll walk you through the system to give you insight in to how it can work to your benefit.
What's Next
I've just given you a lot of food for thought. There is a lot of effort that goes into creating the system that will produce broad rewards through through powerful and trustworthy relationships that will come. It isn't possible to cover what needs to be covered in a single news letter.
Join me over the next few weeks on a journey through the Kindness Habit system. I can promise you it will be a valuable use of your time.
Until next week. Remember to embrace kindness - it does everybody good!
THIS WRITING FOR THIS ARTICLE IS 100% HUMAN GENERATED.
About Randy
Randall McNeely is a passionate advocate for kindness and the transformative power it can have in our lives.
He is the author of multiple books including The Kindness Givers' Formula 2.0: A 5-Step Guide to Reaching Hearts, Inspiring Change, and Healing the World Through Love, and The Kindness Library Volume 1: Inspiring True Stories of the Transformative Power of Kindness.
Randy speaks about and teaches how to lead with kindness to bring out the best in others and get fantastic results.
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GREAT stuff - Thanks - in addition to "kindess......will result in increased, richer, and more powerfully trustworthy relationships - the kind that always lead to an increased bottom line." Your mental health will improve significantly. Taking or receiving may give you temporary pleasure. Giving can give you joy.
KINDNESS INFLUENCER | EXECUTIVE PRODUCER - THE KINDNESS FACTOR | KEYNOTE SPEAKER| KINDNESS WORLDWIDE AMBASSADOR | AUTHOR | KINDNESS HABIT NEWSLETTER | LET'S CONNECT TODAY! | SCROLL DOWN TO FOLLOW MY POSTS.
12 个月Julie Hruska, Kon Apostolopoulos, Zack Demopoulos, Elia Gourgouris Ph.D., Gordon Roesler, Brad Aronson Jenny Haase Does having a system for ingraining a behaviors that show value and appreciation matter personally and/or professionally? If so, why? If not, why not? What are your thoughts?
KINDNESS INFLUENCER | EXECUTIVE PRODUCER - THE KINDNESS FACTOR | KEYNOTE SPEAKER| KINDNESS WORLDWIDE AMBASSADOR | AUTHOR | KINDNESS HABIT NEWSLETTER | LET'S CONNECT TODAY! | SCROLL DOWN TO FOLLOW MY POSTS.
12 个月Thank you Raquel "Raqi" Flores, Terrance E. Stock, Nicole Glocke and Diego Cruvinel Saboia for stopping by my post. Here's a question for you: Does having a system for ingraining a behaviors that show value and appreciation matter personally and/or professionally? If so, why? If not, why not? What are your thoughts?