Guest Bruce Tunnicliffe of VEI Contracting shares his insights on effective leadership, emphasizing the importance of communication and vision in leading a team. Bruce highlights the importance of task management, delegation, and fostering a positive culture. Host Christi Scarrow added to this by emphasizing the need for open communication and a supportive leadership style in navigating toxic workplace cultures and leading growing companies. Both speakers stressed the significance of a positive culture in achieving a well-functioning team and leader.

Action Items

-Discuss culture more with new hires to ensure they understand expectations around boundaries like the no email after hours policy.

-Work with individual team members to jointly define expectations and accountability, addressing any gray areas caused by evolving roles.

-Continually evaluate team members' strengths and passions to ensure they are optimally positioned.

Outline

Leadership lessons from his early career and the importance of connecting to purpose..

-Bruce Tunnicliffe shares lessons from his 20+ year career, emphasizing the importance of communication and seeing the big picture.

-He how while doing his masters, his supervisor challenged him to think about the purpose in his writing. This has shaped how he leads others.

Leadership, culture, and delegation for high-performing teams.

-Bruce shares his perspective on effective leadership, prioritizing tasks, and delegation.

-He emphasizes the importance of identifying important and urgent tasks, and delegating non-urgent tasks to team members.

-Bruce emphasizes the importance of culture in a high-functioning team, citing open communication, mutual respect, and supportive leadership as key components.

-Christi Scarrow seeks advice on addressing a culture of "what have you done for me lately?" in a high-performing team, with a focus on managing up and creating a more supportive environment.

Workplace culture and leadership challenges in a growing company.

-Bruce shares how to Identify a problematic culture by understanding its impact on workplace morale and productivity.

-He encourages people to communicate concerns respectfully to promote positive change

-Bruce Tunnicliffe shares challenges of doubling in size, new people, and how to set guidelines for respectful working practices.

-Christi Scarrow agrees, highlighting leadership growth and potential new challenges.

Leading and managing a growing team with accountability challenges.

-Bruce Tunnicliffe recognizes the struggle with accountability in a rapidly changing work environment.

-He encourages leaders to “know your people deeply to work with them individually in a growing environment.” and avoid structuring people too much, let them excel in their own way.

Leadership skills and self-awareness.

-Bruce Tunnicliffe advises self-reflection for those struggling in leadership positions, suggesting continual education and learning are important.

-Tunnicliffe believes in leveraging strengths, rather than improving weaknesses, for maximum success as a leader.

Useful Links

Host: Christi's Web Page

Guest: Vertex Environmental Inc.

Lighthouse NINE Group: Website

Contributors

Music: All The Fixings by Zachariah Hickman

Editing: tribe74