Welcome to the Faith Based Business Podcast with your host, Pastor Bob Thibodeau.
Pastor BobOn this podcast, we interview fellow entrepreneurs who are willing to share their stories, their trials, and their triumphs in business, all in an effort to help you avoid the same obstacles and to achieve success faster.
Pastor BobBut at all times, continue to rely on our faith to see us through to victory.
Pastor BobNow with today's guest, here is your host, Pastor Bob Thibodeau.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauHello, everyone, everywhere.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauPastor Robert Thibodeau here.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauWelcome to the Faith Based Business Podcast.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauWe are so blessed that you are joining us today.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauHave you ever wondered why some companies seem to effortlessly reach their goals while others struggle despite having all the right tools?
Pastor Robert ThibodeauThe answer often lies.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauAnd one of the most overlooked aspects of business success, company culture.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauIt's the invisible force that guides every decision and action.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauBut far too often, the culture we envision doesn't really match the reality we live every day.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauTo help us unravel this mystery and learn how you can shape and transform your company or your business culture to align with your vision, I'm excited to be joined again by Wayne Mullins, the founder of Ugly Bug Marketing.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauWayne's expertise goes far beyond just creating a nice website.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauHe and his team focus on helping you to achieve the results you want through effective marketing, social media, events, SEO, and much, much more.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauWayne Mullen and his team are always results oriented and everything that they do.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauThis is why they believe Ugly Mug marketing can help you build the business of your dreams too.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauAmen.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauWayne's also the author of the book Full Circle Marketing as well.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauPraise God.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauNow, if you're ready to learn how bridge that gap between where your company culture is and where it needs to be, this conversation is one you can't afford to miss.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauAmen.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauWith that being said, help me welcome back back to the program, Wayne Mullins.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauWayne, it's a blessing to have you back with us again today, brother.
Wayne MullinsThank you so much.
Wayne MullinsIt's a beautiful day today.
Wayne MullinsNo matter what the weather is outside, we have that choice to make today beautiful.
Wayne MullinsSo I'm glad to be here.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauAmen.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauAmen.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauFor those that may have missed our prior interview, I believe it was episode 1528.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauIf you did miss that, folks, go back and listen because Wayne was dropping several value bombs there.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauThat'll definitely help you in your SEO battle.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauAmen.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauBut Wayne, for those that may have missed that, can you tell us in your own words, who is Wayne Mullins?
Wayne MullinsSure thing.
Wayne MullinsI am a husband and father of four amazing kids.
Wayne MullinsI happen to also run this agency called Ugly mug marketing.
Wayne MullinsAnd through the work that we do here, we get to impact a lot of other entrepreneurs and subsequently all of the customers or clients they interact with.
Wayne MullinsSo it's.
Wayne MullinsIt's a very exciting and challenging thing that we're up to here.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauAmen.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauAmen.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauAnd last time when we did our interview, it was about what you do and how you help businesses and entrepreneurs with SEO and all that.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauToday, I wanted to focus on, like I said, one of the most important aspects of running a successful business, and that's of company culture.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauAnd I know I've worked for companies where I dreaded going to work, you know, and I've also worked for organizations where I actually looked forward to going to work because I love the job, I love the people, and I believed in the mission.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauHow important is company culture in the success of a business?
Wayne MullinsIt is the thing, Pastor Bob.
Wayne MullinsIt is.
Wayne MullinsIt is the absolute most important piece or element.
Wayne MullinsIt was Peter Drucker who once said that culture eats strategy for breakfast.
Wayne MullinsAnd what he meant by that was simply this.
Wayne MullinsYou can spend all your resources, you can spend all the time, you can hire the brightest minds in the world to help you come up with a wonderful, beautiful strategy for your organization.
Wayne MullinsBut if your culture is one of disengagement, of disinterest, where people don't want to be there, it doesn't matter what strategy you have, it's not going to be implemented.
Wayne MullinsAnd it.
Wayne MullinsIf it is implemented, it's not going to be implemented in a way or in a manner that is impactful.
Wayne MullinsSo culture is the thing.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauAmen.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauWell, what exactly makes up a successful company culture?
Wayne MullinsYeah, I think it's important to start with understanding kind of what is the root word or where does this thing called culture come from.
Wayne MullinsAnd the word culture actually shares the same Latin root word as cultivate.
Wayne MullinsAnd so when we think of the term cultivate, that's typically a gardening or a farming term, Right?
Wayne MullinsIt's to cultivate the soil.
Wayne MullinsAnd I love to think about organizational culture as just that.
Wayne MullinsThe culture is the soil in which the teams, the clients, the customers, everyone interacts.
Wayne MullinsAnd it is our job as leaders to ensure that that soil is cultivated in such a way that when the seeds, when the teams are planted in that soil, they can thrive, can grow, and they can produce amazing results.
Wayne MullinsSadly, we often try to manage the people, ignoring the culture, ignoring the soul that we've planted them in.
Wayne MullinsAnd so we spend our days as leaders frustrated, trying to micromanage, trying to get people to come along and to pick up their game and to, you know, be motivated.
Wayne MullinsAnd yet what we don't realize is we've planted them in this toxic, very nutrient depleted soil where there's no room for them to put their roots in.
Wayne MullinsThere's no room for them to thrive.
Wayne MullinsSo that is why culture matters to organizations today.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauAmen.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauAmen.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauI know, you know, you list three mistakes that sabotage company culture.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauCan you go over those three common mistakes for us?
Wayne MullinsAbsolutely.
Wayne MullinsSo I'm going to go through them quick and then we can dive in as much detail as you want in each one.
Wayne MullinsBut the first one is this, that as leaders, we believe that company culture is something we will get to one day.
Wayne MullinsRight.
Wayne MullinsSo for years my experience was that one day, once things you get to a good level, once we plateau, once we get to this point where we have plenty of money coming in and everything seems to be operating well, I will then get to company culture.
Wayne MullinsAnd so that's mistake number one.
Wayne MullinsCompany culture is not something you can wait until you get to.
Wayne MullinsI love to say this, that, that if you are unintentional about building a great culture, then you are intentionally allowing a dysfunctional and a low performing culture.
Wayne MullinsSo that's mistake number one.
Wayne MullinsThe next mistake is this the confusion between alignment and autonomy.
Wayne MullinsI see this so often with leaders.
Wayne MullinsThey want to give their team autonomy to go execute, right?
Wayne MullinsThey, they don't want to have to micromanage.
Wayne MullinsBut it seems like every time they send their people out to go do things to go, they are frustrated because their, their team member didn't do things the way they wanted it done or completely went down the wrong path.
Wayne MullinsAnd then the team members frustrated because they just did what they thought was best.
Wayne MullinsAnd now you're upset with them and they're upset with you.
Wayne MullinsAnd so it's just this negative thing.
Wayne MullinsSo we have to understand the balance between alignment and autonomy.
Wayne MullinsAnd then the final one is this.
Wayne MullinsThere's a big difference between implicit and explicit communication.
Wayne MullinsAnd so often as leaders, we make the assumption that we have made everything explic.
Wayne MullinsIn other words, it's crystal clear what we expect, what our values are, et cetera, when in reality most often some of those things are still implicit, they're implied.
Wayne MullinsAnd it's our responsibility to clearly articulate and to make the implicit explicit.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauYeah, and I want to go back to the second point.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauThen I want to come back to three, because a lot of times those organizations that I was in where it was toxic, they say, okay, this is what needs to happen, it needs to be done.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauBy here, make it work.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauAnd that's your instructions, you know, and it's up to you to figure out exactly, okay, should we do this abc, or should we do CDE first and then come back to A and B?
Pastor Robert ThibodeauAnd when you implement, then like you said, it's, no, that's not what I wanted.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauBut there is no, you know, and then they get really upset because now they're going to dive in and fix it so it meets a deadline and.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauAnd all of that goes on.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauHow can leaders not allow that to happen?
Wayne MullinsYeah, this, this the million dollar question, Pastor Bob.
Wayne MullinsThis is the thing that I see so often in organizations where they get stuck.
Wayne MullinsAnd what happens is as leaders, we get so busy, right?
Wayne MullinsWe have so many different plates up in the air spinning or our balls that we're trying to juggle, that we're trying to keep up and going, that we neglect some very fundamental things.
Wayne MullinsSome things that we all agree are important, like our vision, our mission, our values, our expectations.
Wayne MullinsWe all across the board understand that those things are important.
Wayne MullinsBut what happens is we push those things to the side because there's so much more, more that is screaming at us right now, right?
Wayne MullinsThere's so many more things that are urgent that we need to focus on, and those are the core elements that we must create alignment around in our organizations.
Wayne MullinsSo when, when we think about these things, every single person on your team needs to answer these four questions.
Wayne MullinsNumber one, where are we going?
Wayne MullinsThat is the vision.
Wayne MullinsLike, where are we trying to get to?
Wayne MullinsWhat does our future look like?
Wayne MullinsThe next question is, why does this matter?
Wayne MullinsIn other words, we're trying to get to this destination, to this future.
Wayne MullinsWhy does this matter?
Wayne MullinsAnd that's our mission, right?
Wayne MullinsWhy do we exist?
Wayne MullinsWe exist, for example, here we exist to help entrepreneurs sleep better at night.
Wayne MullinsThat is our mission.
Wayne MullinsThat is why we exist.
Wayne MullinsAnd what that does is then that creates the picture for what we're trying to create.
Wayne MullinsThat also creates a deeper meaning behind the work that we do, right?
Wayne MullinsIt's no longer just about a marketing campaign or a website.
Wayne MullinsIt's about how do we make it so that these businesses grow so that entrepreneurs don't have to worry about their growth.
Wayne MullinsSo, you know, where are we going?
Wayne MullinsWhy does it matter?
Wayne MullinsWhat's expected of me as a team member?
Wayne MullinsSo in relation to those two things, what's expected of me and my role?
Wayne MullinsAnd again, there's a huge gap here.
Wayne MullinsMost often when people are hired and they review their job description or their role statement, that is the last time that there's conversation around how this person's role fits into accomplishing the mission and the vision for the organization.
Wayne MullinsAnd then the final question is this.
Wayne MullinsHow will you measure my performance?
Wayne MullinsWe just want to make that crystal clear.
Wayne MullinsHere's how we are going to measure your performance.
Wayne MullinsYour performance is going to be measured on A, B, C and D.
Wayne MullinsNow here's the thing.
Wayne MullinsIt's our job as leaders to ensure that they can clearly understand how they are doing at any point in time.
Wayne MullinsIt shouldn't be this big mystery.
Wayne MullinsI see this time and time again in organizations where, you know, they do maybe it's a quarterly or, you know, it's every six months or an annual performance review with their team members.
Wayne MullinsAnd the entire time in between those things, the employees have no clue how they're actually performing.
Wayne MullinsAnd then when they show up to these performance reviews, it's like this big mystery.
Wayne MullinsAre you gonna be.
Wayne MullinsAre you gonna be happy with me?
Wayne MullinsYou're gonna be mad at me?
Wayne MullinsAre you gonna be somewhere in the middle and different?
Wayne MullinsLike.
Wayne MullinsSo we need to ensure that our team members have tools so that they can quickly and easily determine how they are individually performing in relation to what we just talked about, man.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauAmen.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauYeah.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauAnd I tried to be a leader as when.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauAnd this, I think, goes back to the culture.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauLike you said, if someone's doing a great job, let them.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauMan, you really did good on this.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauAnd here's what you did that we weren't expecting.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauBut man, the client really loved it type thing that lets them know their vision, their success was because of their initiative.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauAnd then I've also had conversations with, you know, you go back in and say, well, what's, what's the status on this project?
Pastor Robert ThibodeauOh, well, I was working over here, so I had a chance to get to it yet.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauWell, you know, that's due by end of business Friday.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauRight.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauYou know, you need to bring me at least an outline in so we can go over it and make sure you're on the right page.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauAnd that type of input from the leader is so important because this person was thinking, well, I know he gave me this to do, but this is also important.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauSo I got to take care of this first because he gave me that first, you know, and really this Project B now supersedes the importance of project A because you get to A later, you know, and by having that type of constant feedback, and not constant, that's a bad word, periodic check in and feedback during the course of the project.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauYou know, I used to have meetings Every morning.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauAnd you know, we had like a team meeting in my agency on Friday afternoon before everyone disappeared for the weekend, talking about what's coming up next week.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauOkay.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauAnd then we'd have a meeting, just, I mean a very informal type thing, you know.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauOkay.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauWhat are you working on today?
Pastor Robert ThibodeauOkay, great.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauOh, okay.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauSomething's changed over the weekend.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauWe need to change this.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauInstead of that being due Wednesday, I need it this afternoon type thing.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauAnd just to have that, that type of information before they even get started down, you know, the 32 page report that they got to type up, you know, have that 10 point checklist done by 10:00am instead of 2:00pm, you know, just, just to let them know.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauSo you didn't walk out at 1:30 and say, hey, by the way, last week we talked about that checklist.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauHave you got it done yet?
Pastor Robert ThibodeauOh, I thought it was due tomorrow.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauNo, I need it in like 20 minutes, you know, type thing.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauSo that, yeah, that constant again, the constant is a bad word.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauThat Continual, continual updates and just checking in.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauHey, you know, do you need, you have any questions on this?
Pastor Robert ThibodeauYou know, I got some free time.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauI can make some phone calls for you if you don't have it.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauAnd by doing that, our agency grew within about 18 months to be the number two selling agency for the major, for the company we were working with nationwide.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauYou know, just starting off from scratch.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauI mean, we shot up the charts quick.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauAnd, and that was, that was because that's how I tried to organize.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauWe're all a team.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauIt's not me, boss, you employee.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauWe're all a team.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauYou know, I could go off on a business trip and not even worry about having to call into the office, see what's going on.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauBecause they all knew what they had to do.
Wayne MullinsYeah, yeah.
Wayne MullinsI think what you're, what you're describing right there is exactly what we were talking about.
Wayne MullinsWe were talking about the difference between explicit and implicit communication.
Wayne MullinsWhen you have those regular, that regular cadence for feedback and conversation, what you're doing is you're bringing forth the things that may have been implied, right.
Wayne MullinsIn the communication.
Wayne MullinsYou're bringing them, you're making them explicit, you're explaining them, you're making sure that they're hearing it correctly, that they understand it.
Wayne MullinsI know that so often in our leadership journeys, what happens is we believe we've clearly communicated or clearly articulated something to our team or to an individual on our team.
Wayne MullinsAnd what happens is we have such a different context, a different lens through which we are looking, that we are we are imparting some of those things implicitly.
Wayne MullinsRight.
Wayne MullinsWe're implying that they understand, they know these things.
Wayne MullinsAnd again, we have to switch that.
Wayne MullinsWe have to flip it through their lens and we have to make sure that we are over communicating and that we're spelling out in more detail than we think is necessary to ensure we are on the same page.
Wayne MullinsAnd your, your description of kind of the, the frequency of communication there is a wonderful method of ensuring that everyone is on the same page, everyone is pulling in the same direction.
Wayne MullinsI think sometimes as leaders, we think, well, I don't need to do that.
Wayne MullinsRight?
Wayne MullinsI have a team.
Wayne MullinsThey should know how to do this stuff.
Wayne MullinsWe shouldn't have to meet every, every week or every day.
Wayne MullinsBut I can tell you it's the discipline of doing those things that makes your life and makes your culture so much stronger.
Wayne MullinsWe as leaders have to set the precedent for that.
Wayne MullinsWe have to show up for those.
Wayne MullinsWe need to be on time, we need to be prepared, and we need to hold those regular communication rhythms as a high priority in our organizations.
Wayne MullinsAnd when we do that one, it just cuts through the noise and creates immense clarity for everyone on the team.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauAmen.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauAmen.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauSo what makes a company culture toxic?
Wayne MullinsYeah, I think when it comes to our company culture, again, if we go back to the soul analogy, what happens by default is we tend to look at individual people, right.
Wayne MullinsWhen we think of a culture, we think of we've got people with bad attitudes or people who aren't performing or people who are disengaged.
Wayne MullinsAnd I think that's a mistake.
Wayne MullinsWe have to go a layer deeper and we have to look at the culture.
Wayne MullinsAnd when I say the culture, we have to look at what we tolerate and what we embrace as leaders.
Wayne MullinsBecause at the end of the day, the most difficult person that you or I will ever have to lead is not someone else on our team.
Wayne MullinsIt is the person who looks back at us in the mirror every single morning.
Wayne MullinsThat is the person we must start with.
Wayne MullinsI'm a firm believer in this idea that our businesses, our organizations are merely reflections of ourselves.
Wayne MullinsSo if, if our business is showing up as disorganized and chaotic, chances are that's a reflection of us, right?
Wayne MullinsThat's a reflection of our mindset.
Wayne MullinsAnd so I believe that a toxic culture starts when you as the leader, point blame at everyone else.
Wayne MullinsSo when, when the issues are everyone else's problem, and if you find yourself as a leader complaining about people don't want to work anymore, that they're Lazy, they don't want to show up all of these things.
Wayne MullinsYou are the one fostering a toxic culture in your organization.
Wayne MullinsInstead, if you choose to believe that the people you have chosen to be on your team are amazing human beings who want to show up, who want to do a good job, when they come to your place of business, then it changes your whole mindset.
Wayne MullinsYes, they may make mistakes.
Wayne MullinsYes, you may have to coach, you may have to guide, you have to.
Wayne MullinsMay have to be persistent.
Wayne MullinsBut again, look at ourselves.
Wayne MullinsHow often do we set intentions in a certain area and say we're going to do certain things, whether I'm personal or on business side, and we get into it a week or two weeks, and we fall off the track, right?
Wayne MullinsWe.
Wayne MullinsWe lose our commitment that we've made to ourselves so our team members do the same thing.
Wayne MullinsWe need to learn to have grace for them in the same way that we have grace for ourselves.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauAmen.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauAmen.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauWell, if you're the business owner, then, and based on what you just shared as the owner, how can we begin to make a successful cultural change?
Wayne MullinsThe first place you have to start with cultural change is in the mirror.
Wayne MullinsThat is, number one.
Wayne MullinsIt starts with you.
Wayne MullinsI see this again time and time again when I talk to entrepreneurs and business owners.
Wayne MullinsThe constant complaint is this.
Wayne MullinsNo one wants to work anymore.
Wayne MullinsThey're lazy.
Wayne MullinsThey're always on their phone.
Wayne MullinsThey're this, they're that, they're this.
Wayne MullinsThey are speaking into existence, the culture that they're willing to tolerate.
Wayne MullinsThey are speaking that into existence.
Wayne MullinsAnd so the more that I focus on those things, the more I focus on, they're lazy, they're entitled, they're whatever those words are, the more I'm going to look for evidence of those things.
Wayne MullinsWhat we focus on expands.
Wayne MullinsSo it starts, number one, with, with me and my understanding that if my team, If I feel today that my team is lazy, entitled, you know, whatever those words are, I have to work on shifting my belief first.
Wayne MullinsThat's number one.
Wayne MullinsNumber two, you have to go to them with an apology.
Wayne MullinsYou have to take full ownership.
Wayne MullinsYou have to go before your team and sincerely apologize.
Wayne MullinsAnd when I say sincerely apologize, that's why it's so important to.
Wayne MullinsTo start with us.
Wayne MullinsThat's why it's so important to understand that the culture we have today is a reflection of what we've tolerated up until this point.
Wayne MullinsYeah, we have to go to them, we have to apologize.
Wayne MullinsWe need to go before the team and say, look, up until this point, I apologize, I'VE allowed us to slide into this place.
Wayne MullinsI've allowed us to slide into negativity.
Wayne MullinsI've been focusing on the wrong things.
Wayne MullinsI have been focusing on things that are disempowering.
Wayne MullinsThey're not encouraging.
Wayne MullinsAnd I'm apologizing to you.
Wayne MullinsI am going to focus on the good.
Wayne MullinsI'm going to be a good finder.
Wayne MullinsBut there's going to be some expectations from you as well.
Wayne MullinsWe are no longer going to talk about each other behind each other's backs.
Wayne MullinsWe're no longer going to look for the bad.
Wayne MullinsWe're always going to look for the good.
Wayne MullinsSo again, number one, start with the person in the mirror.
Wayne MullinsNumber two, go before the team and apologize.
Wayne MullinsAnd then the third one would be pick one of the things we've already talked about.
Wayne MullinsYou know, either focus on making the things that are implied more explicit or focus on getting alignment around those things that matter most.
Wayne MullinsYour.
Wayne MullinsYour vision, your mission, your values, your expectations.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauYeah.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauAmen.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauAmen.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauWell, is this something that needs to be done gradually so no big changes, you know, or is it better just to, you know, identify the problem and dive in?
Pastor Robert ThibodeauAnd let's get it straight.
Wayne MullinsI would say the answer depends on you and your temperament as a leader.
Wayne MullinsSo by default, this is a broad general generalization here.
Wayne MullinsBut entrepreneurs tend to jump from thing to thing to thing, right?
Wayne MullinsThe next big idea is the thing we're going to.
Wayne MullinsWe're going to pursue.
Wayne MullinsWe're going to run down this path.
Wayne MullinsAnd so what I caution people to do is if that has been your temperament, in other words, that has been the way you've operated your organization, you're always heading down a path.
Wayne MullinsAnd then another big idea, we're going to go down this path.
Wayne MullinsAnother big idea.
Wayne MullinsWhat I want you to do is temper this.
Wayne MullinsI want you to slow this down a bit.
Wayne MullinsSo I don't want you just to jump in.
Wayne MullinsBecause what's going to happen is everyone's going to say, oh, here comes the next big initiative.
Wayne MullinsThis will last about two or three weeks, and then we're on to the next thing.
Wayne MullinsSo instead, I need you as a leader to put together a roadmap, put together a plan, make some commitments to yourself that you're willing to uphold and honor.
Wayne MullinsSo back to what you.
Wayne MullinsWhat you explained.
Wayne MullinsWhether that's a Friday afternoon, you know, all hands on deck type of meeting for, for the plan of action for next week, whether that's, you know, a weekly team meeting, whether that's weekly one on ones, whether that's Weekly education with your team.
Wayne MullinsYou need to commit and be serious to committing to whatever those things are that you know are broken in your organization.
Wayne MullinsAnd what I can tell you, and you pointed this out earlier, is that oftentimes we believe we're communicating, but we're not.
Wayne MullinsAnd so you need to increase the frequency of communication with your team.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauAmen.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauAmen.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauWhat about someone who's working at one of these companies we're talking about, how should they, or how should they approach the boss or department head about implementing changes?
Wayne MullinsI think first of all, from my perspective, you know, as a leader, I would love for someone to approach me and say, hey, here's some things I've observed.
Wayne MullinsThis is not a critique.
Wayne MullinsThis is not a criticism.
Wayne MullinsThis is just something I've observed.
Wayne MullinsAnd I would love to work with you and figure out how we can go about shifting this and making this transition and turning our culture into something different, something better.
Wayne MullinsAnd so I would first see if there's response, a positive response to that.
Wayne MullinsBecause if there's not a positive response to that, then you're going to be fighting an uphill battle.
Wayne MullinsAnd depending on your level of authority within the organization, it may be a battle that you're never going to win.
Wayne MullinsSo I would begin there.
Wayne MullinsIf there's receptiveness to that, that message, which in most organizations I would love to believe that there would be positive response to that, then what I would do is I would create the dialogue between you and your boss, you and your leader.
Wayne MullinsAllow them to feel as if some of these things are their ideas.
Wayne MullinsWhen we allow other people to feel that they've created the ideas, the buy in is so much better.
Wayne MullinsAnd then we can come alongside them, help guide and help steer those conversations.
Wayne MullinsSo what I would say is, regardless of position, regardless of title in the organization, that is the place to begin.
Wayne MullinsThe place to begin is, hey, here's some things I've observed.
Wayne MullinsI have some ideas around how we could to could work through those and transition.
Wayne MullinsWould you be willing to put some time on the calendar to chat about these things on a, you know, weekly basis for the next few weeks?
Pastor Robert ThibodeauYeah.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauAmen.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauYou know, as you're talking about that, I was thinking back when we had our agency, you know, if we had to make copies of whatever we, you know, the copy place was just down the street, you know, go down there and make, you know, 100 copies.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauSo we pass them out to all the agents and all this stuff.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauAnd you know, you're doing this half a dozen times a week, maybe and, you know, and someone came in and say, you know, instead of paying, I think back then it was like 5 cents a copy or something like that.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauYou know, this is back in the early 90s, 1990s, and they said, I did some checking with the copy store down there.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauWe can rent a copier and have it here in the office for just about the same amount of money we're paying them right now.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauAnd people leave in the office to go make copies a couple times a day, you know, and so.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauOh, that's a good idea.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauLet me, let me see.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauCheck into that.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauAnd we end up getting a copy machine in the office.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauAnd it cost us probably 20 bucks more a month than what we were paying, but it was saving people from having to walk, you know, four doors down and then come back up and, you know, all that.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauThey were staying right there in the office.
Wayne MullinsYeah.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauSo for us, that was a good investment.
Wayne MullinsAbsolutely.
Wayne MullinsAnd that's a great example, though, of, you know, I think that is true for most leaders, not all leaders, but most leaders are open and receptive to ideas that make things operate more smoothly, that benefit the business, that benefit the customers, that benefit the team.
Wayne MullinsTeam.
Wayne MullinsBut sometimes I think that the people on our teams feel intimidated.
Wayne MullinsThey don't feel it's their place, and that's a mistake.
Wayne MullinsBecause you, you know, when we think of leadership, we often by default, we think of a title or a position.
Wayne MullinsLeadership, at the end of the day, is about one thing, and that's influence.
Wayne MullinsAnd I.
Wayne MullinsI genuinely believe that anybody, regardless of position, can have influence on the entire organization.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauAmen.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauYeah, that's right.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauThat's right.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauThis is, this is so interesting.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauDo you go over any of this information in your book, Full Circle Marketing?
Wayne MullinsI don't, actually.
Wayne MullinsSo the marketing book is solely about marketing.
Wayne MullinsBut.
Wayne MullinsBut what's fascinating, Pastor Bob, is this, that, you know, we are a marketing agency.
Wayne MullinsPeople bring us in because they need help with marketing or websites or whatever the thing may be.
Wayne MullinsBut as we get into the organizations, as we start helping them deploy these things, one of the things that we quickly discover is that there's some culture issues within the organizations.
Wayne MullinsAnd we know that if we can help them overcome those things, it's going to benefit the organization as a whole, is going to make their marketing that much more effective.
Wayne MullinsBecause when customers call or prospective customers call or stop by.
Wayne MullinsRight.
Wayne MullinsThe team's going to be on the same page.
Wayne MullinsThey're going to be engaged.
Wayne MullinsSo the culture piece is something that, you know, just over time, in working with Literally hundreds and hundreds of business owners.
Wayne MullinsWe've seen there's such a need in the marketplace.
Wayne MullinsAnd as we started the conversation, this is, in my opinion, the ultimate point of leverage in any organization.
Wayne MullinsThe power here is so incredibly profound.
Wayne MullinsIt's more profound than any marketing campaign.
Wayne MullinsIt's more profound, in my opinion, than any leadership conference or leadership seminar you can do.
Wayne MullinsIf you can get your culture right, you know, it transforms everything else.
Wayne MullinsI think it was Gallup who did a survey semi recently and what they found out is that 70% of employees today are disengaged in the workplace.
Wayne Mullins70%.
Wayne MullinsSo you think about that.
Wayne MullinsTwo out of three are disengaged.
Wayne MullinsThey're showing up not engaged.
Wayne MullinsAnd as a leader, if you look across your organization, and that is true for your organization, that is the thing to fix, right?
Wayne MullinsThat is the place that you must begin.
Wayne MullinsIt is the, it is the linchpin.
Wayne MullinsWhen you fix.
Wayne MullinsIt's the fulcrum.
Wayne MullinsWhen you fix this one thing, everything else gets easier.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauAmen.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauHow can you and your agency help business owners and make any positive change in company culture?
Wayne MullinsYeah.
Wayne MullinsSo one of the things that I've recently started is actually just going in and helping them figure out where they currently stand in terms of their culture.
Wayne MullinsI think sometimes because we put culture as this side thing that we're going to get to one day, we don't understand the weight that the culture has on everything else we do.
Wayne MullinsSo what, what I've been doing is going in number one is kind of doing an audit, like, where actually are you?
Wayne MullinsRight.
Wayne MullinsBecause we have our preconceived notions.
Wayne MullinsThe team, our team members have a different perspective about what our culture actually looks like and feels like.
Wayne MullinsAnd so ensuring that those two things are on one page is so, so important.
Wayne MullinsAnd that's the starting point.
Wayne MullinsFrom there, we can outline a blueprint of, here's the plan of action, here's what you need to do next.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauAmen.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauAmen.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauAnd like I said, if before we.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauBecause we're almost out of time, before we, we go, I want to make sure that you give a brief synopsis of your book, Full Circle Marketing for our audience a little bit.
Wayne MullinsAbsolutely.
Wayne MullinsSo the marketing book comes from a couple of core foundational principles that we base all of our marketing around.
Wayne MullinsI'm not going to dive into all of that just for sake of time here.
Wayne MullinsBut what I will say is this, that great marketing really boils down to two things.
Wayne MullinsNumber one, psychology, and number two, math.
Wayne MullinsSo psychology, because at the end of the day, marketing's job is to make sales unnecessary.
Wayne MullinsWhat does that mean?
Wayne MullinsThat simply means this, that when we are really good at marketing, when we have effective marketing campaigns, we don't need to try to convince, try to persuade, try to twist people's arms, try to beg them, plead with them, because the marketing has done the job right?
Wayne MullinsThe marketing has convinced them.
Wayne MullinsNow, the B part to that is math.
Wayne MullinsAnd math's important because, you know, we can't just go out and spend a bunch of money and not hold those dollars accountable.
Wayne MullinsSo often we hear people say, you know, I'm spending X dollars on marketing.
Wayne MullinsI just don't know if it's working, if it's not working.
Wayne MullinsIf that is you, what I can tell you, without a doubt is that you are doing a bunch of tactical things, right?
Wayne MullinsYou may be doing some Facebook, you may be doing some SEO, you may be doing radio, television, you name it.
Wayne MullinsYou may be doing a bunch of things, but you don't have an overarching strategy that brings all of these things together and has them working in a synergistic way.
Wayne MullinsRight?
Wayne MullinsThey're just random things.
Wayne MullinsNone of them are pulling together.
Wayne MullinsAnd so we see this time and time again where it's like, we're spending a bunch of money, we're doing a bunch of things, but we just don't know what's working or if it's working.
Wayne MullinsSo psychology and math are the core of what's in the book.
Wayne MullinsAnd it really just walks through, you know, kind of two different marketing principles and how to apply them in your organization.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauAmen.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauAmen.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauThat's good.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauIt's a great book, too.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauIt's a great book.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauSo how can someone order a copy of your book, Full Circuit Growth Marketing.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauI take it it's on Amazon, correct?
Wayne MullinsIt is.
Wayne MullinsThat's the simplest place.
Wayne MullinsIt's on, you know, most of the online retailers.
Wayne MullinsAmazon's probably the simplest for most people.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauAll right.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauAnd like I said, Wayne, it's been so interesting.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauIf someone has a question or they'd like to get in touch with you to discuss their company culture, SEO or marketing, maybe even do an interview like this.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauHow can they do that?
Pastor Robert ThibodeauHow can someone get in touch with you?
Wayne MullinsYeah.
Wayne MullinsSo two things.
Wayne MullinsNumber one, our website, uglymug, marketing.com, all of our social channels are there email addresses, are there phone number, contact form?
Wayne MullinsSo there's plenty of ways there that they can get in touch or they can email me directly.
Wayne MullinsAnd that's just Wayne atUgly Mug Marketing dot com.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauAmen.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauAmen.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauI'll put links all this in the show notes below.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauFolks, I pray you got a lot of great information from our interview today with Wayne Mullins and that's going to help you develop a better culture climate in your business.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauI mean, I know somebody out there had their eyes open to some things that Wayne was sharing today that will positively impact their business going forward.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauI just know that and that was the purpose of the inter interview.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauAmen.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauI heard you.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauDrop down the show notes.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauReach out to Wade Mullins and his team over at Ugly Mug Marketing.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauYou will not be disappointed with the results you receive and the results you achieve.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauPraise God.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauJust drop down below in the show notes, click the links right there.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauAnd don't forget to order a copy of Wayne's book Full Circle Marketing.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauThis book will transform your marketing and turn your customers into evangelists.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauBring it up.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauThat's just like the book cover says.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauAmen.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauDrop down the shows, click the links right there.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauWayne, I want to thank you again for taking the time already busy schedule to come back on and visit with us today.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauI do appreciate it brother.
Wayne MullinsThank you so much for the great chat as always and I appreciate your time.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauAmen folks.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauThat's all the time we have for today for Wayne Wallace, myself, Pastor Bob Remini to be blessed in all that you do.
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