10/24/2024

How to Get the Right Players in Your Band

Creating your perfect work team is like assembling a band

Some of you know that I'm a musician on the side. I have been playing professionally for 25 years, from Los Angeles to San Francisco to Austin to Denver. Those bands played clubs, parties, corporate events, weddings and even a few festivals through the years.

Most bands — like many workplaces — are not fully functional. There is frequent drama, frustration, back-stabbing and worse.

I refused to work in drama-ridden bands. Just as I help leaders sustain purposeful, positive, productive work environments, I couldn't help myself. I applied our culture change process to the bands I was in! I facilitated discussions with everyone — players, sound pros, even roadies — to clarify our servant purpose, values and behaviors that helped ensure people were respectful to each other AND delivered on their performance requirements.

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