Issue No. 13 of Your Weekly Staff Meeting features a must-read book and a page from The Culture Bucket. For your next staff meeting, order the 52 cards (see below), each with a quotation from the book, TrueFaced, and talk about masks, sin and grace. Here's Card #6 from Thrall and McNicol. "The degree to which I wear a mask in my key relationships is the degree to which my character development will be thwarted."

Invest in Your Team Members
BEFORE a Crisis Hits the Headlines!

"The day of self-righteous, religious performing for cheap applause is coming to an end," say the humble, but discerning authors of maybe the most important book you will read this year. This month's headlines from Colorado Springs should send all of us to our knees and then to our staff meetings with a new passion.

Our friends at Leadership Catalyst will help you create HighTrust Cultures™, HighTrust Leaders™, and HighTrust People™. Yet building trust takes time. You have two choices: do it in advance the right way, or wait for your next crisis and salvage your reputation in the midst of chaos and pain.

Read TrueFaced: Trust God and Others With Who You Really Are, by Bill Thrall, Bruce McNicol and John Lynch. Plus, check out the DVDs, 52 QuEW Cards, the TrueFaced experience guide and other resource materials from Leadership Catalyst.

Click to explore all the trust and character resources from Leadership Catalyst.

Discuss these principles from TrueFaced:
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1. "Grace frees Christians to see others as saints who sin, rather than sinners striving to be saints."
2. "My unresolved sin sensitizes me to the sin of others and I become their judge."
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Insights from the Management Buckets Workshop Experience

Here's a test. When your direct reports leave work each day, have they experienced affirmation from you or their colleagues? Creating a workplace culture of affirmation is rarely on any leader's front burner. But you'll get burned when your culture radiates resentment versus affirmation.

Leadership Catalyst has an excellent "Affirming Each Other" team tool for enhancing an affirming culture. Order it at Leadership Catalyst.

In our Management Buckets Workshop Experience, we baptize participants in The Culture Bucket (one of 20 buckets) and suggest half a dozen ways to create an "affirming each other" culture.

Your Weekly Staff Meeting Questions:
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1. In groups of three, agree on five key words that describe our workplace culture here.
2. If you could change one thing about our workplace culture, what would it be?
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