Are your employees and coworkers lacking motivation? Do they yawn when you offer a bonus? Are they more motivated to check Instagram than to carry out the organization’s mission?
You’re not alone.
Two-thirds of employees are disengaged, leading to lackluster performance.
What about you?
Do you feel overwhelmed? Stretched too thin? Confused about how to build sustained engagement?
This is a course for leaders with big dreams, who’ve hit a wall. It’s for leaders who are ready to break through to new levels of engagement and performance.
It’s for leaders who want to build a vibrant work culture — the kind to which people are proud to belong and happily give their best efforts.
It’s for influencers and aspiring leaders who are ready to make the leap to greater impact.
The Connection Culture Academy is a 5-week cohort-based online course, with coaching calls, created by us - Dr. Todd Hall & Michael Lee Stallard.
This course is designed to transform your organization’s culture through the most powerful (yet often overlooked) strategy — human connection. Through our simple, memorable 3V framework — Vision, Value, and Voice — you’ll learn how to communicate an inspiring vision, help people feel valued, and give people a voice.
Through true connection, you’re guaranteed to make meaningful progress towards even your boldest goals. (We should know, we’ve helped some of the world’s leading companies, including Google, NASA and Johnson & Johnson, do just that).
- Get your people fully engaged
- Increase creativity among your team
- Align everyone's behavior with organizational goals
- Improve communication leading to better decisions
- Foster creative conversations that increase innovation
To help you create a Connection Culture, take your business to the next level, and increase your insight as a leader, you will receive several videos each week for the 5-week duration of the course.
This isn't just another one of those courses that bombards you with loads of time-consuming information you have to learn totally on your own. Throughout the course, we'll be interacting with you in the course platform. We will also provide three group coaching calls so we can talk through the content and answer your specific questions in real time.
With the MCORE, you'll help your people discover they WHY, prevent burnout, increase productivity and engagement, and cultivate team collaboration.
You'll also learn our innovative approach to strategic dialogue behind our Connection Culture Pulse. With these state-of-the-art tools you'll understand instantly what's working, what's not, and what to do about it.
You’ll also receive a set of ready-made worksheets that will guide you through thought-provoking questions and give you action steps to take your new found knowledge and turn it into powerful strategies you can implement immediately.
As part of your membership, you’ll have access to our online, private community for Connection Culture Academy members. Here you can share your thoughts, connect with other like-minded leaders, and ask questions. This is an amazing group of world-changers with diverse expertise and perspectives from all over the world. Like you, they’re eager to help, connect, share wisdom, and grow.
In order to grow as a leader, you’ve got to take action, try new things, and reflect on what you’ve learned. Each week you’ll engage in activities designed to help you do just that. Encountering obstacles when you try new things is part of going from “good” to “great.” But getting stuck doesn’t have to be inevitable. We’ll be right there with you every step of the way. During our coaching calls and in our online community platform you’ll get feedback and real-world solutions from your peers and from us as your leaders.
Once you sign up you will get instant access to the Welcome module to help you get oriented to the course. This will include worksheets and the calendar for our three group coaching calls.
On Aug 6, you’ll get access to the Week 1 course material where we lay out the blueprint for what causes organizations to thrive. We’ll share some compelling cases that will inspire you. You will be introduced in our private, online community. In our initial kick-off call at the end of this week, you’ll have the opportunity to connect and get to know other members of our community.
This week is all about listening! There is tremendous wisdom in your people as a whole. They are a gold mine of information and it’s critical that you learn how to tap into that. We will show you how to create a safe environment so your colleagues and employees will tell you what you need to know to improve the culture and to develop sustained high performance.
How do you create a company as magnetic as Apple? We’ll unpack this and talk about how you can create a company vision that employees are proud to support, and how to help people stay connected to the vision. We’ll have our second of three coaching calls at the end of this week.
We will walk you through the 7 human needs to thrive at work: respect, recognition, belonging, autonomy, personal growth, meaning and progress, and how you can actually put these into practice so every single person in your organization feels like they are contributing to the vision in a meaningful way.
Typically, the overwhelming majority of employees feel that senior management does not value their contributions, including their ideas and opinions. We’ll show you how you can change that, and create a Pixar-like culture, rich with innovation and creativity. To close out our time together, we’ll host our third and final coaching call at the end of this week to ensure you’re equipped to forge ahead with confidence to implement all you’ve learned.
We are currently accepting members by invitation only for our beta cohort of Connection Culture Academy, which begins on August 6th.
This beta academy is completely FREE - but the window to join closes Sunday, August 5th at 9:00 pm Eastern.
This is a rare opportunity to get in on the ground level of our new course. This is also the very first time you’ll be able to work with us in a small group format complete with live small-group calls.
We’ve only invited a select few people we feel would be a good fit for this beta academy.
If you're interested in joining us to completely up-level your workplace culture this summer...
We are planning a public launch of this course in October with a price point of $497.
We know you are taking a leap of faith here trying something new with us. We also know you may have been burnt before. Maybe you’ve tried other courses or hired really expensive consultants, only to have the same old problems return a few weeks later.
Let us show you a new way to work.
All we ask in return is that you show up, participate, and provide us with honest feedback about your experience. We may also use that feedback for our public launch this fall.
But they are still under wraps. To give you a little hint, we plan on sharing interviews with some revolutionary thought leaders who are building connection cultures of their own. We will give you the full scoop after you sign up for the course.
I spent most of my career working on Wall Street.
I’d commute every day from Connecticut to Manhattan. Needless to say, I didn’t have time for friends. Even on the weekends, I found myself unable to stop thinking about work. I was physically home, but mentally I was back at the office, looking to crack the code for mergers, all the while becoming more disconnected from my coworkers. After awhile, I became very lonely and developed addictions.
Eventually I left Wall Street. I took time to heal. It was during that time that I really looked at culture in organizations, and how it can impact productivity, longevity within a career, and a person's overall well-being. What I learned led me to co-found Connection Culture Group. And it’s why I’m here talking to you today.
I'd love to have you Join us. We'll show you how you can avoid wasting years of your life in toxic cultures and how to create a vibrant, healthy Connection Culture.
Mike Stallard
I know the pain of disconnection.
When I was growing up, my mom struggled with depression and mental illness, and left the family the summer after my fourth grade year. While this experience was painful, it led me to pursue connection in my own life and to study how connection impacts well-being and organizational culture.
As a psychologist in the Army, I experienced the power of connection in shaping work cultures. I saw first-hand that commanders who developed a shared identity, empathy, and understanding in their unit performed the best. I started trying to crack the code so I could help commanders implement best practices and build high-performing units.
Since my Army days, I’ve continued this work through research, coaching and consultation. What I’ve learned along the way led me to co-found Connection Culture Group with Mike Stallard, and to develop the Connection Culture Academy. We’ve helped leading global brands to elevate performance by increasing connection and employee engagement, and we can help you too!
I’d love to have you join our beta academy group. Sign up today and we’ll show you how to break through to new levels of engagement and performance.
Dr. Todd Hall
We are spending 45% less time with friends.
Only 30% of us have a best friend at work.
And guess what, we spend one-third of our life at work.
Our world has become a lonely disconnected place.
We truly believe this is one reason over 50% of Americans are struggling with some form of addiction, and close to half report feeling lonely. Disconnection is also the underlying reason why many organizations never reach their full potential.
It’s time for us as leaders to change the way we connect at work.
Join us and we’ll show you how to make human connection your competitive advantage.
How are the trainings delivered?
The course includes training videos inside our membership site. You will have access to them all after you register.
When does the course start?
The Connection Culture Academy Summer 2018 Cohort begins August 6th and ends September 7th. You do not need to attend all the group coaching calls. We will record them and post them inside the course platform in case you have a scheduling conflict. With that being said, the more you show up, the better your results! And there are only three group coaching calls.
How long do I have access to the course?
You will have lifetime access to this course. That’s right! So each time we update the content, you’ll be able to revisit it and get our latest thinking, resources, and tools.
Have more questions?
Email us at support@connectionculture.com
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