Revisit our āNo Dramaā content taught to all Roadhouse staff Understand the benefits of going direct – and the impact when you donāt Learn the 7 Steps to Having a Courageous Conversation Get coaching tips to help someone else successfully go direct Leave equipped with Bottom-Line ChangeĀ®, a tool to help you implement āgoing directā […]
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Restaurant culture is often stereotyped as fast-paced, high-stress, and ripe with interpersonal conflict. Long-time Zingerman’s Roadhouse restaurant manager, Lisa Schultz, took charge to foster a different culture for her staff. While conflict in the workplace is unavoidable, there are ways to dramatically minimize the drama it can create. In 2017, Lisa designed a ‘No Drama’ training that is […]
Are you someone who avoids conflict? Short-term, it can feel much easier to internalize conflict and suppress feelings of discomfort. Long-term, a habit of avoidance can lead to built-up pressure and negative self-talk. However, there is hope! This monthās webinar shines light on techniques to help you embrace struggle in productive ways. If we can pause […]
Listen to our conversation with locally-rooted-nationally-known author and journalist Micki Maynard talking about her newest book Satisfaction Guaranteed: How Zingermanās Built A Corner Deli Into A Global Food Community. We dove into Mickiās expertise in business journalism, her perspective on what makes Zingerman’s noteworthy (256 pages-worth!), and the joys and takeaways from writing our story. In addition, we took questions from […]
As many of you know, Iāve been working for a while now on what is the next set of Natural Laws of Business (and also of life) that I hadnāt yet formulated when I wrote the initial essay back in 2009 in Part 1. Natural Laws, like gravity, are simply the way the world works. We donāt […]
Poet Naomi Shihab Nye says, āQuestions are very helpful. Begin with a few youāre carrying right now.ā So, in the spirit of Ms. Shihab Nyeās suggestion, here are a few questions with which to start this conversation: What if I told you I had a tool that you could put to work in your organization […]
Peter Koestenbaum could, on the surface, seem a surprising choice for an apostle of the revolutionary approach to putting freedom in place in the 21st century workplace. Even in the progressive part of the business world, few folks will likely have heard of him, and I doubt that his numerous books have made it to […]
What follows is a stepping stone; the start of my understanding of something that, on the one hand, Iāve lived with my whole life, and at the same time, I havenāt given nearly as much thought to as I could have. Fortunately, I get a lot of joy from learning, and maybe even more of […]
Heather Richardson Cox closed her column about the meeting of the G7 leaders the other day with this simple line: āThere are lots of moving pieces in the world right now.ā Hereās a small bit about a piece that I believe is moving in a really positive direction. Over the last five weeks Iāve written […]
When I sat down to draft the piece about culture that ran here three weeks ago, my plan was, as it usually is, to move on to a different subject the following week. That shifted significantly. The more I explored the effect of cultural soil, the more I saw just how important it is. Actively […]
This is the third segment in what has become a four-part series on the subject of regenerating our organizational cultures. You can find the first part, as well as the second segment, in the resource library. Throughout this series, Iāve shared my metaphorical model where culture is the āsoilā in which people, products, and processes are growing. All […]
