Creating a Healthy Workplace Culture with Russel Lolacher

How do you create a healthy workplace culture where your team members want to stay around? If you have a healthy workplace culture, what do you need to do to preserve and protect it? Today’s guest has expert advice on creating AND maintaining the workplace culture we long to have—and it all comes down to leadership. Join us to learn more!

Russel Lolacher is an international speaker, podcaster, and advocate who helps leaders create great workplace cultures–and not destroy them. He is the creator and host of Relationships at Work: The Leadership Guide to Creating a Workplace We Love, a podcast and YouTube show that digs into timely and relevant topics with global experts on how to create healthy organizations. Russel has held successful leadership and communication roles in various organizations for almost 30 years, at one time retaining the same team for almost 12 years. His work and expertise in building employee and customer trust has been recognized on international stages by Forbes, Microsoft, and HootSuite, and he’s been recognized four times as a Top Thought Leader by the ICMI (International Customer Management Institute).

Profit by Design is a Tap the Potential Production.

Show Highlights:

  • Why a longtime passion for relationship-based customer service is the driving force behind Russel’s work
  • Why our focus should shift to the human side over the productivity side of hiring
  • How leaders impact workplace culture for good AND bad from “air, land, and C levels”
  • Ways in which leaders and business owners inadvertently destroy their culture
  • How to build trust in the workplace with psychological safety
  • Where to start if you are a bad leader and want to change
  • How to create a culture of personalization with your team members
  • Why the hiring process isn’t the end of the onboarding journey—but the beginning
  • How to use “thrive interviews” as part of a holistic approach
  • How to get Russel's free interview templates to use in onboarding and team building

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About The Author

Dr. Sabrina Starling, The Business Psychologist and international best-selling author of the How to Hire the Best series and The 4 Week Vacation™, is the founder of Tap the Potential and host of the Profit by Design podcast. At Tap the Potential, we work to free business owners from the constant demands of a growing business.

We believe work supports life, not the other way around. Clients in our Better Business, Better Life coaching program have more time for what matters most and more money in their bank account than they’ve ever had. Next, we send them off on a 4 Week Vacation™ to celebrate their hard-earned journey to take their life back!

Dr. Sabrina and her team at Tap the Potential are on a mission to change the story of entrepreneurship from one of long hours, grinding it out, to one of sustainably profitable businesses that support and enhance life. The Tap the Potential Solution™ and our Tap the Potential Family of Business Owners are disrupting small business as usual. We are on our way to making the Tap the Potential Solution™ the mainstream model for growing business.

By 2023, 150 Tap the Potential clients will have taken 4 Week Vacations. These are the trailblazers, role modeling what’s possible for entrepreneurs. In many entrepreneurial circles, it is becoming more and more common for one entrepreneur to ask another, “Have you taken a 4 Week Vacation™?” (as opposed to asking “How many employees do you have?” or “What is your annual revenue?”). Taking a fully unplugged 4 Week Vacation is rapidly becoming the recognized symbol of entrepreneurial success.

Never one to accept the status quo or back down from a challenge, Dr. Sabrina’s How to Hire the Best series grew from her desire to solve the toughest hiring challenges interfering with her clients’ growth and profitability. What sprang from her experience working with entrepreneurs in rural areas catapulted her into becoming the world’s leading expert in attracting top talent in small businesses—no matter what hiring challenges those businesses are facing—and earned Tap the Potential’s reputation as the go-to resource for entrepreneurs committed to creating Great Places to Work with thriving coaching cultures and highly engaged team members working from strengths.

As The Business Psychologist, and with her years of driving profit in small businesses, Dr. Sabrina knows what it takes to find, keep, and motivate exceptional performance out of your biggest investment—team members.