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343: The Best of Certified Best Christian Workplaces

343: The Best of Certified Best Christian Workplaces

In this episode, you'll hear about some of the great organizations that represent the different types of ministry partners that Best Christian Workplaces comes alongside. They’re Christian-led businesses, Christian nonprofits, schools, universities, and churches that are bearing fruit in business and ministry as they create healthy workplaces where their staff is engaged and excited about their work. Learn more from Cary Humphries and Giselle Jenkins, Consulting Directors at Best Christian Workplaces.

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In this episode:

  • Apartment Life: a Christian nonprofit that has the longest track record of surveying with BCW and implementing positive changes as they continue to focus on a great workplace culture. (02:33)
  • Their commitment to staff engagement and culture intentionality has made them resilient and durable (04:00)
  • Spiars Engineering: an engineering company that has leadership focused on caring for its employees (05:50)
  • They have a strong focus on talent and some amazing scores in our FLOURISH driver called outstanding talent. (07:33)
  • Spiars is able to be on the 78th percentile for retaining highly capable employees (08:00)
  • Davidson Wealth Management: a financial company that has great leadership (08:35)
  • They arrived on our scene, committed to do the hard work, to move their culture to the healthiest possible level (09:06)
  • "There is a strong commonality across nonprofits or for-profits or anything in between, that the leaders, they care and they're listening and they're humble and they're transparent." -Giselle (11:34)
  • "Outstanding leaders and organizations that come to my mind have one thing in common: they aren't afraid of the staff's feedback, and they're not afraid of benchmark data." -Cary (12:12)
  • Colorado Christian University: a university that has a strong emphasis on the employee experience and on a great educational environment (13:36)
  • Nearly 70% of their employees engaged, which if our listeners do research, you can go out there and find out that average American organization has about 30% employee engagement. So this is pretty amazing. (14:50)
  • Kigali International Community School: is a school in Rwanda and it's an outstanding place to work (18:36)
  • Our tools have helped them hire, evaluate leadership, encourage communication, celebrate progress, and grow their influence. (19:44)
  • Calvary Christian Academy: is in the Fort Lauderdale area and is now the largest Christian school in the United States (20:20)
  • Calvary Christian Academy has grown their impact because of their culture, and they've grown to acquire and start additional campuses because they have the ability to develop the next generation of Christian leaders, and they're able to pass on the DNA of their really flourishing culture to grow and expand their organization. (21:09)
  • Bayside Church: a church in Florida with a great leadership team (22:38)
  • They have created an actual culture team. So they have leaders who are specializing in their culture. They take the feedback, which is now high-flourishing range, and they focus on it (25:06)

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