S6E09: Putting Christ at the Center of a Solidly Flourishing Culture

Are you looking for a few powerful tips on how to improve the health of your workplace culture? Bob Bruder-Mattson, the President and CEO of FaithBridge Foster Care has created one of the most flourishing cultures Best Christian Workplaces has seen in the past few years (all while seeing great ministry growth). 

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In this episode:

• Bob's personal adoption story (02:35)
• Love and putting others first in your workplace culture (03:54)
• How Bob began to desire God's very best for their workplace culture. What encouraged Bob from the first BCWI survey results that showed FaithBridge to be a good, healthy culture with room to improve (05:05)
• An action-step strategy that began to strengthen and improve FaithBridge's culture (06:56)
• Using a balanced scorecard approach to measure and monitor performance (07:18)
• "The survey results confirmed that our efforts were paying off in several areas which was reinforcing to me and our leaders.  It also validated that we needed to keep working to improve some areas." (10:19)
• In 2020, Faith Bridge's culture had grown healthier into solidly Flourishing. FaithBridge had risen to the top 4% of all the hundreds of organizations we surveyed in 2020 (12:43)
• In the survey results, the two most popular words used to describe FaithBridge's culture were the words “Christ” and “prayer." Bob tells us how Christ and prayer define their thriving, flourishing workplace culture (19:06)
• "I may be the President & CEO of FaithBridge, but we are all following Christ and where he leads us.  A few years ago, we started having a weekly time of prayer and devotions on Friday mornings for anyone in the office." (19:30)
• Bob's greatest desire for FaithBridge and for his leadership as he steps into 2021 (22:47)
• "I’d like to find more ways to help our team members feel like there is a way to continuing growing and advancing in their careers and personal development." (23:27)
• "Having clearly defined objectives, a well thought out plan where everyone on the team knows what is expected of them, and the resources/tools to be successful is very important." (27:54)

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