Episode 61:

Building a Family Culture in Your Organization, with Ed Molitor
Ed Molitor

In the last 26 years, Ed Molitor has developed his leadership skills in both athletics and business. From working as an NCAA Basketball coach at Texas A&M to becoming the Vice President of a national recruiting firm, Ed has taught countless athletes, coaches, and business leaders how to THINK, ACT, and EXECUTE at an elite level. Ed has a unique set of skills to deliver leaders across the country a purposeful, positive, energetic, and refreshing experience to unlock their true potential. In 2016, Ed launched his company, The Molitor Group, in order to reach and add value to a larger sphere of ambitious individuals and help them achieve their goals every day. Through The Molitor Group, Ed has guided all types of leaders to achieve success. From entrepreneurs and executives to teams and companies, The Molitor Group specializes in empowering individuals and groups to achieve at the next level. Through Leadership Performance training, coaching, and speaking, Ed’s goal is to supply people and organizations with the necessary tools to move forward from where they are now to where they want to be.

What you’ll learn about in this episode:

  • What benefits your business and your team can experience from having a strong sense of family in your team culture
  • Why it is important as a leader to serve the people around you and to demonstrate that you are fully committed to your team
  • Why a sense of family extends beyond a work relationship and can survive beyond people joining and leaving an organization
  • What important steps you can take to create a family atmosphere and culture within your own organization
  • What "collective awareness" means, why it's important for leadership teams, and how to facilitate a collective awareness in your own team
  • Why the books "Trillion Dollar Coach" and "It's My Company Too!" are great, must-read resources for helping you build a family culture in your organization
  • Ed shares several examples of how companies turned a commitment to causes and charitable volunteering initiatives into a strong sense of family
  • Why tracking each other's lives, milestones, and significant events and taking time to recognize those important moments is a powerful step toward creating a family
  • What positive changes will happen within an organization as the team moves closer to becoming a family

Additional Resources:

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