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For Love of Team™ | Winston FairclothS3 E110 - Declare Meeting BankruptcyDeclaring Meeting Bankruptcy: A Strategy for Leadership EfficiencyIn this episode of the For Love of Team podcast, host Winston Faircloth introduces Chapter Eight: 'Declaring Meeting Bankruptcy' from his upcoming book, 'Team Love, 28 Ways to Demonstrate Caring at Work.' Winston discusses the overwhelming nature of back-to-back meetings and offers a radical approach to regain control of one's schedule. Through practical steps, Faircloth outlines how leaders can inventory their meetings, assess their necessity, and reset their calendar for increased productivity and deeper work. A courageous case study of a client who successfully implemented quarterly 'meeting bankruptcies' is...
2025-01-3109 min
For Love of Team™ | Winston FairclothS3 E109 – Clarify Communications ChannelsS3 E109: Clarify Communications ChannelsIn this episode of the For Love of Team podcast, Winston Faircloth delves into Chapter Seven of his new book, 'Team Love: 28 Ways to Demonstrate Caring at Work,' titled 'Clarify Communication Channels.' Winston narrates the challenges of managing multiple communication platforms and the chaos it can bring, using a relatable scenario of miscommunication and lost information. He shares practical strategies to streamline communication within a team, such as setting intentions for email usage, leveraging company tools, and minimizing interruptions to protect productive time. Winston provides a step-by-step approach to...
2025-01-1009 min
For Love of Team™ | Winston FairclothS3 E108 – Protect Productive TimesS3 E108: Protecting Productive Times In this episode of the For Love of Team podcast, host Winston Faircloth discusses Chapter 6 'Protect Protective Times' from his new book, 'Team Love: 28 Ways to Demonstrate Caring at Work.' Winston emphasizes the importance of recognizing and protecting individual productive times within teams to enhance work efficiency. He explains that, as leaders, understanding when team members are most creative, alert, and energized is crucial for balancing productivity with necessary collaboration. Leaders are encouraged to review meeting patterns and adjust schedules to protect these productive periods, empowering both early birds an...
2024-12-1304 min
For Love of Team™ | Winston FairclothS3 E107 – Stay in Our StrengthsS3 E107 – Stay in our Strengths In this episode of the For Love of Team podcast, host Winston Faircloth delves into Chapter 5 of his upcoming book, 'Team Love: 28 Ways to Demonstrate Caring at Work.' This chapter, 'Stay in Our Strengths,' scrutinizes the traditional self-review process. Winston critiques the typical approach as a compliance task that often overlooks team members' growth and contributions, proposing instead a shift towards emphasizing daily acknowledgments of team efforts and celebrating achievements. He advocates for protecting time for deep work, making assignments based on uni...
2024-12-0605 min
For Love of Team™ | Winston FairclothS3 E106 – Identify Unique ContributionsS3 E 106: Identify Unique Contributions In this episode of the For Love of Team podcast, host Winston Faircloth delves into Chapter 4 of his book 'Team Love: 28 Ways to Demonstrate Caring at Work,' focusing on identifying unique contributions. The chapter discusses the importance of recognizing and utilizing individual talents and passions within a team to enhance productivity and satisfaction. Winston advises leaders to reflect on tasks that bring effortless engagement versus those that feel burdensome and to seek team members who find joy in tasks others might avoid. By matching tasks to...
2024-11-2905 min
For Love of Team™ | Winston FairclothS3 E105 – Team Owns the HowS3 E105: Your Team Owns the How In this episode of the For Love of Team podcast, Winston Faircloth delves into Chapter Three of his upcoming book 'Team Love: 28 Ways to Demonstrate Caring at Work.' The focus is on empowering teams by letting them own the 'how.' After hiring top talent, leaders should provide the 'why' and success metrics but avoid micromanaging. Insights include the importance of not dictating detailed processes to experienced team members, fostering innovation through trust, and ensuring clarity in communications. Faircloth emphasizes the role of leaders in enabling creativity and collaboration, a...
2024-11-2207 min
For Love of Team™ | Winston FairclothS3 E104 – Define Clear SuccessS3 E104: Defining Clear Success In this episode of For Love of Team podcast, host Winston Faircloth delves into Chapter 2 of his new book, 'Team Love: 28 Ways to Demonstrate Caring at Work.' Winston shares insights on the importance of clearly defining success for your team. He recounts a metaphorical race with no finish line to illustrate the necessity of setting clear markers of achievement to maintain momentum and alignment. Winston provides practical steps for leaders to establish observable success markers and pair them with a compelling why, enhancing team alignment and accountability. Listeners are encouraged to t...
2024-11-1505 min
For Love of Team™ | Winston FairclothS3 E103 – Start with a Compelling WhyIn the season three premiere of the For Love of Team podcast, host Winston Faircloth introduced his new book, 'Team Love: 28 Ways to Demonstrate Caring at Work.' This episode shares insights from Chapter One, focusing on the importance of starting with a compelling 'why.' Winston narrates the challenges of an executive team facing an uncertain future and highlights how a clear vision can galvanize a team. Through personal anecdotes and practical advice, Winston underscores the significance of answering 'why' to foster creativity, ownership, and trust within the team. He provides actionable steps for leaders to prioritize ideas...
2024-11-0807 min
For Love of Team™ | Winston FairclothS3 E102: The Blind Spot: A Fresh StartIn the first episode featuring first-draft audio chapters from his new book, “Team Love: 28 Ways to Demonstrate Caring at Work”, Winston shares the introductory chapter, reflecting on his journey as an executive leader and the pivotal moments that led him to prioritize team love over merely focusing on solutions and client satisfaction. The discussion highlights the stages of a visionary leader's journey, the challenges of maintaining a visionary path, and the importance of nurturing a team-centric culture. Winston emphasizes that loving and prioritizing teams ultimately accelerates vision and supports client care. Listeners are invited to join Winston in ex...
2024-11-0109 min
For Love of Team™ | Winston FairclothS3 E101: A Bold Book Writing JourneyIn this premiere episode of Season 3 of the For Love of Team podcast, host Winston Faircloth reintroduces the podcast after a three-year hiatus. Winston shares personal and professional updates since the last season, including his transformation into an avid writer and his 'Reunion Tour' exploring personal spirituality. Winston recounts his extensive career in leadership roles, primarily in the United Way and nonprofit sectors. He unveils a bold new experiment for this season: writing a book called 'Team Love,' based on a successful blog series from the past. Each episode will feature an audio first draft of a...
2024-10-2508 min
REALIFE Conversations for Christian Coaches236: How Inner Work Leads to Business Growth, with Winston FairclothWhat would it mean to do life differently and help others do the same? In this week’s episode, I’m talking with Winston Faircloth, one of our REALIFE Process® Certified Coaches who has dedicated over 40 years of his professional life to nonprofit leadership and technology. We talk about how Winston moved from burnout to doing the inner work to live from rest, and how that impacts the way he shows up with clients. We’ll cover: How Winston recognized his mission statement was neglecting the most important parts of his li...
2023-06-2829 min
The Remote Pathways PodcastEP53: Data Storytelling | Guest Winston Faircloth | For Love of Team™ FounderIn this episode of the Remote Pathways podcast we are joined by our wonderful guest, Winston Faircloth, the founder of For Love of Team™. Winston guides successful business owners to develop teams they LOVE to work with every day multiplying their impact, income, margin, and freedom in their business. Join Jennifer, Michelle and Winston for a great conversation around data storytelling and the important role it plays in the strategic planning process.In this episode we explore:Using data storytelling to unite leadership teamsHow to level the playing field of information with your teamThe impor...
2022-01-2026 min
The InvestHER PodcastPassive Investing in Today's Market with Liz FairclothThere are so many incredible benefits in passive investing, but in this episode, we’re going to dig a little deeper into how to find success in the people-side of the business with our very own co-host, Liz Faircloth!
Liz co-founded the DeRosa Group in 2005, with her husband, Matt, with one mission in mind: to “transform lives through real estate." DeRosa now holds over $60M of residential and commercial assets throughout the east coast.
To scale her mission to help women in Real Estate to live a financially free and balanced life while building generational wealth, she co-founded The Real Estat...
2022-01-0744 min
For Love of Team™ | Winston FairclothS2 E100: Team Love Redeems FounderThis week, we wrap up Season 2 with a significant milestone - our 100th episode! To celebrate, we're having fan favorite Mark Ross return to interview Winston about his entrepreneurial journey to creating, For Love of Team. “You know the term “For love of the Game”? I was on a walk one day, and somehow, it just came to my mind that for love of team was what I was missing as the CEO of a very successful multi-million dollar company. I had started a business because I had an idea of how I could...
2021-10-2033 minFor Love of Team™ | Winston FairclothS2 E99: Three C’s of Culture at The Refuge Center with Amy AlexanderAmy Alexander is Co-Founder and Executive Director of The Refuge Center for Counseling in Franklin, Tennessee, where the Center serves more than 30,000 counseling sessions to over 4,000 clients annually. As a nonprofit, Amy is always wrestling with how to retain quality people on her team. And for her, it's the culture they create day-to-day that retains the best people.Amy encourages and supports culture through her ‘Three C’s approach’ of connection, character, and continuous growth within the organization.“Our team has to be the first priority and Client S...
2021-10-1327 minFor Love of Team™ | Winston FairclothS2 E98: Conquering Digital Distractions with Dr. Kristy GoodwinIn this week’s episode, we're chatting with Dr. Kristy Goodwin who is on a mission to promote employee wellbeing and bolster workplace productivity. With the pandemic accelerating the work from home (WFH) movement, how we work online and how we disconnect while living in the same place is more important than ever. “I've never had a genius idea looking in my inbox or working in an Excel spreadsheet. I have most certainly had one when I've been swimming or been for a run, or in the shower. And this is because our brain needs that mind-wandering mode...
2021-10-0629 minFor Love of Team™ | Winston FairclothS2 E97: Core Values with Victoria Mininger, Founder of Bear Creek Outdoor LivingIn this week’s episode, we're continuing our series on how values drive success in business. We are chatting with industry experts to gain their insight on developing Core Values that create a winning team. We're bringing back one of our favorite guests Victoria Mininger, Founder of Bear Creek Outdoor Living. Victoria strives to see each one of her team members thrive, learn, and grow. She shares her journey on how this core value became such a centerpiece of her business.“We (my husband and I) once had employers that saw us for who we were...
2021-09-2931 minFor Love of Team™ | Winston FairclothS2 E96: Core Values with Craig Wood, CEO of Premier InternationalIn this week’s episode, we're continuing our series on how values drive success in business. We are chatting with industry experts to gain their insight on developing Core Values that create a winning team. We're bringing back one of our favorite guests Craig Wood, CEO of Premier International. Craig is a seasoned CEO and Board member who understands how to get the best out of a company and its employees. He is passionate about personal development for his team and the impact that culture has on a company, its growth and its eventual success.As...
2021-09-2240 minFor Love of Team™ | Winston FairclothS2 E90: How Strong Core Values Builds a Stronger Core TeamWhat would it be like to have a 24/7 coach for each of your team members?On this week’s podcast episode we talk about how you can achieve this.Core value statements serve as a 24/7 coach to your team members, providing practical guidance for how you and your team show up for one another, and how you handle your clients and your customers.Imagine having a set of core values so well stated and clear that you no longer have to be the go-to person in every situation that comes up in your or...
2021-07-2617 minFor Love of Team™ | Winston FairclothS2 E89: Being clear on your Mission, Vision, and ValuesIn this week’s podcast episode, we dig into two essential leadership decisions in business, creating a compelling why and a clear what to build a team you love. But before you can define these, you need to be clear on your mission, vision, and values.Why does this matter? Without defining your business's purpose first, you won't be able to clearly define the what and why of your team’s purpose. By doing so you create a feeling of vagueness and disconnection between the person and the goal. A company vision reveals what...
2021-07-1916 minFor Love of Team™ | Winston FairclothS2 E88: Hiring Team Members - Cost or Investment?Hiring is a business cost that I can't afford right now. In this week’s episode , we get to the problem faced the most by solopreneurs building their very first team, the cost. Let us ask you, what kind of cost is hiring? Do you look at a gym membership as just a cost? or an investment in your future health? Is your mortgage a household cost? Or an investment in your future? So is hiring a team a business cost? Or is it an investment in you? We’d argue i...
2021-07-1211 minFor Love of Team™ | Winston FairclothS2 E87: The hidden cost of doing everything yourselfIn this episode we do a deep dive on this question: What does it cost to do everything yourself? The bottom line is that as the leader of your organization, doing something you don't like or are not good at is the largest expense to your company, bar none. This is because there's 10 times more energy and time wasted trying to master a new skill, or procrastinating on the action due to lack of interest or time. Therefore, when you start to create a team, you're already getting a 10x...
2021-07-0512 minFor Love of Team™ | Winston FairclothS2 E86: How Collaboration leads to a win-win for leaders and teams“Here's the deadline and this is how I want you to do it. And if you don't do it the way I want, you may have to do it over and over until it’s right.” As a team member, there's nothing more demotivating than this. A+ talent will not hang around to find out what the next job is and the step by step ‘how’ you want it done. In today's podcast episode we explore leadership methods, and how one can lead to a spiral of unenjoyment and damaged working relationships, while the other can set you a...
2021-06-2813 minFor Love of Team™ | Winston FairclothS2 E85: Charting a New Path following a Founder | J.R. Howard | UPIC SolutionsSix years ago, Winston Faircloth stepped down from the technology organization he helped to build over a 15 year period. As a founder, one of the hardest things you can do is to “let your baby go”. Yet, the prior 12 months had been filled with turmoil and internal discord -- it was no longer fun, senior leaders were at odds with one another, and the organization was experiencing higher than normal turnover. After an extensive search process, UPIC Solutions found their new leader from within. J.R. Howard had a front-row seat to the chaos and decided...
2021-06-0735 minFor Love of Team™ | Winston FairclothS2 E84: UNLOCK InnovationIn the Indian fable about the blind men who each touched a different part of the element, we aren’t surprised to see that an argument breaks out. Each man trusted his own perception to guide him. Until someone with sight coached them on their error, they made assumptions about the whole.Within an organization, leaders can easily find themselves in the shoes of blind men. With a limited field of view, they make assumptions about the entire organization, process, and team. Just before recording this podcast episode, I was speaking with the founder of a l...
2021-05-3115 minFor Love of Team™ | Winston FairclothS2 E83: Showing Up as You, Inc.The impact of the pandemic over this past year has hit everyone. While no one would argue that healthcare and frontline workers have felt it the hardest, the next largest industry might just be the change management professionals. These individuals have worked for years to persuade businesses and teams to embrace needed change in organizations. But few people and employers are comfortable trying new things when the comfortable, old way of doing things is still an option. But, in 2020, everything changed. Over the course of one weekend, office workers began working from home and...
2021-05-2415 minFor Love of Team™ | Winston FairclothS2 E82: Not hiring a team comes at a great costComic strips and funny stories abound with humorous anecdotes about clogged sinks and how homeowners make things worse before calling in a professional to fix the problem. There’s a reason they are funny. Because it’s a universal experience. We have a problem. We think we can fix it. Only to discover that the fix we tried made the problem worse.After several experiences like this, most people will call a plumber before they attempt anything other than running the garbage disposal or trying drain cleaner.Because the truth i...
2021-05-1712 minFor Love of Team™ | Winston FairclothS2 E81: You can afford to hire help early in your bizWhether it’s a home improvement weekend adventure, a quick renovation, or flooring or paint refresh, Americans love DIY projects. In fact, in 2020 the total sales of all 3 types of home improvement stores totaled more than $450 billion dollars.And HGTV’s website attracts an average of 10.2 million visitors each month.That’s a lot of DIY!But when it comes to your business, trying to DIY-ing it is holding you back.You’ll get further, faster, when you build a team. And you may be thinking that you aren’t ready yet...
2021-05-1013 minFor Love of Team™ | Winston FairclothS2 E80: Why there’s now two I’s in TeamIt’s easy for businesses to get caught up in the day-to-day and not look at the current trends and how things are shifting and changing. But when that happens, big names like Blockbuster and Kodak go the way of dinosaurs and buffalo. To stay current, you have to be aware of fundamental shifts in how businesses operate. And one of the most significant is the move away from traditional leadership and management with employees and staff to integrated teams - whether you’re working with W2s or 1099s.And while the common...
2021-05-0311 minFor Love of Team™ | Winston FairclothS2 E79: Hiring for Cultural Add, Not FitThere are around 400,000 different flowering plants, over 60,000 tree species, and 8.7 million species of animals! Clearly God designed, created, and appreciates variety. All too often in business, though, new employees get hired based on cultural fit which can lead to hiring team members who think the same, act the same, have similar experiences, and agree with each other. But when team members are hired for the culture “add” of bringing more variety to the workplace it benefits everyone.In this episode, you’ll get:What you need to unlearn to build For Love...
2021-04-2611 minFor Love of Team™ | Winston FairclothS2 E78: Evolving an Employee-First AND Client-First Culture | Craig Wood | Premier InternationalThe 1980s were filled with money-hungry firms who were getting rich at all costs. As my podcast guest, Craig Wood, mentions in our interview, that was reflected in the entertainment of the time. Like fictional Wall Street character, Gordon Gekko, who famously stated, “Greed is good.” But Craig’s father-in-law, Jim, wanted to do things differently. He and his wife, Dune, started Premier International, a software consulting company rooted in ethics and built on relationships. They hired college graduates, trained them in the Premier way, and trusted that doing the right thing for their employees and thei...
2021-04-1937 minFor Love of Team™ | Winston FairclothS2 E77 Collaboration Not Delegation (part 2)Did you start your business to keep track of the bookkeeping? Or to become a marketing expert? Or write all the copy? Or maybe you looked forward to taking care of the mail and holding meetings? Probably not. If I had to guess, I’d say that you started your business because you were passionate about providing a product or service that you love.But then you discovered that running a business is so much more than just fulfilling the services you offer. And now you may be feeling stuck. You’d like to do...
2021-04-1214 minFor Love of Team™ | Winston FairclothS2 E76: Collaboration, Not DelegationFrom movies to concerts or sports - everywhere you look in the field of entertainment, you see how specialists come together to create a whole that’s better than its parts. Those specialists aren’t order-takers. They’re captains of their own work...even when that work is part of someone else’s whole. When leaders forget that, chaos ensues.This week’s podcast episode explores the mistake most leaders make when they delegate (a word I believe should never be spoken again) and what they should do instead to build a business they love, supported b...
2021-04-0511 minFor Love of Team™ | Winston FairclothS2 E75: The Power of ProcrastinationYou can find all kinds of leadership quotes that talk about being a captain. And there’s some truth in most of them but a pithy quote doesn’t capture all of the critical aspects of becoming a captain in your business. As you grow in your leadership journey you may find yourself on the same journey as many of my clients - sailing from captive to captain. If you want to grow your business and, at the same time, multiply your impact, income, margin and freedom, it’s time to take the wheel.Join m...
2021-03-2912 minFor Love of Team™ | Winston FairclothS2 E74: Shared Mission | Matthew Purkey | United Way of Allen CountyWhen your organization is tasked with taking care of the community’s needs, it seems obvious where your focus should be.But listen to my conversation with Matthew Purkey, CEO of United Way of Allen County, and his For Love of Team story and you’ll hear some surprising things.“Instead of focusing on all the community needs, I focused on the team and the team took care of the community needs.”That sounds like For Love of Team to me!Tune into this episode and you’ll get:The 2 surprising...
2021-03-2243 minFor Love of Team™ | Winston FairclothS2 E73: Moving from Captive to Captain of your BusinessBusiness owners don’t start a business because they love running a business; they start a business because they love providing a specific product or service and want the freedom that comes with being their own boss. All too quickly, the demands of running a business overwhelm the joy of providing the product or service. This is where many business owners burn out and hit the wall. You can’t make more money or have more time because you’re doing everything yourself, or your customers aren’t being taken care of because your team is non-existent. Or you pu...
2021-03-1515 minFor Love of Team™ | Winston FairclothS2 E72: Serve First and Your Team | Bobby Klinck & Katie ChaseIn this episode, Team Klinck’s Bobby Klinck and Katie Chase join me for the second half of our conversation about building a team you love.The 3 of us tackle the big question about what is your purpose in your life and how does that relate to running a business. And we look at how Team Klinck is promoting a counter-intuitive “Serve First” philosophy and, while that could be seen as a sales tactic, it has already made HUGE ripple effects in and on their community.In addition to the prank they pulled on their audien...
2021-03-0841 minFor Love of Team™ | Winston FairclothS2 E71: Puzzle Pieces Coming Together | Bobby Klinck & Katie ChaseEver heard: “When people pay, they pay attention” or “The transformation is in the transaction”? That’s just one of the myths that we’re busting in the next 2 episodes of For Love of Team. I’m joined by the powerhouse duo of Team Klinck - Bobby Klinck and Katie Chase. Bobby is the founder/visionary and Katie is the integrator and team lead for the business.The three of us take a deep dive into everything team - including the 2 different times Bobby’s peers told him that he was making a big mistake in who he hired an...
2021-03-0158 minFor Love of Team™ | Winston FairclothS2 E70: Leadership Lessons from #ChampaBayTampa Bay. In years past no one would’ve predicted that my new hometown would be a championship city like it is today. With winning hockey, baseball, and football teams, this has been a fantastic 5 months of sports! Whether you are a sports fan or not, those championship teams also have winning leadership and business lessons.In this episode, you’ll get:The dark side of blindly believing business mantrasThe leadership insights you can take from #ChampaBay3 Lessons every champion needs to learnHow a daily text message created a championship mindsetOne reason LOVE drives resul...
2021-02-2213 minFor Love of Team™ | Winston FairclothS2 E69: Confessions of a Level 2 LeaderScroll through your favorite social media platform feed and you’ll find an unusually high percentage of perfectly arranged bookcases in the background, funny pets, and selfies captured with ideal lighting. Curated images. No one else sees the hundreds of deleted images taken and discarded before the “right” one shows up in your feed. It’s simple to present a polished image online...and all too easy to believe that if you just tried a little harder, pushed a little farther, hustled a little longer, you’d have the same magic unicorn success as the gurus...
2021-02-1516 min