This is a brilliant conversation with Steve Tew, former CEO of New Zealand Rugby Union- home of the most successful sports franchise in the history of sports – the New Zealand All Blacks. Included are some great insights into building a winning culture and an environment of success; how purpose ties to performance; the importance of winning and of course Steve’s proudest impacts and magic moments.
In episode 2, we hop inside PurposeFused for a 30 minute conversation hosted by Shauna Griffiths of SLG Impact, with myself (Mark Griffin) and my Founding Partner Neil Turnham. We provide context to the podcast and how it fits with our our business, in addition to exploring our general philosophy, experiences and of course – our Magic Moments.
As economies open up post-pandemic, the competition for talent is really heating up. Organizations need to gain the advantage over their competitors to hire the people they want, so we thought we’d share our experience with you in our upcoming whitepaper Recruiting with Purpose. In it, we explore the importance and role of purpose in the hiring process, how it can give you and edge and why it matters.
A quick share about two companies I came across this month – one through direct experience, the other via LinkedIn, both while hugely different in size, demonstrate the critical fusion between people and purpose. Mod Pizza and Virgin Atlantic.
Join us as we speak with the truly inspirational Kevin Roberts, founder of RedRose Consulting and former Worldwide CEO and Chairman of the incredible Saatchi and Saatchi. Kevin shares how it all starts with purpose, his inspirational dream, creating a culture that embraces flow and much more…
As part of our Live with Purpose program PurposeFused, we reflect on Magic Moments as one small but positive piece of people’s purpose discovery process. We also integrate Magic Moments into all our interviews and our Connecting with Purpose podcast which will be live later this month.
So, it seemed appropriate that when one of our team members – Shauna, interviewed us, she asked for ours. As you can see this was raw and uncut, which is in part what makes the magic in the recalling the moments.
PurposeFused Gains 1,281% in under 4 weeks. OK, it’s not our stock price, but we’ve still grown 1,281% this month! How very crypto! Thank you to all of you who have followed our LinkedIn page and demonstrated your interest and support!
What’s your driving force? When you are being the best version of yourself, what is it that gives you the energy, enthusiasm and vitality to go-forward, no matter what? Watch this video or read this short article to start discovering your own driving force.
According to Gallup, purpose is one of 5 elements of wellbeing, alongside social, financial, community and physical. Further, investments in purpose Gallup found were fundamental to enriching the other 4 components of wellbeing – in other words “feeling happy, healthy and fulfilled, starts with purpose”.
When the organizational, leaders’ and individuals’ purposes are aligned and integrated into shared objectives – that’s when the magic happens. This month, our first of three curated insights spanning the world of purpose is focused on purpose in a crisis, where the magic has to happen – pretty damn quick!
