As we pause to celebrate and give thanks for all the bounty of our land, our work, our community, our family, and our God, may we be humbled in our gratitude.
JKL Associates thanks you who we have the honor of providing insights into the world of building a “Promise Culture” for the betterment of self, organization, and society.
Next week unofficially starts the beginning of the holiday season. It’s hard to believe, but there are only about 25 business days left until the end of the calendar year. So it is “Crunch Time!” This time of the year is filled with wrapping up not only presents, but on the business side, all the open ends of the goals established last fall for 2025. At the same time, we are reviewing our 2025 progress and setting business plans and objectives for 2026. This is the time of year when our parallel processing is put to the test.
Back in the mid-80s, Bob Geldof (Irish songwriter and activist) and colleagues set out on a mission to address a hunger crisis in Ethiopia. Through song releases and a worldwide simulcast concert typically known as “Live Aid,” the world’s humanity engaged in generating millions of dollars to assist in this famine effort. It was the first of its kind endeavor for such a critical need. Fundamentally, the mission was to bring worldwide attention to an area of the world and its real-life-threatening challenges that, for the most part, were not on the minds of many.
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Ever have that gut-wrenching feeling that your plan was destined to fail? All the preparation would go down the drain, and you would be left with nothing? Have you ever pondered the thought of having to start over after investing time, money, and a lot of emotional and mental energy into your future? If these questions caused a reaction, then at some point in time in your history, you experienced a level of doubt.
Tomorrow is the day of Trick or Treats. Children will don costumes of various characters from heroes to villains. This is their opportunity to project one of their fantasies into the world. As leaders, it is important that we recognize this critical development activity for our children and future workforce. This creativity is necessary to build problem-solving skills. They explore the realities of what heroes or villains contribute or take away from society.
At JKL Associates, we engage our clients under the Promise Culture Model. It is a framework to build a successful, stable, sustainable, and profitable business upon. At its core are Purpose, Values, Principles, and the various relationships of all the parties to the organization. The framework or platform is the structure or foundation, but in order for it to flourish, the relationships – the people-to-people intersection MUST be rooted in trust. An organization can have a well-articulated purpose, vision, mission, and the like, but when the behaviors and actions of the people are contrary to those words, then trust fails.
We have all arrived in our roles in business through various channels. Some might have started the business from the ground up. Some might have purchased an existing business and now guide its future. Others might have been hired in and risen through the ranks to a level of leadership. Still others might have been part of a family’s business legacy and continued to nurture it forward. Regardless of your situation, we can all look back and recall moments in our business life where we thought a given plan of action was going to be fairly simple, yet turned out to be anything but simple. Business leadership is just that way.
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As leaders, we are regularly challenged to revisit the foundation of the business platform. Your organization might have a mission or vision statement, supplemented by principles and values that outline the desired way your organization operates. This foundation was crafted with great intent and expectations to be fully integrated into your day-to-day business decisions and actions. The question today is – Are you holding yourself accountable to the framework, and are you operating your business within the expectations of your purpose, values, principles, vision, and mission?
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When JKL Associates is invited into a business to add value, early in the conversation with them, we bring up the need for the owner and associated leadership to take their health seriously. It may sound like an unusual suggestion for a third party to make, but if we collectively want to advance the organization’s success, then we need all team members to be present at both the beginning and the end.