About Margie Oleson:

Margie Oleson is an executive coach and leadership/team development expert with a doctorate in Organization Development. She delivers her coaching with practical strategies and actions for leaders and their leadership teams to build the right foundation for teamwork and productivity. Clients have included companies in most industries, such as Aeronautics, Agriculture, Financial Services, FinTech, Health Care, Higher Education, Insurance, Manufacturing, Medical Devices, Nonprofit, Retail, and more.

Margie developed Top Team Accelerator, which helps senior leaders and their leadership teams build systems and habits for successful change and sustain improvements going forward. With an emphasis on the organization, Margie works with senior leaders and leadership teams to become cohesive, high-performing teams – which translates to high performance among their own teams.

In this episode, Dean Newlund and Margie Oleson discuss:

• The gap between knowing and practicing leadership
• Team cohesion and communication
• Enhancing meetings for better productivity and culture
• Leadership’s impact on company culture and performance
• The importance of openly discussing behaviors and accountability

Key Takeaways:

• Leadership development is a company’s most important investment, as strong leaders drive success and influence everyone else in the organization.
• A lack of alignment in leadership teams creates silos, miscommunication, and dysfunction, which can be resolved by ensuring top teams share and communicate the same goals.
• Ineffective meetings waste resources and signal larger issues, but addressing root causes like politics, fear of missing out, and silos leads to a cultural and productivity shift.
• Leadership sets the tone for the organization; when senior leaders fail to model alignment and transparency, it trickles down, creating a culture of mediocrity and disengagement that stifles progress and innovation.

“Culture is the outcome of how you’re leading your decisions, the things you say, the things you don’t say, and the things you reinforce.” — Margie Oleson

Connect with Margie Oleson:  

Websites: https://www.topteamaccelerator.com/ & https://www.oleson-consulting.com/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@margieoleson891

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/margieoleson/

See Dean’s TedTalk “Why Business Needs Intuition” here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEq9IYvgV7I

Connect with Dean:

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgqRK8GC8jBIFYPmECUCMkw

Website: https://www.mfileadership.com/

The Mission Statement E-Newsletter: https://www.mfileadership.com/blog/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/deannewlund/

X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/deannewlund

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MissionFacilitators/

Email: dean.newlund@mfileadership.com

Phone: 1-800-926-7370

Show notes by Podcastologist: Hanz Jimuel Alvarez

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