VP Culture School of Leadership

Great video describing the approach to leadership focusing on “the one thing that motivates all people.”

While this video is about our 2024 Missouri School of Leadership, we can provide these classes anywhere in the world by web, and in North America and Europe live.

Good Morning HR Podcast Interview of Randal Weidenaar, Founder of VP Culture

There’s one thing that motivates people, and it activates serotonin in our brains. Traditional management practice has over-relied upon dopamine, perhaps even “hacking” dopaminergic responses to the point that these management practices stop working. Goals and rewards are fantastic, but they can be over-relied upon and end up working in reverse.

Building Psychologically Safe Workplaces

Randal Weidenaar of VP Culture unpacks how to lead psychologically safe workplaces. Psychologically safe workplaces result in employee engagement, productivity and ultimately people thrive in safe environments. How do we create these types of workplaces? Randal unpacks 4 key techniques to build psychological safety. He also details why this is so important to our wellbeing as people. This is a key feature of creating a business culture that is healthy and growing.

People or Profits?

“I like to point to Southwest Airlines who’s had this philosophy for a long time… always had this “people first” kind of mentality… valuing people first. [Southwest] entered into a mature industry 60 years ago… such a tight margin of financial success…[that the industry has] posted a net loss in [the last] 50 years… But in that 60 years [Southwest]… has thrived… with that philosophy of valuing people first. “