About
Garry Browne has over 40 years’ experience in servant leadership building some of the best-known international consumer brands in Australia and well-known Australian brands across business, not-for-profit and professional sectors,
Garry is passionate about being a catalyst to help younger professionals, senior executives and entrepreneurs build their own personal brands so they can lead with values and make a positive impact.
He has presented at various national and international events, including the European Sales and Marketing Network, Brookfield, Harvard Club Australia and Rotary International.
Garry focuses on expansive and values-based leadership, stepping up to lead with purpose, care and courage.
Values vs. Value
Are values just words stuck on the wall of your office?
Does your team understand the difference between value and values?
Does every member of your team live and practice the values of your organisation?
Values are about imposing fundamental, strategically sound beliefs on a broad group of people. If they’re going to really take hold in your organization, your core values need to be integrated into every employee-related process — hiring methods, performance management systems, criteria for promotions and rewards, and even dismissal policies.
Building and communicating your company’s values is not a one-off project. It’s a continual effort by leaders across the company and behaviours have to be modelled.
Building clear and strong values requires policies, processes, and trust throughout your company to guide individuals to strive to live by these and speak up when they and others do not.
Coming up with strong values—and sticking to them—requires real guts.
Reputation
How much attention and care do you really pay to the reputation of your brand?
Every team member’s daily behaviour impacts the reputation of your company.
Your brand is what others say about your company/brand when you are not in the room (and across social media)
Every interaction everyone in your company has with colleagues or customers impacts your reputation. You must manage and protect it through clear values and behaviours.
It’s impossible to ‘see’ throughout our company. Values, purpose, empathy, and trust are the guides.
Your relevance is about what you can do, not who you are. It’s about being something, not someone.
Relevance
How well do you (your team/executives) really understand your customers’ needs at a point in time and over time?
Understanding all your stakeholders is challenging and focusing on one can lead to a misalignment of the executive and company. Understanding what’s important to each stakeholder and balancing these is challenging.
Your relevance is about what you can do for your customers and stakeholders, not who you are.
Understanding the interaction between relevance at a moment in time and over time is critical if you are to be relevant at a point in time and over time.
Many leaders focus on the immediate and short-term, which impacts sustainability and growth over time.
Relevance at a point in time and over time is the only sustainable way to grow a business and your leadership impact.
Clarity and Alignment
Are you clear about what your values are and what building a successful and happy life looks like to you and for each of your team members?
Bringing your authentic self to work requires deep self-reflection and work on your life experiences, how these have shaped you and your beliefs and behaviours.
Alignment across your professional and personal life and supporting those in your team to explore this is vital in building a team that is motivated, fulfilled and open to learning, growth and change.
What we know matters, but who we are matters more. - Brene Brown
Focusing on performance metrics alone creates disconnect and dysfunction as personal/values and purpose aren’t aligned.
Leaders across any business often lack clarity about their values, value, fulfilment and happiness, which often leads to burn-out, stress and disconnect.
Developing high levels of self-awareness in leaders at all levels leads to greater confidence, alignment of values, an open/continual learning mindset and positive impact.
Those who seek to be perfect or perfection in others never move forward.
You don’t have to be perfect. Just be there. Show up, listen, don’t fix.