In this episode of The Comp Effect podcast, host Todd Thams interviews Grant Botma, the Founder of Stewardship. Grant talks about the importance of creating a company culture and shares tips from his Culture Course on how to build and run a thriving team.  

Episode Highlights:

• Grant shares his background. (4:38)
• Grant shares a story about a career fair he attended when he was 15 years old. (5:28)
• Do you believe that your boss or manager genuinely cares about you? (10:31)
• Grant mentions one of the biggest factors that was a failing point to him. (11:32)
• Grant shares the significant aspects of the motivational hierarchy. (13:32)
• Grant shares their culture in the company. (15:02)
• Grant mentions their affirmation scoreboard. (17:50)
• How long did it take Grant to get to the KPI dashboard that he has today? (19:24)
• How has Grant’s faith shaped the way that he operates his businesses today? (23:18)
• Grant mentions the most significant word in the great commission. (25:28)

Key Quotes:

• “People want to do something that makes the world a better place and if we can create goals that do that, that’s what’s better, and that’s what I had to discover.” – Grant Botma
• “My company culture is that it has a purpose, and this purpose is not as a mission statement. This is a unifying thing that everybody comes into work together to do together and they get excited about doing with other people they care about.” – Grant Botma
• “I believe you have one life that you live, you don’t have all these different lives, that you try to live at the same time that just becomes exhausting. It’s contradictory and hypocritical. So, I just do my best to be the same person no matter where I’m at.” – Grant Botma

Resources Mentioned:

• Stewardship
• Grant Botma LinkedIn
• Todd Thams LinkedIn
• Direct Work Comp
• Thams Agency