48 min

The Art of Decision-Making and Growth with Pamela Carrington-Rotto Made for Impact

    • Management

"If we start growing the company and we're not growing the people, the tension between the company and the people stretches and stretches and stretches. Eventually, it's going to snap or break." - Pamela Carrington-Rotto
Dr. Pamela Carrington-Rotto is an executive coach specializing in neural leadership and neurolinguistic programming. With extensive experience facilitating company growth and strategic thinking, she offers insights into leadership, conflict resolution, and cultivating company culture. 
Host Gretchen Schott welcomes Pamela to discuss the intricacies of scaling up in business, managing a multigenerational workforce, and the importance of aligning core values with productivity within a team. 
In this episode, you’ll learn:
Though deeper and more tedious, strategic work is difficult to grasp but crucial for effective scaling. 
It is important to align team members with a company's core values and ensure their productivity to create a successful and cohesive culture through coaching and skills training.
Useful consensus and decision-making models for promoting quicker alignment and more efficient conflict resolution.
Connect with Pamela: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pamelacarringtonrotto/ 
About Pamela’s Company: http://markayadvisors.com/ 
 
Get in touch with Gretchen, and let her know which impactful leaders you’d like to hear from: Connect on LinkedIn or Subscribe to our newsletter.
Loved this episode? Leave us a review and rating here: https://link.chtbl.com/QY4Knw_x  
Strong leaders at all organizational levels are a requisite for business success. The GrowU Leadership Pathways, developed by Gretchen Schott, keeps a leadership ‘pipeline’ flowing to ensure skilled and competent leaders are present throughout every brand in the Threefold Portfolio. This episode of Made for Impact delves into the third of fourth core competencies in this leadership journey – Conflict Management. 
 
Jump into the conversation:
[00:00] Introduction to Dr. Pamela Carrington-Rotto
[03:56] The women who have impacted Pamela’s life significantly
[09:05] The seeds of initiative and presenting ideas
[12:32] What Pamela told Gretchen’s team about decision-making
[15:18] How a four-finger rule encourages consensus without stigma
[21:21] Understanding how you’re getting in your own way in making team decisions
[26:38] How to have the right mindset when facilitating team conversations
[31:07] Pamela’s pathway to scaling up
[35:07] The importance of growing your people as you grow your business
[40:31] Gauging team members’ productivity and values alignment for company growth
[46:14] Avoiding snap judgments about team member motivation

"If we start growing the company and we're not growing the people, the tension between the company and the people stretches and stretches and stretches. Eventually, it's going to snap or break." - Pamela Carrington-Rotto
Dr. Pamela Carrington-Rotto is an executive coach specializing in neural leadership and neurolinguistic programming. With extensive experience facilitating company growth and strategic thinking, she offers insights into leadership, conflict resolution, and cultivating company culture. 
Host Gretchen Schott welcomes Pamela to discuss the intricacies of scaling up in business, managing a multigenerational workforce, and the importance of aligning core values with productivity within a team. 
In this episode, you’ll learn:
Though deeper and more tedious, strategic work is difficult to grasp but crucial for effective scaling. 
It is important to align team members with a company's core values and ensure their productivity to create a successful and cohesive culture through coaching and skills training.
Useful consensus and decision-making models for promoting quicker alignment and more efficient conflict resolution.
Connect with Pamela: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pamelacarringtonrotto/ 
About Pamela’s Company: http://markayadvisors.com/ 
 
Get in touch with Gretchen, and let her know which impactful leaders you’d like to hear from: Connect on LinkedIn or Subscribe to our newsletter.
Loved this episode? Leave us a review and rating here: https://link.chtbl.com/QY4Knw_x  
Strong leaders at all organizational levels are a requisite for business success. The GrowU Leadership Pathways, developed by Gretchen Schott, keeps a leadership ‘pipeline’ flowing to ensure skilled and competent leaders are present throughout every brand in the Threefold Portfolio. This episode of Made for Impact delves into the third of fourth core competencies in this leadership journey – Conflict Management. 
 
Jump into the conversation:
[00:00] Introduction to Dr. Pamela Carrington-Rotto
[03:56] The women who have impacted Pamela’s life significantly
[09:05] The seeds of initiative and presenting ideas
[12:32] What Pamela told Gretchen’s team about decision-making
[15:18] How a four-finger rule encourages consensus without stigma
[21:21] Understanding how you’re getting in your own way in making team decisions
[26:38] How to have the right mindset when facilitating team conversations
[31:07] Pamela’s pathway to scaling up
[35:07] The importance of growing your people as you grow your business
[40:31] Gauging team members’ productivity and values alignment for company growth
[46:14] Avoiding snap judgments about team member motivation

48 min