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Great Results Team Building Sean Glaze is a workplace culture keynote speaker and team building event facilitator who helps people have conversations they have been avoiding.

Leadership Speaker, Team Building Facilitator, & Culture Coach - Creating Interactive Experiences That Improve Connections, Collaboration, and Accountability and Helping Leaders Build More Positive and Profitable Teams! Looking for a fun event to increase team trust or motivation? Searching for a group bonding or teambuilding experience to strengthen relationships and leadership skills? Invest time in growing your people with cooperative challenges, team building activities, or an impactful speaking topic to improve morale and communication with interactive fun! Contact Sean to schedule an event and inspire your people to work together with increased focus and productivity!

The catfish isn’t the weirdest part of this picture…It’s the rationing!Somewhere, there’s a manager looking at the bucke...
10/31/2026

The catfish isn’t the weirdest part of this picture…
It’s the rationing!

Somewhere, there’s a manager looking at the bucket and nodding.
“Yep. That’s how to manage resources.”

And you’ve probably seen that on company teams:
Only 1 thank you per project
Only 1 voice per meeting (usually the boss)
But appreciation isn’t a limited resource.
Neither is encouragement.

You don’t build a stronger culture by rationing the things that make people feel valued (or not being there).
The more you give sincere praise and presence, the more your people give back in effort and trust.

So don’t be the house handing out one catfish per kid.

Be the full-size candy bar house.
Then be that kind of leader the rest of the year too.

Happy Halloween!

The hardest leadership blind spot to see is your own.We hear the advice all the time:“Take a hard look in the mirror.”So...
10/29/2026

The hardest leadership blind spot to see is your own.

We hear the advice all the time:
“Take a hard look in the mirror.”

So we do…
We reflect on our decisions.
We evaluate our performance.
We think about what we could have done better.

And here’s the problem…
You can look in the mirror with complete honesty and STILL miss important things.

Good intentions don’t always drive the results you wanted.

What feels like “being decisive” can feel like “not listening” to your team.

Here are the 3 ways to grow your awareness:
REFLECTION: You examine your own decisions, habits, and assumptions.
FEEDBACK: You ask your team what they experience around you.
COACHING: Someone else asks the questions you’d never ask yourself or your team.

You can’t fix a blind spot you can’t see,
And sometimes it takes someone you trust to see it.

Want a second set of eyes on your leadership to improve your team culture?
Let’s talk.

10/28/2026

Elisha Otis stood on an open platform high above a crowd in 1854 and told a man to cut the only rope holding him up.

The platform dropped a few inches and stopped.
“All safe, gentlemen.”

The brake worked exactly the same the week before. What changed was who was standing on the platform when it got tested.

Almost every leader I work with has said some version of “My door is always open.”
Very few of their people believe it.

Not necessarily because the leader is lying. Because describing safety and demonstrating it are two very different things.

Your team isn’t deciding whether your door is open based on what you say.

They’re deciding based on what happens when someone walks through it with bad news or a truth you don’t want to hear.

Do you get defensive?
Explain away the problem?
Or thank them for having the courage to tell you?

Your response to the first uncomfortable conversation determines whether there will be a second or a third.

As a team building speaker and facilitator, I share the 3-Legged Stool of Trust in my programs. But knowing the stool isn’t enough.

Trust takes doing, not describing.

If your team needs more trust and more honest conversations, I would love to help.

Only 20% of U.S. employees strongly agree they feel connected to their organization’s culture.That’s Gallup’s most recen...
10/28/2026

Only 20% of U.S. employees strongly agree they feel connected to their organization’s culture.
That’s Gallup’s most recent research...

And the payoff for trying to close that gap is hard to ignore.

Connected employees are 4.3 times as likely to be engaged, 47% less likely to be job hunting, and 62% less likely to feel burned out very often or always.

I coached basketball for years.
We had values on the locker room wall.
They meant nothing until we practiced them. Players don’t connect to posters. They connect to what the coach rewards, tolerates, and models when the game is tight.

Your workplace is the same.

A culture statement is a poster.
Connection happens when people see clear Goals, Relationships built on purpose, Expectations said out loud, fair Accountability, and specific Thanks.

That’s the work I do in my keynotes and facilitated team sessions.
Not trust falls.

Real experiences that get people to shift how they actually work together.
And how connected they are.

If your team is sitting in that 80%, let’s talk.

Your leadership casts a longer shadow than you realize.Look at the shadow in this photo. The tree is impressive, but its...
10/27/2026

Your leadership casts a longer shadow than you realize.
Look at the shadow in this photo.

The tree is impressive, but its shadow reaches far beyond the tree itself.

Your leadership works the same way.

Your team feels your shadow in how you react to bad news, how you respond to a mistake, what you celebrate, and what you let slide.

When I coached basketball, my players listened to what I said at halftime.
But they were also watching how I responded to a bad call, a missed shot, or a disappointing performance...
My behavior showed them what my values and standards really were.

I’ve seen the same thing in organizations as a speaker and coach.
Great leaders ask for honest feedback and seek valuable coaching because your intentions aren’t what your team experiences.

Your behavior is.

So here’s a question worth asking:
What might your team see in the shadow your actions are casting?

If you’d like help seeing yours, schedule a call with me and let’s talk about how coaching could help you lead the way you intend to.

The worst thing your people can aspire to be is normal.Normal people think of themselves.Normal people live with blinder...
10/25/2026

The worst thing your people can aspire to be is normal.

Normal people think of themselves.
Normal people live with blinders on.
Normal people do just enough to get by.

I wrote that line for a character in my book, but I’ve watched it play out in real organizations for years.
The teams that win aren’t built on normal.

They’re built by teammates who notice the person next to them, say thanks out loud, and do more than they have to as part of something bigger than themselves...

Anyone can be an employee.
Becoming known as a Winning Teammate is a choice you make every morning.

The organizations that make that a habit are different.
Expectations are clear. Appreciation is frequent.
People stay coachable, and problems surface early instead of festering.

Planning your next conference, or team retreat?

I’d love to bring this message to your people and help them show up for each other on purpose.

We only won 5 games my first year as a head coach.(I was a slow learner) Took me a while to figure out how important tea...
10/24/2026

We only won 5 games my first year as a head coach.
(I was a slow learner) Took me a while to figure out how important team culture is…

Here’s the wandering professional journey I’ve made:

1992: First adult job. High school English teacher and basketball coach.

The next decade: Assistant coach, thinking I had it figured out. (Talent made that easy.)

2005: First head coaching job. Had a huge ego, and a lot to learn.

2007: Took a team from 5 wins to 19. Same talent. Different culture.

2011: Took over a program that had won just 2 games. We finished with the most wins in school history 2 years later. Talent is essential, never sufficient.

2012: Founded Great Results Teambuilding to bring experiential lessons from the court to the workplace.

2014: Became an author. Rapid Teamwork was my first corporate leadership book… a parable with five steps for turning individuals into a team.

2015: Named NSA Georgia Chapter Member of the Year and started keynoting at conferences to help leaders and teams enjoy more profitable teamwork.

2024: Introduced Sticky Cultures, built on a bigger question: how do leaders create environments where people thrive and take ownership?

Here’s what I believe more than ever:
Culture is always a symptom of leadership.

It’s shaped by the behaviors leaders allow, encourage, and repeatedly reinforce.

I didn’t leave basketball behind.
I took the locker room insights into the workplace.
And I’m still learning.

If your team has talent but not the results, I bring this to organizations like Cisco, John Deere, the CDC, and Emory through keynotes, team building events, and coaching.

So, what’s a lesson from an earlier chapter of your career that shaped your work?

How badly do you want THAT outcome? On a scale of 1 to 10?That is the early coaching question I use to find out whether ...
10/23/2026

How badly do you want THAT outcome?
On a scale of 1 to 10?

That is the early coaching question I use to find out whether leaders have a goal or a wish.

Say you tell me a 7.
I do not congratulate you.
I ask, “why not a 1?”

It is more useful than it sounds, because the reasons you give are the real reasons you care.

Then I ask, what would it take to make it a 9?
Whatever you say is usually the work.

Maybe it is a hard conversation you have been avoiding.
Maybe it is permission from someone above you.
Maybe it is deciding that "good enough" no longer is.

Then I ask a second question.
How hard are you willing to work to make it happen?

Wanting and working are different numbers.
The gap between them is where plans die.

If you would like to go through this exercise with me, I offer a 30-minute Coaching Curiosity Call.

No sales pitch, just your story.

Want to lead more effectively? Lets talk.

If Retention is Important, You Need a GREAT Culture.Your best people decide whether to stay long before they tell you......
10/20/2026

If Retention is Important, You Need a GREAT Culture.

Your best people decide whether to stay long before they tell you...

And it happens in small moments.
A question nobody answered.
A mistake nobody addressed.
Good work nobody noticed.

I help leaders at companies like Cisco and John Deere build teams people don’t want to leave.

Gallup found 51% of employees who quit said no one talked with them about their future in their last three months

This free playbook gives you a week-by-week plan, starting with a 10-minute conversation with every person on your team.

Grab Your Copy Today.

And hand it to every new manager you promote.

Had such a great time with the City of Wentzville as their keynote speaker for their annual Employee Development Day - a...
10/19/2026

Had such a great time with the City of Wentzville as their keynote speaker for their annual Employee Development Day - and want to say thank you to the event planners who made it happen.

Organizing a day that brings over 300 coworkers together is a big job, but Tina Miller, Abigail Ayers, and their fantastic “Backstage Crew” had every detail handled. (special thanks also to Taquoara Watson)

Grateful to you for inviting me to share What Winning Teammates DO Differently.

Workers in streets, finance, police, and administration are all partners in keeping Wentzville growing and running so well. That kind of teamwork does not happen by accident. It happens because people choose to invest in and show up for each other.

To everyone who attended, I hope you continue finding small ways to connect and share specific thanks with the teammates you count on.

If your organization is looking for a keynote or team building experience that gets people connecting and working better together, I’d love to talk!


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