Are You Truly Reflecting the
Character of Christ through
Your Leadership and Business?
Leaders with a God given vision, mission, and values frequently fail to put them into practice in any systematic way. They remain lifeless words on a poster. Employees, customers, and other stakeholders question your integrity when they are not seeing the vision and values come to life day to day
Aligning Values from Leadership to the Front Line
Do you experience one or more of these breakdowns?
This is the experience of many Christian business owners!
By it doesn’t have to be this way.
"My leadership team and employees are not all on the same page."
"Silos exist across departments."
“Our customers suffer because we are not working as a team."
“I hesitate to delegate and end up carrying the load."
"Team members are not always held accountable when they don’t align with our values."
"I get caught in the weeds working in the business rather than on the business."
"I make costly mistakes in not hiring the right people."
"I have sleepless nights worrying about cash flow."
"I question how well we reflect Christ’s Kingdom on earth."
Kingdom culture
Imagine what it looks like to be a Kingdom business leader with a Kingdom culture:
- Your heart, mind and actions are aligned with the Holy Spirit and God’s Word
- You move from working in the business as a manager to working on the business as a true leader and owner.
- You share your vision, mission and values in an inspiring and compelling way and enroll employees, customers and other stakeholders
- You have a Values Roadmap which translates values into behaviors
- The decisions, priorities, and actions of you and your people are aligned with the Values Roadmap
- High performance teams drive your reputation for service excellence
- You effectively hire, communicate and delegate so you don’t feel burdened by always carrying the load
- You enjoy greater freedom to engage with family and friends, and pursue personal and community passions
- You attract people to Christ by how you build win-win partnerships with customers, employees, vendors and all key stakeholders
How Your Company Can Truly Reflect God’s Character
We work with Christian entrepreneurs and business owners whose dream is to build a thriving company on the rock of biblical principles rather than on sand. (Matthew 7:24-27). We help you build and implement a plan to intentionally translate your vision and values into a thriving Kingdom culture. Our proven Kingdom leader and Kingdom culture methodologies transform small and medium-sized business owners from survival to best in class in their industry.
I discovered in consulting with Christian-led companies and documenting case examples for my book, Reflecting God’s Character in Your Business, that to grow a thriving Kingdom culture starts with growing as a Kingdom leader. It all starts from the inside out. We have a proven methodology called PEACE we developed over the last 30 years to grow Kingdom leaders.
Our PEACE methodology grows the capability of leaders, like you, to align your heart, mind and actions with God’s character, values, and agenda.
The 5 steps of the PEACE Methodology
Clarify the Problem
Conduct an assessment and report findings on your strengths and areas for improvement in stewarding your company based on biblical values.
Embrace the Opportunity
Create a God-revealed personal and leadership Vivid Vision, grounded in biblically based core values.
Align with your Vision Self
Identify how your identity, beliefs, skills, and behavior are in and out of alignment with your Vision Self.
Create Your Personal Master Plan
Build a pragmatic step by step roadmap for moving from where you are today to where you want to be. We start by focusing on the 3 areas which will be most doable and have the most impact on becoming your Vision Self.
Execute the Plan
Effectively execute the plan with coaching and accountability.
Our FAITH methodology builds the capability of Kingdom leaders to intentionally build high performance, customer focused and innovative cultures based on God’s timeless truths. Through our values-driven consulting, we partner with you to create and implement a Kingdom culture by design, rather than by default.
5 steps of the FAITH methodology
Focus
Clarify your God-revealed vision, mission, and values for the business and translate the values into behaviors.
Integrate
You integrate the values into all operating practices and processes including how you make decisions, how people are hired, rewarded, promoted and fired; how you partner with stakeholders and how you measure success.
Align
Everyone, starting with the leadership team, are embrace in the vision, mission, and values.
Perform with Excellence
Employees are appraised and rewarded for meet and exceed objectives as they put the Values-in-Action and serve all stakeholders as a High Performing Team.
Transform
Continuous improvement process is in place to foster innovation and create new and improved ways of creating and delivering products and services and streamlining processes.
By implementing these 5 steps we create a Kingdom culture which reflects the character of Christ and results in winning through excellence
Here are 10 critical success factors that will skyrocket your business:
If you want to set the standards for excellence in all areas of your business God’s Way, click below and we will schedule a brief 15 minute conversation.
Values are operationalized into specific behaviors which you and all employees live out daily
Everyone knows what the customer wants and delivers defect-free, timely, and caring service
A unified team is collectively responsible for achieving common objectives focused on serving the customer
People feel heard, understood, respected, and know where they fit in
The right people are matched to the right positions and empowered to serve the customer
Daily behaviors, practices and processes are designed to deliver what the customer wants
Efficient and effective processes and systems are in place to scale and replicate the business
Performance metrics and behaviors are measured and progress is communicated in a visible way
A system of accountability is in place with regular feedback from peers, supervisors and customers and the right results and behaviors are rewarded
Continuous improvement fosters innovation
Why am I passionate about Kingdom leadership and culture?
As a 3-4 year old Armenian child growing up in Turkey, my father was an eye witness to the Turkish massacres of the Armenian people. Noone should ever see what he saw, let alone a 3 year old child. His experience was indelibly imprinted in his conscience and colored his outlook on life. That’s why he repeatedly told me throughout my childhood and adulthood, that evil overcomes good and big business and big government crush the small innocent guy.
Deeply influenced by my father’s first hand understanding of good and evil, I decided to major in Sociology in college and earn a Ph.D in Organization Behavior. My motivation was that I would help create institutions which served people rather than use them for selfish gains. As an executive coach, consultant and trainer, I have partnered with leaders in the C-suite and with teams at every level in the US and in Europe for over thirty years. I worked in a variety of industries including telecommunications, pharmaceuticals, finance, technology, transportation, and banking. Regardless of the industry, I observed a recurrent pattern. Money, politics, command and control leadership and transactional relationships undermined the aspirations of leaders to create a high performing, high support culture.
Joyce Avedisian-Riedinger, Ph.D.
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“If you get all people on the same page around core values and priorities, there is nothing you can’t accomplish.”
When I received Jesus as my Lord and Savior, I received a new calling, to enable Christian business leaders and owners to reflect Christ’s character through their leadership and business. To realize this calling I founded Avedisian Management Consultants. My vision today is to partner with Christian business leaders in small and medium sized businesses who want to be leaders in their industry, are committed to building win-win relationships, and demonstrating extraordinary results with all stakeholders. As I partnered with Christian business owners, I discovered a prevalent problem. Leaders who have the right values and heart to serve people are frequently overwhelmed with day to day demands and don’t know how to intentionally create a Kingdom culture. Therefore, they far short of their potential to advance God’s Kingdom on earth.
I joined a Christian CEO Membership Group and met a fellow member, who is founder and CEO of a national wealth planning organization and financial services company. We both observed that faith in the marketplace speakers and books focused on biblical concepts, but lacked the “how tos.” So we wrote a book, entitled, Reflecting God’s Character in Your Business, to integrate biblical concepts with practical application. The book includes indepth case examples of faith-based CEOs who set the standards in their industry and are thriving. Today we are consulting and coaching Christian CEOs based on a framework which utilizes the learnings from these best practice companies as well as our own first hand experience. The results from applying the framework move companies from good to great in their market.
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