At 7:30 a.m. every Monday, 48 weeks a year, groups of employees across the four Cantey Foundation Specialists’ offices in the Southeast join a meeting. Most are salespeople or front-line workers. Many work on commission. All are required to attend.

We have developed the habit of calling these weekly meetings ‘training meetings,’ but it’s not the kind of training you might expect. It isn’t standard job training at all, in fact. But in the two years since we started these meetings, I’ve come to believe it is the most impactful initiative we’ve ever undertaken at Cantey.