10/03/2022 No Comments
In every company, certain subjects are only discussed behind closed doors. The problem is that often these “unspeakable” statements are the most important ones for leaders to hear and for the team to tackle. They need to be said out loud, not at the “meeting after the meeting.” The subjects people are most afraid to […]... Read More
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How you convey information to your team is critical to effective execution. Taking the time for conversation is very important. Ask yourself this – if I could just get my people to do better – before it’s a performance problem, am I doing everything I could to set up success? It is important to take […]... Read More
17/02/2022 No Comments
Although I worked with some very successful businesses in the early years of my career there were some very average management practices. Management training meant being trained to fill out forms, have a once-a-year appraisal conversation with your employees and tell them how they could improve. The dreaded performance reviews. Supposedly addressing performance over the […]... Read More
10/02/2022 No Comments
As a former CEO of multiple businesses and now a Business Coach, I’ve learned from experience that there are fundamentally three key drivers of a high-performance environment in a ness. Strategy – clear customer strategy development and definition Execution – there are consistent processes for strategy execution that align individual contributions to the overall strategy […]... Read More
03/02/2022 No Comments
A good friend of mine, Susan Lucia Annunzio – President and Chief Executive Officer of The Center for High Performance, based in Chicago – completed a global study of workforce performance and published her book Contagious Success. This was ground-breaking research – Lucia and her team discovered that what drove high performance could be observed […]... Read More
27/01/2022 No Comments
Team building is all about getting the right people doing the right things in order to accomplish a shared vision. This isn’t a new idea. Jim Collins wrote about this in ‘Good to Great’, describing “disciplined people” and “disciplined action” as core components of breakthrough momentum. In ‘Mastering the Rockefeller Habits’, Verne Harnish describes this […]... Read More
