According to the thousands of team interviews conducted by FastCompany, less than 10% rate their teams as high-performing. This is why a coaching habit is critical to your success. No matter what stage of development your organization is in, there are always reasons to hire an executive coach to guide further development. Even in more [...]
Change is a word that is used so frequently in so many situations it seems important to clarify the type of change I am referring to when discussing the rethinking process. The SmartPlan360™ Platform provides you with an objective roadmap to know which of the four types of change to pursue: Tweaks: Small incremental changes [...]
Are you rethinking your business? Do you have strategic questions you would love answered? Then this book is for you! Today, I'm happy to announce my newest book, RETHINKING FOR A CHANGE is available in paperback and Kindle eBook. I wrote this book for leaders, managers, and professional practitioners who are keen to rethink [...]
To build a great company, you need to build a great team because without them you will be hard-pressed to get beyond your current growth stage. The greatest leaders have always ascribed their success to their team. Listen to a few famous quotes from some well-known leaders: “Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence [...]
During the past several years, I have observed more and more leaders learning the true value of their leadership teams and employees. With all of the changes taking place in the marketplace, we have come to appreciate the value of human contact and discussion. Aren’t you glad we can now start going places and enjoying [...]
After decades of coaching many CEOs and senior leaders, I’ve learned one skill that truly separates a good from a great leader is: where they spend most of their thinking time. We all tend to do the things that come the most naturally to us. Some are analytically trained and think like a strategist [...]
Defining roles in an organization for every single employee is mandatory. Those that don’t operate at their peril. The risk of not operating with clearly defined roles — is employees' rolling right out of the organization! This was far less common just five years ago. Still, with all the evaluations and workplace changes employees and employers [...]
Wouldn’t it be great if we could decide just six things each day that would lead to our success? Well, we can. The result of these critical questions would mean that instead of getting stuck in a strategic challenge, we could find a way to unclog, unblock, and release ourselves from what holds us back. [...]
A high-level perspective can reveal your organization’s parts and pieces and can assist you in identifying what is in alignment and what isn’t. Of all the principle foundations you could choose to begin, vision is often the missing dimension that prevents an otherwise effective organization from excelling. Perhaps your organization has excellent products and service support [...]
When an organization has far too many strategic initiatives and projects underway, it will overload the organization’s capacity to produce them. Michael Porter wrote, “If the essence of strategy is choosing what not to do then the essence of execution is not doing it.” That might sound simple, but the fact is most organizations [...]