“We’re thinking we should just postpone this next quarter’s strategic plan update session. Everyone is really busy, and honestly, we’re tired. You know we’ve had these two huge, out-of-nowhere projects come up that have taken over our lives. The team has done great, but we’ve fallen behind on several strategic initiatives. I think it’d help everyone’s morale if we just gave ourselves a break. What do you think?” I know you’re all tired and understandably so. But I think you’d be making a...
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Change Your Organization’s Culture in 12 Months
Change your organization’s culture in 12 months. That statement sounds crazy right? It sounds impossible, but it’s not. It simply takes your unrelenting focus and commitment as a leader to model and communicate what you want and need your team to do as well. It won’t be easy to change your organization’s culture in 12 months. It simply takes your unrelenting focus and commitment as a leader to model and communicate what you want and need your team to do as well. As the leader, you have...
See It Before It Happens
Wouldn’t it be great if the next time something unexpected happened, your team spent less time reacting and more time taking action? It may sound impossible, but it’s not. I’ve had several conversations with clients recently about how to develop quicker and more effective responses to the unexpected. We’ve all come to accept that changes are and will continue to occur at faster and faster rates, so what can we do? As leaders, how can we help our teams cope? We help them get better at seeing...
What Would We Do If…
I recently had the opportunity to co-facilitate a client’s exercise on stress testing their business continuity plan. It was also an opportunity for me to reiterate the importance of strong Stage 1 and Stage 2 leadership skills with these leaders. This client’s business continuity plan is in draft, so the exercise was important to not only identify gaps in the draft plan, but to also test the various teams’ ability to jump to the proposed course of action or to develop another solution if the...
Create Values That Support Your Culture
If you’re like most organizations today, you’re struggling to attract, train, develop, promote, and retain great team members. Heck, you’re struggling to find and retain team members - regardless of how great they may be! You’re also dealing with a myriad of supply chain and pricing issues, social and political divisiveness, altered expectations of ‘the workplace’, and much more. All of these pressures make ‘just doing what you do’ a true challenge. So how do you attract, train, develop,...