Do you have the data?
People often ask me if they should keep a work journal of some kind.
I was encouraged to do this early in my career — I did it for awhile.
Was it worthwhile? I wasn’t sure. Read More
Category: Employee Motivation
Saying Thank You
I was doing a series of leadership workshops last week and one of the things we talked about was creating a thank you habit in the organization.
Create a “Thank You Habit”
What I mean by a Thank You Habit is to make it known to everyone that the organization wants to acknowledge good work. Read More
High Value Communications
Driving Action
In this month’s webinar we talked about how to optimize your communications to drive action in your organization.
HIGH VALUE COMMUNICATIONS
Listen or download the webinar to learn more.
Trust & Confidence
Useful assumptions: It’s useful to assume as a starting point, that people don’t listen to you, don’t believe you and don’t trust you. Read More
Connect the dots
A story…
Recently, I have found myself re-telling a story I read a long time ago, in a leadership book, that really stuck with me.
It was about a boy who had a summer job at a bank. I’m paraphrasing…
One time the CEO of the bank asked the boy, “So, how do you like your job”? Read More
Why people don't do what you say
What Good General Managers Do series
Your strategy is only good if you execute it
Think of if this way…
Greatness of Strategy = Strategy * Execution
If execution is zero, greatness is zero.
ONCE is not enough…
Simply telling people what is important will cause not the organization to start doing what is important. Read More
Shame people into doing the work
When people don’t deliver on their commitments
One of the questions I get most frequently is how to get people who don’t work for you, to do work for you.
So many people are in matrixed situations, or they are a program manager over an endeavor that is dependent on people from all over the place. Read More
Good General Managers and People
Last week I kicked off a series of articles about what good general managers do.
I keep finding myself talking to CEOs who are concerned that their new general managers (also directors and VP’s) just aren’t getting that they need to be working in different way now that they are in an executive level job. Read More
3 Common Business Failures to Avoid
Debate or GO? or Stall?
Awhile back I wrote a post about Debate Phase vs. Go Phase.
These labels help timid people raise issues when it’s helpful (Debate Phase) and then keep everyone focused on execution vs. talking more, when it is time to go. Read More
3 traits of the best leaders
Stand-out Leaders
What makes the top leaders stand out it is not their skills, or experience.
Once you get to compete for the top jobs, everyone has impressive skills and lots of relevant experience. So how do you differentiate?
It’s also not just about execution. Read More
Leading in rough times