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Douglas A Wick
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Topics: employee engagement, employee performance, People, metrics, measurement, How the Mighty Fall,
Fix What Bugs You – A Priority Requires Doing the Right Things Right
Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Aug 24, 2015
Combining ideas from the Growth Summit, celebrating a winning theme and initiating a new one can be a great way to experience growth in your business.
Read MoreAddition by Subtraction – Great Game of Business Story
Posted by Douglas A Wick on Thu, Aug 20, 2015
A Culture of Accountability is the outcome of getting People Decision right in your organization.
Read MoreTopics: employee engagement, employee performance, People, People Decisions, Great Game of Business
Topics: A Players, Leadership DNA, Leadership Team
Winning is Achieving Clear Priorities and Communication
Posted by Douglas A Wick on Thu, Aug 13, 2015
A 14 hour travel day can get pretty boring even if you sprinkle in the occasional joke, predictable encounter with rude motorist, and share it with family members. This past week I traveled to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania to scratch off an item from my bucket list: Gettysburg Battlefield. On the way there I unleashed a practice on my two sons I’d learned in Dale Carnegie training many years back. It is absolutely guaranteed to raise the self-esteem of the people who participate.
Read MoreTopics: Employee Recognition, People, People/Relationship Drivers, human behavior, human behavior performance, superior human relations
How Trust Is Broken and Egos Are Triggered – Smart Tribes
Posted by Douglas A Wick on Thu, Aug 6, 2015
As noted in previous blogs SmartTribes – How to Deliver Accountability and Consequences That Work - More SmartTribes we’re exploring Christine Comaford’s Smart Tribes for ideas to help you grow your business. If you’ve not picked it up I highly recommend it.
Read MoreIn our previous blog SmartTribes – How to Deliver Accountability we offered how Christine Comaford gets accountability in the DNA of developing SmartTribes by building “containers.” Containers are the structures that enable a group of people to achieve real accountability across the board, pulling together like a synchronized rowing team. She offers four key practices that will help you do that:
Read MoreTopics: Accountability, People, Business Development Tool, Smart Tribes
Since listening to Christine Comaford speak at the Orlando Growth Summit I’ve been reading and listening to her book SmartTribes extracting valuable nuggets on how to grow your business.
Read MoreTopics: Accountability, success criteria, Business Dashboards, Smart Tribes
As a salesperson for over 20 years one axiom to remember was never to impress your prospect with how smart you are. The prospect isn’t interested in how smart you are. They’re interested in solving their problem. The only way to solve their problem is to ask questions and listen.
Read MoreTopics: leadership, Leadership Team, Smart Tribes, Listening