You respond negatively to them.
When this happens, Robert Glazer, author of Elevate: Push Beyond Your Limits and Unlock Success in Yourself and Others, offers, it’s the last time you’ll hear this person share it with anyone, unless it's with their peers in the company.
Their failed efforts to give feedback reduce everyone else on your team’s willingness to provide observations you need to improve your business. You just turned off the flow of information with your response. It may appear small on the surface, yet it inhibits growth.
Glazer sprinkled great ideas for building a team culture like he was a pastry chef with an unlimited supply of candy!
His most important points:
These ideas were showered upon the leaders attending Metronome’s Tip Top Summit 2023 throughout his presentation. (Please forgive some of the pictures here as they were taken over the heads of the people attending Tip Top.)
Four Elements of Capacity Building
It’s not about doing more; it’s doing more of the right things. Capacity-building is knowing where you need to invest your energy and where you need to pull away.
Glazer identified four essential elements of capacity building: spiritual, intellectual, physical, and emotional.
Building physical capacity offers a concrete example of increased effort and improved outcomes. Similar to Gary Keller’s The One Thing, when you improve one area, you begin to improve in all. One of the most important outcomes of capacity building is the exponential effect it has on others, including friends, family, and those whom you lead. It has the effect of lifting while you climb—as you build your own capacity and achieve more, you develop the ability to help others do the same.
It’s a virtuous cycle and benefits everyone involved.
Leadership
Glazer emphasizes core values and playing to your strengths. It’s the motor driving you, either unconsciously or consciously.
When you do things aligned with your values, you feel energized. (Your energy is contagious!)
He warned, “If you can’t clearly articulate your own personal core values, you are navigating life without a GPS.”
Build Your Intellectual Capacity
The greater your intellectual capacity, the greater your level of achievement with the same or less expenditure of energy.
The first step to increasing your intellectual capacity is believing you can. Intellectual capacity is highly correlated with a commitment to lifelong learning.
Achievement relies on having clarity about what is most important and making decisions accordingly.
Perhaps the biggest reinforcement this offered is Shannon Susko's affirmation, “1% Plan, 99% Behavior.”
The most successful companies, like Glazer’s Acceleration Partners, focus on behavior to drive performance.
Build a company your son or daughter or grandchildren would be proud to be part of. This vision inspires Glazer’s dream.
To create an environment where everyone is inspired to give their best, contact Positioning Systems today to schedule a free exploratory meeting.
Growth demands Strategic Discipline.
Building an enduring great organization requires disciplined people, disciplined thought, disciplined action, superior results, producing a distinctive impact on the world.
A winning habit starts with 3 Strategic Disciplines: Priority, Metrics, and Meeting Rhythms. Forecasting, accountability, individual, and team performance improve dramatically.
Meeting Rhythms achieve a disciplined focus on performance metrics to drive growth.
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