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Organizational direction in your company can come in several forms. I’m going to divide them into the emotional and objective since they serve two different but critical purposes. On the emotional side we look at what might be labeled as “Strategic Statement of Values.” On the opposite side, the objective is the Strategic Objective Statement which produces the Strategy Statement we’ve discussed in previous blogs.
Topics: employee engagement, strategy, Business Culture, Q12, Employee Survey
At a recent client monthly meeting we discussed their new employee orientation (onboarding) process and how someone is always included to mentor the new person. The mentoring program isn’t structured. Its primary intent is to provide an opportunity for feedback and concerns that they might not feel they can address with their supervisor. The CEO played a video on why mentoring is important this company. Immediately he observed there were additional opportunities mentoring offers to grow their business.
Topics: employee engagement, Leadership Training, Leadership DNA, Connecting, Cost of Mis-hire
Inside your business there’s a secret weapon that probably lies dormant. You’re unaware of the latent potential it possess or didn’t realize how you can develop it in order to increase your capacity to grow.
Topics: employee engagement, People, Organizational Health, Business Culture, Gallup's Q12 Employee Engagement Survey
Topics: Strategic Discipline, Cadence of Accountability, meeting rhythms, Strategic Learning, Five Killer Competencies, Strategic Learning Cycle
Nature generates variations through a massive and ceaseless set of experiments. Mutations test a wide range of survival strategies.
Topics: strategy, Strategic Learning, Strategic Planning
Topics: Work Process Flow Charts, Businesss Disciplines, Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and W, business tripwire
Topics: Acute Myeloid Luekemia, Stockdale Paradox
Conflict is good. It leads to better decisions by providing a forum for your leadership team to be open and free with their opinions.
Topics: weekly meetings, Decision-Making, Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Patrick Lencioni, better decisions through conflict
We’ve discussed meetings many times in this blog since they are a foundational element of Strategic Discipline and provide a cadence of accountability for your executive team. You should cascade these meetings throughout your organization as well to increase accountability. Did you know that if your business is conducting boring, routine meetings without team members providing their opinions, feedback, that failing to encourage conflict is putting your business in a position of severe risk?
Topics: Five Dysfunctions of a Team, meeting rhythms, Patrick Lencioni, Death by Meeting, Meeting Conflicts, Meetings a Cadence of Accountability
Imagine if 96% of the people you hire one year later would not only be working for you but performing at a higher level than the candidates you’d hired previously for this position.
Topics: People Decisions, Objective Management Group, Topgrading, Sales Evaluation, Sales Candidate Assessment
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Positioning Systems
The Strategic Discipline Blog focuses on midsize business owners with a ravenous appetite to improve his or her leadership skills and business results.
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