The One Page Strategic Plan is a great tool to bring your organization into alignment.
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Topics: Core Purpose, One Page Strategic Plan, Clarity of Purpose, Alignment, Purpose, The One Thing, Core Purpose, Clarity of Purpose,, Nine Lies About Work, Meaning
Watching businesses for the past 20+ years as a coach, there’s no bigger mistake made, beyond not choosing a One Thing Priority, then failing to make it clear to your people what you expect from them.
Read MoreTopics: Business Priorities, hiring decisions, Alignment, Monty Moran, Love is Free. Gauc is Extra, Empowerment
Topics: Bringing Out the Best In People, People, consistently execute, Alignment, Execution, Strategy Decision
Topics: themes, Alignment, Execution, Power of Story, The Introvert's Edge
There’s a method to deliver your message more effectively to your employees, the people you supervise, even your prospects, and customers.
Read MoreTopics: Core Values, Alignment, Execution, Power of Story, The Introvert's Edge
Great Performance is 1% vision and 99% alignment – Above the Line
Posted by Douglas A Wick on Thu, May 11, 2017
In Good to Great Jim Collins emphasizes the importance of getting your team aligned to achieve great performance.
Read MoreTopics: People, People Decisions, Alignment, The Right People
Increase Accountability with OKRs – Objectives and Key Results
Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Dec 29, 2014
You’re probably familiar with the term KPI’s or Key Performance Indicators. KPI’s are driven by top-down leadership decisions. These are the Key Performance Indicators for the company based on the Annual, Quarterly and Trimester planning and strategy meetings businesses have to set direction for the business.
Topics: Accountability, employee performance, meeting rhythms, Alignment, precision and specificity
Scale up - Mastering the Rockefeller Habits 4 Decisions Workshop
Posted by Douglas A Wick on Thu, Oct 23, 2014
Have you considered whether or not your business needs a business coach? Do you have the right structure for Annual and Quarterly Planning? What elements of Strategy or Execution can your business do better to achieve increased results?
Topics: quarterly meetings, Accountability, 4-3-2-1 formula for business growth, Catalyst, Annual Plan, Mastering the Rockefeller Habits, Four Decisions, Alignment
92% of CEO’s feel their leadership team can communicate their strategy! The same survey revealed that only 2% of their leadership team actually could!
Topics: quarterly meetings, themes, Annual Plan, One Page Strategic Plan, Alignment, Strategy Statement, 3-5 year plan
Is the mood in your company for meetings one of anticipation or aversion?
A prospect this past week reacted to the suggestion of meetings by indicating they have to be careful in their organization to mention the word meeting. His people dislike meetings and generally greet them with annoyance and impatience. It suggests that the meetings they’ve conducted in the past are possibly disorganized, not well prepared, unexciting, lack conflict and do little to energize those participating. It’s also a reflection of what I believe many businesses suffer from. They feel meetings are boring, and a necessary evil.
Allow me to reflect on my current condition and place this in perspective. I’m currently suffering from a condition called dry mouth. It’s a symptom of Graft Versus Host Disease (GVHD)which can occur after bone marrow transplant for leukemia patients.
Topics: meeting rhythms, Patrick Lencioni, meetings, Organizational Health, Alignment, Death by Meeting, Graft-Versus-Host Disease, GVHD