Strategic Discipline Blog

Shit happens! "C'est la vie"

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Topics: employee performance, Business System, customer and employee feedback, Mistakes, Cohesive System, Danny Meyer, Setting the Table, A Great Last Chapter

Office communication can be improved in several ways. I just returned from a Quarterly Planning Meeting where we took a full day to work through Patrick Lencioni’s Five Dysfunctions of a Team. The team enjoyed it, felt closer, set rules for conflicts, and built a theme to improve accountability! Odessa Powell contributed this article while I’m on vacation, sharing additional ideas on how to improve team communication.

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Topics: Employee Feedback, employee engagement, employee performance, Better communication, Employee Wellbeing, Great Teams

“Scientists have discovered a revolutionary new treatment that makes you live longer. It enhances your memory and makes you more creative. It makes you look more attractive. It keeps you slim and lowers food cravings. It protects you from cancer and dementia. It wards off colds and the flu. It lowers your risk of heart attacks and stroke, not to mention diabetes. You’ll even feel happier, less depressed, and less anxious.”

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Topics: employee performance, performance, human behavior performance, Strategies for Getting Better Sleep, Worker Performance, Why We Sleep, Matthew Walker

The past year we’ve learned how to adapt and work remotely. How do you achieve learning in this new remote work environment? Guest blogger, Nicole Garrison, helps you discover how you can build an agile environment for learning from home.

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Topics: employee performance, Worker Performance, Employee Learning

Ever since I had a bone marrow transplant, I’ve had a condition called “dry mouth.” Sleeping while breathing through my mouth exacerbated this condition, forcing me to always have a glass of water next to my bed.

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Topics: employee performance, performance, People Development, Breath, James Nestor,, Personal Health

You’ve adjusted to the new normal. All the previous challenges to allow our employees to work from home have been erased by COVID19.

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Topics: employee performance, People, performance, human behavior performance, Discretionary Effort, Performance Management, Remote Workers

I’ve worked with 300+ businesses in my coaching career, which stared in 1999 shortly after the radio station I was part owner in sold.

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Topics: employee performance, How to Motivate Employees, Think Like Amazon, Rewards & Compensation, Employee Ownership

Being curious about what someone else thinks is the foundation of asking good questions.

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Topics: employee performance, questions, Leadership Is Language, David Marquet

Whether it’s the circumstances surrounding COVID-19 or not, I’ve found myself being more distracted than ever.

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Topics: employee performance, performance, Focus, productivity, Coronavirus, Indistractable, Nir Eyal, Distraction, COVID19

“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”  ~Sun Tzu

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Topics: employee performance, performance, Focus, productivity, Indistractable, Nir Eyal