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Use September to Spark Your Strategic Growth–Week 3

Sentient Strategy was released earlier this year and is a must read for strategy minded leaders. His insights are anchored in business experiences, span.ning many decades and even if you don’t agree with every insight, you will find that this is a strategy resource that provokes and stimulates strategic thinking…

Tags | breakthrough strategy, creating strategy, executive ownershift, executive strategy, leadership team, Sentient strategy, strategic leadership

Use September to Spark Your Strategic Growth–Week 2

If you are truly motivated to become more strategic, and determined to develop your strategic I.Q., you will find a way to acquire this resource, even if you must explore ancient bookstores to do so!

Tags | ben tregoe, creating strategy, developing strategy, effective strategy, executive ownership, executive strategy, strategic leader, strategy resources, Top Management Strategy

Use September to Spark Your Strategic Growth – Week 1

How well does the leadership team fulfil the expectations and objectives of your strategy? Over the next four weeks, I'll share some blockbuster strategy resources to help any leadership team sharpen their strategy game.

Tags | executive ownershift, good strategy-bad strategy, richard rumelt, strategic excellence, strategic leadership, strategy, strategy excellence, strategy resources

Hidden agendas in your executive team?

Hidden agendas cripple organization’s performance. They discourage people from being open and honest. How do you address and manage hidden agendas in your leadership team?

Tags | emotional intelligence, emotional virus, executive ownershift, executive team dysfunction, hidden agendas

The sweet smell of a collaborative climate

What's a collaborative climate "smell" like? Here are the five essential elements of a highly collaborative meeting environment. Can't smell the aromas yet? Then read on.

Tags | collaborative climate, effective meetings, executive ownershift, the sweet smell of collaboration

Turbo Tips to Play at Your Best at Virtual Meetings

Meeting after meeting, after meeting. How can you show up, over and over again, at each and every meeting focused and prepared? Check out these tips to help turbo charge you before each and every virtual meeting you attend.

Tags | executive meetings, executive ownershift, high performance, high performance culture, meeting effectiveness

Business is a team sport & so is leadership development

Too many leaders are still being coached in isolation. Sending a coached leader back into an uncoached team will not be as impactful as the leader and her entire team learning, improving, and committing to change together. Business is a team sport and leadership development creates the most impact when…

Tags | effective executive teams, ershft, executive own, lead vs leadership, team learning

Engaging with Engagement

Many leaders and their teams confess that their efforts do not lead to improved engagement results. After time, people see the engagement survey process with less optimism and more skepticism. If you and your leadership team truly want to shift engagement, which ultimately means creating a culture of ownership, you…

Tags | engagement, executive ownershift, executive team, high performance, leadership teams

Beyond Talent and Skill

Talent and skill are important, yet it is a disciplined and focused mind that enables us overcome distraction, delivery in difficult situations, and truly master an art. How do you constructively challenge your team to step beyond their talent and skills?

Tags | executive ownershift, leadership focus, leadership team focus, leadership under stress, performance, performing under pressure

Where does restructuring start?

There are good reasons to reorganize, adjusting and aligning capabilities to serve clients and ever-changing markets, yet the leadership team itself is the organizational unit that is least discussed, and least affected by organizational restructuring. How do you and your leadership team ensure that you are doing what’s right for…

Tags | change, effective executive, effective executive teams, executive ownershift, restructuring at the top, strategy