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Own the Dog®

The costs associated with, “It’s not my dog”, run in the millions, maybe more. It is the terrible (and avoidable) cost of what happens when you do not have a culture of ownership throughout your organization. Learn how to create an ownership culture througout your organization and "Own the Dog".

Tags | effective leadership, engagement, executive team effectiveness, high performance, leadership team effectiveness, own the dog, ownership culture

Win-Win or Win-Lose?

If win-win is your default function, and you continue to push win-win negotiation practices when the other party is looking only to do the best deal for themself, you will get slaughtered on the negotiation table. Paying attention to what the other party does, not only what they say, helps…

Tags | effective executive, effective negotiating, executive negotiations, executive teams, high performance leadership, negotiations, win-win

Masterful Marshall in Action

It was a special experience introducing Marshall Goldsmith as the keynote speaker at the recent Global Forum, led by Yury Boshyk. Observing Marshall through the planning process, as well as his interactions with this talented community of executives, academics, and consultants, provided some great insights, namely: Do everything like it…

Who Stays and Who Goes?

Vowing to throw everyone overboard and start anew or promising to let everyone keep their jobs and maintain the status quo are poor approaches to building a highly effective leadership team. Use the “filter five questions” to support who stays and who leaves the leadership team. It is a pragmatic…

Tags | effective executive, effective executive teams, effective leadership teams, executive breakthroughs, executive coach, leadership team development, leadership teams, replacing executives

Dirty Windshield Leadership Team

One-word associations and the personal meaning behind them are an effective way to engage your leadership team in a different type of conversation.

The Road to Intellectual Integrity

Intellectual integrity is the ability to see the world as it is, not as you want it to be. This means not doing what you WANT to do, but rather what NEEDS to be done, serving the interests of your organization first.

Tags | effective leadership, executive teams, high performance culture, high performance leadership, high performance teams, intellectual integrity

The Preacher’s Bike

It is easy to blame others for inconveniences, injustices and events that make our life difficult. Responsibility, accountability, and ownership are the foundations of our personal influence and power. When we step up, accept, and own the challenge at hand, we strengthen our self-confidence, resilience, and ability to improve things…

Tags | blaming others, effective executive, effective leadership, executive ownershift, integrity, ownership, storytelling, the preachers bike

Use the Environment Around You

Organizations use sophisticated tools such as 360-degree feedback processes and multi-rater feedback inventories, yet none of these work as well as someone speaking to those people in the leader’s immediate environment and playing that feedback back to the leader, in some cases, anonymously, yet concretely.

Tags | effective executive, effective leadership, effective teamwork, executive ownershift, feedback, feedback culture, high performance culture

Six signs of executive team resistance

Executive team resistance prevents senior leadership teams from changing, improving and setting the example for the rest of the organization. Learn how to spot the six signs of executive team resistance.

Tags | continuous improvement, effective leadership team, executive ownershift, executive resistance, executive team resistence, high performance team, ownershift, ownership

Where is the oxygen mask?

For action oriented, results-driven executives, it is very easy to jump into business issues too deeply and overlook what is happening in the leadership team. How does the oxygen mask rule lead to better performance in your leadership team?

Tags | effective executive teams, effective leadership, executive development, executive teams, high performance culture, high performance teams, leadership teams, oxygen mask rule