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It’s not the tools that make an exceptional carpenter (or leader)

Help your people find the courage to be themselves. This means knowing what you want, saying what you think and being in the moment with the people around you. Do not hide behind tools or busy yourself with diagnostics that take your eyes of the real issues. Resist the seduction…

Tags | Albert Einstein, executive ownershift, management tools, performance management

Size Matters

Stop worrying about having a small team, a small territory, or being part of a small organization. It’s not the size of your team, or your organization that matters, it’s the size of your ideas.

Tags | david and goliath, executive ownershift, innovative thinking, strategic leadership, think big

A bad boss is good business…

Gallup has done much work in this area and their research shows that roughly 70% of the variance in employee engagement is linked to the experiences they have with their boss. A bad boss is good business, unfortunately not for the boss’s company!

Tags | executive ownershift, Gallup, high performance, high performance culture, leadership team effectiveness

Executive Team Ethics – What’s Your Call?

How can you support a CEO who is dealing with someone who as crossed the ethics line for the company? How can you discipline and write up such behavior in a performance review? We'll discuss that in this blog.

Tags | effective executive, ethics inthe executive suite, executive ownershft, high performance, leadership team integrity, managing performance, principled leadership

Create a Senseful Strategy #5

Leadership teams fall short of their strategic ambitions, in many instances, because they settle for strategy authorship, rather than strategic ownership. Just because a leadership team has created strategy (authorship) does not mean they and the organization own it.

Tags | effective strategy, high performance strategy, ownership cultures, senseful strategy, strategy authorship, strategy ownership

Make Meetings Matter #4

Creating and leading meetings that matter is the single most valuable situation you have to create a culture of ownership and breakthrough results for your business. Why is your executive meeting the best meeting in the company?

Tags | breakthrough meetings, executive breakthroughs, executive ownershft, highly effective executives, highly effective teams, make meetings matter

Result-Oriented Structures #3

Results-oriented structures important because they ensure 1) clear roles and responsibilities, 2) an effective communication system, 3) defined feedback loops and 4) clear decision-making processes. As signature strength, how is a results-oriented framework showing up in your leadership team?

Tags | decision making, executive ownershift, executive team standards, leadership standards, Results-oriented structures

Purposeful Practices #2

Leadership teams that drown in organizational firefighting and do not invest in the signature strength of purposeful practices struggle because they do not define their team “why” nor align their actions or created a shared vocabulary for high performance. Here's what is important for you to know.

Tags | executive ownershift, high performance executive teams, highly effective leadership teams, purpose practices, signature strengths, standards of excellence, team purpose

Resilient Relationships #1

Leaders who won’t share where they struggle, feel reluctant to critic a part of the business outside of their scope, or fail to give a senior colleague feedback when it’s needed, are signs that resilient relationships are missing, meaning this team will struggle, which means everyone else in the organization…

Tags | business resilience, crucial conversations, executive ownershift, ownershift, resilience, resilient relationhships, resilient teams, the making of resilient relationships

The Sacred Intersection

The performance appraisal is the single most important meeting of the year because it is the “sacred intersection” that connects the talent, effort, aspirations, and growth of your people with the organizational strategy and future of the company. Recognizing and honoring this “sacred intersection” is fundamental to people engagement and…

Tags | executive ownershift, executive performance, high performance culture, performance, performance appraisals, performance management