If you or any other senior executive, complain that they don’t get the buy-in they expect from their executive team or are concerned that they don’t get constructive push back from their executive colleagues, it could be an opportunity to look at how well “the ball” is being shared in the executive team.
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S.A.C.R.E.D. Setbacks
A setback is an important sign that we are in a “learning zone”. If you are not experiencing setbacks, chances are you have wrapped yourself up too tightly in the comfort zone. Do not let setbacks keep you down, instead use the S.A.C.R.E.D. frame to help you move through them.
How Personal is the Business Strategy for You?
Strategy that focuses on helping customers, creating value, or enabling people do something better or different than they did it before, is a solid foundation for an emotionally compelling strategy.
Superficial or Senseful Strategy?
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.
Creating an Ownership Culture
There are many reasons to create an ownership culture in your organization. There is no reason to start this anywhere except in the executive team.
Zoned Out by Zoom?
Do not let virtual meetings get the best of you. Here are six ideas to bring more zest to your zoom meetings.
Pessimism, Problems & Pandemics
How are you encouraging meaningful conversations that release both the pessimistic and the optimistic perspectives in your leadership team?
Be the Lighthouse
The lighthouse, like a leader, provides a consistent and inspiring point of reference in turbulent times.
The Oxygen Mask Rule
You must first help yourself, as instructed by the airlines, before you can help anyone else. When you are part of a leadership team, it is critical that you and your executive team members decide how you are going to help yourselves before you jump in to help others. Executives are confronted from day one with a multitude of problems to solve and opportunities to address. Everyone wants something from senior leaders; this is where many executive teams make the mistake of jumping into their company’s business issues too deeply at the beginning of their team’s evolution.
Creating Hard & Soft in the Executive Space
If people are only showing their best side and real discussions are being replaced with business updates from the team members, the team is missing “soft space opportunities”.