As a leader, you’re tasked with two things: leading people and managing results. If you can do both well, you are the magician most of us want on our team. Any given day, you can defer to the easier of the two given your skillset. Certainly results, when mostly attainable from our own actions, are easier. When you begin to coordinate with the actions of others, well, that’s when…
I value time and I use it well – mostly. I’ve had people ask me how I accomplish as much as I do and it’s interesting to me. I don’t know that I’m more productive than others, but I do have practices which sustain my focus and allow me to say “no” to things that don’t fit with my priorities, and I’m disciplined. I wasn’t always this way. I had to learn. I also have an amazing…
When things don’t work or go wrong, for many people, they blame. They look outside themselves (mentally or verbally) and reason their lack of results to someone or something outside themselves. This is an automatic reaction conditioned over years and practiced with others. This happens with my clients as they learn EOS® or practice new leadership behaviors. It doesn’t work. In fact, it hinders progress and often aggravates other…
Too often I’m the one in my own way. A friend shared a quote from his mom saying, “The whole world is ready to step aside if you know where you want to go.” When you are unclear, unfocused, unsure, or simply unmotivated, the world can’t step aside. Decide. Then take your first action forward. Write about it every day. Several times a day if necessary. Put a note up on your…
Commitment. Your 100% commitment only happens when you weigh in, discuss, debate, and challenge ideas, issues, and opportunities in an unfiltered way. If you withhold, even a little, (like choosing to “pick your battles” or conserve your energy for a better time), you can’t be in 100%. One of the best results from healthy discussion and debate is that when every member of a team fully weighs in,…
Do you push yourself? Most of us don’t. I know I don’t. At least not in the domains that are challenging for me. This is why my clients who have graduated from EOS continue to have me facilitate sessions. Or they do a tune up once a year to ensure they don’t veer too far from the work we’ve done and the investment we’ve made. I often feel like I don’t provide as much value as I do…
Sometimes you just know. In fact, when you’re attuned in life, it’s most often the case. Therein lies the problem. A majority of the time, most of us are not dialed in enough to access the messages from our intuition, let alone to trust our gut. This is why we rely on our heads and the clutter between our ears, when we could be accessing an inner knowing always available…
What happens when you have something important, pressing, vital, or interesting you are eager to share with someone and they don’t really pay attention? Even worse, what happens when they hear you, play along, and seem to be with you, but they’re not? You know the drill, when someone is there, making eye contact, seemingly interested but when you reference the subject later, they really didn’t listen? Actively,…
How do you define success? We all measure it differently. Some say it’s completing something, and you’d sign up to do it again. Others measure in money, material wealth, possessions, and stuff. Others measure by the accolades and awards they collect, and some measure relationships. How many and the quality are up to the person. Still others measure in the goals accomplished, the number of things they conquered or the competitions or…
Complacency. It’s something that happens when you begin to accept the results you have as all that is possible. It’s the benchmark of mediocrity and the crusher of dreams. Many teams become complacent with scorecard numbers and rocks over time. They begin to see the red numbers or hear the words “off track” week after week and resign themselves rather than dig in to discover what’s causing…