Measurement is an essential and very important tool for transforming and improving organization effectiveness. Discover the Organizational Measurement and Feedback approaches that can help you to avoid the pitfalls and pave your organization's pathway to success.
Read article »Today's societies, organizations, and people have gone — and are going — through major changes. Emerging from research are key elements and characteristics of top performing organizations in today's environment.
Read article »Improvement planning, process management, teams, skill development, and the like are either constrained or boosted by our organization's structure and support systems. If we are unhappy with the behavior of people on our team or in our organization, we need to take a closer look at the system and structure they're working in.
Read article »A good change champion is passionate about their cause or change. We can't harness or manage champions. Often we're best to point them in the right direction and get out of the way. Then sponsor and protect them from the bureaucracy when they need it.
Read article »"Customer demands are getting harder and harder to meet. That's great because it's getting tougher for our competition to survive." — Comment from the CEO of a very successful company.
Read article »Now, more than ever, organizations need the bonding glue of a strong culture to hold everything and everyone together. At the core of that culture is a strong leader pulling the team together.
Read article »Creating the conditions for self-motivation leads to satisfied employees producing satisfied customers.
Read article »Take the courageous approach to leadership by building team commitment and ownership. Our "Energy Index" Assessment is a great place to start.
Read article »Measure from the outside in to effectively focus, measure, problem solve and improve your organization.
Read article »Feedback is central to learning. Faulty feedback is one of the biggest contributors to organization, team, and personal learning disabilities. If we don't know how we are doing, we can't improve.
Read article »Effective team management begins by clarifying what a team's purpose and role is and deciding how it will operate. A team's commitment and performance increases exponentially with the degree of power, control, and ownership they feel they have.
Read article »What most of us clearly hate and strongly resist is — being changed. But when change represents learning, growth, and improvement, it generates energy and is often eagerly embraced.
Read article »Strengths-based leadership development is the biggest revolution in the leadership development field in the last 50 years, paving the path for developing leaders with powerful data.
Read article »Both process reengineering and incremental improvement are needed. How, when, and where each approach and combinations of both are used, depends on the task to be performed. Like visions and goals, reengineering and incremental improvement is another and/also paradox to be managed.
Read article »Pursuing profits without a higher purpose or pursuing a purpose without profit are equally fatal strategies. Profits follow from worthy and useful purposes. Fulfilling the purpose comes first, and then the profits follow.
Read article »Used effectively, leadership competency models become a roadmap to dramatically higher leadership effectiveness. Six reasons they fail, and five keys to flourish.
Read article »Not all learners are leaders. But the research clearly shows that the strongest leaders are continuous learners. They are self-made leaders.
Read article »Strong leaders connect and energize people. They work tirelessly to ensure that no ones loses sight of what it's all about.
Read article »Looking back, we can all point to times in our lives that seem wasted. If we fail to continuously grow, change, and develop, then precious life is wasted.
Read article »Not all organizations perform equally. The significant variable is the quality of leadership.
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