Gather a company’s leaders together in a conference room to discuss current challenges, new opportunities, tough issues, and the state of the business, and what do you get? The answer can be ‘great results’ if the team works with each other in a way that builds a high level of trust and respect. Our experience… Continue reading The Secret Sauce of Highly Successful Teams
Picture, if you will, a business. The clients are well-satisfied: they are receiving a good product, good service, and good quality. Since all that is good, the business is healthy, correct? Not necessarily. Out of sight of the clients, unresolved relationship issues are working slow destruction day after day. Let’s go “under the hood” of… Continue reading No Problem Too Big, No Problem Too Small
Ask anyone for the first image that comes to mind when they hear the word “accountability” and most people will admit that it conjures pictures of pointing fingers, condemning stares, and accusatory words. Not Don Tinney of EOS Worldwide, however. One of the times I (Tim) had the privilege of listening to Don speak, he gave… Continue reading Going from “Gotcha” to “Got Your Back!”
Decisions, decisions! Your business lives or dies, thrives or falters, and is energized or paralyzed not only on the basis of the actual decisions that are made but – critically – on how those decisions are made. In fact, it is possible to make the right decision but make it in the wrong way. And,… Continue reading 3 Decisions that Damage Decision-making for Your Business
One of the most difficult and painful positions you can find yourself in as an experienced and capable leader is needing to “manage up” because your boss does not have your back. It is an unenviable position – but that does not mean it is an impossible situation. Let’s consider an all-too-common scenario: you lead… Continue reading Four Strategies for Managing Up
Teams exist where every issue, problem, or opportunity becomes a matter of dialogue, deliberation, and consensus. That may sound like a positive, but it is not: these teams sink under the weight of decisions that ought to be made autonomously by individual team members. On the other side of the equation, teams exist that are… Continue reading Making Decisions: High-performing Teams Know How to Get Business Done
