There is constant consultant chatter about the value of High Performance Work Teams (HPWTs), but very little information about how to create them. Because the goal of every team is the same - achieve the outcome that caused the team to be created in the...
The first assessment of 2018 Team performance is in the books. This means the Managers and Team Leaders in my Coaching Program have taken stock of how their Team and they performed in the first quarter. This quarterly review is essential to keep Teams and Team Leaders, at every...
Research establishes extending a reasonable deadline to get a task done does little to actually help get the task done (see https://www.hbrascend.in/topics/heres-really-happens-extend-deadline/) Of course the reason most deadlines have to be extended, is most original deadlines - self-imposed or imposed by someone else - are “unreasonable”...
In his latest letter to shareholders, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos explains one of the keys to the company’s success is the way Amazonians are expected to share information to each other. Instead of a PowerPoint Power or some other kind of slide presentation, they are required to write...
Ready or not the First Quarter of 2018 is history. And, while we can't change history (why isn't there an app for that Apple?), we can, and should, use the end of the first quarter (and every quarter) as a natural break in the rhythm...
Quoting the Rolling Stones: "You can't always get what you want. But if you try sometime you find you get what you need." That's what the Executive Summary will accomplish: trying to get what you need in a work environment where the prevailing mantra is...
In a recent coaching session, an Executive, new to my coaching program, informed me she had "a hundred ideas a day”, but had a poor record of implementing most of them. My reply was to quote Thomas Edison: “The value of an idea lies in the...
At the start of the new year, I retained a personal workout trainer. While I can lift weights, and pedal a stationary bike by myself, I know the right personal workout trainer will improve my workout performance, giving me a better ROI on the time I...
“You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.” Yogi Berra One of the ongoing issues with Team Leaders continually complain about it is they never have enough time to achieve their goals and yet they fail...
Carpe diem - seize the day. I recently attended a charity function for Autism Speaks, an organization dedicated to promoting solutions for the needs of individuals with autism and their families. I was there as the executive coach/guest of a client, who supports the charity and,...