There are “windows of opportunity” occurring daily in everyone’s professional life but we are not looking for them or don’t recognize them and, therefore, aren’t prepared for them or don’t recognize them when they occur. An example of this occurred when I recently attended a dinner...
As an essential part of my organizational improvement program (C.O.P.I: Continuous Operational Performance Improvement), I work with organizations to create both Coaching and Mentoring Programs at all levels of the organization. While Coaching Programs are more recognized as a value creator, Mentoring Program are equally as...
Team Leaders often forget they work under a spotlight every day - everyone on their Team watches how they act and react to every situation. And, unless the Team Leader is a complete psychopath, Members of the Team then makes adjustments to their organizational behavior...
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...