In our latest poll of Business Professionals we asked:
Topics: Balanced, Belong, Believe, Accountable, Heard, Developed, Measured, Operational Clarity and Consistency, Cultural Clarity and Consistency, Structural Clarity and Consistency
An organization is essentially a fiction, only given meaning and power by those who believe in it, who buy in.
Topics: Balanced, Belong, Believe, Accountable, Heard, Developed, Measured
Entrusted with the future: The significance of your employees aligning themselves with your business
As a business owner, you undoubtedly hope for the best when it comes to the future. Whether you are ultimately hoping to become wealthy, or you are simply building a small, humble organization because it is your chance to construct a workplace culture that you would be thrilled to work in every day, you are hoping to create a system that produces comfort that will persist well beyond today.
Over the course of the past 13 years, I’ve interacted with nearly 200 business owners who had questions about optimizing employee engagement within their organizations. It’s not that the organizations were in desperate need of help. On the contrary, some of these businesses were performing very well, and the owners of these companies simply wished to explore the possibility that some ingredients might be missing that would allow these companies to perform even better if they could be discovered.
Topics: Balanced, Belong, Believe, Accountable, Heard, Developed, Measured
“The biggest leadership gift you can give right now is helping employees focus productively at work.”
In uncertain times we leaders have it tough because we are fighting a battle on two fronts. We are fighting our own internal battle and we are leading the battle being fought by our organization. Our employees are also fighting two battles, their personal battle and what they are supposed to be doing at work to be productive.
Dear Clients and Friends,
I wish I were not writing this, I am cognizant of the situations and extremes I may be writing to and I pray for the best as soon as possible. We are in this together, and I want to take some time to share some guidance I have seen work in past recessions.
Topics: Balanced, Belong, Believe, Accountable, Heard, Developed, Measured
In the pages of The Patient Organization, I laid out the 7 Question-7 Promise Framework, which allows everyone within your company to align themselves with your mission by deciding if they can answer “yes” to questions of belonging, belief, accountability, measurement, communication, development and balance. The ultimate benefit of this process is the creation of the type of workplace environment that can power an Organizational Operating System (OOS).
Topics: Balanced, Belong, Believe, Accountable, Heard, Developed, Measured
The idea of developing your employees can lead you into tricky territory if you’re a business owner. On the one hand, there are reasons to not take formal steps to develop your employees that might make logical sense on a very superficial level. After all, you probably have employees on your staff that entered your workspace solely because you advertised very specific employment opportunities that they responded to.
Topics: Belong, Accountable, Developed, Measured
In most hiring situations, the first time a candidate comes across the radar of a business is when the job seeker submits a resume to the HR department or HR representative. If the applicant appears to check all of the necessary boxes - an impressive education, and years of employment that indicate how the candidate has acquired experience and demonstrated expertise with the requisite skills - then the applicant is brought in for an interview.
Topics: Balanced, Belong, Believe, Accountable, Heard, Developed, Measured
