A new business season is upon us and with it comes some old challenges and some new ones. Here are three action steps to achieve a strong finish in 2009 and set your organization up for a great year in 2010. 1. Get a Recovery and Growth Mindset Now is the time for you and […]
Category: Top Performance
Leaders Don’t Allow Tasks to Take Time Away from People
With business demands and the amount of information increasing, it is tempting for managers to hunker down and spend most of their attention on tasks – dealing with customer/supplier issues, operational issues, answering email, endless meetings and the never ending to-do list. By spending so much time on tasks, the leader tends to spend less […]
Maximizing Sales and Profits in Economic Recovery
Given the recent awful business environment, companies hunkered down into survival mode, cutting expenses and waiting for business conditions to improve. Expectations were reduced to match reality. Now with the economy stabilizing and beginning to expand again business leaders will need to awaken their organization to its true potential in order to achieve maximum performance. […]
Accountability creates results and job satisfaction
Accountability becomes mission-critical in challenging times. We need everyone in our organization to take ownership of results and make things happen. Creating an environment of accountability rests with management. Based on our 22 years of experience in organizational development and leadership training, we have discovered that managers systematically remove accountability. As a result the manager […]
Stealing vs. Growing Star Employees
Is your organization better off stealing star employees from a competitor, parachuting a leader in from outside or would it be better to grow your own stars and develop leadership from within? That was the question being addressed by a session presented by the Richard Ivey School of Business at their ING Leadership Centre in […]