Improving and changing your organization takes work and energy. Gratitude is a way to replenish the gas tank so you can keep improving. Our brains are wired to minimize energy usage and have two basic systems for thinking – System 1 and System 2 (Thinking Fast and Slow). System 1…
+ Read MoreDan Airey is an author who writes a lot about how we make economic choices. Here is a Ted Talk of him talking about how much control we actually have over our decision making (17:26) One take away from this video is that the system you have in place at…
+ Read MoreIf you are expecting to hire someone and have them hit the ground running you are in for a rough time. Even if the person seems to know all the technical skills and knows your industry they still have to learn the culture goals, roles, procedures, and interpersonal dynamics at…
+ Read MoreFear setting is a great tool to use in conjunction with goal setting. Many people know how to goal set but fear setting is a little different. It’s writing down your fears, creating an action plan to prevent those fears from happening, and coming up with a plan if the…
+ Read MoreAnnual performance reviews probably don’t help you achieve your strategy and business goals. Most places I go it seems they are more used to justify end of year bonuses or fire low performers. Reviews should be used as a feedback mechanism for learning and improving. The longer between reviews and…
+ Read More“I can’t get good help!” “If I could just find the right people.” “No one seems to want to work anymore and they keep leaving.” These are common phrases I hear from business owners and executives. I want to talk about how to hire the right person and how to…
+ Read MoreOur post on Delivering Feedback to Millennials (and Everyone Else) talked about how feedback is critical to managing an organization. One key element to doing that is the develop a safe space where people feel open enough to give and take feedback. This is called psychological safety and it can mean…
+ Read MoreDon’t build the perfect product just build one good and make adjustments are you go. This is a common theme in Silicon Valley and the Lean Startup world. It has a lot of real world testing and validation with companies like Dropbox and Welathfront using it to grow and be…
+ Read MoreLearning happens best when you get feedback and it’s done in a safe space.1 The advantages of being a learning organization are: Maintaining levels of innovation and remaining competitive 2 Being better placed to respond to external pressures 2 Having the knowledge to better link resources to customer needs 3 Improving quality of outputs…
+ Read MoreIf you want to make the biggest impact to the business with the least amount of resources and effort. You need to find your high leverage metrics. These are metrics that drive your business and will give you the biggest impact to the business if you change them. Obviously it’s…
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