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performance management system
Need software to align and develop your workforce? Is everyone’s work aligned with top priorities? Do your managers have effective performance conversations? Need at a glance data so you know exactly what needs your attention? Want transparency and...
business coach
Is hiring a coach your next best move? Do your executives need an unbiased, external perspective? Looking for a way to encourage and hold your front-line leaders accountable? Would you like to be freer from the stress of carrying your organization alone? Where would...
continuous leadership development
Get More Than a Workshop. Get Continuous Leader Development. Our processes, software, and leadership development program are all designed around a common set of best practices. Sixty-five of them packed into the the six disciplines. The workshops teach them. The...
Methodology
Practical, research-based management framework. The question is not whether you have a method to your management. The question is whether it is effective. Thousands of hours of research. More than 15 years of trial and error testing in business. Six Disciplines is the...
How Regular 1-on-1’s Can Change a Boss to a Coach
Employees Want To Meet One-on-One With Managers Sam's first official one-on-one meeting with his boss was his exit interview. "We did often meet to talk about issues. But over the last 7 years, we never had an official quarterly or annual review 'on the...
Help Your Managers Give Effective Feedback
The Cost of a Manager Not Giving Feedback Angie had been with the company for 2 years. And still, she had yet to receive any kind of straight forward feedback or review of her work. She knew some projects did not deliver exactly what her boss expected. But she...
A Stark Warning To Organizations That Are Not Purpose-Driven
According to the most recent Deloitte Millennial Survey released January 2019, where the firm surveyed 13,416 millennials and 3,009 Gen Z youth from around the globe, a dark and foreboding pattern is emerging – and it should serve as a warning to organizations that...
Manage Better by Developing Self-Leaders
Why Focusing on Self-Leadership Will Make Everything Else Easier or Unnecessary Finding Self Leaders Recently we asked the president of a manufacturing company if we could interview a worker who ran one of the machines “out on the floor.” We were looking...
Purpose-Driven Leaders Can Manage Your Next-Generation Workforce
Different Expectations Millennials likely now make up the majority of your workforce. And compared to their predecessors, this generation brings different expectations to work. According to a 2015 Deloitte Study, a “sense of purpose” is part of the reason they chose...
One Habit to Train Your Team to be Self-Leaders
How the Weekly Review Can Develop Your Team to Be Proactive, Not Reactive The Weekly Review as a Training Tool Catherine, like most high-quality managers, is always pushing to get the best work out of her small customer support team. “I am constantly checking...
Lead Effectively From Home
In Crisis Mode In a time of crisis, organizations with built-in planning and check-in habits are more likely to survive. We recently coached a client's management team through quarterly planning. Each manager planned their top 3 projects for Q2, 2020. And you...
How Strategic Planning Differs From Operational Planning
When formulating strategies to improve your organization, it helps to differentiate between strategic and operational planning. Strategic planning is commonly thought of as a long-term affair, whereas the execution of the plan might take months or even years. It's...