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“You have to dream big. If we want to be a little city, we dream small. If we want to be a big city, we dream big, and this is a big idea.” - City of Edmonton Mayor Stephen Mandel, 02/22/2012 What’s your BIG idea? It doesn’t have to be as grand as building a big [...]
Most managers I know, when pressed, will admit to some level of confusion. Some are very confused. By confusion, I mean that they are continually being challenged to commit strongly to their organizations strategic, long range direction…which in many cases is vaguely stated and constantly shifting, while delivering results today. It’s enough that they have [...]
If your leadership team is fixated on short term results, then they probably need more “Grit”. While you may look for traits such as IQ and other specific talents to achieve long term goals, researchers in recent years have discovered an independent trait called Grit that is a good predictor of success and goal achievement [...]
Do you know what causes engagement in your team? The type of engagement I am talking about is innate, in other words driven by an internal desire, and universal, that is it applies across all peoples and cultures. As it happens, research [1] has demonstrated that we all seek self-determination. And self-determination is made up of three innate and [...]
When it comes to understanding how to motivate ourselves and others, psychologists have been arguing the pros and cons of different theories for decades. Most of us have grown up on a diet of theories provided by such trailblazers as Maslow, McClelland, and Herzberg and more recently Robbins. But psychologists now tend to be in [...]
This article discusses accountability in organizations and how managers can shed the command and control aspects of the old style of accountability in favor of a more humane way of managing, which the author calls ‘ the new accountability’. “Working for an organization should be an adventure, not an anxious discipline in which everybody is [...]
Business planning has come of age. When Henry Mintzberg announced the death of strategic planning, corporate executives breathed a collective sigh of relief. No more need to engage in centralized planning, with it’s tortuous reliance on data (which was never reliable in the first place), future gazing (which was the business version of astrological star [...]
If your team is not learning, they’re not growing…and as a consequence, your organization won’t grow. Sounds pretty simple and obvious. Yet how many organizations actually stunt their growth by not investing in learning and development? Worse still, how many organizations spend inordinate amounts of money and resources to attract talent, and then starve that [...]
Teamwork advocates will tell us that working as a team is the solution to all of our performance challenges. I’m not so sure. I think it depends on the situation or challenge. Back in the 1800′s, when settlers were moving westwards across North America, they hired scouts who would head out in advance and collect [...]
As an executive leadership coach, I come across clients and coaches alike who have difficulty understanding the distinctions between being a coach, mentor or sponsor. It’s not surprising since these titles have evolved over time independent of each other and in a somewhat inconsistent manner. Following is my (ever evolving) description of the three roles. I hope [...]
Strategy development can be a messy affair. In most scenarios, given the number of stakeholders involved in or affected by a strategic planning effort, there’s no doubt that you can potentially end up with a plan that is a convoluted, “please everyone” digest of hidden and not so hidden agendas. Unless of course you succeed [...]
