Tag Archive for: teamwork
The Need for Staff Training
Business Challenges, TrainingThe Challenge Defined:
Is there an intentional training program in place for all employees that is focused on company goals? How much of the budget has been allocated to training?
Training staff on company goals, company issues and company…
Optimizing the Value of New Staff Orientation
Business ChallengesThe Challenge Defined:
Never minimize how difficult it is for new employees to become contributing members of your organization. Onboarding extends far beyond the monthly New Employee Lunch. It needs to be extensive and multidimensional,…
Create Values So Employees Can Envision the Right Attitude
High Performance TeamsDon’t go halfway in branding your company’s operating style. Do you have a defined vision? Check. How about a mission statement? Check that box too.
But if you haven’t given your employees a way to translate these high-level ideals…
Establish Company-Wide Behaviors That Instill Accountability
High Performance Teams, Navigating Business GrowthAccountability is an overused word and an underutilized behavior. It means, of course, “doing what you say you’ll do.” It’s also characterized by “owning up to a mistake, correcting it, and apologizing to anyone harmed by that mistake.”…
The Need for a Flexible Planning Model
Business ChallengesThe Challenge Defined
A critical component of running a successful business is creating a dynamic method of planning that is accessible to the entire organization and allows contribution by all the staff. Consider the two different roles…
Employee Turnover
Business ChallengesManaging employees is hard. It requires leader’s time and effort, people-focused systems in place, clear expectations and much more. When a company loses exceptional talent it can have a negative impact on morale, productivity, and the bottom…
Leadership & Staff Communication Gap
Business ChallengesDuring a rapid growth of a small company, the family atmosphere that everybody was used to begins to fade away. There are new systems, expectations and profit goals in place to keep this much more complex organization going. Some employees find…
Close the Gap Between Strategy and Execution
Execution, High Performance Teams, RESULTS, Strategy execution, TeamWorkIn their book, “Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done”, authors Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan state that execution is the biggest unaddressed issue in business today. They assert that its absence is the single biggest obstacle…