Today’s news shouts that traditional performance management is “bad.” “We’ve killed performance ratings!” and “We’ve killed the annual performance review!” are phrases being touted as if, by removing a process, the company has instantaneously changed its culture. In many cases this feels more like marketing than real change. It
“Why is it so hard to find an excellent employee?” That was the subject of a recent discussion in a leadership group on Linkedin. Responses (over one thousand to date!) can be grouped into four main themes: 1. that it is indeed nearly impossible to find an excellent person to
In Series #1 and #2 I discussed the best steps for aligning people with strategy and how to know when strategy must change. In this post l get to the execution part of a change in strategy and answer, “How do you re-align people when strategy must change in a
In the first post of this series, I shared three proven steps in aligning people with strategy. During times of significant change, alignment requires more attention from leaders and managers. This is especially the case when what is required to execute a new strategy involves more than small tweaks in people’s
Strategies change. At least they should—in order to even just keep up with the change around us. This series addresses Alignment. How can you align your people with strategy? How do you know when strategy must change? (even when it hasn’t been a year)? How do you re-align people when
What are you doing to keep momentum as you grow? The practices in Scaling Up are proven effective, with our clients growing 3x average profitability compared to their peers! Want to learn more? Let’s connect via LinkedIn
Feel great & do even better! Who doesn’t want that for themselves? Who wouldn’t want that for others? So of course we foster feeling great at work. whoops! screech. halt. back up. We don’t? Why not? Mostly because what we think we need to do is hard. But they really
Risk & Benefit This post is about failure and success. It will likely resonate greatest with those who think big, create strategic plans and take risks to see those strategies executed. Have you ever been an expert and helped many, and then found that you haven’t taken your own
Leadership — Connecting with (your) people to improve results. Step 7: Does cause-and-effect matter?
In this series we are talking about connecting—connecting to people, connecting people to the business results you want, and getting those results. I’ve noted that as you work through this series you are bound to run into questions (I’ve opened up Ask Lori. for questions to me currently at no
Here’s our “wow” for this week: This Wow! goes to —, our newest team member for his self-starting attitude and motivation to make a difference in moving us forward. Why is this “wow!”? To best identify for the employer if the person is the right fit, deliverables are needed. To