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Accountable Leaders & Teams
KPI Examples for Employees in 2024: Key Performance Indicator Examples for Employees

KPIs are an essential tool for measuring employee performance. In this article, we share examples ...

KPIs & Dashboards

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Christine Rutherford Brings Strategy, Mentorship, and High Standards  to Rhythm and Beyond

Christine Rutherford brings strategy, mentorship, and high standards to Rhythm and Beyond, sharing ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams

High-Performance Solutions

and more
Employee Engagement in 2024: The 6 Best Ways to Keep Employees Engaged

A big component to keeping employees engaged and retaining them is motivation. You have to be able ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Accountability Examples: How to Use the 5 Cs of Team Accountability

Developing accountable leaders and teams is key to consistently achieving growth goals for ...

Strategy Execution

Effective Meetings

and more
Family Business Succession: Family Business Growth Strategies in 2024

In family businesses, it's hard to get multiple people to play nice with each other when they have ...

Strategy Execution

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Unlocking Your Team's Potential with DISC Profiles and Coaching

Discover how DISC profiles and coaching can transform your team's dynamics. Learn about Dominance, ...

Strategy Execution

Accountable Leaders & Teams
3 Ways DiSC Improves Strategy Execution

Leverage DiSC assessments for smoother strategy execution by aligning team strengths, anticipating ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams

High-Performance Solutions
Mastering CEO Excellence: Key Strategies for Effective Leadership

Unlock the blueprint for CEO excellence and strategic leadership, delving into the transformative ...

Strategy Execution

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Beyond Skillsets: Embracing Curiosity as a Strategic Leadership Imperative

Explore the vital role of curiosity for CEOs and leaders, driving innovation, building ...

Strategy Execution

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Exploring the Relationship Between DiSC Styles and Effective Leadership

Delve into how DiSC personality styles influence effective leadership, offering insights into ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams

High-Performance Solutions
Employee Engagement Metrics and Employee KPIs for HR Leaders [Updated for 2024]

Discover which HR employee engagement metrics and employee KPIs you should be using to track ...

KPIs & Dashboards

Accountable Leaders & Teams
What's the Difference in Job Scorecard vs. Job Description?

A Job Scorecard (or employee scorecard) is used internally for interviewing candidates and coaching ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
How to Win the Talent War in 2024: 10 Expert Tips for Today's Job Market

Effective leaders have a strategy to win the talent war by attracting, retaining, and training the ...

Strategies for Growth

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Mastering the Seven Practices for Exceptional Leadership and Business Growth

Unveiling the blueprint for business expansion, "The Journey to CEO Success: Seven Practices for ...

Strategies for Growth

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Skip Level Meeting Questions and Agenda Updated for 2024

There is considerable evidence that great skip level meetings have multiple potential benefits. ...

Effective Meetings

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Leveraging Core Values to Drive Revenue and Increase Profit

If you’ve gone through the exercise of determining your company’s core values, you’ve spent a lot ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Innovative Solutions For Your Trickiest People Problems

Transform people problems into growth opportunities by clarifying roles, providing feedback, and ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams

High-Performance Solutions
Team Accountability Begins with a Personal Accountability Model

The road to a high-performance oranization is paved with personal accountability.

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Employee Engagement Ideas for Manufacturing Industry: 11 Actionable Tips from our Experts

How can manufacturing companies improve employee engagement? You want the right people to stay with ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
7 Steps To Fine-Tune Your Core Values

Uncover how CEOs can leverage Rhythm Systems to refine and reinforce core values, transforming them ...

Strategies for Growth

Accountable Leaders & Teams
What CEOs need to know about Artificial Intelligence (AI) in 2024

"Explore the transformative potential of AI-powered software in 2023 and how it impacts strategic ...

KPIs & Dashboards

Effective Meetings

and more
Level 5 Leadership Examples- How Level 5 Leaders Master Leadership

I saw a genuine spirit emerge from a gentle man who leads with purpose & focused intent. Level 5 ...

Strategies for Growth

Annual & Quarterly Planning

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What Should a CEO Focus on?  How A CEO Should Spend Their Time in 2024

The intent of most all CEOs is to be attentive and focused, yet the hunger to simply work long ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Measure The Return On Your Payroll  (or Return on Employee Payroll) - Your Largest Expense

Do you measure your return on payroll? (ROP). For most of us who run knowledge based companies, ...

KPIs & Dashboards

Accountable Leaders & Teams
CEOs New Year 2024 Checklist: Building a Strong Team

Gear up for success in 2024, CEOs! Unleash your team's potential with a powerhouse checklist: ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams

Employee Health and Retention
Executive Team Development: A Definitive Guide

Strategically build a high-performing leadership team by defining your style, nurturing potential ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams

Employee Health and Retention
Listening Strategies - Expert Tips for Effective Listening Skills

You may think listening skills aren't important, but they're actually one of the most critical ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Mastering Accountability: Boost Your Team's Performance and Execution

Gain a competitive edge in execution with our actionable strategies on accountability – transform ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
How the Rhythm System Does the Work for You and Accelerates People Performance

Explore how Rhythm Systems simplifies the challenge of overseeing employee performance for leaders ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams

High-Performance Solutions
Peak Performance Management: An Essential Part of Successful Businesses

Performance management solutions are invaluable for any organization looking to improve employee ...

Strategies for Growth

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Improve Performance by Improving Focus, Clarity, Alignment, and Accountability

Help strengthen your team's execution with better focus, alignment and accountability. Learn how to ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams

High-Performance Solutions
How to Avoid the Staggering Cost of a Mishire: The Cost of a Bad Hire (Updated for 2024 Planning)

If you’re a hiring manager at your organization, chances are that you have had a couple of new ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Know Your Leader Questions: 6 Excellent Leadshership Questions to Ask

This at-a-glance checklist might help you focus on continuing the maximize your leadership impact ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Top 10 Business Problems CEOs are Facing Today [Infographic]

Being CEO can be a lonely job – it can feel like everyone is looking to you to have the all the ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Employee Motivation and Engagement Strategies in 2023: Motivate and Engage Your Employees

As an employer, you want your workforce to be both engaged and motivated in order to hit your ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
How to Keep Your Top Talent: 12 Actionable Tips for Engaging Talent

You have to give your top talent compelling reasons to stay, or you will just keep wasting ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Team Planning: How to do Team Planning for Team Focus & Alignment

Annual Planning with your teams is part of achieving great communication, accountability, and ...

Annual & Quarterly Planning

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Organizational Performance Management in Business

In today’s fast paced world, organizations must be able to adapt quickly to changing conditions. To ...

Strategies for Growth

Strategy Execution

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Personal Path of Progress: The Secret to Reach Your Full Potential

Each December, I create a personal path of progress for myself. In doing so, I evaluate where I am ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Accountability Culture: 5 Things All Accountable Cultures Need (Infographic)

Accountability can be a scary word. For many, it sounds punitive - and that’s because most of us ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Topgrading Interview: 10 Expert Hiring Tips for Recruiting and Keeping A Players

Master the art of recruiting A players with these expert hiring tips for topgrading interviews! Get ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
The Test of True Accountability (Updated for 2023)

This happens all the time. You are holding someone accountable to get something done. Yet you find ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Job Scorecard Examples and Template (Updated for 2024)

The best way to understand what each Job Scorecard entails is to see an example. My own manager, ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Leadership Meetings in 2024: Align Your Team and Engage Employees Monthly with this Agenda

A monthly leadership meeting agenda should include three main components: objectives, action items, ...

Effective Meetings

Accountable Leaders & Teams
What Leaders Need to Know about Giving and Receiving Feedback (Infographic)

Effectively giving and receiving feedback is one of the most important skills a leader must have to ...

Annual & Quarterly Planning

Accountable Leaders & Teams
OKR Goal Setting Steps: The 5 Keys to Goal Setting

OKR Goal setting is both a skill and an art. Whether you are new to the goal-setting game, or a ...

Strategy Execution

Accountable Leaders & Teams

and more
Creative Skills - The Top 10 Skills in 2023

As you build your high performance team, you may consider who may be intelligent, creative and ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Simplify Your Employee Performance Reviews with an Employee Review System

Using Rhythm already simplifies performance conversations because you are sharing progress and ...

KPIs & Dashboards

Effective Meetings

and more
Productivity vs Efficiency in Manufacturing

Two key concepts in manufacturing that often get misconstrued are productivity vs efficiency. ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Listen Up - A Critical Leadership Skill We Often Take For Granted

If you are a manager, effective listening can help you unlock the keys to employee engagement and ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
How to Align Employees with Company Goals in 2024 Annual Plans

To help you achieve better results from your strategic planning process, we have compiled some ...

Strategy Execution

Accountable Leaders & Teams
CEO Daily Routines: Successful CEOs Daily Schedule (Infographic)

As a CEO, you have a lot of demands on your time, but managing your day effectively so that you are ...

Strategy Execution

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Culture of High Performing Teams: How to Create a Team Rhythm for Success

In today’s fast paced world, where we have more work pressure than ever before, it is important to ...

Annual & Quarterly Planning

Strategy Execution

and more
Recruiting A Players: How to Find and Develop Topgrading A Players

I’m sure you've all heard of Return on Investment, but what about Return on Payroll? Hiring and ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Measurable Criteria for Employee Recognition: Samples, Ideas and KPIs for Rewards

Mapping out employee recognition systems can improve retention, increase productivity and boost ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Strengthsfinder for Teams: Engage Your Team By Focusing on Their Strengths

If you interested in learning more about StrengthsFinder and how this tool can help boost ...

Strategy Execution

Accountable Leaders & Teams
The Trouble with Accountability

The trouble with accountability is that, well, you have to live it. For many CEO’s, Managers, and ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Lack of Accountability in the Workplace is Expensive, Fix It

Leadership is a strategic endeavor. To that end, what might be the business implications of just ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Cross Functional Coordination: How to Manage Cross Functional Teams

According to the research, there are some pretty specific conditions to avoid and behaviors to ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Cross-Functional Alignment Simplified

Here are 3 successful patterns we've seen with our clients to achieve cross-functional alignment.

Annual & Quarterly Planning

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Executive Coaching: 5 Signs That You Need Executive Coaching

Great leaders are responsible for driving growth and in order to continue to grow, it is imperative ...

Strategies for Growth

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Delegation in Leadership: How to Effectively Delegate as a Leader

Effective delegation is using the power of your teams and their abilities to get results. It’s ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Tactical Leadership vs. Strategic Leadership: Which Management Style Are You?

The slice of leadership we’ll look at is the tactical leader vs. the strategic leader. Each ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
How to Use Job Scorecard KPIs to Drive Your Performance

I’ve noticed that many of our clients get stuck filling out the Job Scorecard template. To be ...

KPIs & Dashboards

Accountable Leaders & Teams
20 Mile March: My Introduction

I am a big fan of Jim Collins and have used his book “Good to Great” as a business tool for many ...

Annual & Quarterly Planning

Accountable Leaders & Teams
How to Bargain Nicely: 6 Ways to Negotiate Without Being a Jerk

Many of us believe in a false dichotomy about negotiations: either you have to be really tough, or ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
How to Roll Out Job Scorecards (Infographic)

Role clarity is key to your success, and Job Scorecards are a great way to achieve this. Completing ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Accountability Scorecards: Build Team Accountability

There’s no “easy button” for building team accountability. However, with a model in mind and a few ...

Strategy Execution

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Building Accountability into Your Culture: Does Your Team Have an Accountability Problem?

Accountability culture plays a huge role in making or breaking a company. The accountability ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
5 Steps to Having an Accountability Conversation (Video)

As leader of a high performance organization, part of your job is having conversations about ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Leadership Means Learning from Mistakes

Show leadership by creating a culture where your team members learn from mistakes.

Strategy Execution

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Follow Up: The Key To Leadership Development

The study reflects that leadership development is a process, not an event… something we say all the ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Crucial Conversations STATE My Path

Learn the 9 essential steps to navigate Crucial Conversations effectively, ensuring open, honest, ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
4 Signs Your Culture Is Affecting Performance

It’s difficult to see and to admit that your team is what’s holding the company back. These tips ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Clear Expectations: How Your Employees Know What Success Looks Like

Why is it so important to set clear expectations for your company's goals? It takes a long time to ...

KPIs & Dashboards

Strategy Execution

and more
Accountability Tips: Quick Tips for Building Accountability

Use these accountability tips when having a difficult conversation, remember that you're not the ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
5 Executive Coaching Insights You'll Gain from the Best Business Coaches

Most leaders dive into leadership without a second thought. They don’t slow down enough to gain the ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
How Does Effective Communication Affect Collaboration in Organizational Accountability?

When it comes to creating a higher degree of accountability within your organization, it’s worth ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
7 Job Skills for the Future

As things have changed so dramatically and we are all forced to think about the future of work, ...

Strategies for Growth

Accountable Leaders & Teams
A Players: Attracting, Engaging and Keeping Topgrading A Players

While we know what to do with A Players (grow them) and C Players (fire them), it can be tricky ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
6 Tips for Accountable Leadership [Infographic]

As a leader, it is your responsibility to create a culture where accountability can thrive. You ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
5 Simple Ways To Nurture Leadership Skills In Your Growing Team

What’s more, forging your employees into more capable professionals will make them more valuable to ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
What Does It Mean To Be a High-Performance Organization?

A high-performance organization is one that achieves results that set them far above their peers, ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Effective Leadership Development [Infographic]

Leadership development is a growing concern for middle market companies. Growing your leaders is a ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Plan Your Personal Quarter to Deliver Predictable Results

Here are some great ways to center yourself, prioritize your own personal 13-week race, and set ...

Strategy Execution

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Communicating a Merger to Employees: 4 Ways to Tell Your Team About a Merger or Acquisition

When the companies merged, there was confusion, misalignment, and miscommunication. During a ...

Strategy Execution

Accountable Leaders & Teams

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How Your Attachment Style Shows Up at Work: The 4 Attachment Styles

Here are the 4 attachment styles and how they may show up at work. This may help you as a leader ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
The 5Cs of Communication: How to Use Them in Crisis Communication

If you are like me, your inbox is full of COVID-19 response letters from every vendor, doctor, ...

Strategy Execution

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Lack of Alignment Leads to Million Dollar Mistakes and Rework Waste

Rework is such a pain and such a waste of resources. It costs you time, energy and emotional ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Discipline is the Key to Success

Working from home can certainly be a challenge. I've been working from home for the last 12 years, ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
4 Tips to Improve Your Company's Focus

Focus is key in achieving your goals for your company. In our Rhythm methodology, the best practice ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Creating A Culture of Innovation: 5 Ways CEOs Can Drive a Culture of Innovation

We have all heard the saying "A fish rots from the head down," right? Not that I am comparing my ...

Strategies for Growth

KPIs & Dashboards

and more
Leadership Tips to Help Your Employees Solve Their Own Problems (Part 2)

How can leaders encourage employees to solve more of their own problems, and why is that an ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Employee Engagement Mistakes to Avoid

Employee engagement is a hot topic: how to engage employees, how to measure it, and why it's ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Corporate Culture and Investment Returns: The ROI of Company Culture

It takes intention and a relentless pursuit of greatness to build a viable company culture that ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Examples of Crucial Conversation at Work: 5 Common Causes in the Workplace

Hopefully, next time you will be able to spot a crucial conversation, manage it well and strengthen ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Crucial Conversation Skills: Manage Your Emotions When Stakes Are High

Our team recently participated in a day and half of training on Crucial Conversations in which we ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Execution Leadership: 7 Steps to Execute Your Strategy

Recently, I worked with a client who was a whiz at quarterly planning , but was falling short on ...

Strategy Execution

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Great Leaders are Inquisitive Explorers

First and foremost, truly awesome leaders are Inquisitive Explorers (i.e., they have a natural ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Making Aspirational Leadership a Reality: Developing Accountable Leadership

I’ve had the privilege of working with a lot of men and women who truly do desire to become better ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Core Values Implementation Plan: 8 Ways To Manage Using Your Core Values (Video)

Once your executive team has worked to discover, test and finalize your Company's Core values - ...

Strategies for Growth

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Personal Capacity Building: 6 Tips to Double It

Our coaches here at Rhythm Systems are always trying to help our clients think about the future of ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Increasing Productivity & Engagement: A Case Study Example

If you want higher levels of employee engagement, strategically invest in creating a framework for ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Common Purpose: Why It Matters

While it is the responsibility of individual workers to come with the commitment to create purpose ...

Strategies for Growth

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Emotional Intelligence in Action: List of Emotional Intelligence in Action Steps

Emotional intelligence is a critical skills for leaders. It's tied to self-awareness, ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Nuts and Bolts Leadership: Sometimes You Feel Like a Nut

As company leadership, sometimes it’s important to revamp how you interact with others, spend your ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Leadership Tips to Help Your People Solve Their Own Problems (Part 1)

In reality, leaders aren’t holding themselves accountable for creating environments that foster a ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
5 Questions Leaders Should Ask When A Project Fails

It’s happened to all of us. We start a new project or set a new goal with the best intentions. ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
What is Your Favorite Habit of the 7 Habits of Stephen Covey?

Our team recently completed a leadership development training on Covey's “7 Habits of Managers.”

Accountable Leaders & Teams
How to "Be Proactive" with the Hidden Resource Finder

Highly-effective leadership means approaching things differently and having a proactive mindset.

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Do You Have a People Problem or a Leadership Problem?

How do you know if you have a people problem or a leadership problem? It takes a great deal of ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Does Gender Matter in Leadership?

Who's better at leadership: Women or Men? According to the research, leadership isn't about gender ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Stand Up, Speak Up, Shut Up, and Sit Down

No matter how well you’ve developed the skill, I’ve found that it can be improved by following a ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Leadership's Role in Team Accountability [Infographic]

Accountability is the foundation for performance. Team accountability impacts your team’s results. ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
How Myers Briggs Can Help You Run a Profitable Business

The MBTI is one assessment tool used by many companies to increase self-awareness and help with the ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
10 Signs of an Accountable Culture (Infographic)

Team accountability is something we have to intentionally build into our culture of accountability. ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Life & Work Lessons from a Disengaged Elf

Celebrate, don’t punish your people when their strengths don’t align with their role. Instead of ...

Strategies for Growth

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Leadership and Levels and Styles of Decision Making [Video]

One key function of leadership is the ability to make decisions; this is paramount to successfully ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Be a Better Leader by Clock Building vs. Telling Time

Instead of getting bogged down in day to day decisions, great leaders focus on aligning the company ...

Strategies for Growth

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Business Lessons from the Story of David and Goliath

This boy and his story have much to teach us as men and women business leaders. Well-planned ...

Strategies for Growth

Accountable Leaders & Teams
The Road to Hell (is Paved with Good Intentions)

I have learned a simple strategy to help you pave the right road. The focus is on 3 points to ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Did Curiosity Really Kill the Cat?

To be a good leader, you need to be curious and come to the table ready to ask questions, not give ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
How to Use Goldratt's Thеоrу of Constraints for Personal Growth

Applying Goldratt's theory of constraints to your personal life can help you do better, reach ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
9 Strategies fоr Mаnаgіng Employee Turnоvеr

Duе tо changing еmрlоуее needs соuрlеd wіth a соmреtіtіvе jоb market, еmрlоуее turnover іѕ оn the ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Discipline Matters

If you want to be a truly great leader, then you need to understand the tangibles and intangibles ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
My Productivity Experiment (Infographic)

I realized that I know all the expert tips for increased productivity, but I don’t necessarily ...

Strategy Execution

Accountable Leaders & Teams
5 Tips for Working with Introverts

One of the most common misconceptions about working with introverts is that we do not work well ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Conga Line to Company Culture

It’s not just millennials who crave a strong company culture. We all need clarity on the ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Focus: Are You Reaping the Benefits?

Getting - and staying - focused can make you a lot more productive and happier. Of course, doing so ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
How Do I Fire My Accountant?

The most common complaints I hear about accountants/CPA''s are "my accountant messed up my taxes" ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
4 Rules for Creating and Managing Strong Process

I guarantee you that if you show me someone who performs at a top level consistently, I’ll show you ...

Strategies for Growth

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Five Business Reasons to "Include" vs. "Exclude"

Most all company leaders say their intention is to include the right people in strategic decisions. ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Team Development: Leadership Through the 4 Stages of Team Development

For leadership, it’s important to know where your team is in the stages of development and how you ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
The Power of Silence for Effective Communication

Leadership is modeling a culture of collaboration. A great way to do this would be to weave in ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
5 Rules of Improv to Improve Your Business

You’ll be surprised how helpful these rules of improv can be in real life and business leadership, ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Calling All CEO’s – Are You Sitting Behind a Desk All Day?

One of Jack Daly's messages was that the job of a CEO is to grow the company, not to run it. ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Creating a World Class Employee Experience: Lessons from Anytime Fitness CEO

The world class customer service experience starts with designing a world class employee ...

Increasing Sales

Strategies for Growth

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Service is Not a Secret: 8 Steps to a Customer Service Revolution

Customer service training initiatives have proven vital, but only if they are focused on results ...

Increasing Sales

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Weekly Adjustment Meeting: No Status vs. Red Status

If you status a priority Red before your weekly meeting, it’s a way of asking for help; it’s not ...

Effective Meetings

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Why Is It So Hard To Influence Change?

When leadership affects change, understand the measurable result, discover the behaviors driving ...

Strategy Execution

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Why Quarterly Plans Fail: When You Don’t Listen, You Get Rewarded with Bad Execution, Rework and Waste!

Most people think of “listening” as a leadership skill. Leaders need to listen to their people. ...

Annual & Quarterly Planning

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Don't Flip Off Your Team (Part Two)

In a leadership role, retain authority to make the final decision, yet still invite input. Each ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Is Your Business a Murder Mystery?

Core Values require no external justification, they should not be chosen from a list or something ...

Strategies for Growth

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Sustaining your Passion: It's a Leader's Job

Like it or not, you (as a leader) write your organization's stage play. Life is hard, and being a ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Annual Planning: The Power of a Great Annual Planning Facilitator

Annual Planning is one of the most important things you and your executive team will do this Fall. ...

Annual & Quarterly Planning

Accountable Leaders & Teams
Skate to Where the Puck is Going During Annual Planning

Ask yourself "does my Execution Plan play where the puck is? Or am I playing where the puck is ...

Annual & Quarterly Planning

Strategy Execution

and more
Efficient Communication - Stop Duplicating Work

Then you can make sure that your people in the right seats can run and execute towards the right ...

KPIs & Dashboards

Effective Meetings

and more