Many of us are familiar with this proverb, but few believe it enough to set our egos aside when we’re around other people. When our focus shifts from elevating our team to elevating ourselves, “team” is destroyed.
Pride Goeth Before Destruction
Same-Page Meeting Video
If you have a visionary/integrator relationship, have a partnership, or know of one, watch this three-minute video.
Getting the Right People in the Right Seat
In his bestselling book, Good to Great, author Jim Collins popularized the concept that a critical element to an organization’s success comes down to getting the right people in the right seat. No matter how much time a leadership team spends developing their vision with a business coach and communicating those shared goals and beliefs throughout the business, it does little good if they don’t have the right structure in place and the right people for the job.
Assessing Your Team with the People Analyzer™
Does your leadership team get caught up when discussing “people issues”, those discussions about problems with employees that seem to just eat up valuable planning or meeting time without accomplishing anything? While it’s important to discuss these types of issues with your leadership team, business coaches urge team members to use a more constructive way of solving those people issues, as they can really be a drain on the business over time.
Raising the Bar
A client of mine shared a great analogy to explain what happens in an organization (like his) that is growth oriented, striving to be the best, and continually raising the bar as all companies must, to evolve, survive, and thrive in the long run.
Compliant Resisters
Compliant resisters are very hard to spot in your business. On the surface, they present a positive response, tacitly agreeing with the vision, the plan and the requirements. They are very careful about not communicating anything that might jeopardize their position in the company. Their seat isn’t their passion – it’s just the means to a paycheck.