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Why Your 2020 Goals are Already Toast (and 3 Steps You Can Take to Enjoy the Meal)
We're already into February. Yeah, those first three months blew by. We had snow, ice skating on local ponds, and enough rain to scare a few...
How to Apply EOS® GWC in Your Employment Practices
EOS GWC™ stands for Get it, Want it, Capacity to do it. GWC is a component of the People Analyzer tool In its simplest form, applying GWC...
3 Ways Bad Management Can Mess with Your Bottom Line
In a recent conversation with my colleague, Gail Bendert, we talked about some of the issues her clients face. Gail is an expert at helping small...
5 Questions to Ask About Your Business Goals
We balance realism against dreams when setting annual goals. Somewhere between the two sits a sweet spot, but it’s often difficult to...
What’s Your “Kili”? Three Thoughts on Climbing Your Highest Peak
Lou’s idea of a long hike was a walk to the grocery store and back. In January of 2016 he set a goal to “Conquer Kili.” With no gear, zero...
Your people aren't accountable? That's on you...
Accountability issues are like blackberry vines. The roots go everywhere. An inability to delegate is often due to having the wrong people in...
A simple technique for resolving difficult issues
When tackling a challenging issue one of two things might happen: You circle around the root of the issue to avoid conflict; or, Emotions...
Three Critical Steps to Increasing Accountability in Your Organization
First, let's define accountability in real-world business terms. You have financial, sales, service, and operational goals that enable your...
How Millennials Can Help You Build a Better, Stronger Company
[Part 2 in an ongoing series about millennials in the workplace. See part 1, which outlines "The Top 5 Things Millennials Want from...
Conversations with Millennials: The Top 5 Things Millennials Want from You
[Note: This is the first in a series of articles on hiring and working with millennials, stemming from conversations Suzanne Hanifin and Karen...
What if Everyone is WRONG About Millennials: Millennial Engagement Revisited?
Gallup loves them some data. In a lengthy report, they characterized millennials as the least engaged generation (29%), the most indifferent about...
When Harry Crashed His Plane: Ideas for Increasing Resiliency and Accountability
Harry pulled back on the throttle in a last-ditch effort to ease his single-engine Cessna onto the razor-thin beach. His plane skidded, then...
The Five Words that May be Killing Your Business
How to destroy employee engagement in five simple words “Let me think about that…” In a recent Gallup article, Jim Clifton said,...
You Think You’ve Got a Great Culture. What's in Your Employer Brand?
84% of all employees would consider leaving their current jobs if offered another role with a company that had an excellent corporate...
Decoding the Latest Buzzword: Employer Branding
What is "Employer Branding"? Hiring the best people is hard work. Ask any recruiter worth his or her credentials. And, in today’s...
Beware the Ides of March (Or NOT): A Simple 10-Question Assessment
A body at rest has three choices. It can remain where it is. It can move toward something. Or, it can be repelled away from something. Likewise,...
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall... What does the Future Hold for Me?
The aging king leaned on his cane, sighed deeply, and looked out over his still sprawling kingdom. For as far as his old eyes could see, small...
Making Lemonade from Lemons: Lessons from a Bad Back
Living on a floating home is wonderful, but as I learned during Portland's January Snopocolypse, it has its unique challenges. While on our way...
Do Your Employees Suffer from the Sisyphic Condition?
Riddle me this, Batman: What can you do that is most likely to result in a higher level of employee motivation? {Theme to Jeopardy...
Do Not Create Employee Engagement - Activate it!
In this festive season, we wish each other a Happy Holiday with all sincerity. This is a time of year when differences are often put aside, family...
What Kids do When They’re Not Sitting at the Big Table
Our kid’s table was a wobbly old card table. We sat on a hodgepodge of chairs, stools, and cushions, and as far away from the adults as...
How to Take Your Hands Off the Wheel without Losing Control of the Car
At some point in almost every entrepreneur’s life, he or she will be asked to take their damned hands off the wheel. It’s your baby, and as...
How a Post-Truth Era Impacts Your Business
As early as 1992, politics was described as a "post-truth" environment. In this world, what one feels and believes takes precedence over facts and...
Increasing Employee Engagement in the Digital Age
Some employees show up, do their job, and go home. They are physically engaged in their work. Others show up, work with passion, and feel a...
Nice Person to Tyrant: Signs of a Leadership Apocalypse
I have a friend who's boss is a really nice person. Everyone likes her, she easily completes all her administrative tasks, and keeps...
I know I need to, but...
In a recent conversation with Merger and Acquisition advisor Brent Freeman, he described how often suggestions he's made to business owners on...
Thought of the Day: Living Your Values
Yesterday I wrote of the importance of aligning your core values throughout your organization, from the top to the bottom. What happens when one...
Thought of the Day: Aligning Your Values
In an ideal world, we say what’s important to us and always act accordingly. As a business leader, you’re faced with four possibly different...
It’s Halloween… Beware that which lurks in the Shadows
It is yet another dark and rainy day in Portland - perfect weather for ghouls, ghosts, goblins, and other creatures of the night. It’s also a...
The 5 Qualities of an Awe-Inspiring Level 10 Meeting Facilitator
At a recent workshop at EO in Portland, I was asked who within a company should lead the EOS® (Entrepreneurial Operating System) Level 10...
Is Money the Key Motivation for Employee Engagement and Retention?
A business owner recently told me with complete certainty that money was the only factor that kept his employees motivated and from jumping ship...
How to Create Rocket Fuel for Your Company
Why Most Organizations Need Two Leaders by Don Tinney... It takes two types of leaders at the helm of a 10-250 person entrepreneurial...
3 Dimensions of Employee Complaints and Concerns
Let's wave a magic wand and take your business from wherever you are today to being in the wonderful land of being a 100% strong on all of the 6...
Healthy: Limit Unnecessary Upset in your Team
Some entrepreneurial leadership teams seem to be well-oiled machines at creating chronic upset with their people. This by definition is not...
Commitment to Values at Netflix
In 2009, Reed Hasting's, CEO of Netflix Published a slide deck on how Netflix hires, fires and promotes. The slide deck has been viewed over...
Recruiting: The Third Leg of the Hiring Stool
In the EOS process, you learn that much of the Focus Day™ involves establishing your Accountability Chart so that you can begin the process of...
3 Keys to Testing for GWC
To fill a seat on the EOS Accountability Chart, employees must Get it, Want it, and have the Capacity to do it (GWC). They must also be aligned...
A Lesson on Values from new Texas Longhorn Basketball Coach
Wouldn't it be great if everyone in your company fully understood AND actively exhibited your core values? Say one of your core values is...
3-Step Hiring Candidate Values Alignment Assessment
The EOS People Analyzer is a brilliant tool to identify if a person "Gets It, Wants It and has the Capacity to do it (GWC), and if they align...
Hire Slow, Fire Fast
The first time I was recruited by a Venture Capital firm to fill a role as VP of Business Development in a quasi-high technology firm, they didn't...
The One Real Secret to Hiring Competent People with the Right Behavior
In my recent blog post entitled "7 Steps to Hire Great People Every Time" the first of the seven was: Define what you want and need for...
7 Steps to Hire Great People Every Time
In our opinion the People section of the EOS Model is one of the most critical. After all, a strategy is only as good the people who execute it....
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