Posts Tagged ‘Improvement’

Be Hungry and Humble (Increasing Your Leadership Capacity Series — Step 4 of 8)

Friday, January 13th, 2012

Increas­ing our lead­er­ship capac­ity requires more than just knowl­edge. It truly requires us to be fully engaged and pas­sion­ate in the cause. We must change and grow, which means we must enter into the uncom­fort­able zone. As lead­ers, we need to always start with our­selves when we want to make an orga­ni­za­tion improve. The ques­tion of “how must I change or adapt in order for this ini­tia­tive or improve­ment to take root” is a great start­ing point. Note: This post is part of a series on Increas­ing Your Lead­er­ship Capac­ity. Click here for the pre­vi­ous step.

This step comes from a les­son our Build­ing Cham­pi­ons lead­er­ship team learned a few years back dur­ing a part­ner plan­ning and con­nec­tion ses­sion with our friends at Patrick Lencioni’s com­pany, The Table Group. Patrick shared that one of their con­vic­tions was to be hum­ble and hungry.

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Sharpen Me, Please!

Thursday, February 3rd, 2011

I have the great plea­sure of work­ing with an incred­i­ble global com­pany. Their CEO has led this multi­bil­lion dol­lar cor­po­ra­tion through a real turn­around, yield­ing strong growth in the last seven years. I coach him and a few other mem­bers of their Exec­u­tive Team one-on-one. This team is made up of some of the most bril­liant indi­vid­u­als I have ever met.

Recently, I facil­i­tated their Exec­u­tive Team retreat. Our time was focused on improv­ing the health and per­for­mance of the team.

We spent the major­ity of our day review­ing how their behav­iors impact one another. They know that their lev­els of trust and health impact the organization’s over­all per­for­mance, and they want to con­tin­u­ally improve.

What I observed must be taken to heart by all of us as lead­ers. They sharp­ened one another.

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Why?

Friday, June 4th, 2010

Do you know the answer to this ques­tion? Dis­cov­er­ing “why” is crit­i­cal to so many areas of our busi­ness and our lives.

We all walk through life hear­ing about what we should do to improve. Still, most of us strug­gle with chang­ing our behavior.

Over the years, I have coached thou­sands of peo­ple in one-on-one or group ses­sions. Most of these coach­ing con­ver­sa­tions revolved around the topic of improve­ment — qual­ity of life, busi­ness results, health, rela­tion­ships, team per­for­mance. Peo­ple typ­i­cally hire a coach because they believe they will have a bet­ter chance of mak­ing the nec­es­sary changes with a coach on their team.

And of course, I agree!

The prob­lem is that almost all of these improved results require improved behav­iors, and behav­ior is not eas­ily changed. If we want to change our behav­ior, we must change our think­ing. And to change our think­ing, we must be able to clearly define “why.”

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