Posts Tagged ‘Teamwork’

Leadership Moment: Be Extraordinary

Monday, November 21st, 2011

When it comes to reward­ing and thank­ing your employ­ees, Build­ing Cham­pi­ons CEO and Exec­u­tive Coach Daniel Harkavy chal­lenges you to bypass the ordi­nary to do some­thing extraordinary.

The Right Solutions

Friday, November 18th, 2011

Coach Steve Scan­lon and I recently facil­i­tated a lead­er­ship con­fer­ence for a great national, long-time part­ner of ours. The desired end result for this con­fer­ence was that all man­agers would con­nect with one another, get clar­ity on what the cur­rent real­ity looked like (both for their com­pany and indus­try) and recon­nect with the company’s vision. Then, the front line man­agers would cre­ate new strate­gies to bridge the gap from their cur­rent real­ity to what they see for them­selves in the future. This would be no small feat!

Well I am happy to report that the lead­ers of this firm stated this was by far, the best lead­er­ship event they had ever had. Bulls­eye! Here is what took place that cre­ated the magic for this com­pany.
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Close the Loop

Thursday, September 8th, 2011

How much time does your orga­ni­za­tion waste in meet­ings try­ing to fig­ure out what you already decided in a pre­vi­ous meeting?

When you don’t “close the loop” in meet­ings, you and your team­mates will wind up invest­ing pre­cious time try­ing to recre­ate what was already dis­cussed but left open-ended. What was the final deci­sion? Who was the project owner? What were the next steps?

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Are We All Committed to the Same Thing?

Thursday, September 1st, 2011

Every team mem­ber must place a higher value on accom­plish­ing the team vision and goals than their own per­sonal and pro­fes­sional goals. This is an orga­ni­za­tional truth and one of the most crit­i­cal “musts” if you want to lead or serve on a high-performing team.

This is also one of a leader’s great­est challenges.

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Leadership Wisdom From a Beaver

Thursday, August 25th, 2011

I had just boarded my flight from Port­land to Dal­las to help con­duct a Build­ing Cham­pi­ons Exec­u­tive Retreat.

For those of you who travel often for busi­ness, you have your travel habits, depend­ing on your mood or work­load. Some­times you sit down, open the brief­case, put on the head phones, and get your work done. And then there are the times when get­ting to know your flight buddy can be the best part of your busi­ness trip.

Sit­ting next to me on this flight was Linus Rhode, Head Coach of the Ore­gon State Beavers women’s soc­cer team.

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