Could it be, that as you reflect on this past year, you are the reason your organization isn’t reaching its full potential? In order to attract the top team that will help you accomplish your organizational goals and get bigger and better, it’s up to us, as leaders, to continue to grow and function at the top of our game.
Years ago, when my mentor challenged me by asking if I’ve ever done a year-end review, I froze! My mentor wasn’t looking for my New Year’s resolutions, but instead an actionable strategic plan to move toward my goals. I didn’t know people did this. I definitely didn’t know where to start.
The most effective way to improve in any area of your organization’s performance is to grow your people. The reason why most organizations fall short of achieving their goals is they don’t implement an intentional strategic plan for employee growth. You can increase performance by addressing three areas to develop a more effective team.
It’s that time of year again. You’ve been hard at work on developing your organization’s strategic plan for next year. But are you like most organizations and missing an important piece to make your strategic plan successful?
As you’re building your 2021 strategic plan, have you given enough consideration to your team’s preparedness? Your business will have new challenges to face in the coming year. You’ll need a team that is equipped to be creative and united in facing those challenges head-on.
As a leader, you may believe that those who follow you expect you to perfect and exactly right all the time. Leadership, at its core, is built on relationships.
As a leader, you have great instinctive ideas to better fulfill your company’s values-based mission. But without the right team surrounding you, those ideas can die right on the conference room floor. To make sure your ideas become reality, you must get the right people around the table.
It’s natural to feel tension during times of change. Your resistance to change, no matter how open-minded you may be, surfaces because you’re stuck in the uncertainty of learning a new skill set.
Have you found yourself tired, sore, worn out, and perhaps moody? That’s because you’ve been thrown into 2020’s exercise gym running on that treadmill non-stop placing your mental muscles to the outer limits. Perhaps you’re experiencing decision fatigue, pivot fatigue or Zoom fatigue. If you’re experiencing it, most likely your team is too.
As you’re going about your day and executing the tasks that are next on your agenda and trying to create plans for the future, it can be easy to forget this simple truth: