Leadership
Building A Culture Of Healthy Conflict At Work
When I work with a leadership team as their EOS® Implementer, they learn very quickly that I encourage a culture of healthy conflict at work. By lunch the first day, we’ve already built their EOS Accountability Chart™, which takes an immense amount of respectful debate, trust, and willingness to be open. These are all hallmark…
Read MoreSimple Tips For Managing Healthy Conflict In Meetings
If you’re having truly productive meetings, your team is experiencing conflict. If you disagree, I’m afraid your meetings probably aren’t as productive as you’d like. Either that, or you aren’t aware of the conflict. Most of my readers, though, are well aware that having conflict in their meetings is a great thing. Healthy conflict resolution…
Read More4 Tips For Using Language To Improve Conflict Resolution Skills At Work
As a certified EOS® Implementer (that’s the Entrepreneurial Operating System) and trained conflict resolution specialist, I’ve never had to look hard to find teams that aren’t managing conflict as well as they could. All teams have conflict. As a leader you know that to be true. You also know that the responsibility of managing conflict…
Read MoreHow To Rate An EOS Level 10 Meeting
The first real step to success is recognizing that there is always room for improvement. Feel free to quote me on that, because I just made it up and it’s a gem. Ready for your next gem? Your EOS® Level 10 Meetings™ are not perfect. Smarmy comments aside, it’s definitely true. In the Entrepreneurial Operating…
Read MoreABC’s of EOS: Level 10 Meeting Not Helping? Here’s Why.
The Level 10 Meetings ™ are one of the most important tools in the EOS ® (That’s Entrepreneurial Operating System ®) toolbox. If I had to pick one tool to recommend to every business owner or executive team, it would be the Level 10 Meeting. When teams use The Level 10 Meeting right, it propels their…
Read MoreHow To Make Decisions And Influence Your Business: EOS Shiny Stuff
If you follow my blog, you understand that the Entrepreneurial Operating System® isn’t for people who are sitting around waiting for the phone to ring. Real entrepreneurs are out there making the opportunities happen. They are looking for places to grow their business, building strategies to make that growth happen, and executing. Easy as 1,2,3,…
Read MoreLeadership Team Problems: 10 Reasons Your Business Isn’t Growing
I’ve met hundreds, if not thousands, of entrepreneurs and business owners. What’s the one thing they are all most worried about? Stagnation. It’s no secret that an entrepreneur gets very nervous when their business isn’t growing. What is a bit less known is that the reasons are usually simple and rooted in one or more…
Read MoreHow To Answer “Can I Self Implement EOS®”
“Can I Self Implement EOS?” I hear this question quite a bit. Can I self implement EOS ®? The short answer is yes, you can. Doing so will take immense personal and professional discipline, hard work, and objectivity. But yes, it is possible. I fully support the idea of a business leader deciding they are…
Read MoreHow To Fire Someone Part 1: Asking Yourself “Should I Fire This Person?”
One of the toughest questions that comes across my desk is “should I fire this person?” If you’re asking that, it means you have two thoughts in your head that seem to conflict with each other. How do I know? Well, if you weren’t conflicted, you’d have fired them already or have quit stressing it.…
Read MoreThe 5 Leadership Abilities That Change How You Do Business: Structure
With April coming to an end, so too does our series on The 5 Leadership Abilities. If you haven’t read the rest of the series, I recommend you check out each of the 5: The 5 Leadership Abilities™ Are: Simplify Delegate Predict Systemize Structure This week I’m going to briefly touch on the last of…
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