Destination: Success | Awareness = Responsibility
In leading our personal performance, if we seek or are “made aware" of development/growth opportunities it should motivate us to take personal responsibility to act, to do something: leverage a strength, change a behavior, enhance a skill, or learn something new. In our continuing Leading Performance blog series, we are sharing a high-level look at the 3 awareness’s we create with our coaching clients.
We start with enhancing a participant’s organizational awareness.
As you gain greater organizational awareness, take time to assess how situationally aware you might be. Each of us responds differently to both good and negative situations. It is important in your personal performance development to acknowledge and understand the impact your natural actions and reactions (both positive and negative) have on situational outcomes.
And finally, the more self-aware you are of your own natural strengths and areas for personal development the more you can impact your personal performance results. List key technical and professional traits and attributes you possess.
Take responsibility today to gain greater organizational, situational, and self-awareness and turn that awareness into a dynamic personal plan for growth and development.
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Cornerstone Learning is a performance and leadership consulting organization that has worked with clients all over the world. Our focus is working with individuals and organizations to create performance solutions that deliver top-tier results by inspiring, enabling, and developing employee-led, leader supported, and organization enabled performance. We are able to successfully deliver this through multiple products and services such as employee surveys, online training, performance assessments, and performance coaching. The goal at Cornerstone Learning is to assist our clients in enabling success by developing a dynamic and customized pathway to deliver role model organizational and personal performance.
Destination: Success | Leading Personal Performance
The future of personal performance development is here.
The traditional performance management process of annual personal goal setting, followed by mid-year and end of year performance reviews delivered by managers is evolving. We are seeing a rapid emergence of near real-time, ongoing, individual performance planning and feedback, supported by a host of enabling technology to assist in that feedback process.
This evolution is a welcomed change to a decades old performance management process that supported a more command and control performance environment where a manager’s job was to manage their people’s actions and activities then evaluate performance and results and deliver a performance review at the end of the year. Unfortunately, this model produced more of a “check the box” activity that had to be completed by a deadline than meaningful performance planning, growth, and development.
Even if your organization has not participated in this evolution yet, it is coming, and you can personally prepare for the future by proactively engaging in leading your personal performance development process and activities today so when that transformation does arrive, you are already leading where you are. Over the next four weeks we will begin to move from just reviewing performance to you and your leader working continuously on pursing performance. From having expectations set for you to you proactively setting and aligning expectations with your manager in support of their vision and mission for your organization. And finally, how to cultivate and lead ongoing, 15-20-minute performance connections that ensure you continually meet and exceed the mutually agreed upon expectations with your manager.
We will provide valuable insights and tools to assist you in leading and pursuing performance, preparing you for the next generation in performance development.
We want to help enable personal performance success.
For more information on how to more actively engage in your organization join our DESTINATION: SUCCESS page, or contact us!
Cornerstone Learning is a performance and leadership consulting organization that has worked with clients all over the world. Our focus is working with individuals and organizations to create performance solutions that deliver top-tier results by inspiring, enabling, and developing employee-led, leader supported, and organization enabled performance. We are able to successfully deliver this through multiple products and services such as employee surveys, online training, performance assessments, and performance coaching. The goal at Cornerstone Learning is to assist our clients in enabling success by developing a dynamic and customized pathway to deliver role model organizational and personal performance.
Destination: Success | Don't Stop Leading Change
Change never stops, so our opportunity this week (and moving forward) is to never stop engaging in and leading that change.
As we wrap up this Destination Success blog series on Leading Change, I want to challenge you to never stop!
Never stop seeing possibilities for change everywhere. The opportunity for positive, proactive change exists everywhere, we have only to engage!
Never stop thinking differently, disruptively. Don’t limit your thinking. Don’t let past failures or resigning to the status quo kill your passion to make a significant difference.
Never stop creating options and offering your recommendations for change. We don’t need 100% solutions, we just need options. Don’t get discouraged when your first, second, or even your tenth option gets rejected, it very easily could be the eleventh time that changes everything!
Never stop acting with urgency. Complacency is the near-death experience to change. Don’t wait. Act, then adjust if necessary, but don’t stop moving forward rapidly. Change never waits, and neither should you.
And finally, never stop leading right where you are.
Your Destination Success: Go Lead Change!
For more information on how to more actively engage in your organization join our DESTINATION: SUCCESS page, or contact us!
Cornerstone Learning is a performance and leadership consulting organization that has worked with clients all over the world. Our focus is working with individuals and organizations to create performance solutions that deliver top-tier results by inspiring, enabling, and developing employee-led, leader supported, and organization enabled performance. We are able to successfully deliver this through multiple products and services such as employee surveys, online training, performance assessments, and performance coaching. The goal at Cornerstone Learning is to assist our clients in enabling success by developing a dynamic and customized pathway to deliver role model organizational and personal performance.
Destination: Success | Act With Urgency
Compliancy is a near death experience for leading change!
To lead change, you see possibilities in everything, think disruptively about those possibilities, turn possibility into options, and now you must act with urgency! Don’t wait to lead your change, act now and get started on making your change options happen. Use our CARE framework to act. Start with C which is clarity. Are you clear on what success looks like in your change effort? Do you have alignment, the A in our framework? Are you aligned with others, having a mutual definition of success?
Do you have resources (the R), or a plan to gain the resources, to achieve change success? And finally, how are you going to enable your change success (that's the E). Look to measure, reward/recognize, and provide ongoing reinforcement that enables change success for the long term.
As you can see, there is lot to do! Don’t let complacency or the whirlwind of your organization lessen your potential to lead impactful change right where you are. Go get started!
“Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable.”
Next week...Don't stop!
For more information on how to more actively engage in your organization join our DESTINATION: SUCCESS page, or contact us!
Cornerstone Learning is a performance and leadership consulting organization that has worked with clients all over the world. Our focus is working with individuals and organizations to create performance solutions that deliver top-tier results by inspiring, enabling, and developing employee-led, leader supported, and organization enabled performance. We are able to successfully deliver this through multiple products and services such as employee surveys, online training, performance assessments, and performance coaching. The goal at Cornerstone Learning is to assist our clients in enabling success by developing a dynamic and customized pathway to deliver role model organizational and personal performance.
Destination: Success | Create Options, Not Obstacles
The old adage of “Don’t bring me problems, bring me solutions” was sage advice when the pace of change and the complexity of the issues and opportunities were dramatically different. In leading change by seeing possibilities in everything and thinking differently and disruptively, it’s not about coming to final, fully-vetted solutions that can take too much time to make when decision speed and agility are key. It is about creating insights, developing options, and determining impact.
From options, solutions will naturally begin to form, but it is imperative not to discount any options that might exist while trying to form a 100% solution.
Look at your list of change opportunities with disruptive thinking applied. What options are available? Based on those options, what insights can you form and what is the potential impact of each option? Then, develop your final recommendations but be open to explore other options and or a combination of options that might lead to the final solution.
“It is such an uncertain universe out there that you have to create what I call ‘real’ options and develop capabilities that will enable you to deal with an environment that will change anyway.”
Next week we will focus on the need for urgency in leading change.
For more information on how to more actively engage in your organization join our DESTINATION: SUCCESS page, or contact us!
Cornerstone Learning is a performance and leadership consulting organization that has worked with clients all over the world. Our focus is working with individuals and organizations to create performance solutions that deliver top-tier results by inspiring, enabling, and developing employee-led, leader supported, and organization enabled performance. We are able to successfully deliver this through multiple products and services such as employee surveys, online training, performance assessments, and performance coaching. The goal at Cornerstone Learning is to assist our clients in enabling success by developing a dynamic and customized pathway to deliver role model organizational and personal performance.
Destination: Success | Don't Let the Past Stop the Future
How many times have you heard, “We have already tried that,” “That doesn’t work in this organization,” “Some things will never change,” or “It has always been done that way."? Each of these statements are the past keeping the future from happening.
Often we accept the past as an excuse to change the future. We get conditioned and find it easier to continue accepting that the past can't or will never change so we accept or tolerate processes and systems that impede our success versus engaging in leading a change effort or even just a discussion on what could be. We tend to resign ourselves to showing up to meetings that maybe, at one time, had value but no longer add value. We show up just because we have a recurring appointment on our calendar. We don’t ask enough “why” we revert to “why bother”.
Your Destination: Success call to action this week? Think differently. Challenge the status quo in a productive way. Start with your calendar and meeting schedule (particularly those “recurring” meetings) and ask why, ask others why, and find a purpose. If there is no real purpose for the meeting, and most feel the same way, then cancel the meeting and find more efficient ways to convey the information.
In addition to the work on your individual change efforts, reach back out to your peers and from the work you might have done from last week’s blog, take your prioritized list and with the three opportunities identified think differently and disruptively on options for change. If you have not worked with your peers yet to identify what's working and what's not, try to this week. Also, explore core processes that often have opportunities for change but seem to exist for years without any focus on improvement. Look to sales, account management, budgeting, planning, forecasting, new product development, et cetera. Challenge the past in each area and see possibilities for change. Lead the change by encouraging different thinking. Be a positive, disruptive force of change that can transform, not just transact.
Don’t let the past inhibit the future.
For more information on how to more actively engage in your organization join our DESTINATION: SUCCESS page, or contact us!
Cornerstone Learning is a performance and leadership consulting organization that has worked with clients all over the world. Our focus is working with individuals and organizations to create performance solutions that deliver top-tier results by inspiring, enabling, and developing employee-led, leader supported, and organization enabled performance. We are able to successfully deliver this through multiple products and services such as employee surveys, online training, performance assessments, and performance coaching. The goal at Cornerstone Learning is to assist our clients in enabling success by developing a dynamic and customized pathway to deliver role model organizational and personal performance.