Stop Fighting Change - Lead Your Change
Here are the top five areas each of us can lead change:
See Possibilities in Everything
Barriers, obstacles, and strained relationships are opportunities to lead change.
Think Disruptively
Don't succumb to the status quo. Think about opportunities differently.
Ask, What's Possible?
What is possible for you personally, in your career, and for your personal impact? "What's possible?" is a very powerful question that should be asked 5-10 times per day!
Act with Urgency
Don't let opportunities to lead change just drift. Don't wait for things to happen, make them happen, no matter where you are!
Don't Stop
Change is continual, even more so today than ever before. We can't rest on our past achievements or the opportunity to lead change will be missed.
We don't have time to fight change. If you will focus on these five Leading Change elements each day, your impact and personal growth will be greatly enhanced. Just try it for one week.
If you want to learn even more about leading change, get your copy of the new book, LeaderShift, today and turn the the sixth chapter!
Now Available!
LeaderShift is not a traditional leadership book that lectures instead of teaches. This book is a compelling fable that allows you to eavesdrop and learn how one leader built a successful team. You will discover a practical framework that will help decrease turnover, improve job satisfaction and improve your bottom line.
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 developing a dynamic and customized blue print to deliver role model organizational and personal performance.
Disruption, your catalyst for disruptive thinking.
Massive and constant disruption in markets, industries, and technology should be the key catalyst for both organizations and every individual, at every level in those organizations, to think disruptively about what they do, how they do what they do, and what possibilities exist for doing things differently. No industry or organization is immune from disruption in the world today. Take look at the taxi and hotel/accommodations industries and how disruptive models are impacting their very existence. Look at how people are consuming their media today versus even 5-10 years ago and how traditional brick and mortar retailers are fighting to stay relevant and viable in an industry of massive disruption.
To ensure personal and organizational competitiveness, relevancy, and to thrive not just survive in this environment of hyper change and constant disruption, every individual in an organization, from the most senior to the most junior level, must think disruptively (not act disruptively) on what they do and how they do what they do.
Find possibilities for positive disruption, challenge the status quo where it exists, act with urgency and purpose to make change happen, and most importantly, never stop thinking disruptively. The moment you do, the possibility of being disrupted becomes an every greater reality.
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 developing a dynamic and customized blue print to deliver role model organizational and personal performance.
New Course Release! Introducing Leading Change!
We have now released our latest online training course, Leading Change!
This online, highly interactive format provides tools and case study examples of how to see possibilities for change everywhere, even in obstacles and failure. It delivers insight on how to think disruptively and not act disruptively in the face of challenge and helps you to create options and recommendations that lead to progress and breakthrough thinking. The model for leading change learned in the program becomes a catalyst for you to act and never be resigned to or accept the status quo going forward. Finally, it provides a dynamic change framework that allows you the capability to never stop your efforts to lead change and make a difference.
Our email release on 3/7/16!
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 developing a dynamic and customized blue print to deliver role model organizational and personal performance.
Sustained Success - These two organizations know how to enable it!
By any standard of measure two of the most successful organizations that consistently show excellence year in and year out are the Pittsburg Steelers and the New England Patriots. And if you get past the fan passion and get down to the undeniable success on the field and how that is accomplished, I think you can gain real insight on sustaining success by reading this ESPN article.
Bottom line, each organization enables their success with C.A.R.E. Senior leadership is visible and connected with their C.A.R.E. They define their culture and they live their culture. Leaders support the culture and the players lead it on the field. If you want sustained success that stands the time of time, then how effective is your organization at C.A.R.E?
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 developing a dynamic and customized blue print to deliver role model organizational and personal performance.
The Power of the ELO Model - Reap What You Sow
Last week we highlighted the 2016 World Series Champions and how the Chicago Cubs created the right culture where the organization enabled player-led, leader supported performance, creating an atmosphere where everyone takes pride, ownership, and accountability in being a leader where they are.
Today we want to highlight how important it is to ensure all three key performance components, organization, leadership, and employees, are all properly aligned to the right performance, and delivered in the right way.
Wells Fargo, one of the largest financial institutions in the world, shook the trust of its customers as well as the entire industry. The fallout, as a result, will impact the future of Wells Fargo and the financial services industry forever. To date, Wells Fargo has agreed to 185 million dollars in settlements after admissions from bank employees that they created and operated over 2 million fictitious accounts so employees could meet aggressive sales targets and earn bonuses along the way. And that 185 million is only scratching the surface. It does not account for the loss in customers and the tarnished reputation and stigma that will be attached to the organization for a very long time.
So what do the troubles of Wells Fargo have to do with an employee-led, leader supported, organization enabled performance model? Everything! While the now former CEO of Wells Fargo sat before Congress attempting to explain and blame the employees of the organization for not living the values, it was the organization that enabled those actions and behaviors to run counter to the stated values, even encouraging them with aggressive performance goals, punitive performance management practices, and reward and compensation plans established to reward results seemingly at any cost!
During a period of very rapid growth and success from 2011 until early 2016, this aggressive cross selling culture was cultivated and supported by leadership. Leaders supported this high pressure sales culture by firing over 5300 employees for not meeting their sales targets. Unfortunately, employees at all levels trying to survive in this environment were driven (doesn’t make the actions right) to open up bogus accounts to meet performance expectations and reap financial rewards or, like 5300 of their co-workers, face termination.
Once again, we have a clear and powerful example of organization enabled, leader supported, employee-led performance, but this time the outcome is much different than the Chicago Cubs.
Watch what your organization is sowing because what you reap could be a World Series Championship or destroy the faith and trust of millions of people across the globe.