You Have Two Choices For Your Business.A business has two choices- evolve or die.You wouldn't want your company to be a lumbering brick.You need to constantly restructure and change your business, or else it becomes stagnant and inefficient.Move in lock step with the market.According to Dr.Karen Ho of the University of Minnesota, "the American worker is liquid".American workers no longer feel job security and stability.Constant job insecurity, restructuring and downsizing beleaguers employees and they need to be consistently retrained to develop an adaptable and flexible skill set.Among many American workers, much trust and loyalty have disappeared.A lot of them feel disrespected, dismissed and liquidated by their employees.In the past 25 years, businesses have predominantly focused on gaining profits and the critical mass.The work force has been disregarded, encouraged to be nomadic and disconnected.Companies should pay expedient and ample attention to employee engagement because engaged workers breed a healthy work culture.Signs That Your Team Has More Noise Than Focus.Do some assessment.Is your work culture healthy? Or maybe you need to reset your focus.Does your team have more noise than focus? Check with the following indicators..The full team does not really understand the top 3 objectives.Team members are vague about movement towards or successfully achieving objectives.The team is easily distracted or sidetracked.The energy of the team is not focused on the top 3 objectives.Rather it is misplaced in inappropriate areas.The commitment of your team is weak.Approaches To Reset Your Organizational Focus.If you see these signs of noise in your team, you need to reset your organizational focus.Here are possible approaches you can consider..Ask honest and trusted friends, colleagues, board members and employees what they think and feel is ahead economically.Check what your trusted resources tell you with your own ego/logic and your own gut feel or intuition.Take time to ponder by yourself.Identify these three things..- What you fear most - What you are missing - What happens if you don't do anything.As you mull over these, ask yourself the final question. "What is the situation calling me to be?" Note that it is for you to be, not to do.What answers and solutions have you come up with? In your resolutions, do you still consider your core values? Are your decisions and actions based on elegant courage? As Ian Percy said. "We judge others by their behavior.We judge ourselves by our intentions".
Sunday, June 17, 2012
Leadership Coaching: Do You Need To Reset Your Organizational Focus?
You Have Two Choices For Your Business.A business has two choices- evolve or die.You wouldn't want your company to be a lumbering brick.You need to constantly restructure and change your business, or else it becomes stagnant and inefficient.Move in lock step with the market.According to Dr.Karen Ho of the University of Minnesota, "the American worker is liquid".American workers no longer feel job security and stability.Constant job insecurity, restructuring and downsizing beleaguers employees and they need to be consistently retrained to develop an adaptable and flexible skill set.Among many American workers, much trust and loyalty have disappeared.A lot of them feel disrespected, dismissed and liquidated by their employees.In the past 25 years, businesses have predominantly focused on gaining profits and the critical mass.The work force has been disregarded, encouraged to be nomadic and disconnected.Companies should pay expedient and ample attention to employee engagement because engaged workers breed a healthy work culture.Signs That Your Team Has More Noise Than Focus.Do some assessment.Is your work culture healthy? Or maybe you need to reset your focus.Does your team have more noise than focus? Check with the following indicators..The full team does not really understand the top 3 objectives.Team members are vague about movement towards or successfully achieving objectives.The team is easily distracted or sidetracked.The energy of the team is not focused on the top 3 objectives.Rather it is misplaced in inappropriate areas.The commitment of your team is weak.Approaches To Reset Your Organizational Focus.If you see these signs of noise in your team, you need to reset your organizational focus.Here are possible approaches you can consider..Ask honest and trusted friends, colleagues, board members and employees what they think and feel is ahead economically.Check what your trusted resources tell you with your own ego/logic and your own gut feel or intuition.Take time to ponder by yourself.Identify these three things..- What you fear most - What you are missing - What happens if you don't do anything.As you mull over these, ask yourself the final question. "What is the situation calling me to be?" Note that it is for you to be, not to do.What answers and solutions have you come up with? In your resolutions, do you still consider your core values? Are your decisions and actions based on elegant courage? As Ian Percy said. "We judge others by their behavior.We judge ourselves by our intentions".
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