“The project’s delayed, deadlines are moving targets, the goal line is shifting, we’re falling further and further behind. Something has to change.” Sound familiar? The culprit? Too often it’s poorly defined feedback loops, delayed reviews, slow approvals, indecisiveness, and paralysis by analysis that bogs down projects. Add-in the classic “too many cooks in the kitchen” and …
Slowing Down to Speed Up
Escaping the “Too Many Projects, Not Enough Time” Dilemma Ever feel like you’re working on everything but getting nothing done? Deadlines slip, costs balloon, and projects linger in a weird limbo of being almost finished but never actually done. Welcome to the mile-wide, inch-deep syndrome – where teams and individuals stretch themselves too thin, making …
Teamwork Unlocked: The Quest To Build The Perfect Team
Back in 2012, Google’s Project Aristotle set out to crack the code on what makes for an effective team. Over a two-year period, the company studied 50 years of academic research, 180 teams worldwide and 250 different attributes across each team. This led to a focus on how teams can function as a unit, rather …
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The Feedback Fix: Better Conversations, Stronger Teams
Feedback: everyone needs it, yet few are skilled at it. Unclear, poorly timed feedback is a recipe for confusion, frustration, and project delays and failure. Let’s face it – comments like “This isn’t quite there yet” or “Can you make it pop?” aren’t exactly helpful. Vague and ambiguous feedback often leaves teams confused and demoralized …
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What’s Your Unique “Way”?
Ever considered how a simple set of Checklists can help your team and your new hires execute more consistently? High stakes industries such as aviation and healthcare, where lives are at risk and complexity is high, have been using checklists for decades to manage the basic human tendency to overlook key steps in a given …
Simplify To Streamline
I recently finished “Process!” by Mike Paton and Lisa Gonzalez; the latest notch in the ever-expanding EOS library catalyzed by the now iconic – Rocket Fuel by Gino Wickman (2015). Process! Is the long overdue deeper dive into the third component of the EOS model for driving more predictable business outcomes (out of six total). …
Mastering Complexity with Checklists: Lessons from Atul Gawande’s “The Checklist Manifesto”
Ever feel your work (and your life) is becoming more complicated by the day, or even by the hour? You’re not alone. The dizzying rate of technological change is enough to make even the most hardened techies feeling disoriented. Amidst all the break-neck innovations bombarding our daily feeds, the fundamentals however, seem to be holding…for now. Until the robots start doing our dishes, we mortals are still relevant. We’re still responsible for doing stuff, building stuff, creating stuff, fixing stuff, and improving stuff. We’re tasked with meeting our weekly, monthly, and quarterly goals, delivering for our organizations and serving our teams.
From Confusion to Cohesion: How Role Clarity Impacts Team Morale & Project Success
A successful project depends on many factors, of which role clarity is one of the most important. Say your team installs a project management software like Asana. It’ll improve task management but you’ll also experience uncertainty. Specifically, uncertainty about each member’s role. The result is conflict, confusion, and delays. How can you fix this? We believe the RACI model is a great tool to establish role clarity, and we’ll explain why.
The Essentialist Mindset: How to Stay Razor Focused on What Really Matters
Explore how adopting an essentialist mindset can help you and your team prioritize opportunities and focus on what matters most.
‘Great Attrition’ or ‘Great Attraction’? The Choice is Yours.
More than 15 million employees have quit their jobs since April 2021—and employers are scrambling to fix the wrong problem. Instead of prioritizing relational factors like meaningful human interactions, they focus on financial incentives. A recent McKinsey study tells us that 40% of surveyed employees across the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and Singapore are at …
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