Helping Teams Thrive with Clear Performance Signals
Metrics have the potential to empower teams or suppress them, depending entirely on how they are implemented. The outcome hangs in the right balance between visibility and trust. Some leaders [...]
Goal Setting is Productivity Setting
You’ve probably said, or heard, some version of this: “I expect my team to do their best.” Repeated expectations may feel flexible and low-pressure, but clearly defined goals consistently deliver [...]
Lessons From Purpose Driven Companies
In an era when consumers and employees seek meaning beyond profit, a company's Mission and Vision can be more than just statements, they can be the foundation for long-term success. [...]
The Cost of Straying from Mission on a Huge Scale
A company’s mission and vision are more than just words on a website or painted on a wall. They are the foundation of its identity, guiding decisions, shaping culture, and [...]
Mission Statement As Motivator
A few years ago, I directed a group funded by two separate sources. One source operated with a strong connection to its mission, while the other had an adjacent mission [...]
The Spaces In between
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Mission Alignment: How a Clear Mission Drives Team Success
In my working experience, the most effective team I worked with had a strong, simple, and consistently reinforced mission. Every decision, project, and conversation aligned with this guiding principle. The [...]
Why Your Mission is Important
People behave at the level of their beliefs. That is why, the why matters. Yes, most organizations have a mission statement. It is something bandied about at fundraisers, it is [...]
Rapport: The Fast Track to Influence
Since we have a Business Anthropologist on staff, in our consulting work we lean heavily into Workplace Culture and Change Models. Much of the workplace culture repair work we do [...]