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Data Shows Why Startups Fail without These 3 Things
Why startups fail in the first year – and how to beat the odds.
Does Accountability Stifle Creativity in the Workplace?
Learn how great workplace leadership uses accountability to promote a creative work culture, not stifle it.
Leadership Training for Millennials: How to Groom the Next Generation of Business Leaders
Effective leadership training for Millennials will empower the next generation to take ownership within your organization.
Employee Feedback: Why It Matters and How to Use It
Here’s how successful leaders in the workplace cultivate more engaged workers by effectively giving and receiving employee feedback.
3 Key Leadership Skills in the Workplace Your MBA Didn’t Teach You
Effective leadership in the workplace starts with a few key lessons and skills you can’t learn in business school.
Three Ways To Avoid Making Illogical Decisions
Many of us are hired for our ability to make sound, logical decisions quickly. But what happens when those decisions are neither sound nor logical?
The 1 Mistake Hiring Managers Make in a Job Interview (It’s Extremely Common)
Out of every 10 hires made by your company, how many turn out to be good? Here’s how to increase your chances of hiring the right candidate.
New Startups Have Nothing on This 127-Year-Old Family-Owned Business
Only 3% of family-owned businesses survive past the fourth generation. Here’s how to beat the odds.
Accelerate Sales by Discovering Customer Beliefs
Unfavorable beliefs inhibit sales. Like bad habits, they are really hard to change–but not impossible.
Changing Company Culture Effectively with a Movement
If culture has the most impact on business results, why do leaders still spend most of their time on strategy?
How successful leaders empower employees
Fostering ownership in the workplace leads to greater employee engagement. Creating a culture of accountability is the first step to getting there.
How to Create World-Class Experiences
Missing the mark on customer satisfaction? How employee development might be key to creating customer experiences you want the world talking about.
16 Accountability Traits Great Leaders Embody—Number 7 Will Skyrocket Your Career
Want to have a greater impact in the world? Embrace even three of these traits today and transform into a more effective leader.
Stop Chasing Sales and Start Shifting Beliefs
Belief Based Selling™ challenges conventional wisdom with a simple question, “How well do you know your customer?”
How strong women leaders can build their brand
Comparing yourself to others is holding you back. Here are 3 ways to leave that old habit behind and get people to see your true strengths!
Burst your “Filter Bubble” to Make Better Decisions
Advanced strategic thinking arises when we acknowledge that no one sees the world perfectly. Use these 4 strategies to make better decisions and influence more people.
Build Culture by Building Habits
Culture doesn’t happen overnight. It happens over time!
4 Ways Women Can Project the Powerful Leader Within
How can you become a stronger leader? Master these four important skills to reach–and exceed–your potential!
3 Feedback Mistakes to Avoid
Calling all leaders: Constructive feedback is a two-way street. It’s time to find comfort in not just giving constructive feedback, but also being on the receiving end. Once you’re there, make sure you’re listening.
3 Ways Culture Empowers You to Reach as High as You Can
Driving sales by driving more activity, new tools or incentives can work temporarily, but to reach a sustainable sales solution, leaders should be focused on driving culture in 3 ways.
4 Ways Self-Bias is Derailing Your Career
Self-bias. It’s that voice inside your head that is telling you that you’re above average…always. While this could be true, this mentality is likely hurting your career and keeping you from greater success. Here’s why.
4 Steps to Understanding and Changing Your Company Narrative
Every company has a narrative. That narrative is driving the way people think and act to get their work done. Are you understanding the narrative and does it need to be responded to?
How ‘Giving Thanks’ Can Be a Powerful Way to Boost Employee Loyalty
Giving your employees appreciation for their hard work not only helps your organization, but creates a foundation of loyalty. Here are three ways leaders can give thanks to drive employee engagement.
From Curse to Champions: The Cubs’ 3 Steps to Turning a Team Around
The Chicago Cubs won the 2016 World Series! Here are the three steps they took to break their 108-year losing streak.
4 Ways to Avoid Pre-crastination (And Boost Your Creativity)
Don’t let pre-crastination be the enemy of creativity on your next project. Here are 4 reasons why procrastination can actually help your creativity!
2 Simple Ways to Get Your Employees More Engaged That Don’t Involve Money
Engaging employees is no easy task. Here are two ways to get your employees behind your cause.
5 Ways You Might Be Sabotaging Your Culture
You may be sabotaging your culture and not realize it! Save your culture from destruction by avoiding these 5 ways that guarantee failure.
Crack the Code on Work-Life Balance
Work-life balance is dead. Instead, we need to focus on leading our people with their overall well-being in mind (and yours, too!).
Olympic Gold Medalist’s 3 Keys to Success: Team Culture, Hard Work, and Persistence
In this Forbes interview, Senior Director and Olympic Gold Medalist Ryan Millar, shares that the 3 keys to success deal with culture, hard work, and expecting the unexpected.
How Accountability Orchestrates Results
An individual or a group of individuals that take personal, positive accountability can have a significant impact throughout their organization. But what if the entire workforce was taking personal accountability for the Key Results of an organization?
5 Things Winning an Olympic Gold Medal Taught Me About Success
The lessons learned from winning a gold medal are as valuable as earning the medal itself. Ryan Millar, 2008 U.S. Men’s Volleyball gold medalist, shares his journey and what it means for leaders.
4 Steps to Develop Your AQ and Make Change Happen
What’s your AQ? Use these 4 steps to improve your ability to adapt to and thrive in an environment of change.
3 Keys to Managing Change in Your Workplace
Managing change in your organization is as much an art form as it is a scientific approach. The art of change management lies in 3 key fundamentals.
3 Communication Tips Every Leader Should Use
Effective communication is critical in building a work environment of trust and collaboration. Here are 3 tips for ensuring communication produces the culture you want in your organization.
These 2 Mistakes Will Kill Your Career as a Leader
New leaders can and will make mistakes–it’s inevitable. There are 2 career-limiting mistakes that new leaders must avoid at all costs–and here’s how.
9 Benefits of a Train-the-Facilitator Program
Successfully Launch a Training Program in Your Organization with This Approach
El Rio: A Commitment to the Community
El Rio, with their commitment to the people they serve, has found a solution that can truly help them continue their quest for being the world-class, preferred primary care provider in their region.
Why Companies with a Good Product and Strategy Aren’t Succeeding
You have a good product or service. You have a good strategy. So why aren’t you succeeding? You’re likely missing the critical puzzle piece: culture.
This Hour-and-a-Half Exercise Can Keep You From the Brink of Failure
Great leaders and managers can use a premortem to keep a project from failing before it even starts…by assuming it failed.
Leap Boundaries & Barriers with a Single Question
Once you learn to constantly ask “What else can I/we do to achieve the desired result?”, you open doors to new solutions and breakthrough performance.
What You Can Learn From Vince Lombardi’s Timeless Leadership Wisdom
Legendary coach Vince Lombardi once said, “Leaders are made, they are not born.” Follow these 3 ways to better develop your future leaders.
4 Ways to Run Better Meetings (and Transform Your Culture)
Meetings. Some are dreaded, others are valuable. Make sure your meetings are productive and a good use of time…your culture will thank you for it.
How to Replace (or, Better Yet, Keep) Your Rock Star Employees
Losing a rock star employee can set your company back. As a leader, how do you avoid this situation? Don’t lose them in the first place.
Responsibility vs. Accountability
When a result isn’t achieved, that’s when most of us start hearing words like “responsibility” and “accountability.” While responsibility is appreciated and often used correctly, accountability continues to be misperceived and gets a bad rap—we’re here to tell you why it shouldn’t.
OG&E: Keeping the Lights On
Through the use of Key Results, this Oklahoma utility made safety and accountability top priorities, changing their culture for the better.
Three Ways to Improve Corporate Culture
Is culture on your mind? Well, it’s on the minds of C-suite executives, with 92% saying that improving their firm’s corporate culture would improve the value of their company.
Culture of Accountability
Follow Through, Get Real, and Speak Up—there is no true accountability without these values and their associated actions.
Key Expectations—Clear and Aligned?
Expectations must be formed in ways that make the deliverable clearly understood by all involved.
Getting Key Results Right
Memorable, measurable, and meaningful results lead to higher levels of accountability for organizations.
The Role of Key Results
Identifying the Key Results that your organization must deliver to survive and thrive will put your organization on a path to greater accountability and alignment.