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Values in Dynamic Tension

Great Leadership By Dan

Behaviors: Deliver what I promise, on time and under budget. After a 15-year career leading successful teams, Chris founded his consulting company, The Purposeful Culture Group, in 1990. Chris has also served as a senior consultant with The Ken Blanchard Companies since 1995. Proactively share my learning so others benefit. ?

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Don’t Tolerate Dysfunctional Teams

Great Leadership By Dan

Chris Edmonds: Two key indicators of a healthy team are that they are productive (getting tasks done to standards, on budget and on time) and effective (working together with a minimum of drama.) After a 15-year career leading successful teams, Chris founded his consulting company, The Purposeful Culture Group, in 1990.

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8 Steps for Dealing with An Underperforming Employee

Leading with Trust

Talking with team members about their performance challenges typically falls in the category of “least favorite” managerial tasks, along with things such as budgeting, attending all-day meetings, and completing performance reviews. It doesn’t have to be that way. Step 1 : Did I set clear goals? All good performance starts with clear goals.

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Yes, But How? (A Leaders Made Here Post)

Lead Change Blog

In many organizations who want and need more leaders, the actual working definition of leadership is conspicuous in its absence – there is no clarity on what success looks like. Shortly after Ken Blanchard and I published The Secret , I began to receive calls to speak. Your budget. But that’s not all. Your goals.

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Automation as a Means of Increasing Human Potential: Which Traits and Skills Will Automation Help Promote in Human Workers?

Strategy Driven

That man-hour can be subtracted from a company’s balance sheet and treated as a cost savings, or it can be reassigned to a high-value task that could not, until then, be budgeted for. This article is adapted from HUMAN/MACHINE: The Future Of Our Partnership With Machines by Daniel Newman & Olivier Blanchard. They are modular.

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A Study of Over 19,000 People Reveals The 2 Most Critical Factors of Highly Engaged Employees

Leading with Trust

Our own research at The Ken Blanchard Companies has shown that organizations charge teams with solving their most persistent and difficult problems, but few organizations support their teams with proper training and tools to be successful working as a group. Too many organizations discount the power and importance of teams.

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December 2015 Leadership Development Carnival

Lead Change Blog

Chris summarizes: “Best-selling author Kevin Kruse’s new book, 15 Secrets Successful People Know About Time Management , features the best productivity habits of entrepreneurs, straight-A students, and a few billionaires.” Greer contributed Create Your Business Success. ” Follow Chris on Twitter at @scedmonds.