Six Disciplines

DECEMBER 5, 2014

In a survey of 163 CEOs by Forbes Insights in conjunction with the Association for Strategic Planning and the Council of Public Relations Firms, chief executives report that one-third of corporate strategies fail, and they fail for five reasons. The five reasons why strategies fail are: Unforeseen external circumstances (24 percent).

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2016

That is, what do your colleagues – direct reports, peers and bosses – expect from you. Consider your core competency — what you do for your job. Beyond competency consider how you interact with people. Sounds simple, but too often we don’t take the time – or more precisely – make the time to understand our role.

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ExactHire - Leadership

MARCH 7, 2018

1 – Add accountability to your core competencies. Competencies are the skills, behaviors and/or core values that set apart your company from you competitors. Include accountability as one of your core competencies for all employees in all positions and promote the competencies throughout the organization (e.g.,

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Terry Starbucker

MAY 17, 2015

Hire on personality, not core competencies -Leaders are not genetic engineers, nor should they be. So you just have to be skeptical, and ask those questions, and dig a little deeper. Even with people you’ve known professionally for many years. Even with friends.

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The Practical Leader

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Exploration — a broad, open search for strategic partnerships, unresolved problems, latent or unmet needs, new markets and customer segments that potentially fit the organization’s Focus and Context (vision, values, and purpose) and its core competencies.

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Six Disciplines

MARCH 28, 2011

In a survey of 163 CEOs by Forbes Insights, chief executives report that one-third of corporate strategies fail, and they fail for five reasons. 16% - There is a poor match between the strategy and the core competencies of the organization (16 percent). 18% - The strategy itself is flawed. 18% - The strategy itself is flawed.

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Six Disciplines

MARCH 6, 2015

One research report revelad that 85% of leadership teams spend less than 1 hour a month discussing strategy. The most vital core competence of all is the ability to execute strategy. At Six Disciplines , our research shows that there are six fundamental barriers to enduring business excellence: 1. Poorly Understood Strategy.

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Six Disciplines

APRIL 11, 2011

reported that a survey of executives from large (mostly FORTUNE 1000) companies found that those who had participated in a coaching program characterized the ROI to be in the order of 6:1. These are the core competencies of learning, growing organizations: Formulating strategy. What is the ROI of executive coaching?

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Terry Starbucker

MARCH 6, 2014

During my first few months as an executive back in 1987 my boss asked (no, ordered) me to read the book “ The Peter Principle ”, and report back to him the next day about what I learned. Now 27 years on from my 1 st lesson I have realized something else – right hiring decisions go beyond core competencies.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 23, 2014

According to a report by the Wharton School, although 91% of companies worldwide have a performance review process, only 35 to 40% do it well, often because managers lack the training to write effective performance appraisals. Keep notes throughout the year. This simple tool makes writing effective performance appraisals much easier.

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Sales Wolf Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

  Sharlyn shares the interesting historical origins of this popular leadership philosophy and goes on to highlight several core competencies associated with servant leadership as outlined by Robert Greenleaf in his groundbreaking essay The Servant as Leader.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

AUGUST 10, 2010

Thought-full Thursday: A Meaningful Enterprise » A Good Bye with Humanity August 10th, 2010 | Author: Mary Jo Asmus How often as a leader do you have someone in your circle of influence (manager, peer, direct report, maybe even a customer or consultant) that leaves your organization? Fairly often, I’ll bet.

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Mills Scofield

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Cause marketing, she said, was going in a new direction: Leveraging core competencies to make a positive difference in the community, on employees and the bottom line. With the first engagement complete, our next step is to decide whether we need to make any program changes and report back to the executive team.

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

According to a report by the Wharton School, although 91% of companies worldwide have a performance review process, only 35 to 40% do it well, often because managers lack the training to write effective performance appraisals. Keep notes throughout the year. This simple tool makes writing effective performance appraisals much easier.

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CO2

APRIL 1, 2022

Corporate Purpose Fills a Void, Engages Employees According to Gallup’s employee engagement report , only 34% of employees were engaged in 2021, and 16% were actively disengaged. Core competency: What do we do well that helps us meet our stakeholders’ needs? For example, high purpose companies experience: 14.1%

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CO2

APRIL 1, 2022

According to Gallup’s employee engagement report , only 34% of employees were engaged in 2021, and 16% were actively disengaged. Used to set priorities around core competencies. Core competency: What do we do well that helps us meet our stakeholders’ needs? But it also impacts your business’s performance.

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 1, 2014

According to a report by the Wharton School, although 91% of companies worldwide have a performance review process, only 35 to 40% do it well, often because managers lack the training to write effective performance appraisals. Keep notes throughout the year. This simple tool makes writing effective performance appraisals much easier.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JANUARY 10, 2011

I’m sorry to report, however, that the magical career fairy is a figment of your imagination. She doesn’t exist, and career rewards for your great work don’t just appear. I’m also sorry to say that others – your manager in particular – may not notice your potential for greater things either.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

The tyrant boss reported directly to this VP. It took a lot of courage (some may call this stupidity) to report the transgressions of my boss to his boss. Large corporations have HR departments that trained to help and also many have anonymous phone lines where you can report companies’ ethical violators, workplace abuse.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JULY 5, 2010

I love to be asked to think by my own boss, and I love to see the wheels turning when the people who report to me are using their brains and tapping into their innate wisdom. Shirley : July 6, 2010 at 9:21 pm I love the discipline of asking rather than telling. The best mentor to me in this approach is Max DePree.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JULY 19, 2010

Liz was not someone considered to have “leadership potential” before John took over the division they worked in.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 6, 2010

At work, I have learned to seek out others (some in my department, some above my department, some that report to my department) who are trying to improve (learn) themselves. There was a time when I thought I knew everything; however, with a 3 year-old daughter, I now realize how little I know.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JULY 21, 2010

You stop at a window that has an aging, yellowed 360 report and think, “What is that?”. All of those “best places to work” contests have gone out of business because of the abundance of best places to work; it’s too hard to choose with so many contenders. 360’s are a featured item in the Leadership Museum.

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Your Voice of Encouragement

JUNE 3, 2011

In his 360-degree feedback report, everyone agreed he was a great guy to be around, brimming with good cheer and optimism, but that he couldn’t be counted on to properly plan and deliver complex projects. The first step is to identify your core competencies. How about the very useful skill of analysis?

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Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

Count up how many times you’ve met with: - your direct reports - your peers - people in your other relationship networks (customers,clients, suppliers, and yes, even family and friends) What are you missing by not being intentional about those relationships? I dare you to open up your own calendar and take a look at the last month.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

AUGUST 15, 2010

they don’t directly report to you; you cannot count on your staff to be completely open). Consider belonging to an “advisory group” of external, non competing peers (such as a Mastermind group). Have trusted advisors surrounding you. These are the people who will give you their unbiased opinion.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

AUGUST 31, 2010

So with that out of the way, I am pleased to tell you that The 8 Essential Skills for Supervisors and Managers is a book that belongs in the hands of all leaders – whether they have direct reports or not. Readers of this post are entitled to a 10% discount off the cover price if they contact Paul at PaulK@MidwGroup.com.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

I’d give him a report and he’d say “Good work. Nothing special, just an attitude and a willingness to share it. Thanks for sharing. I’m reminded of Bob, who was my first boss who let me “do my job.&# Keep it up, bub.&# Thanks for the reminder.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2015

In a study I published in 2008 , for example, eight months after 173 employees of a small city in California were trained in creativity competencies, managers were still receiving 55% more new ideas than they had been receiving before the training, and city officials attributed $600,000 in new revenues and $3.5 Competencies are the key.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Although anecdotal, there is some connection to the research out there as well as what others who meditate regularly have reported. A disclaimer: I’ll do my best to illustrate what I believe are the distinguishing benefits of meditation for me and how they might benefit you as a leader. I was off in my thoughts a lot.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

As firms restructured around one or a few competencies or occupations, the thinking goes, wages converged toward the market rate. Last year the Obama White House released a report with a very different theory of why big companies pay what they do. ” There’s an important disagreement here.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Informally visiting with your direct reports, your employees, and your peers often doesn’t require a lot of effort or time. This is not difficult, but it does take willingness and consistency (and may be a little out of an introvert’s comfort zone).

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Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 17, 2010

He’s establishing a regular rhythm for getting feedback from his direct reports. October 17th, 2010 | Author: Mary Jo Asmus One of my clients, a mid-level leader in a large organization, is working to get better at leadership by setting some stretch goals. It’s hard work. He has also asked a senior executive to be a mentor to him.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2012

In fact, sixty-nine percent of employers report that supervisors at their organizations are encouraged to assess employees' performance by what they accomplish and not just by the hours they work. Judging employees chiefly on the number of hours they log in at work is not only demoralizing but does little for company performance.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Read widely and systematically scan sources, from new consulting reports to business headlines, to discern the zeitgeist. They assembled numerous contemporary examples of core competence, including NEC's semiconductors, Canon's microelectronics, and Honda's small-engine design. It can even be quantified.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2010

Be accountable for results : While many funders track service delivery, a 2010 report by the Committee on Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy notes that metrics measuring only output "offer little indication whether social improvement actually is occurring." Early results are encouraging.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

It’s worrying, then, that according to several reports the number of new businesses being created in the U.S. Third, who do you want on your core team? You need to know why you’d want to hire an individual: what he or she contributes to the set of core competencies that you need.

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