Six Disciplines

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Primarily focusing on acquiring manufacturing and distribution companies in the lower end of the middle market, CapitalWorks learned it needed to offer a management program to help these acquired companies achieve growth and success. Our belief is that many of the businesses we work with are under-managed,” said Hollington. “A

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Six Disciplines

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

For project managers or execs already burdened with administrative tasks, time tracking can represent just another tedious thing they have to do. Time tracking allows you to discover areas of waste by recording what you and your team members do at any given time of the working day. Manage your time. Establish baselines.

Productivity 70

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Six Disciplines

JUNE 2, 2015

For Six Disciplines client this will mean faster availability of mobile optimized devices for managing the execution of strategy. Our latest Six Disciplines program update (version 14) illustrates the first installment of this strategy with the publishing of our Action Manager app in the both the Apple store and the Play store.

Reference 70

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Six Disciplines

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

However, through the efforts of the management team, the company rebounded strongly in 2010. Towards the end of 2010, Robert Vogel, President and CEO, saw the need to shift the senior management focus back to long- term strategy planning - and execution. Because the hardwood lumber industry is tied directly with U.S.

Due Diligence 98

Due Diligence Long-term Case Study Strategy 98

Six Disciplines

MARCH 5, 2014

85% of leadership teams spend less than 1 hour per month discussing strategy. 70% of middle managers and more than 90% of front-line employees have compensation that is not linked to the strategy. BOTTOMLINE: Strategy must be managed explicitly, like any other major process in an organization.

Execution 91

Execution Strategy Strategic Planning Middle Management 91

Six Disciplines

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

By implementing the Six Disciplines Total Performance Excellence program, Hollington says it allows CapitalWorks the ability to have a productive owner/manager relationship without micromanaging each acquisition. They achieve this through their software tool that creates a management tool to track progress and their ongoing coaching.

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Six Disciplines

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

Key take-aways from their latest research: Companies often manage strategy in fits and starts. Senior management teams needs to have regular, probably monthly, meetings that focus only on strategy. Strategy forumulation needs to be a continual process - not an annual event.

Balanced Scorecard 98

Balanced Scorecard Execution Strategy Kaplan 98

Six Disciplines

AUGUST 29, 2014

Failure to get management involved right from the start. Failure to obtain team member commitment. • Failure to manage change. Failure to obtain senior leader commitment. Failure to obtain sufficient company resources to accomplish task. The strategy is not well explained to employees. •

Execution 91

Execution Strategy Incentives Uncertainty 91

Six Disciplines

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Managing or eliminating threats. Step Back , is to get your leadership team to use their experience and judgement to begin narrowing the focus of planning toward your organization's most important strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. Leveraging strengths. Minimizing weaknesses. Discovering new opportunities.

SWOT 98

SWOT Strategic Planning Analysis Planning 98

Six Disciplines

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Managing or eliminating threats. Step Back , is to get your leadership team to use their experience and judgement to begin narrowing the focus of planning toward your organization's most important strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. Leveraging strengths. Minimizing weaknesses. Discovering new opportunities.

SWOT 98

SWOT Strategic Planning Analysis Planning 98

Six Disciplines

JULY 30, 2015

Solomon Cloud Solutions is the leading source for Microsoft Dynamics Partners needing a variety of training, development and support services to manage their organization's growth proactively. Their expertise and certifications with Microsoft technologies and industry standard tools sets them apart.

Training 70

Training Software Consultative Tools 70

Six Disciplines

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Change management is a structured approach to transitioning individuals, teams, and organizations from where you are today, to where you want to be tomorrow. BOTTOMLINE : Watch this short video about change management.

Video 98

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Six Disciplines

JANUARY 9, 2015

Failure to get management involved right from the start. Failure to obtain team member commitment. • Failure to manage change. Failure to obtain senior leader commitment. Failure to obtain sufficient company resources to accomplish task. The strategy is not well explained to employees. •

Execution 70

Execution Strategy Incentives Uncertainty 70

Six Disciplines

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Change management is a structured approach to transitioning individuals, teams, and organizations from where you are today, to where you want to be tomorrow. BOTTOMLINE : Watch this short video about change management.

Video 92

Video Process Organization Management 92

Six Disciplines

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

When GE's CEO Jeff Immelt (recently tapped by President Barack Obama as his next top outside economic adviser) teaches up-and-coming leaders at the company's famed management-development center, he runs through a checklist of what he calls " Things Leaders Do.". You lead today by building teams and placing others first. Like People.

CEO 98

CEO Self-aware Leadership Active Listening 98

Six Disciplines

JUNE 13, 2011

Once identified, the management team needed a way to develop a tactical plan that supports the strategy and communicates the vision and plan throughout the organization on an ongoing basis. The company needed a way to identify a strategy that was based on their strengths and opportunities.

Trends 98

Trends Case Study Tactics Media 98

Six Disciplines

JULY 20, 2011

A survey conducted by the Cognos/Palladium Group, entitled " Making Strategy Execution a Competitive Advantage " included responses from 143 strategy-management professionals. Their most interesting findings? Most employers don't share company strategy. 95% of companies don't tell their employees what the strategy is.

Execution 98

Execution Strategy Company Competitive Advantage 98

Six Disciplines

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Time Management (Until We Can Manage Time, We Can Manage Nothing Else). Process Management (The Foundation For Aligning Systems). Change Management (Why Is Change So Hard?). Change Management (Why Is Change So Hard?). Managing Risk (Smarter Decisions From Understanding Volatility). Commitment?).

Library 98

Library Video Executive Coaching Constraint 98

Six Disciplines

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

Consider the following shocking statistics about strategy execution: 85% percent of management teams spend less than one-hour a month on strategy issues. 70% of middle managers and more than 90% of front-line employees have compensation that is not linked to the strategy. Senior management does not pay attention to the plan.

Execution 101

Execution Strategy Strategic Planning Middle Management 101

Six Disciplines

MARCH 27, 2015

Strategic planning is arguably the most important part of any management team’s real job because it can determine the effectiveness of all the rest of its efforts. If it is not a continued, integral component of the management of the firm, it is indeed a waste of time. Myth #3: “It interferes with our real jobs.”

Strategic Planning 70

Strategic Planning Planning Competitive Advantage Hotels 70

Six Disciplines

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

Here''s a profound observation from management guru, Gary Hamel: "If you want to understand the real strategy, look at what people are doing!”. Indeed, more often than not, there are disconnects or gaps between the strategy that is formulated by the senior leadership team, and how the strategy is executed by the rest of the workforce.

Strategy 102

Strategy Hamel Objective System 102

Six Disciplines

MARCH 20, 2015

However, it''s not the senior leadership team that executes strategy - it''s everyone in your workforce. You can''t manage it, if you can''t measure it." Here are the seven critical elements of strategy execution: People. Strategy formulation often gathers the "smartest people in the room." Communication. Measurement. "You

Execution 70

Execution Strategy Review Objective 70

Six Disciplines

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

It includes the technology to easily monitor and measure the progress from a management and coaching perspective. “Six Disciplines is the perfect complement to our leadership and management development practice,” added Petrock. Visit The LEAD Institute on the web, call 800-556-5222 or email Kelly Petrock.

Executive Coaching 101

Executive Coaching Software Consultative System 101

Six Disciplines

MARCH 21, 2011

Key take-aways from their latest research: Companies often manage strategy in fits and starts. Senior management teams needs to have regular, probably monthly, meetings that focus only on strategy. Strategy forumulation needs to be a continual process - not an annual event.

Balanced Scorecard 101

Balanced Scorecard Execution Strategy Kaplan 101

Six Disciplines

JUNE 23, 2011

However, it's not the senior leadership team that executes strategy - it's everyone in your workforce. You can't manage it, if you can't measure it." Here are the seven critical elements of strategy execution: People. Strategy formulation often gathers the "smartest people in the room." Get the right people in the right positions.

Execution 117

Execution Strategy Review Objective 117

Six Disciplines

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

percent of respondents who had experienced coaching chose “optimize individual and/or team performance” as their motivation for being coached. percent) and “improve business management strategies” (36.1 This reason ranked highest followed by “expand professional career opportunities” (38.8

Trends 98

Trends Self-aware Motivation Globalization 98

Six Disciplines

JUNE 29, 2011

The survey defined a "status meeting" as one in which team members are updated on progress and completion of tasks. Almost 40 percent feel that such meetings are a waste of time. Even though 55 percent spend one to three hours per week attending such meetings. Brainstorming, strategy and planning meetings were not included.).

Brainstorming 98

Brainstorming Survey Efficiency Planning 98

Six Disciplines

OCTOBER 20, 2015

When we work with firms to shore up their ability to execute strategy, one of the things that must often take place is a shift in management style. There are two main approaches managers take in leading their troops to perform the necessary tactical actions toward getting a plan accomplished. Compliance or Dialogue?

Compliance 70

Compliance Tactics Execution Strategy 70

Six Disciplines

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

What is really needed is a comprehensive business coaching program that: Helps the CEO and senior executive team on issues they need to focus on, i.e., strategy formulation, goal setting, choosing vital few objectives. Helps middle management on issues they need to focus on, i.e., initiative and project management.

Executive Coaching 101

Executive Coaching Execution ROI Middle Management 101

Six Disciplines

APRIL 11, 2011

We've read the books, taken seminars, and listened to the advice of management gurus. And in organizations, it's compounded by the collective numbers of team members, each with their own unique differences, their need to communicate and have meaning and purpose. We've even earned business degrees in understanding what needs to be done.

Seminar 101

Seminar Resistance Definition Advice 101

Six Disciplines

AUGUST 23, 2013

Growth of the coaching industry was rapid in the 1980''s, when it was hailed as a management tool for improving work performance and for building teams. Executives are required to manage greater complexity, risk, and pressure at a faster pace than ever before.

Executive Coaching 91

Executive Coaching CEO Industry Execution 91

Six Disciplines

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Frequent communication is essential if plans are to be executed well -- very effective companies have regular dialogues between the leadership team and unit managers. Once a plan is decided upon, there is often surprisingly little follow-through to ensure that it is executed well.

Strategy 98

Strategy Resistance Execution Planning 98

Six Disciplines

MARCH 30, 2011

Not just your senior management team, but everyone that is involved with your company as well. That means both internal and external members of your organization (your team members, your suppliers, your customers, your advisors, etc.) Engage the stakeholders. Create a sense of urgency. Continuously improve.

Company 101

Company Commitment Resistance Learning-by-Doing 101

Six Disciplines

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Planning and executing, while at the same time, managing the unknowns of the real world, is the biggest challenge in business. Most leaders describe their biggest challenge as the issue(s) they’re facing right now (e.g., growth, control, communication, productivity, generational transition, hiring, competitors, and many others.).

Execution 120

Execution Strategy Learning-by-Doing Planning 120

Six Disciplines

APRIL 28, 2011

It's not only your senior management team, but it is everyone that is involved with your company as well. Let your team members know that it is okay to be uncomfortable with change, but that the winner in business will always be the one who most effectively adapts to the new environment. Engage the stakeholders.

Commitment 106

Commitment Process Company Environment 106

Six Disciplines

OCTOBER 24, 2013

Management teams need to continue to stay focused on a plan. Then, the Six Disciplines program was initiated and continuous improvement of the manufacturing operations, the commercial sales strategies and the development of the sales force have taken place. “It

Case Study 83

Case Study Automotive Strategic Planning Engineering 83

Six Disciplines

APRIL 18, 2011

Risk Management —profit variability versus growth rate. Software to align the activities of every team member every day. Transition —a desire to “pass the torch” successfully. Control —things “feel” out of sync. Frustration —excessive friction in daily work.

Executive Coaching 101

Executive Coaching Risk Management Software Definition 101