Want Extremely Engaged and Accountable High Performing Teams Who Get Results?

As you pull up to your office you see some team members going in the door chatting animatedly and catch that they’re not talking about what happened on Eastenders last night (MiseryEnders!) but instead they’re discussing an idea they’re excited to share at that morning’s meeting. 

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When you walk through the office you feel the positive energy of people who love their work, want to be there and are proud of their results and the company. 

In fact, recruiting great staff has become so much easier with some fantastic finds recommended by your staff.

At your desk as you peruse your calendar with your cuppa in hand you see you have 2 WHOLE HOURS this morning for thinking time. Wow!

All because your teams are getting on with their thing by themselves, leaving you free to focus on what’s important for the future of your organisation.

No longer do you suffer constant interruptions and fire fighting!

And while you did enjoy the adrenaline rush of that, over time it became exhausting and frustrating. 

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Now you get all the adrenaline buzz you can handle from your regular leadership team meetings - they’re not always easy but they’re never boring! 

Finally you get to have real conversations where EVERYBODY on the team contributes, decisions are made that everybody commits to and acts upon, and there is real trust, accountability and focus on results.  

Your mind wanders back to only a relatively short time ago when different managers would fight over resources, each lobbying for why THEIR department needed XYZ, regardless of what that meant for the company as a whole... 

Some managers used to take things personally which meant walking on eggshells around them. 

And one or two others had a tendency to talk and walk all over the quieter ones.

And what about those times you found out AFTER the fact that both leaders and staff didn’t always speak up about potential problems until it was too late. That cost a lot of wasted time and money!

You shudder as you recall attempting to talk with staff about the direction of the company, man it could be painful sometimes! A bit like trying to get a morose teenager to talk about their day at school… 

You smile as you remember the journey to today. It took some courage and wasn’t always easy but you love how much closer you feel to your team. 

Not that you’re bosom buddies with all of them outside of work. Yet, there’s a deep respect and inner knowing that whatever challenges life throws at you, TOGETHER you’ll find a way to sort them out.

What worried you most about this process when starting out were those members of staff, stubbornly entrenched in their ways that need to change the way they did things.

Some left of their own accord, (usually with sighs of relief from their teammates!) because with the renewed focus on results, ways of managing and increased accountability across the board…

...Well, there was nowhere left for them to hide! 

Yet many of the others not only changed - they’re now almost evangelical about the company vision, values and how empowered they are.

And of course they’re totally focused and proactive on how they can help you all achieve your most important goals. 

To think you had thought about ‘performance managing’ them out the door, that would have been such a waste of talent and potential for the business.

(You shake your head) Wow. 

Phew!

Even though you’d previously gone through strategic planning and vision and values type exercises, when you’d looked at how they inspired staff - or rather didn’t really - that was a bit of a shock.

Then again, how could you have gotten to the heart of it all, how could you have discovered something really meaningful without having the difficult conversations you never previously dared to have?

Learning how to create conversations with ‘productive conflict’ was fascinating - and awkward at first!

Yet what you’ve discovered is a new level of clarity, alignment and communication that gets better results - and gets them faster.

And what you’ve learned about yourself and how you’ve shifted your own mindset too has not only transformed your business, but your home life too.

You’ve had challenging, yet much needed, conversations with family members that you never thought would happen in a million years. And been able to let go of stuff from the past that you had no idea was even still affecting you… Yet it was.

Now you listen to and trust your intuition even more and feel…. More you.

Not to mention how proud you feel of your leadership team and all your staff for the way everybody now pulls together heading in the same direction.

Oh yes direction, that reminds me - thinking time!

Hmmm… Let me consider that opportunity Janet mentioned the other day...