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Cathy McCullough

Cathy McCullough is a Business Growth Consultant and Culture Expert with Rhythm Systems. For 25 years, she has worked with leaders of organizations of all sizes and sectors by providing consulting and coaching for business growth. Areas of expertise include strategy development for growth, cultivating accountability, creating high performance environments, organizational culture, and leadership. Cathy is also a keynote and workshop speaker at national and international conferences. Contact: Cathy@RhythmSystems.com
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Team Accountability Begins with a Personal Accountability Model

The road to a high-performance oranization is paved with personal accountability.

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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Level 5 Leadership Examples- How Level 5 Leaders Master Leadership

I saw a genuine spirit emerge from a gentle man who leads with purpose & focused intent. Level 5 ...

Strategies for Growth

Annual & Quarterly Planning

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What Should a CEO Focus on?  How A CEO Should Spend Their Time in 2024

The intent of most all CEOs is to be attentive and focused, yet the hunger to simply work long ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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Vision Casting: The Secret to Effective Leadership and Business Growth (with Examples)

Vision Casting is a process used by business leaders to set the vision for the company to engage ...

Strategies for Growth

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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Accountable Leaders and Teams: How Great CEOs Grow Them

The question of how to grow an environment of accountability is a common one. Most CEOs I’ve ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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Importance of a 2024 Annual Plan: 9 Reasons Why Annual Planning Matters

If you want to build a performance culture, then Annual Planning matters. You can’t build a ...

Annual & Quarterly Planning
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Leadership Accountability: Build Accountability Leadership in your Team

Building team accountability through leadership development requires that we understand a few ...

Strategies for Growth

Annual & Quarterly Planning

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The ROI of Business Coaching: Executive Coaching ROI Statistics (2024 Updated)

Discover the tangible benefits of business coaching with our 2023 updated guide. Uncover the ROI of ...

Strategies for Growth

Accountable Leaders & Teams

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Know Your Leader Questions: 6 Excellent Leadshership Questions to Ask

This at-a-glance checklist might help you focus on continuing the maximize your leadership impact ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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Weekly Strategy Meeting: 8 Ways to Make Meetings Strategic vs. Tactical

The degree to which you can up the ante on the content of your Weekly Meetings is the degree to ...

Effective Meetings
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Leadership Training and Development: Is There a Payoff?

Leadership development should be a core part of your overall operating procedures. At Rhythm ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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Lack of Accountability in the Workplace is Expensive, Fix It

Leadership is a strategic endeavor. To that end, what might be the business implications of just ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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Tactical Leadership vs. Strategic Leadership: Which Management Style Are You?

The slice of leadership we’ll look at is the tactical leader vs. the strategic leader. Each ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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Accountability Scorecards: Build Team Accountability

There’s no “easy button” for building team accountability. However, with a model in mind and a few ...

Strategy Execution

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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Building Accountability into Your Culture: Does Your Team Have an Accountability Problem?

Accountability culture plays a huge role in making or breaking a company. The accountability ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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What is Strategic Intent?  How to Use it to Your Advantage.

Do you ever wonder why all those great plans you create don’t really come to full fruition? What ...

Strategies for Growth

Strategy Execution
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5 Steps to Having an Accountability Conversation (Video)

As leader of a high performance organization, part of your job is having conversations about ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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Growing Team Accountability in Your Organization

There are a lot of reasons to build team accountability, the most important of which is that it ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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Accountability Tips: Quick Tips for Building Accountability

Use these accountability tips when having a difficult conversation, remember that you're not the ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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What a Good Executive Coach Already Knows About You

To know you requires me to also understand how you think. Good Executive Coaches understand human ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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5 Executive Coaching Insights You'll Gain from the Best Business Coaches

Most leaders dive into leadership without a second thought. They don’t slow down enough to gain the ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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How Does Effective Communication Affect Collaboration in Organizational Accountability?

When it comes to creating a higher degree of accountability within your organization, it’s worth ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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Strategic CEO Coaching for Busy Executives: 6 Excuses to Avoid

Is executive coaching beneficial? Here are six reasons why you might have never allowed the thought ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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Leading through Disruption: Embrace Your Own “Leadership Summits”

The five characteristics of great leaders will stand the test of time and will get you through the ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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Corporate Leadership Strategy: Leadership Culture is an Essential Part of Your Business Strategy

6 Qualities of Great Leaders. There is an intrinsic quality in great leaders that sets them apart ...

Strategies for Growth

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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Engaging Remote Employees Through Culture

How do you make remote employees a part of your corporate culture? Here are a few suggestions for ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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Leadership Tips to Help Your Employees Solve Their Own Problems (Part 2)

How can leaders encourage employees to solve more of their own problems, and why is that an ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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Strategic Thinking and Planning: The Value of A More Robust Annual Plan

As you develop your Annual Plan, strategic thinking forces meaningful conversations around what is ...

Strategies for Growth

Annual & Quarterly Planning
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Becoming a Transformational Leader: 3 Tips for CEOs

If your desire as a CEO is to become a stronger and more transformational leader, here are a few ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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Corporate Culture and Investment Returns: The ROI of Company Culture

It takes intention and a relentless pursuit of greatness to build a viable company culture that ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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Value of Professional Facilitation for Quarterly and Annual Planning

Feeling the pain of doing your own Annual or Quarterly Planning Sessions? Here's why you might ...

Annual & Quarterly Planning

Effective Meetings
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Great Leaders are Inquisitive Explorers

First and foremost, truly awesome leaders are Inquisitive Explorers (i.e., they have a natural ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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Making Aspirational Leadership a Reality: Developing Accountable Leadership

I’ve had the privilege of working with a lot of men and women who truly do desire to become better ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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Increasing Productivity & Engagement: A Case Study Example

If you want higher levels of employee engagement, strategically invest in creating a framework for ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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Leadership Tips to Help Your People Solve Their Own Problems (Part 1)

In reality, leaders aren’t holding themselves accountable for creating environments that foster a ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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Change is Hard: Leading People Through Change

As a leader, it’s imperative that you understand the dynamics behind leading people through change. ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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Five Characteristics of Great Leaders

Successful leaders work on their skills continuously over their careers to go from a good leader to ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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The Business Relevance of Executive Coaching

What’s the point, or value, of having an executive coach? Different leaders I’ve worked with say ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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Do You Have a People Problem or a Leadership Problem?

How do you know if you have a people problem or a leadership problem? It takes a great deal of ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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How to Stay Sane While Growing Your Company: A Case Study

What I saw at this company wasn’t unusual; business growth can be painful and can lead to poor ...

Strategy Execution

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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Supportive Catalytic Mechanism: Your Brand

Branding is a strategic endeavor that when done well can be a supportive catalytic mechanism to any ...

Strategies for Growth
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Does Gender Matter in Leadership?

Who's better at leadership: Women or Men? According to the research, leadership isn't about gender ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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Relevance: The Forgotten Variable…

I was having a conversation recently with an executive who was struggling to get his arms around ...

Strategy Execution
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Getting a Grip on Your Annual Planning Process

As you set your strategic priorities for 2018, remember an important distinction: Your strategic ...

Strategies for Growth

Annual & Quarterly Planning
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Bringing Your Annual Plan to Life

If you want to bring your Annual Plan to life, then avoid planning in silos. Silos waste resources, ...

Annual & Quarterly Planning
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Growing Your Company: Tips for Taming the Chaos

Growing a company without focus can mean lack of accountability and clarity and loss of customers. ...

Strategies for Growth

Strategy Execution
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To Assess Productivity & Engagement, Ask: Who Really Owns Your Company?

If you want to increase productivity, you’re going to have to work with the productivity equation: ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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Maximizing the Productivity & Engagement of Millennials

What’s your company to do in order to get the most out of Millennials? To maximize their ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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8 “Leadercizes” to Nurture Long-Term Success

Consider these few key insights and leadership exercises as ways to develop the business muscle ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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Is Your Company Healthy?

When it comes to your company’s health, things may seem like they’re going well, or at least good ...

Strategy Execution
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7 Ways to Assess if You’re Relying on Yesteryear Thinking

While changing the way you run your company can be a bit disruptive, that doesn’t mean it shouldn’t ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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Taming the Leadership Beast

This “thing” we call leadership isn’t as easy as we thought. At least, that’s what I’ve repeatedly ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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What No One Ever Told You About Being a Leader

The business impact of your leadership lies within the broad strokes of what no one ever told you ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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Who's Your Org Chart Serving?

Your customers really don’t care about your organizational chart. What they care about is how well ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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Discipline Matters

If you want to be a truly great leader, then you need to understand the tangibles and intangibles ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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Frustrated with People? Look Within...

Understanding the art of leadership requires looking within - that you, the leader, become very in ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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High Performance: Forget the Dream Team

What can we learn from the 1980 Olympic hockey team? There are many lessons as you go on your ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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Is Your Company Running You…or Are You Running Your Company?

Here’s a list of ideas to jump-start your thinking around new leadership habits that can help you ...

Strategy Execution

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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Six Tips for Rethinking the Dreaded “Annual Performance Appraisal”

People performance simply does not fall within a bell curve, the business question is this: Are ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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Five Business Reasons to "Include" vs. "Exclude"

Most all company leaders say their intention is to include the right people in strategic decisions. ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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Power of a Meaningful BHAG

Upon reflection, here’s my compilation of a few things they’re doing that’s paving the way for ...

Strategies for Growth
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BHAG: Why Some Companies Soar

All of us could learn a little from a grocery run to Wegmans. Who would have ever thought a grocery ...

Strategies for Growth
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10 Steps for Addressing Underperforming Team Members (Video)

Our expert coach answers a question around sharing ideas to motivate and improve the performance of ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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When It Comes to Metrics, Who’s on First? (Or is it: What’s on First?)

I’m in full swing right now with Annual Planning Sessions, and a primary part of that process is ...

Annual & Quarterly Planning

KPIs & Dashboards
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Your Corporate Health: Reality or Illusion?

There are many ways to go about assessing your company’s overall health.

Strategy Execution

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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The Power of One...and Another One

It takes leadership to guide people through a time of crisis and resolve to make adjustments to ...

Strategy Execution

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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The "Balance" of Strategic Thinking, Part IV

Many executive-level leaders laugh at getting in touch with the people-side of their business. They ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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The "Balance" of Strategic Thinking, Part III

Next time you meet with your core executive team for strategic thinking, take time to talk about ...

Annual & Quarterly Planning
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The "Balance" of Strategic Thinking, Part II… Strategic Metrics: Are They in Sync?

As one CEO boasted to his executive team during a recent Annual Planning Session, "We well exceeded ...

Annual & Quarterly Planning
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The Power of Informal Conversations

In today's wired world, I think it's intriguing to consider an insight from Steve Jobs. ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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The Tough Conversation

Just finished facilitating a Quarterly Planning session where I observed the executive team ...

Annual & Quarterly Planning

Effective Meetings
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The Golden Question

Identifying Winning Moves and Key Strategies for long-term sustainability is part of the Annual ...

Annual & Quarterly Planning

Strategy Execution
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It's Okay to Challenge Your Own Thinking…

I once worked with a group of supervisors in a 70-year-old manufacturing company. This group had ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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Your Company's Brain Map

Creating alignment can be a daunting task for any group of key executives. Great plans are ...

Annual & Quarterly Planning

KPIs & Dashboards
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Passion + Focus = Success

We hear a lot about following our passion, living to what we're passionate about, etc. ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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Sustaining your Passion: It's a Leader's Job

Like it or not, you (as a leader) write your organization's stage play. Life is hard, and being a ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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Forward Movement: Who's Driving - You or Mr. Magoo?

With very good intent, many executive leaders celebrate the bottom-line (which is fine), but at ...

Strategies for Growth

Strategy Execution
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Understanding "What" to Do, But Not Sure "How" to Execute

Most companies are notoriously good at creating strategic plans each year.  But when they return to ...

Annual & Quarterly Planning

Strategy Execution

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Why Growth Companies Must Make Hard People Decisions

An organizational weakness around people keeps your company from growing efficiently and ...

Annual & Quarterly Planning

Accountable Leaders & Teams

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