In today’s rapidly changing work environment, the competition for recruiting and retaining top talent has never been tougher. Rhythm..
Entries by Chris Cosper
Topgrading is a methodology of recruiting, interviewing, selecting and retaining top talent developed by Brad Smart and Geoff Smart..
Topics: Accountable Leaders & Teams
By now, most of us are familiar with Verne Harnish’s book, Mastering
the Rockefeller Habits: What You Must Do To Increase the Value of..
Topics: Strategies for Growth
So, how’s your huddle? I’ve written about huddles before and honestly believe they can be a breakthrough component in building..
Whether you are an executive team member, a department leader, or a member of the team, the role you play in the company is unique and..
Topics: Accountable Leaders & Teams
Do you spend more money on going away parties when someone leaves the company than you do welcome parties when someone joins? This was a..
A CEO has many responsibilities, and among the top is ensuring the company has a sound plan and budget going into each new year. Seasoned..
Topics: Annual & Quarterly Planning
Someone asked me recently to explain what business coaching is, and I realized there’s not one simple answer. It means different things to..
Topics: Strategies for Growth, Strategy Execution, Accountable Leaders & Teams
“We need more accountability around here.” “We need to hold people accountable.” This is one of the most consistent themes we hear from..
Topics: Annual & Quarterly Planning, Accountable Leaders & Teams
At our annual Rhythm Systems Breakthrough Conference in Charlotte, we had the opportunity to survey our audience of over 150 mid-market..
Topics: Strategies for Growth, Strategy Execution, Accountable Leaders & Teams, Mergers & Acquisitions
Recently, I’ve noticed that many of our clients are involving more and more people in the planning process. As they head into Annual..
Topics: Annual & Quarterly Planning
“Innovation is the key to success.”
“If you’re not growing, you’re dying.”
“You must create a culture of continuous improvement.”
Here are..
Isn’t it funny how quickly our workload can change? One day we’re doing fine, managing our daily tasks, making progress on our priorities..
The primary goal of any lean initiative is to drive out waste. Have you considered whether or not you have waste in your quarterly planning..
Topics: Annual & Quarterly Planning
Over the past 10 years, we have had the unique opportunity to work with hundreds of companies around the world. Our observations and..
Your planning sessions are important and expensive. Whether they’re Quarterly Planning Sessions, Annual Planning Sessions, or Strategic..
Topics: Annual & Quarterly Planning, Strategy Execution, Effective Meetings
Is your company consistently getting the results you desire? By results, I mean both top line revenue results and bottom line profit..
Topics: Strategy Execution
Aubrey Daniels is a clinical psychologist who has spent more than thirty years dedicated to helping people and organizations apply the..
Topics: Accountable Leaders & Teams
Growing a successful business is complicated, messy, and hard. Just when you think you’ve got everything under control, your customers are..
Topics: Strategy Execution
Annual Planning is a key component in any successful company's Plan Rhythm. It's the linchpin that connects strategy to execution. It's the..
Topics: Annual & Quarterly Planning
More and more, we are seeing companies move away from the old-school habit of Annual Performance Reviews and focus on creating an..
Topics: Accountable Leaders & Teams
The best teams are diverse in thinking and will always bring a variety of ideas and solutions. They are able to put all of these ideas on..
Topics: Accountable Leaders & Teams
Do you know where your team falls in the natural progression of team development? In 1965, Bruce Tuckman researched group development and..
Topics: Accountable Leaders & Teams
In honor of Tina Fey and Amy Poehler’s awesome job hosting the Golden Globe Awards earlier this week, I’m inspired to share a few rules of..
Topics: Accountable Leaders & Teams
I’ve been a business growth coach for almost a decade, and before that, I was a CEO who had a coach. At Rhythm Systems, I’m the head of..
Over the past 8 years, we have had the unique opportunity to work with hundreds of companies around the world. Our observations and..
Topics: Strategy Execution
Jim Collins refers to your Core Purpose as your company’s reason for being. It answers the big question WHY? “Why do we exist as a..
Topics: Strategies for Growth
An X-Factor is your company’s unique solution to an industry bottleneck that has the potential to give you a 10X advantage over your..
Quarterly Planning time is upon us again. In our company, Rhythm Systems, that’s a big deal. Each one of our consultants will be meeting..
Our longtime client and friend, Greg Slamowitz, Cofounder and Co-CEO of Ambrose Employer Group has just published a new book called Flip..
The start of a new year is a great time to clean up your KPI dashboards. It’s so easy to think of one more metric we want to track,..
Topics: Strategies for Growth, KPIs & Dashboards
Bringing your team together for a few days of Annual Planning requires a big investment of time, energy and money. You may have flown..
Topics: Annual & Quarterly Planning
So, you take Jim Collins’ First Who, Then What principle seriously. You invest a tremendous amount of time sourcing and selecting the..
Topics: Annual & Quarterly Planning, Accountable Leaders & Teams