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Patrick is our Rhythm ninja. He is author of Execute Without Drama and Rhythm: How to Achieve Breakthrough Execution and Accelerate Growth, creator of Rhythm software, and head of our company. He is a Rhythm Consultant with years of experience helping clients get in a strong Think Plan Do Rhythm to grow their business with purpose.
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Help strengthen your team's execution with better focus, alignment and accountability. Learn how to ...
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High-Performance Solutions
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At Rhythm, our secret to successful implementation is helping companies implement performance ...
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When customer problems arise, typical processes probably won’t fix them in a way that leaves the ...
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Go the Second Mile
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Choose well. Say “No” to the rest, and have a great Winning Quarter!
Annual & Quarterly Planning
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Leaders often talk about keeping their best people, but thinking we can keep anyone is a ...
Employee Health and Retention
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Annual Planning with your teams is part of achieving great communication, accountability, and ...
Annual & Quarterly Planning
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Are you navigating a hybrid or remote workforce in your team management? This blog post will guide ...
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Go the Second Mile
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It is easy to confuse your strategy and your strategic plan. Strategy and strategic moves should ...
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Our annual planning process has been developed by our team of experts. It helps us to identify ...
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Rhythm is the CEO playbook for growing companies. Re-released in 2022, best-selling author Patrick ...
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3 year strategic plans help bridge the gap between businesses strategy and plan execution. ...
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You need to be able to tie strategy to action plans that are worked on and tracked weekly to create ...
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Accountable Leaders & Teams
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Every quarter is a thirteen-week race. It goes by fast. Before you know it, the quarter is over. ...
Annual & Quarterly Planning
Effective Meetings
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At annual planning, we need to be sure we think about our company if we only served our core ...
Increasing Sales
Annual & Quarterly Planning
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We have the privilege of working with many top companies at Rhythm Systems. Many of our clients are ...
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Accountable Leaders & Teams
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When buying a company, don’t be seduced by the financial model. You can't have breakthrough ...
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Having a set of documented core values that you live daily is a powerful Execution Tool for your ...
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Through these growth stages Simms Fishing maintained employee engagement by sending a consistent ...
Annual & Quarterly Planning
Accountable Leaders & Teams
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It’s time to plan your fourth quarter and finish the year strong! One of the reasons plans fail is ...
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It is really hard for CEOs to make changes unless you can see or visualize the cost of not dealing ...
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Jack, a CEO, asked me to review his execution plan. His team was missing their profit and revenue ...
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Make the right decisions daily and weekly. Who is your core customer? Are you saying Yes to them ...
Increasing Sales
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It is important to have winning strategies that drive your annual plan. Don't just focus on ...
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Many companies have nicely bound and thick strategic plans. Thick plans. What I call high "thud ...
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A major part of AvidXchange's success is attributed to discipline & a series of regular rhythms: ...
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Our very first conference was a huge success. Thank you to our attendee's of the Breakthrough ...
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Accountable Leaders & Teams
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Frederique Constant increases employee engagement by having a rhythm of doing, visualizing goals, ...
KPIs & Dashboards
Effective Meetings
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The right people executing great customer service can provide this type of competitive edge for ...
Increasing Sales
Accountable Leaders & Teams
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In quarterly planning, how do you empower your leadership team to share ideas, but still command ...
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Effective Meetings
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Rhythm client AvidXchange has a wonderful culture. They've been able to direct that competitive ...
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They really do a great job, having an execution plan that gives them the confidence to execute a ...
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Priorities often turn Red or Yellow during weeks 4, 5, or 6 of your 13-Week Race so this is the ...
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Most people think of “listening” as a leadership skill. Leaders need to listen to their people. ...
Annual & Quarterly Planning
Accountable Leaders & Teams
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Every quarter is a 13 Week Race. How are you doing? Most of us have priorities to deliver and ...
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KPIs & Dashboards
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How do you know if your company is set up for great execution? Most people would say that they want ...
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Accountable Leaders & Teams
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Great companies first win on the basics, then they wow you with something special. Make sure you ...
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Annual & Quarterly Planning
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How do you prepare for your annual planning session? How do you get the best data and insights to ...
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Annual & Quarterly Planning
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Life was great. I was experiencing explosive growth. It felt like we were on a rocket going to the ...
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Every company hits a crisis once in a while. It is not a question of whether you will hit one. It's ...
Annual & Quarterly Planning
Accountable Leaders & Teams
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I like to think of every quarter as a 13 week race. The only way to have a great year, is to have ...
Annual & Quarterly Planning
KPIs & Dashboards
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Customer service should never be back seat to company policy. Be sure you are accountable for your ...
Increasing Sales
Accountable Leaders & Teams
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Jim Collins talks about the 20 mile march in chapter 4 of his book "Great By Choice". Learn how to ...
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Annual & Quarterly Planning
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Ask yourself "does my Execution Plan play where the puck is? Or am I playing where the puck is ...
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Stephen Covey passed away this week on July 16th, 2012. I was very sad to hear of his passing. He ...
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Keynote by Patrick Thean, CEO Rhythm Systems, where he discussed how important it is to focus on ...
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If you want strong business execution, you must start with a strong team. There is no better way ...
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Q2 has already started. We should all be off and running on our 13 week race. Strong business ...
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Leadership is often one of the surprising missing elements in business execution.
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Here are 5 things to think about to help maximize a KPI
KPIs & Dashboards
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I was with a client, trying to accelerate his business execution and create a habit to be sure his ...
KPIs & Dashboards
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Great companies have great business execution in part because they have strong core values.
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How do you know if your execution is connected to your strategy?
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Meetings are very expensive. Here is a quick tip to get the most value out of your meetings.
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Effective Meetings
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Have a virtual bench for key business execution people on your team.
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Daniel Pink's book "Drive" talks about what really motivates people.
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As you begin your new year, here are a couple of ideas and tips for those who are still working on ...
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It is critical to have a clear execution plan aligned with your strategy. Proof of alignment (or ...
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Let's talk about Autonomy! Use Red-Yellow-Green success criteria to encourage this in your people.
KPIs & Dashboards
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I recently heard Daniel Pink speak about the best way to motivate your people.
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Lack of clarity and success criteria will cause poor performance due to poor leadership, not due to ...
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Where were you when you found out that Steve Jobs passed away?
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Then you can make sure that your people in the right seats can run and execute towards the right ...
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So... What do you do if your critical number goes red? Discuss it in your Weekly Meeting.
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Daniel Pink, author of the best selling book Drive, shared his insights on how people are really ...
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So you have an employee who really does not live your core values… he or she just does not seem to ...
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Rhythm. Execution Rhythm. Rhythm builds momentum. When you have momentum, it is much easier ...
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Sometimes you just have to dig a little deeper for the answer.
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Procrastination is poor business execution because it allows your competition time to sneak past ...
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After our webcast on Mid Year adjustments, I received a couple more questions regarding using the ...
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Annual & Quarterly Planning
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I received some questions via email after the webinar regarding the people plan tool. Here are ...
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Speed... Speed... Speed. Reacting quickly to a customer's need or issue can transform a customer ...
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Sometimes we get so busy by seemingly important things that we are blinded from identifying the ...
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Saying no takes courage, and it takes the support and backing of your team as well as your manager ...
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Are you focused on how many hours your team is working or how much output and value they ...
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Change is easier when you have momentum. Observe your people and look for bright spots as they ...
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Do less and get more done! That seems rather difficult to achieve... doing less while getting more ...
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Learn a simple process for creating new habits that works with business execution and in your ...
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Learn to use RedYellowGreen success criteria to motivate your team to stay on track.
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When you go to a gas station to fuel up your car, you have a choice of fuel quality based on octane ...
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