The Impact of Coaching on Your Annual Planning and Paving the Way for a Successful Year
Effective annual planning is critical to your expected business growth. Achieve results by using ...
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Patrick Thean
Patrick is CEO of Rhythm Systems, CEO Coach and Serial Entrepreneur. 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.
Bridge the Strategy Execution Gap by Visualizing Your HOW
Learn how Rhythm Systems helps CEOs bridge the Strategy Execution Gap with clear visualization and ...
Strategies for Growth
Annual & Quarterly Planning
Want to Keep Your A-Players? Coach and Develop Them for a Great Future!
Discover the key to retaining top talent and fostering loyalty in a competitive market: coach and ...
Employee Health and Retention
High-Performance Solutions
7 Steps To Fine-Tune Your Core Values
Uncover how CEOs can leverage Rhythm Systems to refine and reinforce core values, transforming them ...
Strategies for Growth
Accountable Leaders & Teams
“Yes” People Will Kill Your Business
Embrace candor and reject "Yes" People to propel your business forward; cultivating a culture where ...
Accountable Leaders & Teams
Employee Health and Retention
How the Rhythm System Does the Work for You and Accelerates People Performance
Explore how Rhythm Systems simplifies the challenge of overseeing employee performance for leaders ...
Accountable Leaders & Teams
High-Performance Solutions
Unveiling the Strategic Power of Your Annual Plan
Hostopia, led by CEO Colin Campbell, faced numerous challenges, including crises, missed deadlines, ...
Annual & Quarterly Planning
Strategy Execution
Improve Performance by Improving Focus, Clarity, Alignment, and Accountability
Help strengthen your team's execution with better focus, alignment and accountability. Learn how to ...
Accountable Leaders & Teams
High-Performance Solutions
Investing in Performance Habits For A Higher Return on Payroll
At Rhythm, our secret to successful implementation is helping companies implement performance ...
Accountable Leaders & Teams
High-Performance Solutions
“It’s My Pleasure”: Chick-fil-A Does It Right, While Marriott Does It Wrong!
When customer problems arise, typical processes probably won’t fix them in a way that leaves the ...
Strategies for Growth
Go the Second Mile
and more
Areas of Impact: How Are You Making An Impact? Consider Your Priority Areas for the Next Quarter
Choose well. Say “No” to the rest, and have a great Winning Quarter!
Annual & Quarterly Planning
Strategy Execution
Four Ways to Love People and Win Their Hearts and Minds
Leaders often talk about keeping their best people, but thinking we can keep anyone is a ...
Employee Health and Retention
High-Performance Solutions
Team Planning: How to do Team Planning for Team Focus & Alignment
Annual Planning with your teams is part of achieving great communication, accountability, and ...
Annual & Quarterly Planning
Accountable Leaders & Teams
How to Manage Hybrid Teams in 2023
Are you navigating a hybrid or remote workforce in your team management? This blog post will guide ...
Strategies for Growth
Go the Second Mile
and more
Strategy vs Execution: Don't Confuse Strategic Thinking and Strategy Execution
It is easy to confuse your strategy and your strategic plan. Strategy and strategic moves should ...
Strategies for Growth
Annual & Quarterly Planning
and more
Updated Rhythm Book: A New Process to Help Leaders Convert Strategy to Action Plans
Rhythm is the CEO playbook for growing companies. Re-released in 2022, best-selling author Patrick ...
Strategies for Growth
Strategy Execution
and more
3 Year Strategic Plan: How to Achieve your 3 Year Strategy
3 year strategic plans help bridge the gap between businesses strategy and plan execution. ...
Strategies for Growth
Strategy Execution
How to Build a Great Company with a High Performance Culture
You need to be able to tie strategy to action plans that are worked on and tracked weekly to create ...
Strategy Execution
Accountable Leaders & Teams
13 Week Plan: To Execute Well, Run a 13-Week Race Every Quarter
Every quarter is a thirteen-week race. It goes by fast. Before you know it, the quarter is over. ...
Annual & Quarterly Planning
Effective Meetings
Annual Planning - Focus on Your Core Customer
At annual planning, we need to be sure we think about our company if we only served our core ...
Increasing Sales
Annual & Quarterly Planning
Breakthrough Execution: What Top Performing Companies Do Differently
We have the privilege of working with many top companies at Rhythm Systems. Many of our clients are ...
Strategy Execution
Accountable Leaders & Teams
Culture is Key to Breakthrough Execution with Mergers and Acquisitions
When buying a company, don’t be seduced by the financial model. You can't have breakthrough ...
Strategies for Growth
Strategy Execution
and more
Use Your Core Values and Job Scorecards In Your Hiring Process
Having a set of documented core values that you live daily is a powerful Execution Tool for your ...
Strategies for Growth
Accountable Leaders & Teams
How Simms Fishing Engages Their Employees
Through these growth stages Simms Fishing maintained employee engagement by sending a consistent ...
Annual & Quarterly Planning
Accountable Leaders & Teams
How Successful Leaders Set Goals to Finish the Year Strong [Video]
It’s time to plan your fourth quarter and finish the year strong! One of the reasons plans fail is ...
Annual & Quarterly Planning
Strategy Execution
Why CEOs Must Solve People Issues to Achieve Breakthroughs
It is really hard for CEOs to make changes unless you can see or visualize the cost of not dealing ...
Strategies for Growth
Accountable Leaders & Teams
How CEOs Should Diagnose the Root Cause of Missed Growth Strategies
Jack, a CEO, asked me to review his execution plan. His team was missing their profit and revenue ...
Strategy Execution
Accountable Leaders & Teams
Execute For Your Core Customer
Make the right decisions daily and weekly. Who is your core customer? Are you saying Yes to them ...
Increasing Sales
Strategies for Growth
Determining Your Winning Moves for Your Annual Plan
It is important to have winning strategies that drive your annual plan. Don't just focus on ...
Strategies for Growth
Annual & Quarterly Planning
Do You Have A One Page Strategic Plan?
Many companies have nicely bound and thick strategic plans. Thick plans. What I call high "thud ...
Strategies for Growth
Annual & Quarterly Planning
How AvidXchange’s Strategy Rhythm Sky Rocketed Them to $48 MM
A major part of AvidXchange's success is attributed to discipline & a series of regular rhythms: ...
Strategies for Growth
Annual & Quarterly Planning
Our First Breakthrough Execution Conference
Our very first conference was a huge success. Thank you to our attendee's of the Breakthrough ...
Strategy Execution
Accountable Leaders & Teams
How Frederique Contstant Keeps Their Employees Engaged
Frederique Constant increases employee engagement by having a rhythm of doing, visualizing goals, ...
KPIs & Dashboards
Effective Meetings
and more
Marriott's Secret Weapon
The right people executing great customer service can provide this type of competitive edge for ...
Increasing Sales
Accountable Leaders & Teams
As CEO, How Much Space Should You Take in the Room?
In quarterly planning, how do you empower your leadership team to share ideas, but still command ...
Annual & Quarterly Planning
Effective Meetings
and more
How to Use A Culture of Execution as a Competitive Advantage
Rhythm client AvidXchange has a wonderful culture. They've been able to direct that competitive ...
Increasing Sales
Strategies for Growth
and more
How’s Your Quarterly Plan Coming Along? Pay Attention This Week!
Priorities often turn Red or Yellow during weeks 4, 5, or 6 of your 13-Week Race so this is the ...
Annual & Quarterly Planning
Strategy Execution
Why Quarterly Plans Fail: When You Don’t Listen, You Get Rewarded with Bad Execution, Rework and Waste!
Most people think of “listening” as a leadership skill. Leaders need to listen to their people. ...
Annual & Quarterly Planning
Accountable Leaders & Teams
Why Red-Yellow-Greening with Method 1 Does Not Work
Every quarter is a 13 Week Race. How are you doing? Most of us have priorities to deliver and ...
Annual & Quarterly Planning
KPIs & Dashboards
4 Pitfalls That Slow Down Execution and How to Fix Them
How do you know if your company is set up for great execution? Most people would say that they want ...
Strategy Execution
Accountable Leaders & Teams
Annual Planning - Are You Winning on the Basics?
Great companies first win on the basics, then they wow you with something special. Make sure you ...
Strategies for Growth
Annual & Quarterly Planning
Do You Have the Right Data and Insight for Your Upcoming Annual Planning?
How do you prepare for your annual planning session? How do you get the best data and insights to ...
Strategies for Growth
Annual & Quarterly Planning
Is Your Team Building Skills to Manage a Company Twice the Size of Your Current Company?
Life was great. I was experiencing explosive growth. It felt like we were on a rocket going to the ...
Strategies for Growth
Strategy Execution
and more
How to Develop a Strong Plan for the Quarter Using Rockefeller Habits
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
Does Your Customer Service "Take Off" Under Pressure?
Customer service should never be back seat to company policy. Be sure you are accountable for your ...
Increasing Sales
Accountable Leaders & Teams
Work On Your 20 Mile March During Annual Planning
Jim Collins talks about the 20 mile march in chapter 4 of his book "Great By Choice". Learn how to ...
Strategies for Growth
Annual & Quarterly Planning
Skate to Where the Puck is Going During Annual Planning
Ask yourself "does my Execution Plan play where the puck is? Or am I playing where the puck is ...
Annual & Quarterly Planning
Strategy Execution
and more
Remembering Stephen Covey - Thank you for your 7 Habits
Stephen Covey passed away this week on July 16th, 2012. I was very sad to hear of his passing. He ...
Strategy Execution
Accountable Leaders & Teams
UBA Keynote - Differentiate, Execute, Win
Keynote by Patrick Thean, CEO Rhythm Systems, where he discussed how important it is to focus on ...
Strategies for Growth
Strategy Execution
and more
Taipan Masterclass 2012 - Business Execution with Topgrading
If you want strong business execution, you must start with a strong team. There is no better way ...
Strategy Execution
Accountable Leaders & Teams
Leadership for Strong Business Execution
Leadership is often one of the surprising missing elements in business execution.
Strategy Execution
Accountable Leaders & Teams
Picking A KPI That Motivates Your Team (Video)
Here are 5 things to think about to help maximize a KPI
KPIs & Dashboards
Strategy Execution
Is Your Execution Connected to Your Strategy?
How do you know if your execution is connected to your strategy?
Strategies for Growth
Strategy Execution
Focus On Learnings And Decisions In All Your Meetings
Meetings are very expensive. Here is a quick tip to get the most value out of your meetings.
Strategy Execution
Effective Meetings
Build A Depth Chart For Your Key Execution Seats
Have a virtual bench for key business execution people on your team.
Strategies for Growth
Strategy Execution
and more
New Year Resolution: A Better Version of Yourself
Daniel Pink's book "Drive" talks about what really motivates people.
Strategy Execution
Accountable Leaders & Teams
Annual Planning Tips
As you begin your new year, here are a couple of ideas and tips for those who are still working on ...
Strategies for Growth
Annual & Quarterly Planning
and more
Netflix - A Lesson in Mis-Alignment
It is critical to have a clear execution plan aligned with your strategy. Proof of alignment (or ...
Strategies for Growth
Strategy Execution
Continuing On Daniel Pink's 3 Things: Autonomy, Mastery, Purpose
Let's talk about Autonomy! Use Red-Yellow-Green success criteria to encourage this in your people.
KPIs & Dashboards
Strategy Execution
and more
Do You Have A High Performance Team?
I recently heard Daniel Pink speak about the best way to motivate your people.
Strategy Execution
Effective Meetings
and more
Where Were You When Steve Jobs Died?
Where were you when you found out that Steve Jobs passed away?
Accountable Leaders & Teams
Efficient Communication - Stop Duplicating Work
Then you can make sure that your people in the right seats can run and execute towards the right ...
KPIs & Dashboards
Effective Meetings
and more
How Would You Increase Leadership Team Urgency Around A Red Critical Number
So... What do you do if your critical number goes red? Discuss it in your Weekly Meeting.
KPIs & Dashboards
Effective Meetings
and more
How To Execute With Autonomy
Daniel Pink, author of the best selling book Drive, shared his insights on how people are really ...
Strategy Execution
Accountable Leaders & Teams
Fire To Protect Your Core Values
So you have an employee who really does not live your core values… he or she just does not seem to ...
Strategies for Growth
Strategy Execution
and more
Got Rhythm? Ford (Alan Mulally) Certainly Does!
Rhythm. Execution Rhythm. Rhythm builds momentum. When you have momentum, it is much easier ...
KPIs & Dashboards
Strategy Execution
and more
How To Set The Right Goals For Your Associate To Be Successful
So how do you set the right goals and get someone to be accountable to those goals? Setting ...
Strategies for Growth
KPIs & Dashboards
Dig A Little Deeper And Solve The Root Cause, Not Just The Symptoms
Sometimes you just have to dig a little deeper for the answer.
Strategies for Growth
Strategy Execution
DO It Today... Not Tomorrow
Procrastination is poor business execution because it allows your competition time to sneak past ...
Strategies for Growth
Strategy Execution
Using A Start Stop Keep Tool To Make Your Mid Year Adjustments
After our webcast on Mid Year adjustments, I received a couple more questions regarding using the ...
Strategies for Growth
Annual & Quarterly Planning
and more
The Power Of Knowing Your Critical Question
Sometimes we get so busy by seemingly important things that we are blinded from identifying the ...
Strategies for Growth
Strategy Execution
How Do You Say NO To The Wrong Things?
Saying no takes courage, and it takes the support and backing of your team as well as your manager ...
Strategies for Growth
Strategy Execution
ROP Tip #2 - Measure Output Not Hours
Are you focused on how many hours your team is working or how much output and value they ...
Strategies for Growth
Strategy Execution
and more
Help Your Management Team Change... You Will Need A Lot Of Mangoes
Change is easier when you have momentum. Observe your people and look for bright spots as they ...
Strategy Execution
Accountable Leaders & Teams
Do Less And Get More Done! Look For "Minor Majors"
Do less and get more done! That seems rather difficult to achieve... doing less while getting more ...
Strategies for Growth
Strategy Execution
Having Trouble Building Habits? Get Into A Rhythm!
Learn a simple process for creating new habits that works with business execution and in your ...
Strategies for Growth
Strategy Execution
How To Make Your Goals Exciting For All, And Challenging For Your "A" Players
Learn to use RedYellowGreen success criteria to motivate your team to stay on track.
KPIs & Dashboards
Accountable Leaders & Teams
Strategic Decisions, The Fuel For Your Execution Engine
When you go to a gas station to fuel up your car, you have a choice of fuel quality based on octane ...
Strategies for Growth
Strategy Execution
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