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5 Healthy Habits You Need to Level Up Your Leadership Style

Learn the 5 healthy habits you need to level up your leadership style and avoid stagnation. ...

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KPI Examples for Employees in 2024: Key Performance Indicator Examples for Employees

KPIs are an essential tool for measuring employee performance. In this article, we share examples ...

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Christine Rutherford Brings Strategy, Mentorship, and High Standards  to Rhythm and Beyond

Christine Rutherford brings strategy, mentorship, and high standards to Rhythm and Beyond, sharing ...

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Employee Engagement in 2024: The 6 Best Ways to Keep Employees Engaged

A big component to keeping employees engaged and retaining them is motivation. You have to be able ...

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Demolish Team Dysfunction: How DiSC Assessments Boost Team Health

Discover how DISC assessments can transform your team's dynamics. Learn how Dominance, Influence, ...

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Accountability Examples: How to Use the 5 Cs of Team Accountability

Developing accountable leaders and teams is key to consistently achieving growth goals for ...

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Family Business Succession: Family Business Growth Strategies in 2024

In family businesses, it's hard to get multiple people to play nice with each other when they have ...

Strategy Execution

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Unlocking Your Team's Potential with DISC Profiles and Coaching

Discover how DISC profiles and coaching can transform your team's dynamics. Learn about Dominance, ...

Strategy Execution

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3 Ways DiSC Improves Strategy Execution

Leverage DiSC assessments for smoother strategy execution by aligning team strengths, anticipating ...

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Mastering CEO Excellence: Key Strategies for Effective Leadership

Unlock the blueprint for CEO excellence and strategic leadership, delving into the transformative ...

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Beyond Skillsets: Embracing Curiosity as a Strategic Leadership Imperative

Explore the vital role of curiosity for CEOs and leaders, driving innovation, building ...

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Exploring the Relationship Between DiSC Styles and Effective Leadership

Delve into how DiSC personality styles influence effective leadership, offering insights into ...

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Employee Engagement Metrics and Employee KPIs for HR Leaders [Updated for 2024]

Discover which HR employee engagement metrics and employee KPIs you should be using to track ...

KPIs & Dashboards

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Job Scorecard vs. Job Description vs Employee Scorecard: What's the Difference in 2024? (Video)

A Job Scorecard (or employee scorecard) is used internally for interviewing candidates and coaching ...

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How to Win the Talent War in 2024: 10 Expert Tips for Today's Job Market

Effective leaders have a strategy to win the talent war by attracting, retaining, and training the ...

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Accountability Training for Leaders: Build Accountability Leadership in your Team

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

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Mastering the Seven Practices for Exceptional Leadership and Business Growth

Unveiling the blueprint for business expansion, "The Journey to CEO Success: Seven Practices for ...

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Skip Level Meeting Questions and Agenda Updated for 2024

There is considerable evidence that great skip level meetings have multiple potential benefits. ...

Effective Meetings

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Leveraging Core Values to Drive Revenue and Increase Profit

If you’ve gone through the exercise of determining your company’s core values, you’ve spent a lot ...

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Innovative Solutions For Your Trickiest People Problems

Transform people problems into growth opportunities by clarifying roles, providing feedback, and ...

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Team Accountability Begins with a Personal Accountability Model

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

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Employee Engagement Ideas for Manufacturing Industry: 11 Actionable Tips from our Experts

How can manufacturing companies improve employee engagement? You want the right people to stay with ...

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Organizational Alignment: Aligning Organizational Structure with Strategy

Most executives are aware that they need organizational and total team alignment to meet their ...

Annual & Quarterly Planning

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7 Steps To Fine-Tune Your Core Values

Uncover how CEOs can leverage Rhythm Systems to refine and reinforce core values, transforming them ...

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What CEOs need to know about Artificial Intelligence (AI) in 2024

"Explore the transformative potential of AI-powered software in 2023 and how it impacts strategic ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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

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“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
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Measure The Return On Your Payroll  (or Return on Employee Payroll) - Your Largest Expense

Do you measure your return on payroll? (ROP). For most of us who run knowledge based companies, ...

KPIs & Dashboards

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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 ...

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Driving Executive Team Accountability and Strategic Execution with Our Innovative Software

Rhythm Strategy Execution Software is the essential solution for growing organizations seeking to ...

Strategy Execution

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The Danger of Not Having Spicy Conversations

Patrick Thean delves into the challenge of tackling tough discussions with your team. The fear of ...

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CEOs New Year 2024 Checklist: Building a Strong Team

Gear up for success in 2024, CEOs! Unleash your team's potential with a powerhouse checklist: ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams

Employee Health and Retention
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Executive Team Development: A Definitive Guide

Strategically build a high-performing leadership team by defining your style, nurturing potential ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams

Employee Health and Retention
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Listening Strategies - Expert Tips for Effective Listening Skills

You may think listening skills aren't important, but they're actually one of the most critical ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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Your Journey to Great Strategic Execution in 2024 and Beyond

Our Rhythm Success Team can help you just like a personal trainer helps you at the gym. We can ...

Annual & Quarterly Planning

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Mastering Accountability: Boost Your Team's Performance and Execution

Gain a competitive edge in execution with our actionable strategies on accountability – transform ...

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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 ...

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High-Performance Solutions
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Peak Performance Management: An Essential Part of Successful Businesses

Performance management solutions are invaluable for any organization looking to improve employee ...

Strategies for Growth

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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
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Revitalizing and Realigning Your Team with Rhythm Systems

Transform your team culture with Rhythm Systems. Learn how to revitalize and realign your team ...

Strategy Execution

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Mastering Constructive Feedback: Essential Tips for New Leaders

One of the most crucial skills in this journey is effectively giving feedback. We’ll explore how to ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams

Employee Health and Retention
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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
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How to Avoid the Staggering Cost of a Mishire: The Cost of a Bad Hire (Updated for 2024 Planning)

If you’re a hiring manager at your organization, chances are that you have had a couple of new ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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What are the Five Leadership Skills Every Leader Must Master?

I was going through some materials and came across a file that one of my good friends and mentors ...

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Harnessing Accountability and Efficiency with Rhythm Systems: The Arbill Case Study

Discover the transformative power of Rhythm Systems in our latest case study: Arbill's journey ...

Strategies for Growth

Strategy Execution

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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

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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 ...

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Master the Rhythm System: Unlocking Business Scalability and Long-Term Success

Let's dive in and explore how The Rhythm System can help you unlock scalable growth and long-term ...

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How SMACCC Will Save Your Company

Errol shared plenty of examples of military preparedness and then linked them to what we do as ...

Annual & Quarterly Planning

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How AI-Powered Software Can Help You Achieve High-Performance Culture

In this blog post, we'll explore how AI-powered software can help companies tailor their learning ...

Annual & Quarterly Planning

Strategy Execution

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Business Alignment: The CEO's Roadmap to Company Alignment

Discover the CEO's roadmap to business alignment bliss. This comprehensive guide explores the ...

Strategies for Growth

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Top 10 Business Problems CEOs are Facing Today [Infographic]

Being CEO can be a lonely job – it can feel like everyone is looking to you to have the all the ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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Employee Motivation and Engagement Strategies in 2023: Motivate and Engage Your Employees

As an employer, you want your workforce to be both engaged and motivated in order to hit your ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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How to Create a Corporate BHAG in 2024

Get ready to redefine your business's future in 2023. Our latest blog post teaches you how to ...

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Strategy Execution

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What Does It Take to Achieve Peak Performance?

If we want to be highly successful and productive, we have to be intentional about how we go about ...

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How Your Communication Can Make or Break Your Company’s Strategy

A fundamental disconnect occurs between leaders and front-line teams, and leaders need to be ...

Strategy Execution

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Rhythm for Cross-functional Alignment: How to Ensure All Departments Move Forward Together

Discover the power of Rhythm for cross-functional alignment, and learn how to effectively ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams

High-Performance Solutions

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How to Keep Your Top Talent: 12 Actionable Tips for Engaging Talent

You have to give your top talent compelling reasons to stay, or you will just keep wasting ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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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

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The Shadow Side of Employee Engagement

Burnout can be even more costly than low employee engagement. When you design your culture, be sure ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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Organizational Performance Management in Business

In today’s fast paced world, organizations must be able to adapt quickly to changing conditions. To ...

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Personal Path of Progress: The Secret to Reach Your Full Potential

Each December, I create a personal path of progress for myself. In doing so, I evaluate where I am ...

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Engage Payroll: The Unbeatable Return on Payroll of Engaged Employees

Engaged and motivated employees provide a competitive advantage that can help you dominate your ...

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Accountability Culture: 5 Things All Accountable Cultures Need (Infographic)

Accountability can be a scary word. For many, it sounds punitive - and that’s because most of us ...

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Topgrading Interview: 10 Expert Hiring Tips for Recruiting and Keeping A Players

Master the art of recruiting A players with these expert hiring tips for topgrading interviews! Get ...

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The Test of True Accountability (Updated for 2023)

This happens all the time. You are holding someone accountable to get something done. Yet you find ...

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Job Scorecard Examples and Template (Updated for 2024)

The best way to understand what each Job Scorecard entails is to see an example. My own manager, ...

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Leadership Meetings in 2024: Align Your Team and Engage Employees Monthly with this Agenda

A monthly leadership meeting agenda should include three main components: objectives, action items, ...

Effective Meetings

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What Leaders Need to Know about Giving and Receiving Feedback (Infographic)

Effectively giving and receiving feedback is one of the most important skills a leader must have to ...

Annual & Quarterly Planning

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OKR Goal Setting Steps: The 5 Keys to Goal Setting

OKR Goal setting is both a skill and an art. Whether you are new to the goal-setting game, or a ...

Strategy Execution

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Creative Skills - The Top 10 Skills in 2023

As you build your high performance team, you may consider who may be intelligent, creative and ...

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Do You Have a Line Item in Your Budget for Innovation? Your Success Depends on it!

As part of the Annual Planning process, I encourage you to do a detailed analysis of your products ...

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Simplify Your Employee Performance Reviews with an Employee Review System

Using Rhythm already simplifies performance conversations because you are sharing progress and ...

KPIs & Dashboards

Effective Meetings

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Productivity vs Efficiency in Manufacturing

Two key concepts in manufacturing that often get misconstrued are productivity vs efficiency. ...

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Listen Up - A Critical Leadership Skill We Often Take For Granted

If you are a manager, effective listening can help you unlock the keys to employee engagement and ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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How CEOs Waste Time: 5 Things CEOs Do That Waste Time

CEOs can't afford to waste time. Learn how to prioritize to spend enough time on critical tasks and ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams

CEOs
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New Middle Market CEO Checklist: 11 Tips to Get Started as a New CEO

When you first start out as a new CEO, there are many things to consider. From hiring an executive ...

Increasing Sales

Annual & Quarterly Planning

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How to Align Employees with Company Goals in 2024 Annual Plans

To help you achieve better results from your strategic planning process, we have compiled some ...

Strategy Execution

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Top CEOs are Obsessed with Coaching

Top CEOs are obsessed with coaching since the coach has seen these patterns before and can minimize ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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Use Rhythm to Create a Culture that Unlocks Greatness in Every Team Member

Learn insight into ways to overcome obstacles and ongoing challenges in the workplace and transform ...

KPIs & Dashboards

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CEO Daily Routines: Successful CEOs Daily Schedule (Infographic)

As a CEO, you have a lot of demands on your time, but managing your day effectively so that you are ...

Strategy Execution

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Employee Engagement and Recognition: Fuel Employee Engagement with a Recognition Culture

Leadership teams need systems in place for frequent and meaningful recognition to significantly ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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Culture of High Performing Teams: How to Create a Team Rhythm for Success

In today’s fast paced world, where we have more work pressure than ever before, it is important to ...

Annual & Quarterly Planning

Strategy Execution

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3 Productivity Patterns of the Most Productive People

As I share the following examples from these productive gurus, ask yourself how you tackle these 3 ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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Recruiting A Players: How to Find and Develop Topgrading "A Players"

I’m sure you've all heard of Return on Investment, but what about Return on Payroll? Hiring and ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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Measurable Criteria for Employee Recognition: Samples, Ideas and KPIs for Rewards

Mapping out employee recognition systems can improve retention, increase productivity and boost ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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Strengthsfinder for Teams: Engage Your Team By Focusing on Their Strengths

If you interested in learning more about StrengthsFinder and how this tool can help boost ...

Strategy Execution

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7 Key Plays from Our Middle Market Strategic CEO Playbook

Everyone needs a playbook. Some are beaten and worn around the edges with scribbles everywhere, ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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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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9 Reasons You’ll Love Visiting Charlotte [Infographic]

At Rhythm Systems, we are so excited to be hosting our annual Breakthrough Conference right here in ...

Strategies for Growth

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Welcome to Charlotte!

We are thrilled to host our Annual Breakthrough Conference once again in Charlotte, NC, this May ...

Increasing Sales

Strategies for Growth

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The Trouble with Accountability

The trouble with accountability is that, well, you have to live it. For many CEO’s, Managers, and ...

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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Cross Functional Coordination: How to Manage Cross Functional Teams

According to the research, there are some pretty specific conditions to avoid and behaviors to ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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Mastering a CEO's Most Important Skill: Listening

As the CEO, your most important job may be to stop talking and just listen. I’m not suggesting that ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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4 Ways to Improve Performance Culture

4 Trouble signs to look for and 4 ways to increase your performance culture, increase employee ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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Cross-Functional Alignment Simplified

Here are 3 successful patterns we've seen with our clients to achieve cross-functional alignment.

Annual & Quarterly Planning

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Executive Coaching: 5 Signs That You Need Executive Coaching

Great leaders are responsible for driving growth and in order to continue to grow, it is imperative ...

Strategies for Growth

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Delegation in Leadership: How to Effectively Delegate as a Leader

Effective delegation is using the power of your teams and their abilities to get results. It’s ...

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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How to Use Job Scorecard KPIs to Drive Your Performance

I’ve noticed that many of our clients get stuck filling out the Job Scorecard template. To be ...

KPIs & Dashboards

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Drive Your Remote Team's Morale, Maintain Productivity and Win

It’s your responsibility as a leader to drive team morale, maintain productivity and win while your ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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20 Mile March: My Introduction

I am a big fan of Jim Collins and have used his book “Good to Great” as a business tool for many ...

Annual & Quarterly Planning

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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Essential KPI for Remote Teams: Employee Health Index

Our team has used a simple employee KPI for years to help ensure team members are feeling strong ...

KPIs & Dashboards

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How to Bargain Nicely: 6 Ways to Negotiate Without Being a Jerk

Many of us believe in a false dichotomy about negotiations: either you have to be really tough, or ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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How to Roll Out Job Scorecards (Infographic)

Role clarity is key to your success, and Job Scorecards are a great way to achieve this. Completing ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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Align Company: Why CEOs Find it Hard to Align Teams When Scaling their Companies

One of the toughest challenges CEOs face is finding effective ways to align teams and keep them ...

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

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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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Welcome to the Team!  15 Tips for Effective Onboarding (Checklist)

Welcome to the team! Our team treats the first day like a celebration, and we have created a ...

Strategies for Growth

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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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What Kind of Manager Are You? 7 Habits for Managers

Learn Covey's developmental stages of management to see how your leadership skills may need ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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Leadership Means Learning from Mistakes

Show leadership by creating a culture where your team members learn from mistakes.

Strategy Execution

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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Follow Up: The Key To Leadership Development

The study reflects that leadership development is a process, not an event… something we say all the ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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Crucial Conversations STATE My Path

So, how do you navigate the stormy seas of a Crucial Conversation? The VitalSmarts course is an ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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4 Signs Your Culture Is Affecting Performance

It’s difficult to see and to admit that your team is what’s holding the company back. These tips ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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Clear Expectations: How Your Employees Know What Success Looks Like

Why is it so important to set clear expectations for your company's goals? It takes a long time to ...

KPIs & Dashboards

Strategy Execution

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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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Company Culture Checklist for Remote & Hybrid Teams

Gallup found that 2/3 of the people who have been working remotely due to the pandemic would like ...

Effective Meetings

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Keep Smart in 2023: Nine Ways CEOs and Leaders Can Learn, Lead and Grow

Here are some sources and ideas to consider based on my own knowledge and research I have done to ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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How to Be a Fit Mid-Market CEO for 2022 and Beyond

The benefits of being physically active and healthy are many, and the boost in mental productivity ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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2 Reasons You May be Failing to Grow Your Company and Have a Life

These two reasons may be why you’re failing as a growing company and can’t seem to get a life. The ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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How to Welcome a New Team Member Virtually

If your company has hired anyone over the last year, chances are you've had to do at least some of ...

Effective Meetings

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Dynamic Meetings: Ditch the Decks and Engage Your Team

Ditch the boring slide decks to create a more effective meeting with team engagement. Download our ...

Effective Meetings

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Avoid Overload: Manage Your Team Workload at a Glance

We know it's not easy managing a team these days, so we built this powerful new tool to help ...

Strategy Execution

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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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Today's Roadblocks to C-Suite Success

As a member of your company’s executive team, you have a lot on your plate. And, particularly in ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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Focus: How to Keep Your Teams from Being Consumed by Countless Distractions

For many, our current environment is more distracting than any other time in our work lives. How ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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7 Productivity Tips to Be Your Best While Working From Home

For many, this is the very time when your business may be facing challenges that require you and ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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The Impact of Education on a CEO's Career [Infographic]

As the CEO, you’ve either started and cultivated your own company, or worked hard to climb the ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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9 Steps to Make Coaching Your Sales Team Predictable

Sales expert Jack Daly offers advice on how to coach your salespeople for more effective, ...

Strategies for Growth

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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Hybrid Work Strategy: Work Smarter with Hybrid Work Software

Many fast-growth companies, in particular, are shifting to a permanent hybrid model; Fortune cites ...

Strategy Execution

Effective Meetings

and more
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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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Business Coaching: Increase CEO Effectiveness with The CEO Multiplier Effect

Everything you need to know about hiring an effective business coach to help the CEO and executive ...

Strategies for Growth

Strategy Execution

and more
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Personal Accountability Exercises - How Does Your Team Stack Up?

Quite a few years back, a good friend of mine introduced me to John Miller and his book “QBQ – The ...

Annual & Quarterly Planning

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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Don’t Get Stuck on Your Job Scorecard (Template)

One of the priorities for our Coaching and Client Services team here at Rhythm Systems this quarter ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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Virtual Alignment for Your Team in a Work from Home World

Getting and staying aligned with your team is a challenge even when you are all in the same office. ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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Getting Your Remote Team's Mojo Back During a Lockdown

With the pandemic disrupting expectations for projects and revenue goals for many this year, it's ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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Resourcing Across Strategic Priorities

How do you allocate those resources so your core business keeps running strong and invest enough in ...

Annual & Quarterly Planning

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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Do You Know if Your Boss is Happy with Your Work?

One way to know if your boss is happy with your work is by having the dreaded annual or quarterly ...

KPIs & Dashboards

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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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Increase System Adoption & Dig Deeper with These Questions

We've all been through a poorly executed software roll out in the past, and nobody wants to be ...

KPIs & Dashboards

Strategy Execution

and more
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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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7 Job Skills for the Future

As things have changed so dramatically and we are all forced to think about the future of work, ...

Strategies for Growth

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Succession Planning: Are You Building A Business for the Future?

In succession planning, you need the right people so that the business can prosper, secure ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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The Power of Maintaining Your Work Rhythm

Since we implemented the schedule and settled into more of a routine, everyone feels better. I ...

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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Essential Tech Stack for Remote Work

Many companies are re-tooling and finding the best ways to remain connected and productive in a ...

Strategy Execution

Effective Meetings

and more
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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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A Players: Attracting, Engaging and Keeping Topgrading A Players

While we know what to do with A Players (grow them) and C Players (fire them), it can be tricky ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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5 Tools That Assist Team and Culture Growth While Working Remotely

How can you manage that when people are scattered? Well, in this post we’re going to look at five ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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Developing New Leaders: Leadership Development Tips for New Leader Training

We’ve outlined five leadership development tips to help you coach and develop your new leaders to ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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Team Accountability: The Missing Link

Often, the missing link in team accountability can be traced right back to the leader. The good ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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3 Situations When You Wish You Had Done Job Scorecards

When I speak with CEOs who are feeling the burn of a bad hire or a missed metric, they realize a ...

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6 Tips for Accountable Leadership [Infographic]

As a leader, it is your responsibility to create a culture where accountability can thrive. You ...

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Are Your Employees Feeling the Love?

As we celebrate Valentine's Day this year, are your team members feeling the love? How's your ...

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How CEOs Sustain Team Alignment in a Constantly Changing Environment

I see successful companies using internal messaging tools, collaboration tools, and employee ...

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HR Process Improvement Examples

As any company grows, time is a key factor in everyone’s busy schedule. It is best to setup ...

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Communication Gap: How to Close the Communication Gap and Increase Alignment

This team could be the best in the world at executing effectively, but they're not going to hit ...

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Engaging Remote Employees: How to Engage Employees That Work from Home

In a modern organization, we know it is more important than ever to keep remote employees engaged ...

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Breakthrough 2020: Key Insights and Takeaways

We heard from amazing speakers and learned a ton from the attendees, as well. In the spirit of our ...

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How to Keep Team Productivity High While Working from Home [VIDEO]

The questions are different now; the focus has shifted from, “How do you know if they are ...

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Breakthrough 2020 Goes Virtual: What to Expect

Our first-ever virtual middle-market Conference for CEOs is just a few weeks away! Here's a sneak ...

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Communication and Empathy Are Key to Leading Mid-Crisis

Need better team alignment? How has your communication been with key stakeholders during this ...

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5 Simple Ways To Nurture Leadership Skills In Your Growing Team

What’s more, forging your employees into more capable professionals will make them more valuable to ...

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Create a Virtual Plan for Grief during COVID-19

It reminded me of a recent challenge I see many executive teams face—accepting where team members ...

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What Does It Mean To Be a High-Performance Organization?

A high-performance organization is one that achieves results that set them far above their peers, ...

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Coaching Accountability: How to Improve Accountability by Coaching Your Team

In order to be successful in building an environment where accountability thrives and your team ...

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Effective Leadership Development [Infographic]

Leadership development is a growing concern for middle market companies. Growing your leaders is a ...

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Plan Your Personal Quarter to Deliver Predictable Results

Here are some great ways to center yourself, prioritize your own personal 13-week race, and set ...

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Adaptive Leadership Theory: Adaptive Leadership Framework

Practice adaptive leadership while remaining true to the core of your business: core purpose and ...

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Online Training Best Practices: 5 Tips

For those of us used to the more traditional classroom learning environment, shifting into the ...

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Communicating a Merger to Employees: 4 Ways to Tell Your Team About a Merger or Acquisition

When the companies merged, there was confusion, misalignment, and miscommunication. During a ...

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How Your Attachment Style Shows Up at Work: The 4 Attachment Styles

Here are the 4 attachment styles and how they may show up at work. This may help you as a leader ...

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Work From Home Expert Tips: 23 Tips for Remote Work

As the COVID-19 news unfolds and more people are staying in, some of us could be spending more time ...

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The 5Cs of Communication: How to Use Them in Crisis Communication

If you are like me, your inbox is full of COVID-19 response letters from every vendor, doctor, ...

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7 Signs Your Remote Team's Health is Suffering

You can use an Employee Health Index KPI, an employee pulse survey, a round-robin check-in during ...

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What Typical Performance Reviews Miss

If you are a leader or HR professional heading up the performance review process, consider the ...

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Lack of Alignment Leads to Million Dollar Mistakes and Rework Waste

Rework is such a pain and such a waste of resources. It costs you time, energy and emotional ...

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How to Know Your Remote Team is Productive

There are many challenges to remote work, but there are also many companies who have successfully ...

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Discipline is the Key to Success

Working from home can certainly be a challenge. I've been working from home for the last 12 years, ...

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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 ...

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How Can I Source Ideas From Remote Employees Without Being Disruptive?

Internal employees have a lot to contribute, after all. A June 2019 Wall Street Journal story ...

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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 ...

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Purpose: Closing the Gap between Saying and Doing

How a clear Core Purpose can impact our businesses and organizations for good as well as expand our ...

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Managing Remote Employees: 5 Best Practices

Working remotely can be great for workers looking for more flexibility and companies looking to ...

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3 Better Email Habits to Improve Team Productivity

There are a lot of great personal productivity tips around managing email, but think about all the ...

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Role Clarity: Setting Clear Expectations with Goals

Role clarity is linked to improved employee engagement, job satisfaction, organizational ...

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Achieve Synergy with Your Team: A Tribute to Sir George Martin

Achieving synergy is a process that leadership must continually nurture. Effective communication ...

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Your Core Purpose - Why You Should Start With Asking Why?

When you consider your company’s Core Purpose, what comes to mind? If the first answer that pops ...

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Why There's Still Hope for Your New Year's Resolution

Call them whatever you want—an accountability buddy, a coach, a mentor, a peak performance pal—to ...

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A Better Way to Manage Team Performance

We wanted to give team leaders a better way to manage team performance with quick, visual ...

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4 Tips to Improve Your Company's Focus

Focus is key in achieving your goals for your company. In our Rhythm methodology, the best practice ...

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Practice the Rockefeller Habits to Drive Accountability and Response-Ability

Are you fostering an accountability-based team, department, or organization? Accountability takes a ...

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Creating A Culture of Innovation: 5 Ways CEOs Can Drive a Culture of Innovation

We have all heard the saying "A fish rots from the head down," right? Not that I am comparing my ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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Employee Engagement Mistakes to Avoid

Employee engagement is a hot topic: how to engage employees, how to measure it, and why it's ...

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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 ...

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Examples of Crucial Conversation at Work: 5 Common Causes in the Workplace

Hopefully, next time you will be able to spot a crucial conversation, manage it well and strengthen ...

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How to Delegate Properly and Hold the Team Accountable [Infographic]

If leaders don't master the art and skill of effective delegation, the company, the leader and the ...

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Crucial Conversation Skills: Manage Your Emotions When Stakes Are High

Our team recently participated in a day and half of training on Crucial Conversations in which we ...

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Execution Leadership: 7 Steps to Execute Your Strategy

Recently, I worked with a client who was a whiz at quarterly planning , but was falling short on ...

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Why Do You Need to Discuss, Debate, Decide with Your Team?

The best leaders will have a team of "A" players and will use them to discuss, debate and agree on ...

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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 ...

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Great Leaders are Inquisitive Explorers

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

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Encouraging Accountability in Your Organization

“We need more accountability around here.” This is one of the most consistent themes we hear from ...

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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 ...

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3 Must-Have Templates for Your Accountable Leadership Toolkit

Leadership is complex. There are countless books and decades of research on the topic, and you can ...

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Core Values Implementation Plan: 8 Ways To Manage Using Your Core Values (Video)

Once your executive team has worked to discover, test and finalize your Company's Core values - ...

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Personal Capacity Building: 6 Tips to Double It

Our coaches here at Rhythm Systems are always trying to help our clients think about the future of ...

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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 ...

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Common Purpose: Why It Matters

While it is the responsibility of individual workers to come with the commitment to create purpose ...

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Awesome Results: Are Your Leaders Delivering Them? [SlideShare]

Your leaders determine the performance of their teams and the results that your company achieves. ...

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4 Steps to Bust Silos & Encourage Team Collaboration

Silos have a negative impact on employee engagement and customer satisfaction and can kill ...

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Emotional Intelligence in Action: List of Emotional Intelligence in Action Steps

Emotional intelligence is a critical skills for leaders. It's tied to self-awareness, ...

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Think Plan Do to Achieve Your Personal Goals

At Rhythm Systems, we teach our clients to grow their businesses with purpose using our Think Plan ...

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Nuts and Bolts Leadership: Sometimes You Feel Like a Nut

As company leadership, sometimes it’s important to revamp how you interact with others, spend your ...

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How to Finally Keep Your New Year's Resolutions (Infographic)

New Year's resolutions tend to involve establishing new habits. Check out this infographic to learn ...

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1 Thing You Can Do Today to Cultivate a High Performance Team

The truth is, culture drives your company’s brand, customer satisfaction, and ultimately, business ...

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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 ...

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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. ...

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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 ...

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Disproportional Influence: Problem Identification and Lag Time

Begin to measure how long it takes for issues to get addressed in your organization or team. What ...

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5 Questions Leaders Should Ask When A Project Fails

It’s happened to all of us. We start a new project or set a new goal with the best intentions. ...

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At Our Core

One of the biggest draws to being part of the Rhythm Systems team is the way our Core Values are ...

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Mid Market Companies: The Top Business Challenges Survey

At our annual Rhythm Systems Breakthrough Conference in Charlotte this year, we had the opportunity ...

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Best Breakthrough Conference Ever [SlideShare]

We love putting this conference event every year for executives and their teams. We don’t want you ...

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Tom Sawyer Management Approach - 5 Steps to Increase Your Leadership

In working with leadership in over a dozen countries, I’ve found that the best leaders don’t have a ...

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8 Tips to Achieve Better Work Life Balance

Unfortunately, we can’t create more time in the day, but there are several tips that successful ...

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Is Your Company Culture Execution-Ready?

In order for these execution-ready plans to have their best chance at coming to fruition, they ...

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Core Purpose in Action with Samaritan's Feet

At Rhythm Systems, our core purpose is helping individuals and organizations achieve their dreams ...

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Why You Need a Time Machine for Effective Goal Setting

Defining success for any goal is a goal-setting best practice. When the goal is a financial or ...

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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 ...

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Design Your Office for Maximum Productivity (Infographic)

Whether you work in an office setting or from home, there are aspects of your work environment that ...

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What is Your Favorite Habit of the 7 Habits of Stephen Covey?

Our team recently completed a leadership development training on Covey's “7 Habits of Managers.”

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Change Management Tips for Leaders: 3 Tips for Successful Change

Let’s face it; coming up with a new idea isn’t that hard. Creating a plan to implement your new ...

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How to "Be Proactive" with the Hidden Resource Finder

Highly-effective leadership means approaching things differently and having a proactive mindset.

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You’re Fired: 5 Steps and a Glass of Wine

Your team and organization performance is 100% based on front-line managers and the teams they ...

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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 ...

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How Well Do You Know Yourself, or Your Teammates?

Understanding your personality enables you to work to your strengths and learn to adapt in areas ...

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How to Change Your Team’s Bad Habits

I recently heard Charles Duhigg, author of the best seller The Power of Habit, speak about the ...

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10 Keys to Being a Great Leader

When a lеаdеr lеаdѕ, others wіll follow аnd dо ѕо willingly. But, what іѕ thе mаkеuр оf a gооd ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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Being A Better Listener Can Improve Your Leadership Skills

How are your listening skills? I think being a poor listener can also hold you back as you develop ...

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3 Mistakes Leaders Make Trying to Empower Their Teams

Most leaders intellectually understand the importance of creating an empowered team. They can see ...

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Smooth Sailing in Rough Waters: Use KPIs to Throw a Lifeline

Our team created a set of KPIs on our team’s Weekly Adjustment Meeting Dashboard for every ...

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How to Avoid the Summer Productivity Slump

According to a 2012 study by Harvard Business School, increasingly sunny days are directly related ...

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Personal Productivity Essentials

Personal discipline should be seen as a process that gives you more freedom—freedom to focus on the ...

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Stand Up, Speak Up, Shut Up, and Sit Down

No matter how well you’ve developed the skill, I’ve found that it can be improved by following a ...

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10 Ways Top Level Executives Improve Company Culture (Infographic)

Improving your culture, the team accountability across your company, and your overall employee ...

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A Vulnerable Culture is an Accountable Culture

Vulnerability is the secret to fixing your Company’s accountability issues. It’s a bold statement, ...

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Lessons From a Millennial: Work-Life Balance Tips

Work-life balance tips from a millennial. I am lucky to have a young millennial sister who is ...

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Why You Can't Miss the 2019 Breakthrough Conference

Don’t miss this year's Breakthrough Conference. The conference for middle market business execution ...

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Push and Pull: Mastering the Characteristics of Great Leadership

Mastering the characteristics of great leadership requires embracing paradoxes and ambiguity.

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Focus and the Myth of Work-Life Balance

We are all faced with competing priorities vying for our attention each day. Here is an article on ...

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Focus to Win: Nobody Buys Your Drinks When You’re Last Place

Focus on one thing at a time, clear away distractions and focus on what you're doing now.

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Leadership's Role in Team Accountability [Infographic]

Accountability is the foundation for performance. Team accountability impacts your team’s results. ...

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How Myers Briggs Can Help You Run a Profitable Business

The MBTI is one assessment tool used by many companies to increase self-awareness and help with the ...

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5 Critical Rules for Amazing Team Formation

Some teams are highly successful; others are abject failures; some are just mediocre. If you need ...

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Why You Need a Peak Performance Plan for Your Topgrading A-Players

Traditional business wisdom dictates that you need a PIP (Performance Improvement Plan) for your ...

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Is Your Company Ready for Gen Z? [Infographic]

We’re all used to hearing about millennials in the workforce and all the changes my generation has ...

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Is Your Team Accountable to Your Annual Plan?

According to PMI’s 2017 Global Project Management Survey, 1 in 4 strategic initiatives fail. One ...

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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 ...

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The Plight of the Task Delayer

Do you put off minor to-dos until they build up and become absolutely urgent? Need some more ...

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4 Questions That Keep CEOs and Executive Teams Up at Night

In working with many leading mid-market CEOs and their executive leadership teams on their growth ...

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Product, Price, Placement, Promotion, and People?

Your people are your greatest asset. Don't overlook their abilities and uniqueness, as they have ...

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Clarifying Coaching vs. Consulting

Often when a business leader engages a coach, he or she does so without a clear understanding of ...

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10 Signs of an Accountable Culture (Infographic)

Team accountability is something we have to intentionally build into our culture of accountability. ...

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Software Implementation: Myth vs. Reality

Bringing Rhythm into your organization can be a big change. However, it’s the first step on an ...

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5 Wауѕ to Imрrоvе Your Cоmраnу Culture

If уоu wаnt a high performance team that's uрwаrdlу mobile аnd соmfоrtаblу іn соntrоl, you nееd tо ...

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Rhythm Systems' Most Popular Blogs of 2018

Here at Rhythm Systems, we are very blessed to have almost 10,000 blog subscribers, 10+ regular ...

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How to Manage Your Time Effectively as a CEO [Infographic]

When are you supposed to have the time to think about the future of the business when you're in ...

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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 ...

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How to Get the Most from Comments in Rhythm

One of the most exciting new product features that we've included in the new release of Rhythm is ...

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How Simms Fishing Engages Their Employees

Through these growth stages Simms Fishing maintained employee engagement by sending a consistent ...

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Lessons Business Leaders Could Learn from Eight-Year-Olds

You should 1. face the brutal facts, 2. take a few shots, 3. focus on the very few things, and 4. ...

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Arbill's Julie Copeland and the "3 Surprising Tools to Win and Survive the Tough Battles"

At this year's Breakthrough Conference, Julie Copeland shared her experiences and insights as CEO ...

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Life & Work Lessons from a Disengaged Elf

Celebrate, don’t punish your people when their strengths don’t align with their role. Instead of ...

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What Sets Successful People Apart

Mel Magazine surveyed 5,000 American workers of various backgrounds and industries to uncover the ...

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5 Steps to Build a World-Class Organization or Sales Team

As the leader of 5 employees, you’ll need to develop each person and help them grow their skills ...

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Give Thanks

We may underestimate the power of saying thanks, but Grant's research has shown that even small ...

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How to Avoid Overloading Your Team

Most of our successful mid-market clients have no shortage of great ideas. The constraint lies with ...

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Why CEOs Need a Leadership Path of Progress

Even if you are somehow balancing all of these demands, running a successful business, and leading ...

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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 ...

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Leadership and Levels and Styles of Decision Making [Video]

One key function of leadership is the ability to make decisions; this is paramount to successfully ...

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Accountability: Trust, But Verify (I'm Gonna Miss Krispy Kreme)

Each executive assumes that their team members handle customers in a way that aligns with corporate ...

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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 ...

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A CEO's Guide to Finding Hidden Disease in Your Organization

You go to your doctor every year for a physical, but you rarely do this for your business. As you ...

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Why Personal Productivity Can Only Get You So Far

While being effective and personally accountable to accomplishing your top goals may be all you ...

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Don't Let Dumb Rules Blow Up Team Accountability

Let’s face it — there are some dumb policies and antiquated procedures out there. Granted, they may ...

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Be a Better Leader by Clock Building vs. Telling Time

Instead of getting bogged down in day to day decisions, great leaders focus on aligning the company ...

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Why You Can't Afford to Skip Your Vacation This Year [Infographic]

Hopefully, you're on board with taking that much-needed vacation. Now, how to make the most of your ...

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Are Benefits Enough to Attract and Engage the Best People?

The last thing you want is to lose someone after all the effort and expense to find and train them. ...

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Leadership Lessons: 5 Ways My Teenagers Teach Me How to Face Adversity

I’m living in the parallel universe of handling teenagers and being a strong leader in the face of ...

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Customers Don't Suck - The Boss Does!

When your team has interactions with people that are seemingly unreasonable, even irate, then you ...

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Are Recruitment Challenges Constraining Your Growth?

Even if you have the right growth strategy in place and are using a recruitment method like ...

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How to Lead a Tough Conversation [Infographic]

If you want to build an accountable team, you'll have to remove obstacles, including taking on ...

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Strategic Storytelling Inspires Results [Video]

Storytelling is an artform, but don’t be tempted to think of it as soft stuff that doesn’t matter. ...

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Your Leadership ETHIC Drives Predictable Results

As I sorted my experience with great leaders from four continents, I realized that one could ...

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Calling for Performance-Oriented CEOs

We give our CEO clients an unfair competitive advantage by helping them shift into a thinking ...

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3 Action Steps to Leverage Stress for Success

No matter who you are, every person experiences problems, difficulties, unexpected reversals and ...

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How the Best Companies Get Started with Rhythm [Customer Stories]

I’m not a fan of “no pain, no gain,” especially as it relates to introducing a new program like ...

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11 Books Every CEO Should Read

Now’s a great time to emphasize learning throughout your company. I’ve asked our team of expert ...

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5 COO Insights to Manage the Human Factor after an Acquisition

COO of Alpha Guardian, Steve Hoffa shares insights on successfully integrating people following a ...

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8 Habits for CEOs to Grow Your Business Without Breaking a Sweat

I’ve observed 8 habits exhibited by successful leaders and CEOs as measured by consistent revenue ...

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A CEO's Guide to Planning for a New Year

Self-reflection is critical for good leadership, but many CEOs struggle to take the time to really ...

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5 Podcasts CEOs Should Listen to in 2018

CEOs are often too busy to read books. If you are trying to grow your leadership skills and stay ...

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The Value of a Great First Day

Put the effort into making a great first day for all employees. It helps you reinforce your ...

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Business Lessons from the Story of David and Goliath

This boy and his story have much to teach us as men and women business leaders. Well-planned ...

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Why You Should Invest in Performance Development, Not Annual Reviews

Annual performance development discussions are more effective than annual reviews. Invest in your ...

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5 Productivity Best Practices to Get More Done with Less Stress

People who practice these habits outperform low performers by 68% and experience less stress while ...

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4 Tips for Team Building with Purpose

Here are some tips for team building high performance teams with purpose: Eat together, follow a ...

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3 Employee Engagement Stats That Will Make You Take Action

Tom Hoff shared some employee engagement stats from the most recent State of the American Workplace ...

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Your Blueprint to Get Your Message Moving

We’ve been busy preparing for our Breakthrough Conference in Charlotte, working on content that ...

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Back to School: 3 Ways To Use Rhythm In The Classroom

Here are 3 ways I would use Rhythm in my classroom. You may not be involved in a classroom but ...

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7 Ways to Create a More Flexible Work Culture

Flexible work schedules are important for attracting and retaining millennials and women. According ...

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5 Tips on Time Management From Busy Leaders

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5 Ways Leaders Can Encourage Women to Speak Up at Work (Video)

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4 Tips to Promote Gender Equality in the Workplace

With workplace gender disparity still hovering at 30%, companies are trying to figure out what they ...

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Poor Communication Is Costing You

Both in terms of employee engagement and the bottom line, lack of clear communication is a costly ...

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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: ...

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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 ...

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5 Books By Women Leaders You Should Be Reading

In the spirit of lifelong learning and female empowerment, I am sharing 5 of my favorite books by ...

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Getting Predictable Results From Leadership

Leaders that produce predictable results ask the right questions of their team – and also of ...

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5 Books Business Leaders Should Read this Summer

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Not Enough Time is More Common than the Common Cold

I’ll start with an exercise I often ask when working with leaders on team development: Think back ...

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10 Things to Do When You Fail (Infographic)

The Museum of Failure is located in Sweden and showcases high-profile product failures. These ...

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Why Millennials Hate You

Millennials are not happy, and it shows! So, why are they so unhappy in their current roles? And, ...

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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 ...

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5 Facts about Employee Engagement that Will Keep You Up at Night

I read through the lengthy (but fascinating) research from Gallup and pulled out some of the ...

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Happy Employees Pay For Themselves

There has been a lot of talk lately about employee engagement. How do you engage employees? ...

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6 Keys to Save Communication Time: Gain a Following Like a Great Preacher

As a consultant to CEOs and leadership teams, I’ve discovered that (nearly) everyone would like to ...

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10 Ways to Combat Workplace Burnout

Burnout is a big productivity killer in American workplaces. Follow these ten tips to combat ...

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Roll Down Your Sleeves: 5 Tips to Being a Productive Leader

Be a more productive leader by focusing on growing your team and moving your strategy forward. ...

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Want a Better Relationship with Your Boss? Use a Job Scorecard

Begin the process with a Job Scorecard and you’ll have more control over your work destiny, greater ...

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Don't Count Out Baby Boomers Just Yet (Infographic)

Everyone has been prepping for baby boomers to live longer, not necessarily work longer. This shift ...

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8 Steps to Engage Employees with an Incentive Compensation Plan

You can increase employee engagement using Job Scorecards to ensure that your compensation system ...

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7 Ways World Emblem Gets Their Employee Engagement Buzz On

Here are 7 ideas you can take from World Emblem to get your employee engagement buzz brewing.

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It's Better to be Unemployed than In a Job You Hate

Take the time to sit down with overloaded team members to help. I bet you would rather have a ...

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What I Learned about Leadership from Parenting a Toddler

I found the “gentle leader" very interesting and wondered what lessons we might pull from this ...

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7 Ways to Engage the Next Level of Leaders (with Cookies)

We often feel if we share our plans one level further, the rest will take care of itself. But, we ...

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How to Kill Workplace Drama (Infographic)

In addition to this vast cost of silence, not speaking up about common workplace issues can have ...

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What is an Intrapreneur?

Intrapreneurs are different from your typical employees, and they are important to your company's ...

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7 Ways Employee Engagement Can Help You Become a Best Place to Work

I’ve thought about what we practice and the behaviors I’ve observed that foster employee engagement ...

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How to Use Your Main Thing to Engage Your Team (Video)

How do you keep your team motivated all year and use your Main Thing to keep employees engaged and ...

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Wait... The Cost of Silence in an Organization is How Much?

According to a VitalSmarts survey, each failed conversation costs an average of $7500 in time and ...

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Maximize the Value of Job Scorecards (Video)

It takes some time to document Job Scorecards for each role on your team, but that investment of ...

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The Road to Hell (is Paved with Good Intentions)

I have learned a simple strategy to help you pave the right road. The focus is on 3 points to ...

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Do Your New Hires Have a Plan to Succeed?

We have a very detailed 90-day plan to onboard new hires so that they are prepared to give our ...

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Improve Employee Engagement with More Women in Leadership

Employee engagement can be a tough nut to crack. However, you might have a secret weapon to boost ...

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Did Curiosity Really Kill the Cat?

To be a good leader, you need to be curious and come to the table ready to ask questions, not give ...

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Are You Appreciating Your Employees the Right Way?

It is a great thing to be able to reward your employees, but that reward will only be relevant and ...

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7 Steps to Tighten Your Steering and Drive Out Leadership Waste

A Lean leadership team creates tight teamwork and forces managers to lead rather than do. Lean is ...

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5 Things to Ask Before Sending Your Leaders Off to Training

Before sending your team off to leadership training, make sure you get the highest return on your ...

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Why Rhythm Systems is One of the Best Places to Work in Charlotte (Video)

I was ecstatic when I learned that Rhythm Systems ranked 7th in the Charlotte Business Journal Best ...

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What Do You Think the Role of A Leader Is? (Poll)

I am taking a poll on what you think the role of a leader is. There are many good answers to this ...

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OOPS!  Why Traditional Performance Appraisals Might Be A Big Mistake

Aubrey Daniels is dedicated to helping people and organizations apply scientifically proven laws of ...

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Are You Running Your Business with Super Chickens?

How do you have productive employees who will work together in groups? According to Heffernan, ...

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5 Tips for New Leaders from Sandler Training’s CEO

Dave Mattson, the CEO at Sandler Training, spent an hour or so with us to share the top five tips ...

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Engage Your Team and End the Year Strong

The "how to" of employee engagement seems overwhelming or unclear, but you can start engaging your ...

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A Millennial in Need of Crucial Conversations

My sister is a millennial in the workforce and she came across her first growing pain – job ...

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7 Lies about Leadership You Need to Stop Believing

I am sure many of us have had the same vision of what a leader should look like. Well, I am here to ...

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11 Terrifying Management Mistakes to Avoid

Let’s face it - it is scary how bad some workplace experiences can be. In honor of Halloween, I ...

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Rhythm Systems Puts the I in Team

It’s time to buck traditional thinking and think about the I in team. If you weren't part of the ...

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The Right Coach Can Bring Out the Best in You and Your Business

Two-thirds of CEOs don’t receive any outside advice on their leadership skills, and yet almost all ...

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The Stretch Goal - Good or Bad for Motivation?

Experts seem to disagree: Are stretch goals a good or bad thing when it comes to motivating the ...

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One Habit That Can Change Everything (Infographic)

I wanted to share my findings with you so you can reap the benefits of increased productivity, ...

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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 ...

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Lessons from the Football Field

Skills I learned from Crucial Conversations help me maintain my cool and composure during intense ...

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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 ...

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How Hollywood Got Habits All Wrong

Unlike montages, habits take time to break, and forming new ones is just as hard. In the movies, it ...

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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 ...

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I Assume Stuff

The Cannon Safe leadership team decided to schedule regular trips with small groups to visit the ...

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Is Work-Life Balance Possible for Working Parents?

I am thankful every day for our core values - I don’t know how working parents survive without ...

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How to Use Goldratt's Thеоrу of Constraints for Personal Growth

Applying Goldratt's theory of constraints to your personal life can help you do better, reach ...

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It’s Your Career: Own It

Even if you don’t work for a company that cares about your career development, you own your own ...

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10 Secrets of Success

I hоре you tаkе these nоt-ѕо-ѕесrеt, privileged insights tо heart аnd acknowledge уоur dreams – ...

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Execute Like an Olympic Athlete

Being a gold medalist is partly due to innate physical talent, but it is also hugely about ...

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3 Steps to Be Situationally Multilingual

Being situationally multilingual is when you, as a leader, communicate in a way that will best be ...

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3 Secrets to Motivation

Using these secrets will result in effectively encouraging your team, will help you communicate ...

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9 Strategies fоr Mаnаgіng Employee Turnоvеr

Duе tо changing еmрlоуее needs соuрlеd wіth a соmреtіtіvе jоb market, еmрlоуее turnover іѕ оn the ...

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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 ...

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Discipline Matters

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

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My Productivity Experiment (Infographic)

I realized that I know all the expert tips for increased productivity, but I don’t necessarily ...

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How To Write Your Legacy - Lessons From a Cowboy

The question is, are you writing your legacy while living, or waiting for the obituary once you’re ...

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5 Tips for Working with Introverts

One of the most common misconceptions about working with introverts is that we do not work well ...

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7 Hacks to Get Organized

Here are some hacks that work for me that I hope make it to your list (and then you can check them ...

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3-Step Process: The Build Up To a Great Stand Up (SlideShare)

It takes courage to stand up when it's time to speak up, and you need a communication process to ...

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4 Tips for a Great First Day at Your New Job

Starting a new job is stressful for most people. Here are four tips to help you get started on your ...

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Sleep Your Way to Improved Focus and Performance

Are you getting enough sleep? Doing so can really improve your focus and performance.

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Conga Line to Company Culture

It’s not just millennials who crave a strong company culture. We all need clarity on the ...

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Focus: Are You Reaping the Benefits?

Getting - and staying - focused can make you a lot more productive and happier. Of course, doing so ...

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Are Your Efforts to "Motivate" Counterproductive?

The research on motivation shows that many of our corporate "tricks" for engaging workers are ...

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The Secret to Happiness

Several months ago, I watched an online course entitled “Creativity and Personal Mastery” presented ...

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Frustrated with People? Look Within...

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

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Where the Rubber Meets the Road: 5 Ways to Build Accountability

These tips should help you build accountability in your organization to help your team lift each ...

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Creating a Culture of Superheroes

An engaged workforce drives performance; but, it takes commitment and leadership to make it come to ...

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Have Your Say in a Positive Way

How do you present a new idea to your key stakeholders, or persuade others on a different approach? ...

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Use Your Think Rhythm to Grow Your Top Leaders

Do you have a Think Rhythm to work on the future success of your company? And, do you do it with ...

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Managing Workplace Stress: The Best Gift You Can Give (SlideShare)

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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 ...

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Keep it Simple and Think Different: Apple’s 3 Point Turnaround

Jobs's message was very clear. Apple was going to focus on three things: great products, great ...

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3 Steps to Draft a Winning Team (Infographic)

High performance teams start with planning - as a leader, you must figure out how to bring your ...

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Performance Reviews: HR Can’t Handle The Truth

Leading High Performance Teams, it’s time for you to implement a rhythm of conversations in lieu of ...

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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 ...

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Are You Running the Best Company in Your Market?

Michael Abrashoff, who turned around the worst ship in the Navy, shared some leadership techniques ...

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5 Essential Tips to Get Your Work Email to Work

You’re in luck as I have done the research and found the following tips to leverage your email ...

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Does Your Comp Plan Reinforce a Culture of Earning or Entitlement?

Companies that do away with performance reviews in favor of giving people more frequent feedback ...

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How Do I Fire My Accountant?

The most common complaints I hear about accountants/CPA''s are "my accountant messed up my taxes" ...

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How Do You Rate Your Trusted Advisor?

This list is a good start to evaluate myself as a consultant. It is also a good start for clients ...

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What Kind Of Team Are You?

As your team embarks on the journey of building a High Performance Team, a logical first step is to ...

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4 Tips for a Great New Team Member Experience (Slideshare)

Successfully bringing a new team member to your high performance team can be tricky.

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Core Values Alive & Well: Family is a Blessing

As we were preparing to release the new Rhythm High Performance Teams features to our clients, I ...

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The Blame Game

Take this into our world of executing our business strategy. Humans are going to mess up.

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Our New Rhythm Features Help You Build High Performance Teams (Part 4)

Get to the next level - teams of high performance teams working together in an interdependent way ...

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3 Red Flags That Indicate Your Company Needs a New Culture

The world of start-ups has permanently changed the way businesses works, and perhaps their most ...

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Make the Most of Your Travel Time

Talk to any frequent flyer these days, and they will share that air travel is no joy. What can a ...

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Our New Rhythm Features Help You Build High Performance Teams (Part 3)

When you understand that you need others (a High Performance Team) to achieve better performance ...

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Our New Rhythm Features Help You Build High Performance Teams (Part 2)

To build a High Performance Team, it is essential to understand what success is on each of your ...

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High Performance Teams Software

We unveiled the launch of our new features in Rhythm that will help companies like yours build "A ...

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Our New Rhythm Features Help you Build High Performance Teams (Part 1)

I'm proud to announce our new Rhythm High Performance Teams features to help you own your own ...

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5 Things Successful People Do Every Morning (Video)

In my years of working with many successful people, I have noticed many things that they have in ...

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Our First Breakthrough Execution Conference

Our very first conference was a huge success. Thank you to our attendee's of the Breakthrough ...

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The Golden Intern

Wahoo!! I just got the green light to hire a summer intern! Then reality hit me. We're hiring an ...

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Test the M Factor – How Boomers, GenX and GenY Can Get Along Better

Hire the people you feel can bring the right talents to the table and get the best work done, every ...

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Hold On… The Productivity and Employee Engagement Cost of Interruptions

Productivity and employee engagement cost of interruptions in our current work environment is ...

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Anchors A Weight

People who feel the negative emotions of irritation, disinterest, and discomfort disengage nearly ...

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Policy vs Customer Experience: Is your team empowered to decide what is right?

I challenge you to think about how you train your people to follow your processes and policies and ...

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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 ...

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“I Can Support That” - The Difference Between Agreement and Support

Even if you don’t have 100% AGREEMENT on an idea, you must make sure you have 100% SUPPORT from ...

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Employee Engagement Gets Personal

Core values will only help you engage your workforce if you are intentional about hiring people ...

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4 Rules for Creating and Managing Strong Process

I guarantee you that if you show me someone who performs at a top level consistently, I’ll show you ...

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Nostradamus Predicts Steve Jobs Was a Bad Model for Startups

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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. ...

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Are you Stuck?

Can you think of a crucial conversation you need to have in your personal or professional life? Are ...

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Leadership: How to Use Your Influence to Create a Smarter Team

What's your leadership style? Liz Wiseman shares how you can use your influence to either bring out ...

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The Art of Influence: Skill vs. Motivation

To be successful at influencing your team, leaders have to be able to do both: motivate the team ...

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6 Tips for Getting the Most Out of Hiring a Virtual Assistant

Almost every entrepreneur or business owner quickly discovers the same thing: there is way too much ...

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Could You Become the Next CEO of the Year?

The CEO of the Year selection committee uses 11 key elements to guide their decisions. See how your ...

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Team Development: Leadership Through the 4 Stages of Team Development

For leadership, it’s important to know where your team is in the stages of development and how you ...

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5 Steps to Define It Before You Design It

You need a leadership team that manages operational practices and day-to-day activities with an eye ...

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It Takes a Big Pair of Questions to Collaborate

Don’t deal with conflict hastily without giving thought to unintended consequences. Follow this ...

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Schooled in Leadership

Successful leadership is having the desire to achieve the goal but knowing the greater achievement ...

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Stuck in The Box – The Paradox of Great Coaches

Take action to be the leader that steps out of the box, handles the coaching paradox, and breaks ...

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Managing Mergers & Acquisitions With Rhythm

Managing mergers & acquisitions with Rhythm will help provide focus to your new team. You will get ...

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A Busy Executive's Vacation Survival Guide

For those of you who are committed to taking the time, I’ve compiled the best expert advice I could ...

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Vacation! Why You Shouldn’t Skip It This Year

I’ve pulled together the research for why taking that vacation time is so beneficial not just to ...

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Don’t Let This Become a Habit

In order for behavior to become a habit, it must be done with little or no conscious thought. ...

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Are You Motivating Your People and Bringing Out the Best in Them?

You might consider developing employee health or happiness KPIs to get a pulse on how happy and ...

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Company Culture: If You Ain't First, You're Last!

Sales expert Jack Daly gives five ideas to jump-start your design of a winning company culture.

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Woohoo - Belgian Craft Beer!

Here are some leadership lessons from Kim Jordan, founder and CEO of New Belgium Craft Brewery (an ...

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World Class Sales Organization: 5 Steps to Build It

Sales expert Jack Daly shares advice for building a great team of sales people, getting them ...

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My Team Needs Training... and, ACTION!

When you determine you need a leadership training program, these 6 steps will help you plan and ...

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You Think You're Smart, but How Emotionally Intelligent Are You?

Here is a short list of emotional intelligence competencies people must have to be successful ...

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Key Leadership Insights from Role Models in Performance Excellence

I wanted to share a few key takeaways from the leadership of each of the four Baldrige National ...

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My Work for Managers: Work as a Team to Solve Problems Faster

We built our new People EnergyMap in Rhythm to give you a clear picture of how everyone in your ...

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Change Management is the Coolest!

We often get questions from leadership on helping our growing companies manage change, or even, ...

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Don't Speculate When You Can Innovate

I have found that many in leadership at fast growing entrepreneurial firms don't feel personally ...

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Attitude Adjustment

Rabbi Barrs' advice was the attitude adjustment I needed, and just in case you also need a shot of ...

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7 Stress Management Tips for Busy Entrepreneurs

Some stress can be a healthy thing. It can stretch us to grow and change. However, many in ...

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Produce Breakthrough Ideas by Encouraging Employees to Fail

Do you encourage your employees to fail? Doing so can promote innovation and produce some ...

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BHAG Your Customer Service Goals Before You Upset Your Customers

These three examples show how low employee engagement results in poor customer service. No service ...

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The Cure for Leaky Accountability

Often, dashboards aren't the problem; people are the problem. "Dr. Liz" offers an 8-step ...

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How Rhythm Can Help You Get the Right People on the Bus

Jim Collins offers 6 characteristics of the right people in the right seats regardless of industry ...

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Teach Your Team to Navigate The Crisis

When handling a crisis, it is more challenging for leadership to determine the right direction, ...

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How Frederique Contstant Keeps Their Employees Engaged

Frederique Constant increases employee engagement by having a rhythm of doing, visualizing goals, ...

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Marriott's Secret Weapon

The right people executing great customer service can provide this type of competitive edge for ...

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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 ...

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Get Your Virtual Swagger On

If your virtual team isn’t executing as you feel they should, you may have to take a step back ...

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Carrot or Stick? The Power of Positive Reinforcement

When I wanted to know about recognition driven leadership, I looked for someone with experience to ...

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The Power of Silence for Effective Communication

Leadership is modeling a culture of collaboration. A great way to do this would be to weave in ...

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How Rhythm Can Help Build An Enduring Company with Level 5 Leaders

If your leadership aim is to build a company that will continue to make a lasting contribution long ...

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Focus on How They Learn vs. How You Teach

You can’t put a price tag on a great teacher, or a great manager. Tailoring your leadership style ...

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4 Simple Steps to Encourage the Entrepreneurial Spirit in Your Team

Consider the benefit of a team full of creative problem solvers, follow the four steps, and ...

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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 ...

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How Rhythm Can Help You Face the Brutal Facts (Video)

Rhythm can help your team face the brutal facts by helping implement Jim Collins' suggestions for ...

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When Personalities Walk into a Meeting

No longer are personality profiles being tossed aside as “touchy feely stuff;” rather they have a ...

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5 More Tips for Business Travel

Travel is important to many businesses. No matter how much technology brings people together, ...

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We Love Our Blog Subscribers - Valentine's Gift

We want to give you the gift asking our expert team of coaches any question you want, and we'll ...

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Crystal Ball Resourcing

Do you have an annual plan but aren’t sure if you have the right number or mix of resources?

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10 Business Travel Tips from Our Executive Coaching Team

I had to find out from our coaching team their secrets to staying sane during busy travel times.

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Get Your Player in the Game with Effective Communication

At a recent quarterly planning session, one of the executives explained he's stuck with ...

Annual & Quarterly Planning

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5 Rules of Improv to Improve Your Business

You’ll be surprised how helpful these rules of improv can be in real life and business leadership, ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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Here's Why Your To-Do List Never Gets Done...

I firmly believe that the classic to-do list is ineffective and just doesn't work. At least for me ...

Strategy Execution

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Get It Done! 3 Proven Motivators

These three proven motivators can help you in your leadership role, but they can also help you ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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5 Year End Tips to Prepare for a Successful 2015

The gift of clear focus, direction and alignment will be one you can appreciate all through next ...

Strategy Execution

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Calling All CEO’s – Are You Sitting Behind a Desk All Day?

One of Jack Daly's messages was that the job of a CEO is to grow the company, not to run it. ...

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Creating a World Class Employee Experience: Lessons from Anytime Fitness CEO

The world class customer service experience starts with designing a world class employee ...

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When Is The Last Time You Showed Gratitude to Someone in Your Company?

How often do you pause to show gratitude for the people you work with and for what you have ...

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4 Top Hiring Problems & How Topgrading Can Help

Topgrading is a very comprehensive system to help get and keep the right people working in your ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?

Leadership with well-developed emotional intelligence have advantages that outweigh people with ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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How to Keep Your TopGrading A-Players

You now have another A-Player to add to your team of A-players! Finding that person took months. ...

Strategies for Growth

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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

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Service is Not a Secret: 8 Steps to a Customer Service Revolution

Customer service training initiatives have proven vital, but only if they are focused on results ...

Increasing Sales

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3 Drivers That Increase Your Influence

Influence is the science of understanding the subtle, yet powerful "gear" capable of transforming ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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The Greatest Superhero Coach of All Time - It Takes a Village

I’ve been a business growth coach for almost a decade, and before that, I was a CEO who had a ...

Strategy Execution

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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

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Weekly Adjustment Meeting: No Status vs. Red Status

If you status a priority Red before your weekly meeting, it’s a way of asking for help; it’s not ...

Effective Meetings

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Rhythm Keeps You Motivated

The Rhythm software and methodology we use definitely kept me accountable and prevented me from ...

Strategy Execution

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10 Tips to Make the Most of Your Networking

Over my decades in business, I have found that the best customers to have - by far - are the people ...

Strategy Execution

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Why Is It So Hard To Influence Change?

When leadership affects change, understand the measurable result, discover the behaviors driving ...

Strategy Execution

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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Open Door Leadership ACTION Tips from Bill Treasurer

At the Fortune Leadership Summit last May, Bill Treasurer shared thoughts on his book Leaders Open ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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Are You Effectively Coaching Your Team?

To improve the strength of my team, I needed to spend twenty percent of my time coaching people. ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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4 Keys to Conquer Complacency in Your Organization

There are a few key things that your people can do in order to make sure that your organization is ...

Strategies for Growth

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Why You Don't Need to Motivate Your People

Motivating your team takes your willingness to build a culture that treats them as “whole people” ...

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Tips to Lead a Virtual Team

Hopefully, you’ll find these communication tips for effectively leading virtual teams useful.

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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Get In a Rhythm of Beginning with the End in Mind

Covey's Habit 2 has shaped a lot of the tools and best practices we recommend for our Rhythm ...

Strategy Execution

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Fight the Under-Management Epidemic

If you lead or manage people across generations, listen to Bruce’s advice. Perhaps more important, ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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Annual Planning: Tips for Influencing Your Team

As you think about your Annual Planning session, getting buy in from your team will be a huge ...

Annual & Quarterly Planning

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Think Before You Communicate Difficult News

One function of a leader is to deliver tough news; follow these tips for effective communication in ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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Even Google Gets It Wrong Sometimes

Apply Heffernan’s description of leadership: “The job of a leader is to create conditions where ...

Strategies for Growth

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Hiring the Right People? Avoid a 15x Base Salary Hiring Mistake!

Finding and hiring the right people can be a challenge, but the Topgrading methodology can help you ...

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Give More to Get Ahead?

Adam Grant's book shows how givers are successful professionally in networking, collaboration, ...

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Improving Communication Across Teams

Tips for improving communication between the Sales and Operations teams.

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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Your Actions are LOUDER Than Words

Tips for increasing employee engagement and attracting people who are a good fit for your company.

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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Tony Robbins Got It Wrong!

Learn how to implement internal training programs to help your team improve and stay smart.

Strategies for Growth

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Think-Plan-Do: A Few Key Takeaways from the 2014 Fortune Leadership Summit

There were many practical takeaways from the speakers at the 2014 Fortune Leadership Summit that I ...

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Are You Doing Too Much?

I recently attended the Fortune Leadership Summit, as always there were many great speakers. One ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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What Makes You Fascinating?

We need to be able to communicate to our customers how we can solve their problem better than ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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7 Indispensable Leadership Characteristics and Qualities (Video)

I recently had the pleasure of hearing Pat Williams speak at the Fortune Leadership Summit. He ...

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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How to Create a Legacy of Leadership

Imagine for a moment what your company might look like if everyone who worked there all ...

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5 Steps to Make Your Message Stick

Making your message or ideas "sticky" is critical. Communicate more effectively with your team, ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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How to Connect Execution to Your Strategy

Do your employees know the company purpose? Moral of the story? When people work for a cause ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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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

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Don't Flip Off Your Team (Part Two)

In a leadership role, retain authority to make the final decision, yet still invite input. Each ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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Don't Flip Off Your Team (Part 1)

Employee engagement is dropping at an alarming rate, a trend that damaging a wide variety of ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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Credibility: A Critical Foundation of Leadership

“If you don’t believe in the messenger, you won’t believe the message.”  —Jim Kouzes, co-author of  ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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Becoming a Trusted Leader

Polling data indicates that the public (in general) doesn’t trust those in elected leadership ...

Annual & Quarterly Planning

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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

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Motivate Your Team to Learn

During times of organizational flux, it can become increasingly difficult to engage your employees ...

Annual & Quarterly Planning

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Are You Monitoring the Right KPI’s to Ensure Your Employees Are Fully Engaged at Work?

As a Rhythm coach, I work with many clients to help them develop their KPI’s and Critical Numbers.  ...

KPIs & Dashboards

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Lead With Insight

As a Rhythm coach and onsite facilitator, I am always interested in the different egos and ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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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. ...

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Have You Tested Your Emotional Intelligence Lately?

Emotional competencies are not innate talents, but learned capabilities to work on and can be ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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The How of Growth

I attended the Fortune Growth Summit in October with the Gazelles Systems team and heard Ram Charan ...

Annual & Quarterly Planning

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Echo Mountain – The Entrepreneur’s Core Value Check

If you've ever visited a cliff known for its echo effect, you'll remember easing to the edge, ...

Strategies for Growth

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Are You Part of the Top 8%? 5 Tips to Create 3 Successful Resolutions for the Year

“It’s a new year, that means a blank slate, a new beginning! Understand upfront what success looks ...

KPIs & Dashboards

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The Untraining Challenge

Mastering the Rockefeller Habits includes opportunities for all team members to be architects of ...

Strategies for Growth

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Use Rhythm to Commit to New Habits in the New Year

If you are a Rhythm software user, you can put your personal goals in Rhythm and mark them as ...

Strategy Execution

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Does Your Team Trust You?

A team that trusts one another, as well as their leader, will build a culture of focus and ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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How to Get Buy-In and Influence People

I recently read Dr. Mark Goulston's book Just Listen after hearing him speak at the Growth Summit ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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Focused, Aligned and Accountable – Unclutter Your Mind and Set Yourself Free!

At Rhythm Systems , we coach our clients to develop simple, powerful, long-term, annual and ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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Don’t Make These Hiring Mistakes!

As you are planning for next year, you are probably also thinking about your organization’s needs ...

Strategies for Growth

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Give Thanks and Ask the Right Questions to Retain Your Valuable Employees

The holiday season is always a good time to pause and give thanks for the people in our personal ...

Strategies for Growth

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Is Your Business a Murder Mystery?

Core Values require no external justification, they should not be chosen from a list or something ...

Strategies for Growth

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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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Have Solid Strategy and Execution, But Still Not Seeing Results?

Recently at the Fortune Growth Summit, Stephen M.R. Covey shared his book: Speed of Trust. His ...

Strategy Execution

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Gazelle-Like Companies are Learning Organizations

A Learning Organization is one that is always improving its ability to shape its future. Turn your ...

Annual & Quarterly Planning

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It Takes Great Execution to Deliver World Class Customer Service

It takes great execution to deliver world class customer service. I experienced it this past week ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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How Successful Are You at Influencing Others? Some Tips From the Master of Influence

I just finished listening to Robert Cialdini’s work on “Principals of Ethical Influence.”  Some ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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How Do You Coach and Develop Your Team to Manage a Company Twice the Size?

How do you grow and develop your team as your company grows? Are you grooming your people to play ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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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

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Win With Change Leadership

Are successful leaders going to excel, regardless of the times in which they lead?  Some may say ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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Don't Forget the Human Touch When You Automate Customer Loyalty Programs

I got up on my birthday and took my daughter to our optician early in the morning. It's a normal ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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Transforming Company Vision

Certain kinds of changes are easier to make than others; increasing and decreasing budgets, ...

Annual & Quarterly Planning

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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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4 Tips to Executing Well as a Team when a New Team Member Joins

When you bring on a new team member, you do not have a new team member. You have a new team. The ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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Taking Your Leadership to the Next Level by Removing the Limiting Habits

Do you ever ask yourself if what got you here will get you where you want to grow as a leader or ...

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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Be Culture Conscious

I once heard that your culture will eat your strategy for lunch. The culture of your organization ...

Strategies for Growth

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How to Energize Your Workday

Here at Rhythm Systems, one of our core values is "Keep Smart."  Because we try to practice what we ...

Strategies for Growth

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People: Will the Real Conflict Please Stand Up?

I often ask business owners what was their best experience as an entrepreneur—and what was the ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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Employee Behavior

Are your employees consistently demonstrating the behaviors necessary to accomplish the company's ...

Accountable Leaders & Teams
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How to Close a Deal like Warren Buffet

I recently watched Tom Searcy present on his book How to Close a Deal Like Warren Buffet: Lessons ...

Strategy Execution

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How Do You Execute Through A Crisis and Come Out Stronger and Better?

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

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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

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Does Your Talent Development Program Measure Up?

According to a Harvard Business Review study, fully one quarter of the highest-potential people in ...

Annual & Quarterly Planning