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Founder Gordon Whitehead Dr. Gordon E. Whitehead specializes in leadership and organizational development with a particular interest in helping emerging leaders accelerate their leadership growth. His career includes 13 years in the United States Marine Corps where he served both as an enlisted man and as an officer. He left the Marines as a Captain …
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In this growth activity you might want to consider working with your team if you have one. The activity is in two parts. First: Identify blockers by listing the top 3 blockers that keep you or your team from accelerating strategic execution. Sometimes strategic blockers are within our control to solve. More often, however, blockers …
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by Christopher Whitehead This fictional case illustrates two scenarios: (1) How a mismanaged 1-1 can contribute to strategic drift and employee disengagement, and (2) How a connected manager can use the 1-1 to help unblock issues their people face and accelerate strategic execution through their leadership interactions. —First Try— Ralph just came out of another …
In this section we share four techniques that we use to accelerate execution. The overriding principle is that the leader and team routinely focus on projects that create business value. They work to put the most important strategic actions in place so that strategic objectives are in mind. How to Ask for an Update on a Task …
https://youtu.be/iM4u-7Z5URk Multitasking has unfortunately ingrained itself into our work habits and management techniques. Research is clear – multitasking produces sub-optimal outcomes. A person who focuses on a single activity and doesn’t leave that activity until it is completed can produce more in a shorter period of time than a person who spreads their time over many …
Measuring and Data We talk a lot about using metrics to understand our business, but which ones should we use? The obvious challenge to using metrics is to figure out which measures make sense and to be able to weave them into the business narrative so that the metric tells a story, gives us a …
In this interview with Ed Boswell we learn some of the reasons that cause organizations to miss out on strategic execution success. Boswell mentioned that companies are sometimes in such a hurry they don’t feel they have enough time to do sound planning. Their hurried state actually slows them down. Solid planning accelerates execution. Boswell …
