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Achieve team success with effective decision-making
Your organization is full of people making decisions in pursuit of team and organizational purpose. To invest or divest, to increase prices or not, to introduce a product or to pull another. Their decisions, collectively, determine the success or otherwise of the organization and the CEO. People are complex, as are organizations. And so are teams. Whether a decision is made by consensus, majority vote or team leader, the process has its complexities. Which means bottlenecks easily arise.
How leaders can unblock the bottlenecks disrupting decision-making
Your organization is full of people making decisions in pursuit of purpose. To invest or divest, to increase prices or not, to introduce a product, or to pull another. Their decisions collectively determine the success or failure of the organization. People are complex, as are organizations. And so are teams. Whether a decision is made by consensus, majority vote, or team leader, the process has complexities, which means bottlenecks easily arise.
Cultivating long-term thinking in your teams
| |5 minute read Cultivating long-term thinking isn’t a one-time effort – it’s a journey, writes Bryan Whitefield. Many, many executives are familiar with the pain brought on by investment analysts’ focus on the short-term results of their company instead of rewarding their long-term strategy with supportive buy recommendations. The same goes for teams in organisations. The siren song of short-term gains often drowns out the crucial need for long-term vision.
The 3 Secret Ingredients for Making Big Bet Decisions
Not all big-bet decisions can make or break your organisation, but they are, by definition, significant. They are not for the faint of heart, but they’re essential for driving growth and staying ahead in today’s competitive landscape. So, what separates the visionaries from the also-rans? The answer lies in three secret ingredients that, when combined, create a recipe for success. Mental Models: The Foundation of Strategic Thinking Imagine having a Swiss Army knife for your mind.
Three critical elements of high-performance teams
Broken down to its simplest form, an organisation is a group of people making decisions in pursuit of a purpose. People make the decisions to hire or fire, invest or divest or insource or outsource. Individuals within teams make decisions; however, forming a collective mind and following the old adage ‘Two heads are smarter than one’ is the starting point of building high performance. High-performance teams make better decisions, faster.
Three critical elements of high-performance teams
Broken down to its simplest form, an organisation is a group of people making decisions in pursuit of a purpose. People make the decisions to hire or fire, invest or divest or insource or outsource. Individuals within teams make decisions; however, forming a collective mind and following the old adage ‘Two heads are smarter than one’ is the starting point of building high performance. High-performance teams make better decisions, faster.
You’re not to blame for a failed strategy
You and I both know we are good decision makers, and it is everyone else that has a problem, right? Well, we are partly right. It’s not you or me that is the problem, its that making decisions gets more and more complex as more people become involved, even if you have the final say. Take the simple example of deciding where to have dinner in Paris this evening. If it is you making the decision, and you’ve had a restaurant recommended by multiple people as a ‘simply must go’, you just go.
5 key ways leaders can avoid Groupthink
Was that Groupthink I just witnessed? If not in your executive team, what about the teams that massage information on the way to the executive? Each is a question you may have asked yourself. Rightfully so given the broad reach of Groupthink due to its widely recognised underlying causes.
Unleash the potential of AI to enhance team decision making
| |6 minute read Team decision making is critical to team performance, and you should start planning today how you are going to take advantage of the opportunity, writes Bryan Whitefield. While every one of us is entitled to make a mistake, behavioural scientists have known for decades the core influences of poor decision making. Our biases and how our changing environment and its impact on our emotions can affect our decisions hour to hour, week to week, month to month.
Why we have to cure our fear of soft skills training
What makes a brilliant entrepreneur, a super accelerated start-up or a successful small business owner as successful as they are? Your first thought probably goes to their passion and drive or their vision or both. You might also think about how smart they are. How the entrepreneur knows the numbers of business. How the founder of the start-up is so technically savvy and how the small business owner is a legend in their industry. You are right on both counts.
Why The Use Of Imagery To Influence Is Often Overlooked By Leaders And Why It Shouldn’t Be
The old saying that a picture is worth a thousand words has survived more than a century after first appearing in newspapers in the early twentieth century. Why then don’t we use imagery more to influence? We are happy to write a thousand words for a reason. It could be anything from a business case, a project update or an incident report. Yet, so often, all we use are words. Sometimes, because the subject includes lots of numbers we include a chart. Nice, but only a fraction of the power of imagery.
6 Tips to Collect Your Receivables Faster (Making It Easier to Manage Your Cash Flow)
One of the most important lessons with respect to managing cash flow is this: The faster you collect from your customers, the easier it will be to manage your cash flow. Most businesses carelessly fall into cash crunches because they let their receivables slip longer and longer before being paid. This puts your uncollected revenue in jeopardy and actually lowers your odds of collecting these outstanding receivables.
8 Tips to Run an Effective Meeting
Think of how much time and money your company spends on meetings. Yet so few executives know what it takes to make meetings crisp and productive. Here are 7 tips to make your meetings more effective: 1. Plan your meeting in advance – in writing A. What is the purpose of the meeting? B: What preparation is needed for the meeting to be most effective? C: What is your outlined agenda? 2. Set a “no texting; no email” policy for your meetings.
The 5 Most Expensive Hiring Mistakes a Business Owner or CEO Can Make
One of your most important leadership functions is in selecting, hiring, and integrating top level talent to help you grow your company. The true cost of a bad hire can be in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. Here are the 5 most expensive hiring mistakes and how you can avoid them: 1. Not clearly identifying – in writing – exactly who you are looking to hire.
You Don't Need To Be A Rock Star To Be An Effective Leader
You don’t need a rock star personality to be a rock star leader. Whether you are looking over your shoulder waiting for the tap from the chair of your board or you don’t think you have what it takes to get there, don’t fear. You have what it takes. You just need to see yourself in the right light. If you think about it you will soon remember the soft-spoken leader, the one dressed in…well, let’s say…not the latest fashion, the one that was more technocrat than bureaucrat.
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