The Lead Where You Are Podcast

Lead Where You Are - Setting the Foundation

Our new ebook, Lead Where You Are, is ready to launch January 2020. A book that has been in the making for over 6 years. Inspired by the evolution currently underway in organizational and individual performance, Lead Where You Are is both a catalyst and guidebook to assist individuals and teams navigate and thrive in this rapidly evolving, highly disruptive and often unforgiving performance environment. Read more here: https://bit.ly/2rEhGZt 

Lessons From The Best: Leading Performance - Adobe

Adobe has continually led the way in reinventing traditional HR and HR practices. They took a look at how inefficient and ineffective the traditional performance review process was and changed it. Read the whole story here: https://bit.ly/2JUkbNQ

Lessons From The Best: Leading Accountability - FedEx

We can learn a lot from FedEx. Their Purple Promise of making every FedEx experience outstanding is shared by over 400,000 employees worldwide, each accountable to each other and their customers.

Many organizations talk about accountability, FedEx is an organization that exemplifies accountability. https://bit.ly/2pct3a6

Lessons From The Best: Leading Change - W.L. Gore

Assembling a self-motivated and self-directed team gives ownership to people who want to contribute. A project won’t go anywhere if people aren’t motivated to take it on. The story of W.L. Gore and Associates. https://bit.ly/2OTStnv

Lessons From The Best: What's Your Purpose?

Organizations that are deemed ‘Best Place to Work’, ‘Most Admired’, ‘Best Companies to Work For’, and so on, invariably have a very defined and compelling purpose beyond just making a profit or completing tasks. Purpose provides a pathway to success and ensures alignment between the organization and the actions and behaviors of every employee.

Reimagining the Performance Model - Employee Engaged

Employee-Engaged performance is the key to shifting performance results from management driven to employee-owned, supported by formal leaders and enabled by the organization.

An Evolution, Not a Revolution - Performance Management Today

There is no question the current state of most performance management processes needs to change.  However, a rush to change can have a devastating impact on morale and productivity and, in the end, not produce the sustained performance every organization is looking for. Click Here to view this post.

Organizational Performance: The C.A.R.E. Model

Every organization and individual needs a foundation to enable both personal and organizational engagement. A foundation that leads to accelerated business results. The C.A.R.E Model provides this. View the C.A.R.E model video we've produced here: https://bit.ly/2ZAnu5y

Team Performance: The Engagement Team Lifecycle

With the future of performance being a network of engagement and performance teams that form, perform and reform as needed to deliver results, it is key to have a model that provides a framework for team success from inception to disbanding. View the 'Engagement Team Lifecycle' video here: https://vimeo.com/354996659

Personal Performance: Leading it in a Lagging Performance Management Environment

It is well known that most performance management processes being used today actually promote and measure lagging performance. However, even working in a performance process that might be lagging in nature you can lead your personal performance by doing these “lead where you are” activities.