It’s estimated that uninspired, disengaged employees cost American business more than $350 billion annually. Over the last decade, a Gallup Poll of 10 million employees revealed that two thirds felt they were not given the opportunity to do what they do best every day.
Rene Boer
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How to Solve Business Problems – The Second Discipline
Written by Rene Boer on January 20, 2011
After capturing all your issues on your team’s Issues List – the first discipline – we now need to review the second discipline – how to solve business problems.
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Topics: Implementers, EOS, Issues List, Team, People, Business
Solving Business Problems – Start With This Discipline
Written by Rene Boer on January 17, 2011
How often have you sent emails or left voice messages for team members, asking them to solve business problems without considering what else they are working on? In the rush to solve business problems, well-intentioned leaders and managers sometimes create unnecessary chaos and work for themselves and their direct reports. Have you ever solved what you thought was an important business problem only to realize you had created an even larger one by over-reacting or reacting too quickly? Or have you ever diverted key resources away from higher priorities to solve things that weren’t as important?
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The acronym “S.M.A.R.T.” is a filter to create goals that are specific, measurable, achievable, realistic and timely. Each is important to setting goals but it’s the last one, “timely” that creates the urgency necessary to achieve a goal. And, nothing ensures timeliness like a deadline. Setting and then meeting business deadlines creates traction, and traction is the real test of an effective, cohesive leadership team. Without traction people are just spinning their wheels.
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Topics: Implementers, EOS, Leadership, Accountability, Traction, Team, People, Business
In a prior life, I often found myself dealing with about 136 issues daily, hoping to solve as many business problems as possible. But, no matter how many issues I moved off my desk, the next day there’d be a few more there waiting for me. I measured my productivity and success by how many problems I could solve. Often I found myself solving the same issues over and over again. Sound familiar?
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Topics: Implementers, EOS, Issues List, Traction, Meetings, Business
