Knowing which employees really “belong” in your company is a puzzle.
Life and business go smoothly when your people fit your company’s culture (“Right Person”) and sit in seats that they’re ideally built for (“Right Seat”).
On the flip side, the cost of getting it wrong is also very real. So how do you know if you have the Right People sitting in the Right Seats?
One of the most powerful tools in The EOS Process® and in developing the Vision/Traction Organizer™ (V/TO™) is your 3-Year Picture™.
There’s a term to describe tempting opportunities outside of an organization’s core competencies: “Shiny Things.”
Like sparkling diamonds or the flashing lights of fame, these opportunities beckon. Shiny things lure even the most rational leadership teams into poor strategic choices with real implications. When confronted with a new opportunity -- a shiny thing -- you’ll need to ask if it is a “core” or is it a “lure”?
I recently had a slightly humorous, but nonetheless, very forceful reminder of the power of repetition when communicating with your team.
In the world of EOS®, we subscribe to the premise that you have to say something seven times to be truly heard.
The Scorecard is one of the foundational tools we teach our EOS® clients. When I explain that it is a tool to enable management by exception, many of my clients respond that they do that already with a dashboard.
