Leadership -Connecting with (your) people to improve your results. Step 1: Strategic Themes

Overwhelmed with your days right now? Underwhelmed with your business or job?

Let me re-introduce you to …connection… starting with the people around you…

I’m a bottom-line gal… and I am here to tell you to get social within your organization. I am positive that doing so will improve performance across the organization. No worries if you haven’t really excelled at this to date. We can tell and if you look around you, you are not the only one. (and it’s not your fault entirely… technology, and actually performance management systems specifically, has played a role in this trouble and I’ll get to that later in this series). But you CAN realize improvement quickly, by making a few small shifts in how you connect with people.

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Wow! When the team helps develop great connections

This weekโ€™s โ€œWow!โ€ goes to a person who is brand new to our team and in fact weโ€™ve only held one one-on-one conversation. So, this email is one of several fast actions taken because of what was triggered during this call. The nature of that call is worth sharing and that is why it earns a place as this weekโ€™s โ€œWow!โ€ The person on the other end of that call was ———-.

Hereโ€™s our โ€œwowโ€ for this week: โ€œWOW!โ€ , adding value was on your mind when we talked, and although we couldnโ€™t know where the conversation would lead when we started, as there was no real agenda other than some questions about our agreement, your aim was servedโ€ฆand C-Secure Systems will be stronger because of it.

Why is this โ€œwow!โ€? Without giving too many details but to answer the questions of those of you who are now thinking โ€œWhat happened on that call?!โ€ โ€ฆ We discussed each of our companyโ€™s purposes and markets so that we could determine if there was any conflict in our working together and, if not, then what type of non-disclosure agreement would best suit. But what happened then is more than the signing of an NDA.

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