Don’t Let Executive Team Dynamics Derail your Year-End Business Planning

Executive team dynamics can get in the way of developing and executing next year's strategies. Here’s why—and how to identify the elephant in the room. A healthy executive team rationally looks at last year’s performance and devises a clear strategy that sets the business up for success. But when team dynamics cloud the picture, strategies and budgets wind up weak or incomplete. And team members don’t fully commit to the plans, objectives, and actions necessary for success. Sometimes, these issues stem from legitimate disagreements about the best path forward. Other times, executives lack the skills and ability to align, a [...]

2024-04-10T14:20:06-05:00By |CEO, Communication, Conflict Resolution, Executive Team, Getting Results, Managing Execution, Organizational Alignment, Strategy, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Don’t Let Executive Team Dynamics Derail your Year-End Business Planning
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How to Prevent and Manage Family Business Conflict: Decision Making and the Family Business Constitution

by Matthew Levy Conflict among family members at home, at work, or in the board room can wreak havoc on individuals, family relationships, and the stability of the family business. Managing decision-making productively and preventing significant conflicts should be a primary objective for anyone in a family business.   For the Family in Business, there are three main causes of conflict: Lack of alignment as it relates to vision, values, expectations and policies The challenges of managing disagreements Strong emotions and sometimes even volatility The Family Business Constitution Every family in business together should have a Family Business Constitution, the [...]

2024-04-10T11:57:18-05:00By |CEO, Conflict Resolution, Executive Team, Family Business, Strategy, Succession Planning|Comments Off on How to Prevent and Manage Family Business Conflict: Decision Making and the Family Business Constitution
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Get Results and Be Great with People

By Matthew Levy  Problem: The executives that I speak with want to get better results at work. Some people push too hard and are perceived as jerks or bossy overlords. Other people struggle to get results because they’re weak, don’t ask for what they want, or don’t hold others accountable. The Place to Start is Awareness: The place to start is awareness. Awareness of our strategy and tactics is helpful. And, awareness about how we are perceived by others at work is valuable. We can learn from that. When preoccupation about how we are perceived becomes a distraction, disempowering, or [...]

2024-04-10T14:15:18-05:00By |Communication, Conflict Resolution, Executive Team, Getting Results, Leadership, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Get Results and Be Great with People
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Aligning Executives with the Board: $8 million to the Bottom Line

Despite all the rage of the balanced scorecard, management by objectives (MBO), and the lip service paid to alignment, many CEOs still struggle to know the extent of their employees' commitment to corporate objectives. Putting the number on the power point slide, the scorecard, or getting the "yes" nod, doesn't necessarily ensure appropriate action. Whatever the strategy or objective, it is crucial to pay close attention to exactly what your executives are committed to and for what they are willing to be held accountable. Results Management Group was hired by a publicly held global manufacturer of electronic equipment to assist in [...]

2024-04-10T13:47:12-05:00By |CEO, Communication, Conflict Resolution, Executive Team, Getting Results, Leadership, Organizational Alignment, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Aligning Executives with the Board: $8 million to the Bottom Line
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Creating a Performance Culture with Effective Requests and Promises

In business as in life, we can experience much disappointment when we don’t achieve the results we seek. It is easy for us to blame others for not doing what we want them to do. What is more difficult is to be responsible for the conversations in which we attempt to ask for what we want. Much of the time, our unfulfilled expectations are a result of the way we manage requests and promises. It is in those conversations that we have the opportunity to enhance the likelihood of getting the results we are committed to and to transform the [...]

2024-04-10T14:18:34-05:00By |Communication, Conflict Resolution, Culture, Family Business, Getting Results, Leadership|Comments Off on Creating a Performance Culture with Effective Requests and Promises
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