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Tag Archive for Performance
Feb 4, 2020
“Accountability is not about setting goals and holding people’s feet to the fire. It’s about getting other people to own it in the first place,…
Sep 23, 2019
BigSpeak’s New Exclusives JP Pawliw-Fry and Bill Benjamin Bring You the Science Behind Leadership
The two biggest names in emotional intelligence, high-performance, and leadership research, JP Pawliw-Fry and Bill Benjamin, have joined BigSpeak’s growing list of exclusive speakers. BigSpeak…
Sep 16, 2019
The Myth of Performing Well Under Pressure
No one does their best work under pressure. Not that top athlete whose name just popped into your head or that annoying person at school…
Oct 9, 2014
I had the good fortune to interview Jim Breach, the Vice President of Customer Development, Walmart/Club for Unilever, one the world’s largest Consumer Package Goods manufacturers whose brands include Dove, Lipton, Vaseline and Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, just to name a few.Walmart and Sam’s Club represent the largest Segment for Unilever in North America, so the pressure is always on for Jim and his team to perform. “2010 started off well” Jim said, “but by middle of 2010, my team reviewed our financial performance expectations and we could see we weren’t going to meet our aggressive targets for the...
Aug 2, 2014
THE way we’re working isn’t working. Even if you’re lucky enough to have a job, you’re probably not very excited to get to the office in the morning, you don’t feel much appreciated while you’re there, you find it difficult to get your most important work accomplished, amid all the distractions, and you don’t believe that what you’re doing makes much of a difference anyway. By the time you get home, you’re pretty much running on empty, and yet still answering emails until you fall asleep. Increasingly, this experience is common not just to middle managers, but also to top...
Aug 2, 2014
Turn Your Next Interruption into an Opportunity
Modern life, particularly work life, has become increasingly hectic. There are relentless demands from meetings, emails, text messages, questions to answer, problems to solve, fires to put out. It can begin to feel like there is never any time to get “real work” done. If you feel overwhelmed by endless interruptions at work, you are not alone. One of the most powerful lessons I have learned in my over thirty five years of leadership experience is that these thousands of little interruptions aren’t keeping you from the work, they are the work. When you look at it this way, a...