Leadership, Field-Tested
Field notes on operational leadership: the gap between what the data shows, what's happening on the floor, and what leaders actually do about it. The perspective pulls from an unusually wide range. Thirty years across theatre, music, teaching, hospitality, and franchise operations, plus the study and research behind them, all circling one question: what makes people care enough to perform when nobody's watching. Read something here, and take one better decision back to your team.
International Keynote Speaker & Operations and Leadership Advisor. Helping leaders move from correction to commitment: teams that perform when nobody's watching.
If you're carrying a stretch your team can't afford to merely tolerate, closing that gap is the work I do with leadership teams directly.
Before you change how you hold anyone accountable, find out what the current gap is costing you. Two minutes and your own figures.
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We've spent years, and fortunes, trying to raise employee engagement. The programs, the perks, the endless surveys. And the number still hasn't moved. It won't, until you stop adding things on top of the problem and start removing what's capping it from below.
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