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If Practice Makes Perfect...

9/7/2010

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...then, you have to define "perfect." 
 
My 15 year old son plays soccer.  He has been playing soccer most of his life.  He is in his second year of high school soccer, his forth year of club soccer and his first year of a new soccer training academy at a local university.  This all adds up to an average of nine training sessions per week.  Then about once a month they have a weekend tournament that consists of three or four games.  When high school season starts, they will have about 10 games during the four month season.  This all adds up to a lot of training/practice per game played. 

Why is this even important to this blog?  How is it relevant to business?  Easy.  In business we do minimal training per our work, or as I put it, game time. This is very scary.  We ask our team to perform at it peak but we do not provide them the training or practice needed to be perfect.

Well it can, but what is the level of training/practice are you getting?  Can it make you perfect?

More on this later...
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Winning Results

9/2/2010

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Vision is the glue that holds organizations together. It is the thing that gets everyone on the same page all moving in the same direction, trying to achieve the same goals. A business, just like in sports, in order to win everyone has to know what the vision of the organization is...and they have to believe it.

Look at any sports team you know or follow, armature or professional. They all want to win. That's their goal, to win every game, every match. A businesses goal is usually to make money, make a profit, that is their way of winning. But what is the vision of the coach or leader that will help the team win? How are the tasks you do related to the goals and vision of the organization?

A high school boys soccer team has a goal of winning every game for the season. This is a great goal, maybe even a stretch goal depending on the team. So what is the coaches vision for the team? Is it having the most fit players, the smartest players, the best soccer technique players, the best game strategy?  It will be a combination of these and other items.  A winning coach will know, but if he does not tell his players and set their expectations, then how will they be able to take action and get results?  Just telling the players what to do will only produce average results at best.

Now, take this to a typical business.  They should be operating as a team and this team needs to know the vision of the leader (coach).  It is so important that the team knows how the leader wants it to function in order to win.  If this vision is communicated properly to the team then the team will take the ball and run with it...and the results will be what the leader expects.  Get Vision, Get Results.


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Carving your own path

9/1/2010

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There has been many articles and books written about taking charge and leading the way.  This is a respectful theme and has a lot of merits.  People that take the lead are usually looked upon as the leader.  So what's the big deal?  Why is this an important subject and why now?

The big deal is that you may be leading your team in the wrong direction without knowing it; This discussion is important because you may not realize that you are.

How can you tell if you and your team are on the right path?  Ask yourself these four simple questions:
  1. Do I know exactly what the Vision of my organization is?
  2. Are the Goals of my team aligned with this vision?
  3. Can every Action that my team performs be tied to a specific goal and are the deliverables acceptable to an owner?
  4. Are the Results that my team's producing directly contributing to the vision and goals of the organization?
If you can not answer all of these questions, then you need to quickly re-evaluate the path your are on.

In the past, I have had some very smart and experienced leaders tell me that although they are not sure of the vision of their organization, they should still keep moving forward by setting goals, taking action and producing results.  So I ask them the simple question: How do the results you produce tie back to the vision and goals of the company.  And of course the answer is that they didn't know, but they thought it did.  They thought they knew enough to effectively to move forward.  They assumed that the organization was a VMM level 2 when they were probably only at a level 1 or 0.

Here is the mistake that most of us are making.  We get frustrated with the communication that is coming from our leaders, the CEO's, the Boards, the Executives...and we take it upon ourselves to "carve our own path."  We get great results, based on our belief's, and feel good about it.  STOP IT NOW!  The results probably don't align with your companies vision. If they do then you just got lucky.

Get Vision, Get results!
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