There are many days during a business leaders’ career that would fall into a special category of remembrance. The day you started up your business or maybe the day you let your corporate boss know you were quitting to start your own business. Possibly it was the day you became the President or CEO of an existing business to lead. There are likely many key days on the calendar where significant events took place that are…
Category: Promise Culture
It is not “What” you know but “Who” you know that can have the greatest influence on your success!
On behalf of JKL Associates may you, your family, your staff, and all business and personal relationships have a safe and blessed Thanksgiving.
As business owners’ part of our planning for the future is typically setting targets/goals for the business to pursue in the coming year. One of those goals is typically a financial objective. Dollars to realize as a result of sales and marketing efforts. When setting these targets, a variety of things are taken into consideration such as past performance, competition, economy, product offering etc. Once these metrics have been…
There tends to be much confusion in business when various roles are defined as being “Manager” or “Leader” or some other terms which attempts to define the role/responsibilities of the position. Some of the titles are the result of years of passing them down from prior people in the roles to current people. In some cases, the titles are…
Our model of Promise Culture is a framework to assist organizations and individuals to align what is best to contribute to their best outcome. In being a framework, it allows by design to incorporate your specific elements which give you your greatest chance at success.
Is it too late to fix the environment when people start leaving?Read More »
Let’s be clear right from the start – this has nothing to do with the social dynamics of how people are self-identifying themselves with respect to gender, race or any of the other elements protected under the constitution of this United States. Today we are looking at the identification with your organization’s Core Purpose, Core Values and Culture.
Your self-identity defines whether you are or are not “All In”Read More »
We live in a time where confidence is sometimes an odd word. People might outwardly display strength of character, but it may not be actual confidence. Others may appear to be less in the bravado area but internally they are far more confident in their abilities and back it up by what and how they contribute.
A business owner made a funny comment the other day when asked about dealing with conflicts in their business. They said they never have any conflict because it is just a distraction they can’t afford to deal with. It was a bit off the cuff that they made the remark, but it triggered a series of thoughts about how…
The talent marketplace is very challenging. In some cases, there are large gaps in availability. In other cases, people are using this time to shop their skills to the highest bidder. Yet in still other cases existing staff are redefining what they see as their work activities at the expense of unauthorized changes to organizational processes and procedures. Leadership is chasing…