Tomorrow is the day of Trick or Treats. Children will don costumes of various characters from heroes to villains. This is their opportunity to project one of their fantasies into the world. As leaders, it is important that we recognize this critical development activity for our children and future workforce. This creativity is necessary to build problem-solving skills. They explore the realities of what heroes or villains contribute or take away from society.
At JKL Associates, we engage our clients under the Promise Culture Model. It is a framework to build a successful, stable, sustainable, and profitable business upon. At its core are Purpose, Values, Principles, and the various relationships of all the parties to the organization. The framework or platform is the structure or foundation, but in order for it to flourish, the relationships – the people-to-people intersection MUST be rooted in trust. An organization can have a well-articulated purpose, vision, mission, and the like, but when the behaviors and actions of the people are contrary to those words, then trust fails.
We have all arrived in our roles in business through various channels. Some might have started the business from the ground up. Some might have purchased an existing business and now guide its future. Others might have been hired in and risen through the ranks to a level of leadership. Still others might have been part of a family’s business legacy and continued to nurture it forward. Regardless of your situation, we can all look back and recall moments in our business life where we thought a given plan of action was going to be fairly simple, yet turned out to be anything but simple. Business leadership is just that way.
Are your customer or employee engagement plans increasing loyalty or holding people hostage?
As leaders, we are regularly challenged to revisit the foundation of the business platform. Your organization might have a mission or vision statement, supplemented by principles and values that outline the desired way your organization operates. This foundation was crafted with great intent and expectations to be fully integrated into your day-to-day business decisions and actions. The question today is – Are you holding yourself accountable to the framework, and are you operating your business within the expectations of your purpose, values, principles, vision, and mission?
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When JKL Associates is invited into a business to add value, early in the conversation with them, we bring up the need for the owner and associated leadership to take their health seriously. It may sound like an unusual suggestion for a third party to make, but if we collectively want to advance the organization’s success, then we need all team members to be present at both the beginning and the end.
There is an old saying the “Hope is not a strategy.” It has been attributed to many people who have used statements like it to emphasize that planning and action are critical parts of achieving the desired outcome. As discussed in previous weekly newsletters, planning and then taking proper action are crucial to achieving the goal or best results. But where does “Hope” fit into the success or best outcome?
Summer vacations have wrapped up, Labor Day has gone by, children are back in school, football season is in full swing, and business is about to enter into the final quarter of the calendar year. This is a time to re-engage and make the most of your efforts to close out the business calendar on a high note.
Let’s start by acknowledging that, no matter how hard we try, there will always be challenges to address and a need to be proficient in reacting to situations we had not planned for. There is a real cost to having to react to a challenge that presents itself. The initial distraction from the intended plan or outcome takes place first. The Oh No! We must deal with this…
This coming Monday, we take time to celebrate Labor Day. This national holiday is rooted in taking time to acknowledge the economic and social contributions the American workforce has made to this great nation to build and strengthen prosperity.