Who Is Setting Your Pace To Win?

I might be slightly obsessed with my Peloton bike.  

One of the main reasons beyond the convenience of it sitting in my office is that it sets my pace for my workout. Sure I’m competitive but I’m also realistic about their leaderboard, so I compete with myself. I want to beat my personal record for each workout. The tracking and monitoring allows me to do that. Sometimes I can smash one of my records and other times, like this morning, I can miss it by 30%.  

Same applies to your work. You need to know what pace to hit. Sometimes it isn’t your own pace. Sometimes you need someone outside your organization comparing you to the best of the best in other leading companies around the world. 

I often let my executive clients know when they are far exceeding results and performance than I’ve seen anywhere else, and when they are lagging behind. 

Whose monitoring your ability and output and helping you adjust?

Dedicated to growing your business,

Val

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But What Do You Really Want To Say?

This month I’ve been gathering feedback for three different executives that I am working with, so I have been talking to a lot of board members, investors, and executives. Some companies call these 360 degree feedback, but the biggest problem with these tick box exercises is people focus on numbers and ratings, not the actual feedback you want to give and receive, so the 360 degree just spins everyone into an endless state of data confusion and useless metrics and nothing changes.

 That’s why when I launched my own company six years ago I used my research of completing over 2,000 executive feedback sessions over two decades in global companies to create the Context Sensitive Feedback approach that was far more powerful, useful, and creates immediate insights and change.

 There’s one powerful question I ask, that can actually be used in any situation where you don’t feel like you are getting to the heart of the matter:

 “But what do you really want to say?”

 Try it today and I’d love to hear how it goes.

 If you are interested in hearing more about the executive advisory services I offer, let me know and we can find time to talk. You can hear more from what my clients have to say about me here because it is better to hear it straight from them.

Dedicated to growing your business,

Val

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How To Perfect Your Summer Meeting Reset

How’s your calendar looking right now? - open space, freedom to spend the summer just how you want to?

We have a gardener visit our house weekly to trim the crazy bamboo fence we have around our back garden, if we don’t prune weekly, the bamboo shoots up from every tiny opening and soon it takes over, suffocating every living thing in its path. Same applies to your meetings, they take over if you don’t pay attention, spreading fast, and taking over your days and weeks.

Reply if you are a leader who wants a copy of my Thoughtfully Ruthless Meeting Toolkit for your team.
Is it time to do some meeting pruning?

Dedicated to growing your business,

Val

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