What Matters

When you lead people, Culture is your day job. It’s not something special and different that you do once a year before a survey. Culture is not extra work on top of how you do things. Culture is not somebody else’s job. Culture is how you get things done every day.

 Your Culture impacts your Strategy at every point:
- ideation, development and analysis;
- discussion, agreement and alignment;
- translation into actionable plans;
- communication and commitment;
- execution and operationalising;
- monitoring and reporting on progress;
- adjusting course; and
- celebrating success.

Don’t underestimate Culture. Your Strategy probably already has.
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What's keeping you up at Midnight or 3am?

One thing that keeps me up at night is how many leaders are under-estimating the impact of their Culture on their Strategy.

As you carve out and tweak your Strategy for the next 15 months and beyond, how are you thinking about the impact of your Culture on the creation and execution of your Strategy?

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Cultures are shaped by what you pay attention to.

 Like any currency, Attention is valuable because it is finite and scarce.

 What are you paying attention to?

As a leader, you know what metrics your CEO and Board care about by what they focus on in meetings.  ...by what they pay attention to. 

• What metrics they interrogate

• What initiatives catch their interest

• How they open and close conversations

• Weight of focus during meetings

• Outcomes that are rewarded and punished

 Most of your team members can tell you what you pay attention to. Could...

What’s stopping you from playing to your strengths?

Maybe you don’t know yet what your strengths are?

Or do you know your strengths but something, or someone, is stopping you?

What’s stopping you from using your strengths each day?

We succeed, we grow. We fail, we grow.

When we don’t know, we grow.  If we let ourselves...

Too often, success and failure don’t lead to growth. Growth mindset has become a bit of a buzzword but at the heart, it is choosing to grow when you hit adversity or when you land a win.

I often say

Forget the failure, learn the lesson

Choose a growth mindset. Choose to learn and grow.

What do you need to achieve this year?

How can you play to your strengths to achieve your goals?

What is on your To-Do list?

What is on your To-Be List?

Take the time to write down your goals for the year ahead.

PS if you'd like to understand your strengths and how you might better play to your strengths, ask me about my Play to your Strengths 1:1 Coaching and Collective Strengths Team sessions powered by Gallup Strengths.

Some days are tougher than others.  Some days are slower than others.

Take the win!  Every win.  Even the small ones.

Take the moment.  Breathe it in.  Look around.

Take the win.

Small wins don’t always announce themselves the way big wins do.

Small wins can be easy to ignore.  Don't waste them.  Savour them.

Small wins compound, one often leading to another.

Take the win.

Don't miss the small wins waiting for the big one.

Take the win.