Highly effective leadership is the key to the success of any organization. Keys unlock things, turn things on. That’s the job of the leader. Unlocking the potential of their people and turning them on to a life of productivity, contribution, and professional achievement.

Engagement is not a score. Engagement is a choice made by each individual employee. They decide whether to engage with the mission, vision, and values of the organization or not. They decide whether to engage in producing great work on behalf of the organization or not. And this choice is influenced most by the experience they are having day-to-day.

Highly effective leadership is the key to inspiring our people to choose to engage and to be productive in their role.

Ultimately, culture will determine the success of the organization. It will either enable or inhibit the achievement of our goals.

We believe a successful culture should be a vibrant community of people who love what they do, who they do it with, and who they do it for. Culture is quite simply the characteristics and attributes of the group. How they interact with each other and how they serve our clients and prospects.

“Only 66% of employees feel like employee experience matters at their organization, and nearly half believe that their organization regularly sacrifices employee experience to please the customer.” – O.C. Tanner Culture Report

The experience an employee has over their lifecycle with our organization has many facets. Employees have a handful of “high-peak experiences” each year like when they deliver a great result that is seen and celebrated. They also have a handful of low-peak experiences when things don’t go well, or changes are required. Both have a lasting impact on the employee but the most significant aspect of the employee experience is their day-to-day reality. It is the common, ordinary days when we have the best opportunity to make a difference in how the individual feels about themselves, their work, leadership, and the organization.

Providing a meaningful, purposeful, and rewarding employee experience is essential to inspiring our people to choose to engage and to produce great work in their role.

Henry David Thoreau suggested that the masses lead lives of “quiet desperation.” He also believed that they can “elevate their lives by a conscious endeavor.”

Through brave prince Hamlet, Shakespeare posed the definitive question: To Be or Not to Be? It’s a question that can only be answered by the individual themselves. Most people have, in their imagination, the natural inclination to want to grow and develop and achieve great things but they lack the information necessary to take the first, and subsequent, steps necessary to achieve success. As a leader and influencer, you have the opportunity to provide a program that can help anyone achieve the things they’ve imagined by following a simple process called the Success Cycle.

“You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.”

– Thoreau

Emotional intelligence, self-awareness and others-awareness, is a way of recognizing, understanding, and choosing how we think, feel, and act. It shapes our interactions with others and our understanding of ourselves.
It defines how and what we learn; it allows us to set priorities; it determines the majority of our daily actions. Research suggests it is responsible for as much as 80 percent of the “success” in our lives.