This month we are focusing on the power of feedback to improve individual performance, to surface our relationship to feedback, and to identify potential barriers that hold us back from using feedback to be a more effective leader.
By AdminAJ 
Back in 2018, we wrote a short paper called Are You Stuck (5 min read), looking at self-awareness and how it impedes your ability to be in action. This is more prevalent today as demands for performance and results are at an all-time high, requiring more recovery.
This month we want to look at leading others that are stuck.
By AdminAJ 
Here are three themes from the Q4 of 2023 that are showing up consistently in our conversations with the Executive Leaders we support.
By AdminAJ 
This month we start to look at Team Leadership and the challenges of dealing with change as we work to evolve as an organization.
No company or organization can operate the same way forever. Businesses must constantly evolve and adapt to meet a variety of challenges—from changes in technology to the rise of new competitors, to inflation or supply chain disruptions. Failure to change can and most likely will lead to stagnation or, worse, poor results and layoffs. So why do teams struggle with change?
For any organization facing the prospect of change, the first step is to create a climate where your team learns the language of “being with change”. Learning to “be with change” will allow your team to co-create future possibilities.
To support leaders who can build teams that can be with change, begins with learning to listen for what your team’s relationship with change is.
Are they:
1. Coping with Change = A mindset of being closed, critical and judgmental
OR
2. Adapting to Change = A mindset of being open, curious, and in possibilities
Over the next 30 days spend time learning to assess where each of your team members is in their relationship to change. Are they coping with or adapting to change?
Change Video by Malcolm Gladwell — What World Awaits Gen Z
Have an Awesome Month Leading with Impact!
By AdminAJ 
This month we are looking at Organizational Leadership and the importance of becoming a “Learning Organization”.
For organizations to continue to succeed in today’s ever-changing landscape, they need to fight the urge to settle or be complacent. Many organizations find success and expect it to just last. Please, go buy a Kodak camera or rent a movie from Blockbuster. Both companies were pioneers in their field; Kodak invented the digital camera technology and dismissed it, not taking the time to “learn” what was happening at the frontline.
The first step in becoming a learning organization is to become a great Listening Organization. The best organizations have processes and structures to listen up, down and outside the entire organization on a constant basis, not just in the boardroom.
Starbucks Execs and head office partners spend time in their stores donning an apron, so they are with the customer and their partners and learn firsthand what the organization needs to focus on.
Ask each of your senior leaders to spend some time in the frontline and report back on what they have learned.
The Importance Of Listening For Organizational Success (5-minute read)
Culture of Deep Listening Video (5-minute video)
Have an Awesome Month Leading with Impact!
Next program early 2023
By AdminAJ 
This month we are focusing on Performance and how Leadership plays a critical role in its success.
Leadership is the most important ingredient to increase the performance of any organization.
You can tell the level of leadership by the overall success the organization is generating. They are producing consistent, repeatable, and reliable results.
Leadership and performance go hand in hand with trust. The more leaders both demand and demonstrate their trustworthiness by being sincere, competent, reliable, and involved, the better results they will see from employee performance.
Start to measure your team’s level of trust that improve performance by answering these questions:
Answer the questions above and start building trust to improve performance, a key tool to being a great leader!
Have an Awesome Month Leading with Impact!
By AdminAJ 
This month we are focusing on Strategic Execution, and the conversations needed to support the success of any Strategic Plan. One of these conversations is feedback and, more specifically, what “breakdowns & struggles” have been seen that need to be addressed by having a feedback conversation.
Feedback is a fundamental leadership practice for improvement! To improve organizational performance, we have to deal with the areas that have low workability. Could you imagine a football team not looking at the game last week to make adjustments for this week?
So, what stops leaders from receiving or giving feedback? The biggest reason is that we have learned from an early age that feedback is negative, demotivating and possibly hurtful. In most cases, the view of feedback is that it’s bad news, wrong or even career-ending – so let’s just avoid it altogether.
As leaders, we have to be comfortable with giving constructive (useful, beneficial and purposeful) feedback and using it as a tool for improvement versus making others feel small, wrong or judged.
Remember, when you have leaders who are open to giving and receiving feedback, overall performance will improve!
In the next few weeks, ask 4 people to give you constructive feedback on your leadership. By modelling to others that you are open to receiving feedback, it will impact others’ listening for receiving feedback in a positive way, and as an important tool for success!
The Joy of getting Feedback by Joe Hirsh
Have an Awesome Month Leading with Impact!
By AdminAJ 
This month we are focusing on Strategic Execution and what it takes to be successful at executing a strategic plan.
Some recent findings show that 70% of well-formulated strategies fail due to poor execution!
Companies tend to spend more time planning and building the plan rather than implementing and executing the strategy and, more specifically, don’t plan and design the proper conversations needed for success.
Take the time to plan your team’s communication and engagement around your strategy.
Four intentional conversations that your leaders need to be having to ensure the organization’s strategic plan is being executed per defined timelines:
In your “Strategic Think Time” this week, reflect on which of the four conversations are happening by your team and which ones need to be upgraded to support the execution of the organization’s Strategic Plan.
The Strategy Implementation Challenge
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By AdminAJ 
This month we are focusing on Strategic Design by creating time in your schedule for Strategic Thinking.
As leaders we create our future, we do not predict our future. Therefore, if you are not intentional about creating time for strategic thinking your future will be the same as the past.
Successful Leaders start by planning their time for strategic thinking. At Awesome Journey we call this “Strategic Thinking Time”, time for reviewing data, time for research, time for thinking about how to connect what appear as unconnected opportunities. It is also a time to challenge your thinking by being in conversations with others who can ask you thoughtful questions to poke at your thinking.
Take some time and answer the following questions:
Awesome Read: Six Essential Skills of Strategic Thinking
https://hbr.org/2013/01/strategic-leadership-the-esssential-skills
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