Managers, coaches, and advisors also find the tools an excellent frame of reference for building leadership skills.
A Snapshot of Benefits
Part One: Focusing Your Company's Value Producing Energies
1. Creating Value: Learn how to focus your people, capture customers and generate competitive advantage.
Part Two: Building a High-Performance Organization
2. Building a Sense of Shared Purpose: Harness the enthusiasm of workers and customers that powers your success.
3. Talking Truth About The Business: Results come from timely, accurate and authentic communication. Talk the talk of a winner.
4. "Leader As Hero, Get Real!" Realistically define your role and powerfully lead today's workers to peak performance.
5. The Four Deadly Sins: Character challenges that all leaders face which, if not remedied, sorely limit the success of the enterprise.
Part Three: Taking Stock of Your Company's Key Survival Skills
6. Fit To Win? Diagnosis the fitness of your organization's ability in 3 key dimensions: gathering intelligence, thinking, and executing.
Part Four: Realizing Your Potential -- Delivering Extraordinary Execution
7. Acquiring Market Savvy: Sharpen your external focus, read early signs of change, out hustle competitors, connect with customers.
8. Keeping The Brand Promise: Help your people gain competitive advantage by knowing and then fulfilling customers' expectations.
9. Smart Organizations: Build an organization that's smarter than you. Learn how to raise your company's IQ.
10. Extraordinary Execution: Your people can achieve an extraordinary level of execution - everyday, in tough times as well as good.
11. Resources:
Associated with each section, you'll find a carefully screened collection of valuable resources related to the particular topic. If you want to do more in depth research in the area you won't have to "drink from a fire hose" or sort through an endless list of writings. We've done that for you, and while the recommended readings don't purport to be exhaustive they will give you a strong foundation to explore the ideas deeply, on your own.