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Where’s your team playbook? Hmm?

Berkonomics

From experience and from information about the competition, a coach creates a playbook that contains detailed plans for actions or plays that the entire team must know without question and execute without pause in order to win games and advance toward the playoffs. Again, there is a great parallel in football coaching.

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Does your team know your playbook?

Berkonomics

From experience and from information about the competition, a coach creates a playbook that contains detailed plans for actions or plays that the entire team must know without question and execute without pause in order to win games and advance toward the playoffs. Again, there is a great parallel in football coaching.

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6 Essential Leadership Practices Raise Accountability

Startup Professionals Musings

Phrases like “holding people accountable” imply negative consequences or punishment, rather than rewards or providing the freedom and coaching to team members to choose their own actions, and pursue what matters most to them. We all need weekly, if not daily, informal and feedback on direction, and what is working and what is not.

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10 Keys To Raising Your New Venture Funding Potential

Startup Professionals Musings

In his classic book, “ The Leadership Capital Index ,” Dave Ulrich, a best-selling author, business consultant, and business school professor, provides some real insights and metrics on what makes up the elements of goodwill in the minds of top valuation experts. Modern information management tools. Leadership brand development.

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5 Ways To Optimize Team Satisfaction In The Workplace

Startup Professionals Musings

The best relationships allow for informal conversations about concerns that can be acted on later. Develop metrics to monitor work intensity. These metrics are also the best way to gauge when your team needs more help, and identifying strong and weak contributors. Let that be part of their job satisfaction.

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7 Practices To Enhance Accountability In Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Make sure that metrics and goals are set up front, and not modified as the project progresses. Delegating control means having the right information, the right tools, and the right training to make the right decisions. The goal should always be coaching to solve problems, not blame assignment or negative feedback.

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Is your CFO a bookkeeper or a strategist?

Berkonomics

I recently coached a CFO in a small company to urge the CEO to stop working upon the operational issues and focus upon the future, even if that meant a pivot to protect the business as the world was changing in that industry at an accelerated rate. Here’s one that most small company founders and CEO’s miss until it may be too late.

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