by Noonday Ventures | Dec 18, 2018 | Growth Planning, Leadership Tests, Through
“You know we’re not done yet, right?”
This isn’t exactly what Tom had hoped to hear. But he has a feeling Katie is right. They’re sitting in their conference room immediately after launching the company’s initiative teams. Tom feels pretty good about their work so far. His team had set leadership bench strength goals, assessed their leaders, and carefully engaged each initiative leader in both the task and the development opportunity of their work.
“You mean we could still screw this up?” Tom says with a slight twinkle in his eye.
by Noonday Ventures | Dec 5, 2018 | Growth Planning, Leadership Tests, Through
Tom’s team sits, simultaneously sobered and strangely energized. They’re about to deploy their strategy through a variety of key initiatives. They have resolved to use their strategy implementation process to dramatically increase the depth of their leadership bench.
The plain, hard facts stare them in the face. They just mapped their existing team to sort their proven leaders from your potential leaders. They’ve set targets about converting a certain number of potential leaders into proven leaders – and elevating solid team members into the potential leader category. They know they have to do all of this while getting a slate of key projects completed.
by Noonday Ventures | Jun 26, 2018 | Leadership Tests, Top Teams
I could see Claire slump a little in her chair. She was a very senior leader in her company and had been charged with leading a decision team through the evaluation of a major strategic choice, one that would dramatically shift the business model of the company by... 
by Noonday Ventures | Jun 12, 2018 | Influence, Leadership Tests, Top Teams
“You change management people are all the same. If my friends from GE were listening to this conversation, they’d say it was the biggest crock of shit they’ve ever heard.” Scott was a little frustrated. And salty. He’s a CEO facing a big challenge. The clock is... 
by Noonday Ventures | May 22, 2018 | Leadership Tests, Top Teams
“We suck at decision-making on this team.” Of all the complaints I hear about leadership teams, this one ranks near the top. Effective leadership teams know the plays they have to run over and over. Decision-making is a fundamental play, but one that is often busted.... 
by Noonday Ventures | May 8, 2018 | Leadership Tests, Top Teams
“I think my team is about here on the conflict scale,” the CEO said, drawing an x on the whiteboard. We had been discussing his leadership team and how he needed them to perform at a higher level if the company was going to achieve its next level of performance and...
