Blogs by Steve Lounsberry
Do you find yourself more exhausted at the end of your workday than you were pre-pandemic? Are you experiencing brain fog, mental fuzz, and fatigue from overstimulation? If so, you’re not alone. Zoom Fatigue and COVID Brain are very much a thing. Have you heard these two new phrases circling around your office space? Times…
RITUALS- “A set of behaviors regularly followed and grouped (chunked) into time segments.” Leaders can “Chunk their habits” into Five RITUALS (time segments) Daily Morning Work/School Kick off Pre-leave Nightly And Weekly We are all 100% disciplined to our habits. Rituals are intentionally building a framework of habits to support consistent behaviors. Your morning…
RUBBER BAND MAN A Mental Framework for Learning Perspectives in this interesting time for living. Getting the Restart Right! In a recent podcast, IBM’s former CEO Ginny Rometty the pandemic has reinforced “the value of adaptability.” In the future, she added, the most important quality any worker can have is “the propensity to learn.” Seth Godin…
Accountability is an outcome, a by-product of great leadership and management. Tough management (hard on the person) does NOT equal accountability. ACCOUNTABILITY = Leadership + Management Accountability Accountability is a by-product of doing leadership and management well. It results when Leadership provides clarity (your checklist): Vision. Priorities. Expectations. It combines with Active Management (your checklist):…
WHY LEARNING DEMANDS EFFORT & (A LITTLE) DISCOMFORT The brain isn’t a muscle, but it still needs to “feel the burn” to build new neural connections that actually last. PAY ATTENTION! WHEN THE GOING GETS TOUGH, IT’S PROBABLY WORKING (you have to pay more and better attention to each idea.) EFFORTFUL! FEEL THE BURN (The…
It is that time of year. I am going to set goals for 2020. How can you maximize your success toward these goals? Deliberate Practice: Stop + Struggle + Make Errors + Learn is the key to developing any performance success. The best way to understand the concept of deliberate practice is to do it.…
Human Performance is created by people’s behaviors. How they do things. And humans continue to set new levels of performance. The Marathon 26.2 miles. Nike and others have been working closely with elite Kenyan runner Eliud Kipchoge and other top distance runners on a moon shot goal: To run a marathon in under two hours. At the time…
A framework for defining and tracking objectives and their outcomes. Simple and effective. “The key result has to be measurable. But at the end you can look, and without any arguments: Did I do that or did I not do it? Yes? No? Simple. No judgments in it.” Larry Page, the CEO of Alphabet and…
“The world has never gone this fast… And it will never go this slow again.” Feedback Loops are key to capturing the benefits of this speed in communication! Traditional management relied on mechanisms of control— managers, supervisors—to ensure quality and shape interactions. These are expensive and inefficient to grow to scale. Communication Feedback Loops operate differently:…
In this month’s blog, we’re sharing a concept that is getting lots of positive feedback from client executives regarding the management of expectations in the workplace. The video below is a 2 minute Katalyst Klip summarizing the process after a meeting with my client, Blake Burns. We’d love to hear your thoughts on this subject!…