I recently had a very interesting conversation with a McClaskey Excellence Institute “Achieving World-Class Results” class attendee. This conversation related to how to best use the “extraordinary thinking” taught in the class to optimize the operations decisions related to the rate of opening of new restaurants.
All McClaskey Excellence Institute classes are set up to inspire and enable all participants to successfully take the knowledge learned in the classroom and convert that knowledge into actions on the job. One of the ways McClaskey Excellence Institute does this, and a hallmark of all of their classes, is to incorporate project selection —… Read more »
Shannon, a consulting client of McClaskey Excellence Institute, who heads a large and rapidly growing brand, asked a very insightful question during a recent consulting session. We had been talking about designing processes for sustainability. The key challenge, once a desirable change has been created, is to sustain that change by integrating it into the… Read more »
In a recent McClaskey Excellence Institute (BEI) “Achieving World-Class Results” class, one of the class participants, I will call him Sam (not his real name), described what he got out most of the class. What he said struck me. It touched on one of those fundamental truths that we all know. A truth that is… Read more »
How to get people and organizations to sustain a positive change is probably one of the most important, yet vexing hurdles in all of leadership. As such, sustaining a change is one of the topics that I research and incorporate into training leaders from all over the world. In McClaskey Excellence Institute Achieving World-Class Results… Read more »
One of the keys to an operationally excellent organization that we teach at McClaskey Excellence Institute is that everything you do should be the best known way to accomplish your organizations’ Mission. Focusing everything on the best known ways to achieve the Mission harmonizes all of a company’s actions toward a single, unified purpose. Pal’s… Read more »
Want to stay better? Now that you know what habits are (see my blog on Habits: A Key to Sustainable Change) and how to change them (see my blog on Habits: How to Change Them), let’s discuss some key ideas on how to sustain the beneficial habits you have started for a long period of… Read more »
In my previous blog (Habits: A Key to Sustainable Change), I discussed two key concepts related to habits from the book, The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg. These concepts were: The Habit Loop: Cue (also called Trigger) leads to a Habitual Routine which leads… Read more »
As we seek sustainable change, both at home and in the workplace, habits play a key role in making change permanent. Learning the principles behind habits and how habits can be modified to be more beneficial will improve your ability to manage and lead an organization towards operational excellence. One of the topics that McClaskey… Read more »
Several things I have read recently noted people have a strong need to be a member of a group or team. Meeting this basic human need of wanting to be a valued member of a team can supercharge your hiring and on-boarding process. This led me to think: Is joining a company or organization like joining… Read more »