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What’s a Team Alignment?

We often get the question, “what’s a team alignment?”  Differentiating from to typical team building exercises, here are a few words to describe what an alignment “is” and “is not”. Is:                                                            Is Not: Data based                                           Generic Real issues/real-time     ... Read More »

What’s Your Pain?

What are your biggest challenges in 2011? What’s keeping you up an night? What’s that “elephant in the room” you’re avoiding? In speaking with a client this past week, we were discussing the challenges around sharing “pain” within businesses. ... Read More »

Characteristics of a High Performance Team

Are you looking to take your team’s performance to the next level? Our High Performance Team Alignment is a transformational process which accelerates breakthroughs for your businesses most difficult challenges, introduces a context for high-performance, and elevates teamwork and... Read More »

Feedback

How are you doing at asking for feedback? Are you truly getting authentic feedback? How do you know? Have you ever received feedback which surprises you? Is feedback the truth? What are you doing with the feedback? Feedback is... Read More »

The Cause

“The Cause”, “Our Mission”, “What Matters”, “Making a Difference” — Is it important that your organization have a “mission statement”? Some tend to dismiss the importance of “mission statements”; however, we have been reminded over the past month of... Read More »

John Wooden Pyramid of Success

Walking into my son’s basketball game this past week, John Wooden Pyramid of Success caught my eye.  Great words of wisdom from a man we all love and honor. Click here to view in pdf format. Read More »

What is it we do?

As we don’t sell a particular product or service, it’s often that people have difficulty understanding what we do. While we have a wide range of capabilities, our core business is in the following areas: Strategy Leadership Development High... Read More »

Are you ready for the recovery?

This past week, I attended the ACG Indiana & The Alliance Group Joint Luncheon. Panel discussion speakers were John Aplin, Managing Director of CID Capital, Private Equity Group; Chuck Williams Dean of Butler College of Business; and John Platek,... Read More »

Asking For Help

In a leadership workshop some time back, I was given the opportunity to step outside my comfort zone a bit. Like most, I wrestled with the concept of “Asking for Help” ; especially, when it revolved around money and... Read More »

Berns Construction Company Testimonial

“Chris has done a fantastic job working as a catalyst for our strategic planning group. His experience has helped us find a better corporate vision with goals that were met. Most importantly the goals were achieved thru teamwork and... Read More »