Getting Results with Tom Toney

Building agreement on our teams will lead to greater success.  Agreement always precedes alignment.  While every culture is different, finding a way to build agreement is KEY to getting results.  

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Alignment is where we gain traction from clarity.  When our people, teams and resources are aligned to our clear vision and goals, we are on our way to success.  Assessing alignment in every aspect of our organization and making adjustments when we see misalignment is critical to getting results.  In this episode, we will discuss the power of adjustments. 

Aligning our people, teams and resources to our clear vision, mission and values is the next step toward success.  In this episode I introduce my Model for Alignment as we lay the foundation for the next phase of organizational success. 

Developing clear vision, mission and values, being clear about strategies, goals and expectations is what allows us to effectively align our people, teams, resources, standards and efforts toward reaching those goals and ultimately accomplishing the mission and vision.  In this episode, we discuss some simple steps to developing clear Vision, Mission and Values.

Comparing our end results to the clearly expressed picture of the vision for those results is Closing the Clarity Loop.  Being sure to avoid the trap of looking at results simply against a desired outcome, and not a documented outcome, is challenging and rewarding.  When we hold ourselves accountable to a clearly expressed goal, we will be more likely to put the work of gaining clarity into the beginning of the process.  We will also be more likely to hold ourselves accountable throughout the process.  This is what gets results.

We talk about it, plan by it and expect that everyone is following clarity.  That is a great start.  However, if we leave out this critical next step, we undermine all that hard work.  In this episode, we will discuss what is likely the most important part of building a culture of clarity.  

An alarming number of people are leaving our meetings feel unclear about what to do next.  In this episode I will share a simple step you can take to help remedy that reality.  

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Like the old TV's from the 70's, many organizations are in desperate need of upgrading their methods for gaining clarity.  This simple tool will help you begin building a high-definition environment for your team and can help you get stronger, clearer results.

I often have leaders tell me they walked away from a conversation thinking they were very clear and confident their team was going to execute a plan with accuracy, only to be blindsided by missed deadlines and less than quality results.   How does this happen?  In this episode, we will talk why we experience this and what it takes to truly build a Culture of Clarity.

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Clarity is the foundation of success.  Without Clarity, we may be working hard, heading in a direction, and even getting results.  The question is, are those the results we really desire?  The only way to ensure that we are putting in the right effort and heading in the right direction is to begin with being absolutely clear.