Rutherford Group's Talent Effect Show

Throughout my career at every company I have ever worked, they use acronyms. You know what I am talking about, those little series of letters that represent a longer, more involved phrase, like IDK for "I don't know" or LOL for "laugh out loud".

Business has a love affair with acronyms which means they are here to stay. So, today, I am going to share my all-time favorite acronym for leaders.

I learned this technique decades ago and I still use it to this day. Trust me when I say, if you build this one acronym into your leadership vocabulary and messaging, your life will be much easier.

I hope you enjoy this video, learn something that you can apply right away, and by the end we've helped you start to get from where you are to where you want to be.

Have you ever wanted to simply cut through the business-as-usual way of doing things, stop doing unproductive tasks, make quick informed decisions and then move forward? Of course, you have!

That's why you'll love our junk pile management process.

It's a variation on the old General Electric workout sessions, developed at GE during the Jack Welch era. Its uniqueness is based on calling a timeout, so to speak, from the typical bureaucratic practices and behaviors. Unlike conventional methods of problem-solving when teams meet for short periods over several weeks or even months, this process is efficient, targeted, and includes one- or two-day work sessions.

The focus is on efficient decision-making, accountability, and accelerated implementation.

I hope you enjoy this video, learn something that you can apply right away, and by the end we've helped you start to get from where you are to where you want to be.

Are you a procrastinator? If so, you aren't alone.

Everyone procrastinates in some area of their life, me included, and that puts you in some very good company. Famous procrastinators are Steve Jobs, Bill Clinton, and Mozart.

The key is not to eliminate procrastination, that would be setting yourself up for failure. Rather, the key is to manage it, recognize it when it becomes do something to move beyond it, take a bite out of procrastination and get the jumpstart you need.

I hope you enjoy this video, learn something that you can apply right away, and by the end we've helped you start to get from where you are to where you want to be.

Do you compliment your people?

We hear it all the time, "I tell my employees when they do it right".

Actually, most supervisors truly believe that they provide positive feedback. But our research confirms just the opposite.

People are definitely told when they do something wrong. But when they do it, right, the sounds of silence are often deafening.

It's important to become aware of how often you give positive reinforcement to your employees. Why? Because people repeat behaviors that they are rewarded for. So reward the behaviors you want to see repeated.

This tip is small, yet powerful, it will help build your awareness of how often you identify and reinforce positive behavior.

I hope you enjoy this video, learn something that you can apply right away, and by the end we've helped you start to get from where you are to where you want to be.

It is often said that we learn more from our mistakes than our successes. Early in my career, that was a key learning point for me.

I looked at failure as an event and not a process of continuous improvement. The fact is, even if you take your time, and put in place the best processes, you will fail at some point. Failure is almost always going to be part of the process. The balancing act is to not the small failures snowball into bigger ones.

This Talent Tip is about how to use your failures to grow and succeed as a leader and professional. The failed efforts I'm talking about are those faithfully executed, quickly modified, and thoroughly learned from attempts by ordinary people to achieve extraordinary results.

I hope you enjoy this video, learn something that you can apply right away, and by the end we've helped you start to get from where you are to where you want to be.