5 Critical Leadership Skills When Your Business Hits the Ceiling

5 CRITICAL LEADERSHIP SKILLS WHEN YOUR BUSINESS HITS THE CEILINGWhen you’re stuck, it can leave you feeling frustrated and overwhelmed. It happens when you, your department, or your company isn’t growing anymore. It also happens when you’re growing too fast and everyone is struggling to keep up.

This is a normal part of organizational growth—think of it as growing pains. In EOS, we call this Hitting the Ceiling.

Acknowledging when you’ve hit the ceiling is vital, because once you and your team have acknowledged it, it just becomes an issue that needs to be solved.

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3 Ways to Groom the Next Generation of Leaders

3 Ways to Groom the Next Generation of LeadersLeadership isn’t about a title or a position. It’s a mentality — an approach to how you do your job.

Leaders don’t just give orders. In fact, someone can lead without ever taking charge of another person.

Leaders are people who take initiative. They’re the ones who don’t wait for someone else to step up. They hold others accountable and hold themselves to the same high standards.

You can develop leaders at all levels of your company and teach them to groom future leaders.

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Stop Beating That Dead Horse!

Stop Beating that Dead HorseEver have meetings where your team is stuck on a topic? Worse yet, you can feel when it’s about to happen because it’s happened so many times before.

Every entrepreneurial team experiences this during the course of growing their business. But to move forward as a business, you need to stop beating the dead horse!

At the beginning of a journey with a new client of mine, the leadership team was stuck on an issue about how to grow their service business over the coming year. Multiple members of the leadership team were passionate about different approaches, causing a seemingly endless repetitive discussion. Every time the topic came up, they started beating the dead horse again.

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4 Ways to Have Healthy Conflict at Work

4 WAYS TO HAVE A HEALTHY CONFLICT AT WORK

In any organization, there will be conflict. Knowing how to channel opinions and conflict the right way to get to the bottom of issues and move forward is key.

There is a way to have a healthy conflict without disrupting the core foundation of the organization. Here are four ways to do this effectively.

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The Linchpin That Preserves Your Team’s Chemistry

THE LINCHPIN THAT PRESERVES YOUR TEAM’S CHEMISTRY

Once there was a football team who overcame an upset loss to a rival and made it to the playoffs, only to lose in the semi-finals.

The following year, they lost to the same rival, again overcame the loss to make it to the playoffs, but this time, they won the championship.

Obviously, I’m talking about the Alabama Crimson Tide’s 2014 and 2015 seasons. They found themselves in the same scenario in two different years.

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Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

ESSENTIALISM: THE DISCIPLINED PURSUIT OF LESSIt appears as if Greg McKeown has written a book for business owners and leaders who run their business on EOS – the Entrepreneurial Operating System. One of the basic tenants of EOS is that less is more, that you have to go slow to go fast. Focus, focus, focus. Single point accountability. Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less meshes perfectly with these concepts.

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