Jim Collins calls It The Flywheel Effect:
This is what separates successful improvement efforts from (usually a string of) unsuccessful ones.
The key to the flywheel effect is for people to see benefits of the change early and often. And then to reinvest that positive energy back into the change efforts. That creates rapid change.
And if the benefits are real-world benefits, you should be getting more done -- becoming more effective and efficient -- with each turn of the cycle.
Unfortunately, a lot of change efforts are all-or-nothing affairs: you don't start seeing the real benefit until well after you've completed the entire change:
Because of the lack of intermediate or shorter term rewards, there's no flywheel effect to these efforts, and it can feel like a tremendous burden to undertake these efforts AND keep productivity up to a maximum. This is why so many of these deployments fail.
Fortunately, Fearless Leaders Group Coaching and Consulting delivers real-world benefits at each step of the way.
Every time your leaders move the bar forward on any one of The 4 Characteristics, or any time they practice any of the exercises or put The Science of Mindfulness to work, they will see results they can feel and measure in their real-world work.
When you start driving fear out of the work place and inspiring more courageous work from your employees, everyone can sense it. You'll see greater employee engagement as you rapidly transform into a fearless workplace.
The Fearless Leaders Group has a range of custom consulting and coaching engagements to fit most any organization's needs, and all requiring impressively few work hours from each individual leader.
Or, if you'd like to get started individually, we recommend you take our What Kind of Fearless Leader Are You? Quiz.
How you manifest fearlessness will depend on your natural leadership style. This quiz will give you your three biggest leadership strengths to further accelerate your future progress.
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Fearless Leaders grabbed hold of me and wouldn’t let go. It’s the most practical book I’ve read on how to heighten mindfulness and ignite personal courage. It’s a powerful book, tough at times, tender at others. From her own fearless experiences, and those of leaders she’s studied, Dr. Cathy Greenberg offers revealing self-assessments, intimate first-person examples, and engaging applied exercises. Follow the steps she outlines and they will enable you to achieve higher levels of performance and greater awareness of yourself and your environment. With Fearless Leaders as your guide you’ll make better decisions and lead a more passionate life. You can’t ask for more than that from any book!
—Jim Kouzes
Fearless Leaders tackles (and teaches) one of the most complex attributes of outstanding leaders throughout history, moral courage.
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That's a tough one, moral courage is hard to teach and it's such an important quality for leaders. If we could get more people to step up to use moral courage more often - we would see better results.
—Jerry Boykin
After having the pleasure of recording an On Demand Seminar with Dr. Cathy Greenberg, I was astonished by her ground-breaking perspective on leadership, and the role she takes herself as an inspirational leader. Not only did I learn to sharpen my focus, she also showed me how to achieve greater confidence and courage to become an inspirational leader myself. She was truly a pleasure to work with, and I am thrilled that she accepted to be a faculty at the Gazelles Growth Institute.
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