Leadership topic - partner

Partner is step three of the empower framework: leaders who partner work with customers and teams to produce world-class results. Manage stakeholders, address issues effectively and practices the fine art of negotiation.  Blends people into teams when needed; Can quickly find common ground and solve problems for the good of all; Can negotiate skillfully in tough situations with both internal and external groups; gains trust quickly of other parties to the negotiations; has a good sense of timing.

Roadblock – Competes first versus sharing responsibility, Optimizes for their team/personal goals first. Delegates pieces and parts; treats people as a collection of individuals not a team.

Start with Promise, Together or Harmony, then see how it plays out across the Avett Brothers series.

Seeing partners Outcomes..

Seeing partners Outcomes..

Apr 2, 2025 | , ,

Texas is not friendly to mass transportation.  A mix of the frontier mentality, setting out to control your destiny, and then floating in oil, everywhere you go is in a car.  Particularly as you came of age, you would get your license and head out on the town… which I couldn’t until I was a senior in high school – an Outcome assured when my parents put me ahead a grade way back in Kindergarten.

Virtue partners…

Virtue partners…

Mar 19, 2025 | , ,

… some leaders who are stunning in their clarity and focus on what matters most – living out their values authentically for their team and themselves.  I was honored to partner with one at VeriSign who went through many busy seasons with me, including learning to leverage RAPID for our team’s best…

Who is your Surf partner?

Who is your Surf partner?

Mar 5, 2025 | , ,

For this workshop, we needed at least 3 others who would contract to partner with us.  “The Pod” had to commit to meet weekly for at least half an hour… and also to check in daily on our progress.  At first, this seemed a bit over the top,

Power partners

Power partners

Feb 23, 2022 | , ,

As I finished talking about our project, there was a pause in the conversation while the Senior VPs were considering what I had shared. My boss, now my partner, was leaning back as he always did, even though he knew most of these very Powerful men well. By now he had confidence in my ability to communicate difficult concepts quickly and convincingly, which freed him up to study and read what was really happening and not being said…

partners in Clever

partners in Clever

Feb 16, 2022 | , ,

They had been in a conference room for nearly 2 days now, reviewing problems with our Division’s largest program. These partners had been collected to recommend changes to get it back on track. It was to be a state-of-the-art new approach to computing on a new state-of-the-art submarine. All eyes had turned to the senior architect of the systems that were used on the Space Shuttle who had been flown in. He paused … and after a very uncomfortable silence said “It’s a Bar problem”. Unclear someone asked… and he clarified. “We can’t fix this …we might as well go drink.”