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..

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…

… 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…