Working with our strengths

I read Good to Great by Jim Collins over a decade ago, it was the company book during a multi-year corporate transformation and the early chapters stayed with me so far as ensuring that the leader had the right people on the bus initially and then worrying about where they sat afterwards.

The transformation we worked in was largely very successful, an exciting time for myself and my colleagues who were super engaged and worked whenever and wherever possible.  Since that time such transformations have become commonplace. With many organisations challenged to review how they worked with their supply chain and client side with some dramatic changes to their structure and people.

Back to Good to Great: What were some of the factors that impacted getting the right people on the bus? Cultural fit? Skills and Experience? Drive and enthusiasm?

As I have worked in various customer facing transformations, the opportunity for working to our strengths came up more and more, to the point where I was introduced to Gallup StrengthsFinder and undertook training to use it our executive and team coaching. It has been the secret to success so far as the more successful teams that I have lead and worked in,

where we have worked to our strengths, in roles that engaged our talents, our professional passion that made the team members come together and work well as a team and achieve individual and team excellence. With the relentless drive for a competitive edge, to do more with less, we are finding that identifying and focussing our strengths rather than attempting to focus on the work and the way we would prefer not to work compelling. This is in terms of the quality of our internal and external communication.

For more information about Go-to-Market strategy and execution, please do not hesitate in contacting me on  02 9119 1109 or adamc@4igroup.com.au