Peak Performance

Defensiveness is a productive and innovation killer. Unfortunately, it's a natural response for humans that has been deeply ingrained in us over eons of time as a survival mechanism. But in a fast-paced and competitive landscape, the defensiveness we employ actually kills the organization that provides our security and our survival.

In this episode we talk about some ways to eliminate defensiveness from your organization.

A culture that builds psychological safety in the work place is critical if an organization is to reach peak performance. But safety is hard to create. We are all naturally wary of putting ourselves in a vulnerable position. But without vulnerability, friction hinders innovation and restricts progress.

In this episode we dive into the need for safety and how process, correctly structures, can help us get it.

This podcast explores the idea of continuous improvement for self, team, and organization. We examine the process of identifying gaps at all three levels, developing plans to address those gaps through applying key performance activities and best practice sharing. We also focus on the importance of practice and role playing to improve performance.

In this episode we discuss how transparency is the foundation for every important cultural trait that underlies peak performance. Transparency creates clarity, reduces politics, improves trust, encourages ownership, and fosters accountability.

Our conversation discusses what transparency is, how to get it, what the results are if we do get it, and how it all works with SPORT. We hope you enjoy it!

In this episode we talk about the five components of a Peak Performance culture: Transparency, Continuous Improvement, Process Driven Safety, Accountability, and Trust. In future episodes we'll talk about how to build each of these components of a strong Peak Performance culture.

This episode explains how to help your organization stay focused throughout the year on your most important objectives. The skill you need to develop is the ability to focus on the important, but not urgent, priorities of the organization.

We all know that micro managing our teams is a recipe for toxicity in the workplace. Yet we often fall into this trap. What is the alternative? We call it Latitude Leadership, which is the ability to create spaces where team members can be their own CEO. When we do this, the outcome is transparent relationships between behaviors and results, easy accountability, and high job and work satisfaction.

Organizations have always changed. Pressure from AI and other sources are leading to substantial changes now. But what is needed is a complete paradigm shift from people as inputs to people as people. All of the outcomes associated with SPORT - trust, vulnerability, accountability, transparency, ownership - have the potential to change completely the way we think about organizations and our relationship to them.

In this episode, Bryan and Mary Claire talk about how to make sure that the process you introduce into the organization turns into culture, the force that drives long-term peak performance.

In this episode we dive into how leaders can bring sub performing teams and team members up to the level of their highest performing teams and team members.

Accountability. We all say it. Few if any actually do it. Watch this video to have a complete paradigm shifting experience about accountability. Learn how to create a process of multi-dimensional and multi-directional accountability based on every team member's ownership of their space.

SOPs are the foundation of great execution. But they are also intellectual property that an organization can use to create strong competitive advantage and differentiation.

In this episode we talk about how to create an intentional process of personal development and continuous improvement. We focus especially on how to create a system of practice that allows people to reach their highest potential.

This episode reveals the four steps to create great strategy. Great strategy is both designed and discovered. How does strategy feedback on goal creation and why is a strategic alignment the most important thing to get right first? Learn more here.

In this episode we explore exactly how to create and implement strategic alignment. The secrets to creating alignment are not well understood and made clear in this discussion.

People think SOPs are passe. But they actually contain the secret to performance. NO sustainable change happens without process. Period. In this episode we talk about how to implement process for change.

Leaders are constantly teaching. There is never a time that the leaders is not communicating cultural priorities. Learn how leaders unintentionally create both toxic and virtuous cultures simply by the way they engage their people to execute.