The Next Level

by Nancy Vepraskas  - August 17, 2021

It’s time to make the critical shift from leading the business by yourself to leading an organization of people. At P2Excellence, we help you navigate the uncharted territories of organizational growth with clarity and confidence.

At P2Excellence, we want you thinking all the time about taking your business, your company, and your career to the next level. We believe you and your organization have important contributions to make. We believe those contributions start with individual effort and then move to a team effort, and then a company effort. The by products are more impactful employees, better served customers, and ultimately stronger communities. We created the Professional Growth Wheel to help you holistically strengthen the offering you bring to your team and to your organization.

In my article with Anne Warren below, we deliver the last in our series on the Professional Growth Wheel, focusing on Relationship Development.

In the realm of Team-building, Patrick Lencioni is quoted as saying, “Remember, teamwork begins with building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability.” An easy way to strengthen work relationships is to ask for help. Asking shows vulnerability, it gives trust before it expects trust, and working together provides a time to simply talk together. Of course, we’d love to share our team training with you: The Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team. And we’d recommend Lencioni’s book The Advantage. Consider reaching out today and asking for help in a way that encourages strength in work relationships. Want help? Reach out to Shawn Devine.

Lisa Moore shares some insight on helping your employees continue to cope with the pandemic’s uncertainties.

Lastly, a few words on the value of good coaching. Coaching provides leaders with the opportunity to grow their skills and their confidence. We offer a variety of Coaching programs that focus on senior and emerging leaders. We also work with HR to resolve issues with employees at risk. If you believe that coaching will strengthen employee productivity, improve collaboration, and develop a learning culture, I’d love to speak with you. You can reach me at nvepraskas@p2excellence.com.

In closing. . .

I would like to leave you with this interesting poem (just an excerpt) by Amanda Gorman:

The Miracle of the Morning

“We’ll observe how the burdens brave by humankind / Are also the moments that make us humans kind / Let every dawn find us courageous, brought closer/ Heeding the light before the fight is over. / When this ends, we’ll smile sweetly, finally seeing / In testing times, we became the best of beings.”

As always, if we can be of service, please don’t hesitate to contact us. I will remind you again that the work you do everyday matters. If we can help you get better at it, we are ready to do so and honored by that. You can learn more about our services though the links above.

We love your feedback. Reach out anytime, and don’t forget to de-stress this month and every month!

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Nancy Vepraskas

Nancy Vepraskas is a recognized expert in leadership performance, employee engagement, and culture building. Specializing in the people side of business, Nancy guides leaders in activating change, optimizing talent, and improving processes and strategies to achieve business goals. The results include happier, more motivated employees; heightened customer commitment; and improved bottom-line performance.

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