"Wahh…. wah wah wah wah wah waaaaaaaah...
Oh won’t you…. Show me the way...I want you to show me the way!"
Remember that weird mouth guitar thing Peter Frampton did on that song?
I have Peter Frampton on my mind as I’ve reflected on Q1, our meetings and the Community day filled with great leadership material from GiANT. That’s really what we’re trying to do with peer groups and our efforts – show you the way. By talking to peers who have been there and done that. By bringing GiANT to community day to help with leading yourself and others. By ConnectWise acquiring Service Leadership and their methods of identifying high performers and then determining what they do so we can “show you the way.”
Our mission is to help you achieve your definition of success and it’s such an honor to do that. One of the lessons I’ve learned late in my career (yes, I am on the back nine of my life) is the importance of vocabulary and language. A lot of the leadership and management lessons, books, methodologies are not new. In fact, most of them are rehashes of content that, having been around for a long time, are just reframed using new terms. I used to think it didn’t matter because we know the concepts, but recently I’ve come to realize that in a business a lot of employees don’t know those things. They are new to them. So, a consistency in language and terms really matters. The important thing is to pick a framework/language/method and stick with it. This ensures the language becomes engrained in your conversations and everyone in your company is talking about the same things. One of the benefits we’re hoping you can get from the GiANT engagement this year is to have your entire leadership teams go through the content, begin to adopt the language and become more productive as a team.
Andre and I have already starting using the Support, Challenge language as we talk about how we’re leading our teams. It’s very helpful. If you missed Q1 in NA or APAC the recordings are up and available. EMEA it’s your turn next week – get your people signed up to attend.
A couple of reminders for you this week.
- S-LI’s quarterly newsletter came out this week. Connie has it posted to the HUB. It’s about a couple new entries in the report book and how to get yourself in the upper right quadrant.
- S-LI will be doing a quarterly webinar on March 11th where they will be talking about Key Analysis from their annual Solution Provider industry Profitability Report which you get as a member of Evolve. Register here.
- Arlin and I will be talking through the quarterly patterns and Trends we’re seeing at Q1 on March 25th and also setting up Q2’s conversation around Legacy. Register Here.
I’m going to leave you with another C-Level interview we did at the end of 2020. This one is Arlin talking with Ryan Walsh and Nick Heddy from Pax8.
Thanks for being a part of Evolve. Stay healthy and lead strong!
-Brad