Momentum Accelerator

Extending your process for ongoing integration and sustainability

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The resources outlined here can be used for small groups or individual study as you complete the agendas provided for your sustainability process, but you still want to grow your leadership capability. Check out these additional resources to get started:

  • Tips for forming Momentum Accelerator Teams for ongoing sustainability

Agenda

Learning and transformation is assured when leaders commit to, and actively engage in, an ongoing integration and sustainability process (something you’ve already learned over the past few months). This guide is one option that can be facilitated in conjunction with materials below.

Select one or more of the resources listed for the week and answer these questions:

  1. What is the most important message we can gain from these resources in regard to the agenda topic?
  2. Regarding the topic, what evidence do we have that we are effective or moving forward in this area?
  3. What plan can we create to ensure we make progress here? And how will we ensure accountability?
  4. How will each of us apply the concepts from these resources?
  5. How does this support each of us in being a Best Ever leader?

Download a printable agenda here

How to Create Better Results:

Best Ever Principle

Relevant Videos

The Best Ever Principle (4:37)
What if you had a principle to guide every interaction of every day
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UilUI_Fw8gc

How Talent, Culture and Leadership Impact Best Ever Performance (3:40)
Real client leaders share the truth about what’s created massive results for their organization: realizing the potential of talent; creating a culture of “all-in” partnerships; inspired leadership and recognizing the value of a leaders’ personal life.
http://youtu.be/aAG3QvOMJvM

Relevant Books & Articles

Degrees of Strength (pages 16-17)

Degrees of Strength (page 69)

How to Develop Great Teams:

Performance Spectrum

Relevant Videos

Going Beyond Engagement (2:22)
What if the traditional barometer of engagement is selling organizations short? We can go beyond engagement to ensure best ever performance, ‘all-in’ early and inspired talent and it’s not about someone else creating the circumstances to create our personal fulfillment.
http://youtu.be/BZEftuyMrpk

Engagement vs. Fulfillment: Which Leads to More Value for Shareholders? (2:30)
Does more engagement deliver profit? Craig Ross shares more how showing up inspired and fulfilled at work might actually deliver more value for the shareholder.
http://youtu.be/A8DZm9CEvJA

Relevant Books & Articles

How to Engage Your Customers and Employees
By R “Ray” Wang, HBR.org blog

How to Ask Rather Than Tell:

Questions Trigger the Mind – Forward Focus Questions, Neutral Questions, Backward Focus Questions

Relevant Videos

How to Create Engaging Meetings (that everyone wants to come to) (2:59)
Are you enthusiastic when you see meetings on your calendar? Meetings have become an essential part of our work, so how can we make them more engaging? Craig Ross shares three tips for creating engaging meetings that will transform your meetings. http://youtu.be/kahDhAnQLm4

How To Do More with Less (2:53)
“How to do more with less” is becoming passé. With organizations looking for everyone to deliver at a higher level, what’s necessary? The ability to live and lead ourselves, building people, partnerships and performance.
http://youtu.be/2qfzZDHdpBM

Relevant Books & Articles

How to Engage Your Customers and Employees
By R “Ray” Wang, HBR.org blog

How to Align Quickly

Message Element of the High Performance Strategy (Say What’s Important, Say Why) and Ask a Question

Relevant Videos

The Healthier Approach to “Reverse” Delegation (3:25)
Craig Ross, Verus Global CEO, describes how to handle the situation when you’re already overwhelmed with work and there’s more headed your way.
http://youtu.be/coM-zdKrOio

Giving Feedback That’s Not Manipulative (2:55)
In our quest to create an engaged workforce, we give real-time feedback that sometimes feels like manipulation. Sharing the appropriate messages at the right time allows you to deliver essential messages while building engagement.
http://youtu.be/ZvmsLs3ZSaQ

How to Say “No” to Unacceptable Behavior (4:07)
Craig Ross, Verus Global CEO, addresses the most effective way to say no to unacceptable behavior, using the 4 Keys to Saying No.
http://youtu.be/w4c-PMwwfY0

Relevant Books & Articles

Stomp the Elephant in the Office (pages 92-93)

How to Leverage Talent:

Doofus Principle

Relevant Videos

Developing Great Talent – Even When the Honeymoon Is Over (3:27)
Craig Ross, CEO of Verus Global shares what happens when you focus on degrees of weakness to attempt to develop talent in your organization vs. developing great talent by using the Degrees of Strength technique.
http://youtu.be/Ya3S_bITy8w

Performance Reviews (2:03)
Performance Reviews happen in every interaction of everyday. Do leaders in your organization have a picture of what success looks like for them? How will you co-discover the best path forward?
http://youtu.be/qEiuIMJBCZI

Never, Ever Give Up.
Arthur Boorman was a disabled veteran of the Gulf War for 15 years, and was told by his doctors that he would never be able to walk on his own, ever again.
http://youtu.be/qX9FSZJu448

Relevant Books & Articles

Life Lessons from a Disabled Vet: Never, Ever Give Up
By Dr. Frank Lipman, PositivelyPositive.com

Smart People Don’t Think Others are Stupid
By Derek Sivers, Sivers.org

How to Strengthen Culture:

Culture Eats Strategy for Lunch

Relevant Videos

The Smell of the Place (8:14)
Thoughts from the late Dr. Sumantra Ghoshal that inspired us. How do we help more organizations feel like the Fontainebleu?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUddgE8rI0E

Leveraging Culture with Your Team (2:43)
When taking your team to the next level (or adding new team members), it’s important to align culture: How do we handle tough issues? How do we make decisions? What are your norms? How will they support your organization as you add new team members?
http://youtu.be/jzBHBDWtV74

Culture Eats Strategy for Lunch (5:42)
Verus Global CEO, Craig Ross on the importance of culture’s role in an organization’s results. How much of the time are we aware of culture? How often do we effectively develop the capability to enhance culture? What’s the impact of culture on every day interactions? What do you call it?
http://youtu.be/KPJInCWd6Nw

Relevant Books & Articles

Stomp the Elephant in the Office (pages 25-28)

How to Build Greater Personal Awareness:

Mind/Body Connection

Relevant Videos

First Follower: Leadership Lessons from a Dancing Guy (2:58)
Derek Sivers shares thoughts on what creates a movement, illustrated amazingly by a single dancing guy.
http://youtu.be/fW8amMCVAJQ

Amy Cuddy: Your Body Language Shapes Who You Are (21:03)
Body language affects how others see us, but it may also change how we see ourselves. Social psychologist Amy Cuddy shows how “power posing” — standing in a posture of confidence, even when we don’t feel confident — can affect testosterone and cortisol levels in the brain, and might even have an impact on our chances for success.
http://www.ted.com/talks/amy_cuddy_your_body_language_shapes_who_you_are.html

A Conductor’s Vision of Leadership (21:47)
Making a parallel comparison between the director of an orchestra and a business leader, Alondra de la Parra explains the universal role of leaders, how to get the most out of your teams, and emphasizes the keys to achieving the best collective results: http://www.wobi.com/spotlight-alondra-de-la-parra?utm_source=Newsletter_US&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Agosto-US-13&jujrtyghfud245475a83887a8a143a270

NOTE: The clip is Spanish, but at the bottom of the video, you can select “English” to turn on the subtitles in English.

Bring Me Sunshine
Music video
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=oXvJ8UquYoo&vq=large

Relevant Books & Articles

The Zen of Work
by Leo Babauta, ZenHabits.net

How to Effectively Change Direction:

3 Mind Factors

Relevant Videos

Focusing on Greatness: What Degrees of Strength Isn’t and Is – Part 3 (1:16)
Verus Global CEO, Craig Ross, asks: Why would we focus on attributes like fear and jealousy that aren’t virtuous, when we can focus on greatness?
http://youtu.be/5u-joC2XXbo

Don’t Go Toward the Trees (2:16)
Angie Paccione, Master Facilitator at Verus Global shares how in skiing, as well as work and home, you can either focus on the path or the trees.
http://youtu.be/J3UGF-5L5z8

Relevant Books & Articles

Stomp the Elephant in the Office (pages 137-130%)

Degrees of Strength (p. 25-27)

How to Handle Tough Issues:

Energy Map

Relevant Videos

Leveraging Culture with Your Team (2:43)
When taking your team to the next level (or adding new team members), it’s important to align culture: How do we handle tough issues? How do we make decisions? What are your norms? How will they support your organization as you add new team members?
http://youtu.be/jzBHBDWtV74

Relevant Books & Articles

Stomp the Elephant in the Office (pages 223-226)

How to Inspire Yourself and Others:

Big R

Relevant Videos

Big R: Gary’s Story (1:43)
Angie Paccione, Verus Global Master Facilitator shares the story of one participant whose confidence changed dramatically when he began to focus on his Big R.
http://youtu.be/2JAU6XgniXU

Be the Hero of Your Own Life (1:24)
Many of us look outside of ourselves for our heroes, our inspiration. Philip McCluskey asks what does it look like to look inwards… and discover the hero that’s been there all along.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MpzruRb_UY&feature=relmfu

How to Move Things Forward Quickly:

Accelerator Mindset

Relevant Videos

Are you an Accelerator? (1:30)
Accelerators get those around them to the point of realized potential faster. But, what is an Accelerator and why would you want to call yourself one?
http://youtu.be/D2cowXQ3GQc

Relevant Books & Articles

Degrees of Strength (pages 90, 107-110)

Degrees of Strength: Team Acceleration Guide (pages 3-7)

How to Get Things Done:

Accountability Mindset

Relevant Videos

The Healthier Approach to “Reverse” Delegation (3:25)
Craig Ross, Verus Global CEO, describes how to handle the situation when you’re already overwhelmed with work and there’s more headed your way.
http://youtu.be/coM-zdKrOio

On Accountability, from the film Bruce Almighty (3:30)
What happens when you get an even bigger job?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjAM2J_D4UY&feature=share&list=PLCB865F5ABE15E4C6

Relevant Books & Articles

Degrees of Strength (pages 3-4, 77, 92)

Degrees of Strength: Team Acceleration Guide (pages15-17)

How to Live at a Higher Level:

Capability Mindset

Relevant Videos

Making it Safe to Take Risks (2:52)
Verus Global CEO, Craig Ross shares three tips for making it safer for employees, coworkers and teams to take effective risks.
http://youtu.be/1PhMf8HWWMg

Communicating Better: What Degrees of Strength Isn’t and Is – Part 2 (1:28)
Verus Global CEO, Craig Ross, describes how using the cheerleader approach vs. leveraging Degrees of Strength to communicate better.
http://youtu.be/frnHH3DNhxc

Focusing on Greatness: What Degrees of Strength Isn’t and Is – Part 3 (1:16)
Verus Global CEO, Craig Ross, asks: Why would we focus on attributes like fear and jealousy that aren’t virtuous, when we can focus on greatness?
http://youtu.be/5u-joC2XXbo

Relevant Books & Articles

From Capability to Profitability: Realizing the Value of People Management (BCG) – Jul 2012

Degrees of Strength (page 11)

Degrees of Strength: Team Acceleration Guide (pages 8-9)

How to Equip Your Team for Success:

Performance Mindset

Relevant Videos

Tough Conversations: What Degrees of Strength Isn’t and Is – Part 1 (2:31)
Verus Global CEO, Craig Ross, describes how to leverage Degrees of Strength for tough conversations – including performance reviews.
http://youtu.be/T58cvw6QjKw

Paul Solomon from Kellogg’s (3:30)
People Want to Be Great, Can’t Afford Not To, Best Ever Culture = Better Performance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UXBeLjcElY

Relevant Books & Articles

Degrees of Strength (pages 17, 62, 30%)

Degrees of Strength:
Team Acceleration Guide (pages 10-12)

How to Lead Changes:

Agility Mindset

Relevant Videos

Dog Show Crufts 2009: Large Agility Winner (0:56)
This agility competition for dogs shows how we might feel creating agility in the workplace.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEstWoxB22M

Relevant Books & Articles

Degrees of Strength (pages 89-91)

Degrees of Strength: Team Acceleration Guide (pages 13-14)