Entries by Nathan Ives

Honoring Our Fallen Patriots

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Freedom demands sacrifice. Throughout our history, brave men and women served to secure for us the blessings of liberty; many giving the last full measure of their devotion.   We are grateful for the ongoing support our friends, colleagues, business partners, clients, and LinkedIn community members provide our active duty service members, veterans, and their […]

Style Sheets

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A performance measure’s value evolves from its ability to instigate and/or influence action. To do this, the measure must accurately reflect materially important performance parameters and present that information in a timely, readily understandable manner. It is to this later characteristic that performance metric style sheets are critically important.

The Problem With Information

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Information, when used to influence or sell, advise or share, has cost us untold loss in business and relationships. It actually causes resistance. Information Causes Resistance For some reason, we maintain a long-standing belief that if we offer the right people the right information at the right time, presented in the right way, those it’s […]

Management Observation Program Best Practice 17 – Paired Observations

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Managers translate leadership’s vision into the day-to-day actions of the workforce. They do this through their decisions, published standards, and operational procedures. They reinforce desired behaviors through organizational performance measures and management observations. But how do executives ensure their manager and supervisor direct reports understand and properly translate and reinforce their vision with the workforce? One method of doing so is through the conduct of paired observations.