Excellence Matters. Presentation for Ecsell Summit, April 2014

1. Bret L. Simmons, Ph.D.
Ecsell Summit
April 15, 2014
Excellence
Matters

2. Excellence matters via @drbret at @EcSellInstitute
coaching summit #ecsell

3. www.bretlsimmons.com
http://www.slideshare.net/BretLSimmons

4. In the next 90 minutes
• Excellence exercise
• Behaviors you should scale
• Scaling principles
• Leadership suggestion
• Commitment

5. Individual
Excellence:
1. What is it?
2. How do you get
it?

6. Organizational
Excellence:
1. What is it?
2. How do you get
it?

7. Make Excellence the New Normal

12. Reciprocity Style
Taker, Matcher, or Giver

13. Takers view success as attaining
results that are superior to others

14. Matchers see success in terms of balancing
individual accomplishments with fairness to
others

15. Givers characterize success as
individual achievements that have a
positive impact on others

17. How you give determines if
you will achieve long term
success or languish at the
bottom

18. Concern for Other’s
Interests
LOW HIGH
Concern
for
Self-
Interest
LOW Apathetic Selfless:
Self-
sacrificing
givers
HIGH Selfish:
Takers
Otherish:
Successful
Givers

19. Relationships
Motivation
Learning

22. Ground war, not an air
war

23. I own the place, and the
place owns me

24. Accountability
• Two principles
– Always starts with you:
performance, caring, expectations, encourage
and enable others
– When you look at others, look for solutions rather
than blame
• Don’t look the other way when it matters

25. Bad is stronger than good

27. Nip it in the bud
• Personal responsibility
• Compassionate hardass

28. Get rid of the bad apples
Best leaders and teams act quickly and
decisively to remove destructive
characters when lesser measures fail

29. Plumbing before poetry

30. Adequacy before
excellence

32. Guilt prone leaders
• Display concern for others
• Strong sense of personal responsibility
• Put the greater good ahead of their
personal goals and glory
• Take preventive measures to avoid future
mistakes and steps to repair damage done
by past errors

33. What commitment are you
willing to make?

34. Questions?