A powerful purpose has the ability to unite your team and transform your organisation
Purpose is the essential ingredient to get your employees excited, ambitious and passionate about achieving their goals. Foster a sense of purpose in your team and discover its potential to inspire both staff and customers.
Leading on Purpose will give you the structure and know-how to:
• Create a culture of trust and belonging
• Weave innovation and possibility into your organisation’s DNA
• Blaze trails to untapped market potential
• Harness the power of having fun at work
• Achieve a dream and not just a number
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Mindset
Purpose
Unleashing the power of teams
Organisations on a journey
About me
Summary
1 Why Purpose?
Employee engagement
Purpose keeps you honest
Reputation
Business is always grey
Time to decide
The courage to follow through
Inspirational leadership
2 Possibilities
Look for opportunities
Logic versus emotion
Stay motivated
Make your own luck
Summary
3 Trust
The Trust Equation
The impact of trust
Build trust through your organisation
Summary
4 What Business Are You In?
Stand out from the pack
Do you know the business you’re in?
Summary
5 Build Your Purpose
Building a purpose statement
Get senior leaders involved
Run a workshop
Differentiate from competitors
Expanding the purpose statement
The power of trust and purpose
Summary
6 “DUMB” Goals Kill “SMART” Goals
Anatomy of the DUMB goal
Summary
7 Building Teams
The Drexler/Sibbet Team Performance Model®
Summary
8 Unleashing The Power Of Teams
New team additions
Stick with one model
Get senior leader buy-in
Be confident
Manage momentum
Get comfortable with ambiguity
Create a leadership forum
Team definition
Summary
9 The Power Of A Journey
Leading change successfully
The problem with change management
The benefits of change
Summary
10 Measuring Success
Communicating KPIs
Identify necessary changes
Launching the purpose
Measuring team performance
Summary
Conclusion
Step 1: Plan
Step 2: Collaborate
Step 3: Workshop
Step 4: Audit
Step 5: Compliance
Appendix: Build A Team Workshop
Step 1: Trust building
Step 2: Purpose
Step 3: DUMB goal
Acknowledgements
The Author