How can we show we hit the monthly targets!

Phil

DiamondNine was formed in 2011 by Phil Badley after a successful career working as a senior director in the corporate sector. He has a strong track record of working with individuals and teams from the front line to board room in public and private sector businesses and now works with a team of skilled associates helping businesses to achieve their goals. Phil is described by clients as highly approachable, engaging and easily builds rapport and trust. His focus is always upon helping people to be at their best more of the time. He is curious, open, honest, and challenging in his style and is passionate about supporting leaders to develop values-driven organisations.

How can we show we hit the monthly targets!

The Blame Frame

I was commuting on a train recently and found myself listening to the conversations going on around me in the carriage. My fellow commuters were all business people, all absorbed in their latest panic. Papers spread across their laps, or on tables; laptops open with phones pinned to their ears. Nothing new in that I hear you saying! it’s the blame frame.

What drew me into their conversations was the tone of their voices and the rhythm of their conversations.

They were all involved in a game- the pass the buck or the blame game. The comments I jotted down sounded like this-

“What can you remember about Jane’s behaviour in our last meeting, she is complaining about George and I need to silence her before the next meeting?”

“What did Alan say about the marketing plan for next month? I am not happy with the impact on our numbers, it’s going to make us look bad at the performance meeting.”

“There is a problem with the order and shipment. How can we make it look ok? Michael is on my back. I need a favour from you on this one. You owe me”.

“The budget forecast that was agreed upon last month has been changed. They are asking me for another 10% by tomorrow night I need to find a way of shunting cost over to Region B without them knowing what options do we have?”

“I have worked 70 hours over the last week, and I only get paid for 35. No one seems to care. I am just a cog in a machine, I don’t know how much longer I can keep this up: no one is listening to me”.

Sound all too familiar

How many of these sound familiar to you?

It was hard to tell just from listening what level of seniority these individuals had in their organisations, but they all obviously have some form of leadership accountability. The thing that seemed stark to me was the level of discontentment that each felt at that moment. And yet to most, if not all, it probably did not even register in their mind’s eye, tolerated as part of everyday life – the price you pay as part of organisational life. Life does not have to be this way!

A Better Way

We help business leaders to align their own values and behaviours to grow successful high performing businesses.

We help individuals and teams to purposefully reflect upon their current challenges, identify practical and pragmatic ways of getting balance back into the demands upon your life, and deliver positive results in life and work.

Our one to one support will help you to cut through to the nub of your personal, and organisational challenges and help you to facilitate a way forward that will give you:

Clarity around the key business issues that you are facing and a clear plan to tackle them.
New capabilities, and capacity to meet future challenges.
Greater personal job satisfaction.
Strategies to deal more effectively with difficult people or situations in your working life.