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Decide! The One Common Denominator of All Great Leaders by Gino Wickman 11 great and effcient decisions. “He took the process seriously and, after a week, came back to us with two typed pages explaining his goals, Once the partners of MKD, a fnancial planning frm, were ambitions, desires, and wants. The letter led to further clear on how they wanted to go forward to the next level, dialogue with the employee as well as the partners. We they realized they had a decision to make about one of mutually agreed upon a ‘growth track’ for the employee their people. As one of the partners, Mike Komara, puts that included additional education, earning a professional it, “The partners of our frm had serious discussions about designation, and higher standards of performance on a fring an employee who works in a key position. The daily basis. If he achieved those goals, we would gradually employee’s performance was mediocre. The employee had increase his responsibility in the areas he said he wanted to the capacity, but didn’t ‘get it,’ and we weren’t sure if he pursue and spend the majority of his time. ‘wanted it.’ After an initial discussion among the partners, two favored dismissal and one favored retention. “Within ffteen months, the employee did take the initiative to receive additional education. He did pass an extensive “As a result, we decided to engage the employee in a exam leading to a prestigious professional designation process of discovery. We asked him, ‘If we were sitting here in our industry. He has brought a higher level of passion one year from today, and you were to look back over that and creativity to his work and has become a very valuable year, back to today, what kinds of things would need to member of our team—so much so, that it’s hard to imagine occur here in order for you to feel happy about your work?’ our organization without him. He has expressed to us that We asked him to write out his response to that question he derives a greater sense of satisfaction from his work along with his thoughts on what part of the business he now. The quality of his work is evidence of that. Without enjoys the most, the role he could see himself growing into, clarifying where we wanted to go as an organization, etc. we may have never had the awareness and the original conversation with him.” www.eosworldwide.com