International Coaching Federation, Minnesota Chapter, PRISM award<\/a>. Lance was impressed with how TCO leveraged their coaching relationship with Good Leadership to form a stronger team, articulate what’s expected from leaders to get the business to the next level, and allocate the most valuable leadership energy to the strategic work that’s shaping their future.<\/p>\nTCO won the award. And as Lance said, “It’s a big deal!” Coaching is growing in esteem within high-performing businesses – largely because the best coaches are willing to be held accountable for producing a tangible ROI from their fees. The highest award is called the PRISM award, because the award shines the light on how coaching provides business ROI through multiple lenses.<\/p>\n
Why coaching?<\/strong>
\u201cWe didn\u2019t know what we didn\u2019t know,\u201d CEO, Troy Simonson, shared with the ICF Award judges in the interview process. Here\u2019s what he meant: Over the years, he and the physician owners of TCO assembled a team of young and talented business leaders who were accelerating the growth of their enterprise. Eventually, the growth outran their ability to be effectively coordinated. They needed to really work as a team \u2013 a high performing team \u2013 to keep up with their aspirations.<\/span><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/archivegl.unlabbeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IMG_8518-300x200.jpg\")
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The ICF PRISM award recognizes business leaders for exercising the humility to seek out good coaching. And for making the changes in leadership behavior to tangibly improve the performance of the business. Here\u2019s the ROI, recognized by ICF for Twin Cities Orthopedics:
> Troy got 30% of his time back to focus on advancing growth strategies, which led to starting a new business, and market share growth
> The senior team learned how to engage themselves and others in building a compelling business plan \u2013 that allowed key managers to execute faster, with fewer mistakes from misunderstanding
> The senior leaders articulated the expectations there Be the Difference culture has for leaders at the Individual, Team, and Organizational leader levels. That clarity improved the ability to ensure the right leaders were in the right places \u2013 including some who had to go<\/p>\n
\u201cWe learned that\u2019s OK for people to push back on me as the CEO. Not all of my ideas are good ideas, and not all of my timelines are realistic. We needed more healthy tension to effectively pressure-test our goals and plans,\u201d Troy shared. \u201cThose learnings were absolutely critical to how we handled the COVID pandemic \u2013 we found a way to grow the business, while others were backing away.\u201d<\/p>\n
Clearly, the biggest joy of running our business here at Good Leadership is transferring what we learn from one client to other clients. Over the course of working with Troy at TCO, our firm has also engaged four specific coaches to help us improve our alignment, commitment, and accountability. And it\u2019s working\u2026we too, are growing in the pandemic.<\/p>\n
You can congratulate the TCO team here<\/a> on LinkedIn. We are grateful to Lance for getting our firm in the awards game.<\/p>\n[\/fusion_text][\/fusion_builder_column][\/fusion_builder_row][\/fusion_builder_container]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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Twenty-one years ago I was encouraged to write my first book (Inspire, Persuade, Lead), by David Ness, a friend and Medtronic executive. David saw my potential and introduced me to two people who changed my life for the better: Bill George and Lance Hazzard. At the time, Bill was the CEO of Medtronic who taught me about the intimate and powerful Medallion ceremony for Medtronic employees. Later in life, he wrote two fabulous books: True North, and Authentic Leadership from his perch as a professor at Harvard Business School.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/goodleadership.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Accelerating-Leadership-cover_PNG-1-200x281.png\")
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