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Trick or Treat! We're having some fun here at TWE.  Here is a very real issue to share and discuss with your staff and colleagues. 

Everyday, from now until Halloween, I'm going to upload one of these performance moments for you to share.  I'd like to challenge you to start a conversation on this issue and gauge how you're team is doing.  (Share any insights in the comments!)

I hope you have some serious-fun with these.

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Best,
​Tim

Here's a couple of ways you can use TWE graphics:

• Share over social media to make a statement to your peers.
• Use to kick off a meeting as a quick performance moment.
• Stimulate a conversation with a team that needs a shake-up.
• Use it as a cool tattoo.

However you choose to use it, we hope it's helpful.

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Best,
Tim

Over the years, there have been a few tools that I have worked with that have proved invaluable. I tend to go back to these "golden" tools again, and again, and again. When I share these tools with clients, they find them useful, and I look like a hero.
 
This is one of those tools.
 
The Periodic Table of Visualization Methods, designed by Ralph Lengler & Martin J. Eppler at the Institute of Corporate Communication, University of Lugano, Switzerland, classifies visualization methods so those trying to tell a story graphically choose a framework to display your data.

​I am constantly surprised that despite being around for over ten years now, how many people have not heard of it. I shared it again this morning, and I figure it's high-time I do my part to spread the word.  I have no affiliation with the Visual Literacy Project, but I am a fan. It has helped me professionally, I hope it helps you.
 
The Periodic Table of Visualization helps you decide on an ideal graphic based on their subject, goal, and the needs of the audience:

The stats say if your performance doesn’t suck today, it likely will tomorrow.
In the middle of a downturn, it's easy to blame the economic environment for our performance woes... and it's easier than you might think to unwittingly encourage a culture of complacency.
Here are a few of points to consider.

• In 2013 over 40% of businesses indicated complacency over performance was an issue and this percentage is rising.
• In 2014, Engagement is rising among the lowest performers.
• Meanwhile, Engagement is falling among the best and brightest.

When engagement is high, and performance remains low – complacency has set in.  When people have drank this Kool-Aid, it becomes increasingly difficult for even the best leaders to bring positive change.

Only by maintaining a factual perspective can everyone see there is a problem. Teams must set meaningful targets and make those intensely personal for each person.
In a Yoda-esque statement, former CEO, and chairman of the board of Intel Corporation, Andy Grove said, “Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.”  Leaders must remain ever vigilant.

Complacency is the result of inaction by leadership; and inaction is a choice

Low performers are complacent because they are allowed to perceive they are succeeding at something. I consistently come across performance issues which are rooted in leadership not holding everyone to a “standard of success” based on the creation of real value.
The good news... it can be prevented, and it can be reversed.