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You can't give your team clarity you don't have

Published 18 days ago • 1 min read

Hi Reader,

You know I love to share great resources when I find them — and Jim Brenner has one that is worth a few minutes of your time.

If you've been around here for any length of time, you know my position: most people problems aren't about people. They're about missing structure. It's why we always diagnose before we prescribe, and why the CALG Blueprint starts with clarity instead of assuming your people just need to try harder.

Jim takes that same structural approach, but he applies it to the leader, not the team. He works with business owners and leaders on what he calls your personal operating system: how you structure your time, make decisions, and set priorities. The things that either make you effective or quietly work against you.
You can't consistently build clarity for your team if you don't have clarity in your own structure first. Many of the gaps we uncover in the Leadership Gap Scorecard — unclear expectations, misaligned people, avoided conversations — start upstream, with the leader.

Jim created a free diagnostic called the System Score that shows you exactly where your personal operating system is breaking down. It takes about five minutes, and you get a scored result right away.

If you've ever felt like you're giving your team everything you have and still not getting traction, this is worth your time.
Take Jim's Free System Score →

Free • About 5 minutes • Scored results right away

To your leadership,

Sharon Justice

sharon@justiceleadership.com

108 Avon Lane, Greenville, NC 27858
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Sharon Justice

Stop dreading the hard stuff. Turn people challenges into business results. People Strategist helping founders & managers transfer ownership so teams execute. Creator: CALG Leadership Blueprint: Clarify Align. Lead. Grow

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