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Gary Harpst

Gary Harpst

Gary Harpst

Gary Harpst is a business strategist, coach, and recognized thought-leader on small business management, leadership, and strategy execution. He has authored two award-winning books on managing small businesses as well as numerous articles and columns. Gary is a successful entrepreneur, he co-founded and served as CEO of Solomon Software—now Microsoft Dynamics and founded Six Disciplines, a business coaching firm that equips leaders to engage people in shared purpose to improve performance and drive growth. Gary is also a dynamic teacher and insightful keynote speaker who challenges and motivates his audiences. He can be reached at gharpst@SixDisciplines.Com.

Want to Fully Engage Employees? Use These Proven Strategies

Nov 8, 2018 By Gary Harpst

The obvious purpose of strategic planning is to decide what you want to become. The not so obvious purpose is engaging the hearts and minds of every person in the organization to engage in the journey to get there. So what is it that engages us? We know that people have a deep desire to […]

Filed Under: Strategic Planning Tagged With: Employees, Engagement, Leadership, Planning, Strategy

Continuous Feedback Bests Annual Performance Review

Aug 7, 2018 By Gary Harpst

If you have any responsibility for managing staff in today’s organizations, you have likely experienced the dysfunction of the “once and done” performance appraisal or performance review process. It’s no longer adequate to begrudgingly conduct a performance appraisal once a year. Your employees want (and deserve) much more frequent feedback about their performance. Old school […]

Filed Under: Human Resources Tagged With: Employees, Feedback, Performance Reviews

Self-Leadership: A Prerequisite for Teamwork

Jul 13, 2018 By Gary Harpst

Building effective teams requires building self-leaders. Let’s start with teams first. Is it better for organizations to be more like a natural (wild) garden or an orchestra? One of these models is not better than the other—they reflect different purposes. A natural garden has beauty, freedom of expression, and individuality that cannot be reproduced in […]

Filed Under: People Skills Tagged With: Accountability, Character, Leadership, Team

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