From Diagnosis to Prescription – The Champions ECChO Report

Over the past year, SVI’s research team and technology team have worked together to create an assessment and report behind The Organizational Champions brand that is unique to all other assessments out there. This was quite a challenge since there are so many that measure anything from one’s personality traits to strengths & weaknesses to performance.
In the development of the Champions ECChO assessment and report, we operated behind five core principles:

Champions ECChO should be valuable and informative: The information needs to be relevant to the challenges that businesses and its leaders face today. The information also needs to be presented in a way that acknowledges the uniqueness of every individual. Therefore, we customized the information from the assessment according to each individual’s unique findings. Broad categories are broken down to anchors and anchors are further broken down to specific tips and recommendations.

Champions ECChO should be cost effective: After a significant amount of research and number crunching, we were able to establish the Champions ECChO as the low cost leader of validated leadership behavioral assessments. For under $20, anyone can purchase the Deluxe report that provides coaching tips, recommended action items, and trending data.

Champions ECChO should be valid and accurate: Credit Autumn Manning, SVI’s director of research. She is relentless in making sure we have thoroughly tested and validated our findings. The validation process came from thousands of surveys, hundreds of interviews, and hundreds of hours in analysis.

Champions ECChO should be clear: There should be no confusion of what is being assessed and why. ECChO is an acronym for Enlightened, Connected, Change-makers, who are Opportunity-minded, which represent the core principles behind organizational champions. Each core principle is supported by anchors that confirm the attributes of the most successful leaders, champions, in today’s economic, social, and political environment.

Champions ECChO should be applicable: So many assessments and their reports deliver a diagnosis – an analysis or opinion of what’s wrong. Few give a prescription – recommendations that can be taken to improve the diagnosis. The ECChO, not only provides the analysis, but it also gives the recommendations to improve based on your unique findings.

I’m extremely excited about the ECChO tool and the value it can bring to the Organizational Champions community because of its ability to meet these five objectives.

I invite you to take the Champions ECChO assessment at  www.championseccho.com. I’m confident you’ll find it enormously valuable to you and your development.

Onward!

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The Organizational Champion Sneak Peek #1

My new book, The Organizational Champion is set to be released on June 5th.  Prior to release, I thought I would give you, the readers of this blog, some sneak peeks into the new book.

Below is an excerpt from the Acknowledgments:

My social media friends on Facebook, Twitter, Champ’em, and The Organizational Champions blog—you have been a source of energy through this endeavor because your constant ideas and passions have helped ignite mine.

There are so many people who helped me write this book, not the least of whom is you, the Internet audience.  People who read and participate on this blog as well as people who follow me on Twitter.

I am excited for the book to be released and for the conversation to continue.  I have said before that my hope for this book is to ignite a movement, and you have an important role in that so I would be remiss to not recognize the contribution of you, the Internet audience.

Onward.

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The Organizational Champion Webcast – Ep. 04

 

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Show Notes:

We invite you to check out www.ChampEm.com.

WHY WE WORK:

• Through the Decades
• Today

SETH GODIN BIO:

• Author of 10 books on Marketing
• He has the number one most read blog about Marketing
• Pundit
• Thinker
• His job is to ask the questions and make observations that others can’t either due to their perspective or simple lack of time.
• www.sethgodin.com

TRIBES:
Our culture value system as moved toward what Marketing Guru Seth Godin calls Tribes.  Tribes are a group of people who are brought together by a common belief or idea and then moved toward a common goal.  In order for a tribe to exist, there needs to be a shared idea and a way to communicate.

WHAT IS IT THAT IS GOING TO DRIVE THE EXTRAORDINARY COMPANIES MOVING FORWARD:

• How do I adjust to such cultural shifts?

TWITTER QUESTION OF THE WEEK:
Does you workplace focus more on individual or team?

@jtnelso: ‘Our company’ truly focuses on each. But more so the individual.

@Stanleyyork: i think teams, b/c you build individuals through teamwork. rarely vice versa

guest: our workplace is all about building certain individuals

@mpaladino: Both, but would lean towards teams. Strong teams breed strong individuals. The converse of that is not always true.

Rodney: Revenue is the correct answer.

Rick: You develop people so that you have the building blocks to build a Team.  You can not sacrifice or prioritize one at the expense of the other.

Jennifer: My husband would say teams…as a high school principal he wants his staff to feel like a part of something bigger than just one classroom teacher, but I totally see Finley’s point about the church, too…

Alex: teams

Finley: individual for me…its one life at a time…that’s how we build the church

Scott: Teams

David: You build individuals with a team mindset. “Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done—because he wants to do it.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower. Individuals or members of a team matter not without leadership.

JOIN THE CONVERSATION:
podcast@organizationalchampions.com
Mike’s Twitter Address: www.twitter.com/ThompsonOC
Murray’s Twitter Adress: www.twitter.com/MurDog

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Enlightenment is the Key Differentiator of Extraordinary People

Becoming enlightened is the first step toward becoming an organizational champion because the process starts with you. Living enlightened means living true to yourself and your unique design – authentically, genuinely, consistently. Naturally living out your core propensity is necessary for personal efficiency and effectiveness. Don’t diminish the importance of personal growth and improvement, however. But realize that your best improvement will grow from your core sense of self. If you’re an introvert, you’ll likely never be a natural extrovert—but you might learn to communicate better. If you’re an academic, you might not be an artist (though these aren’t mutually exclusive)—but you might learn to think more creatively.

Those who fail to understand who they are often fail to lead naturally, always trying to fit into someone else’s leadership mold. This only leads to frustration and inefficiency. Through perspective and understanding, embrace who you are naturally—pursue growth from your core, and unleash your unique and valuable gifts.

• Discovering yourself gives you a new found significance and sense of purpose.
• Discovering yourself gives you more freedom to move through life and run wild as you’ve defined your own playing field.
• Discovering yourself gives you new energy and passion that allow you to bring your best to any situation.

The road to enlightenment begins with self-discovery. And the road to self-discovery isn’t always easy. In fact, many people find it a very difficult trek. But by accepting the difficulty—even embracing it—we discover ourselves, and through that discovery we can enlarge ourselves and our impact.

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