301: Raising the Bar

The Ron Kitchens Always Forward Leadership Podcast

Achieving and sustaining greatness is difficult to do if you don’t have the right standards and benchmarks. Greatness shows up in our lives when we push to go further than we thought was possible. In today’s episode, we’ll discuss setting standards and benchmarks that keep you reaching higher and pushing further.

In Today's Episode:

1. As a leader, how do you know when you’ve reached a plateau and moved from “sustaining greatness” to “maintaining the status quo?”
2. How do leaders assess and decide what standards and benchmarks they should be aiming for–personally or in their organizations?
3. How do leaders discern when the standards and benchmarks they’ve used previously are now set TOO LOW?
4. How do leaders resist the urge to “settle” for external standards when they know that their own potential and talent demands higher standards?
5. What are the dangers of leaders setting standards and benchmarks that are unrealistically high for themselves or their teams? How do we avoid doing this?
6. How do leaders effectively keep a “pulse” on where they are personally or with their teams when it comes to meeting their standards and benchmarks?