Work forgets between moments of attention.
Leadership asks for a progress report. You know the team is working hard. You can’t word the update in a way that leadership will understand.
A decision the team made three weeks ago is back on the table. The reasoning didn’t survive two weeks away.
A strong contributor transitioned out. The person who replaced her spent weeks rebuilding what the team already knew.
What work loses between conversations. 52 seconds.
For teams already doing real work, anything added must cost less than the problem it replaces.
Where do you start?
I want to see if this might help my team.
I want to start with my own work.
Something is off, and I can’t locate it.
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About Amy Kennedy
Amy Kennedy has spent 25 years leading remote and nationally distributed teams, long before hybrid became a management challenge to be solved. She learned, through real work and real consequences, what it takes to keep decisions from unraveling, progress from resetting, and capable people from losing faith that the work is going anywhere.
She works with individuals whose strong work isn’t reaching the people who need to see it, with team leaders whose capable teams keep stalling before meaningful completion, and with organizational leaders trying to build coherent performance and culture across distance and change. In every engagement, the goal is the same: move from competence that goes unnoticed to contribution that is seen, trusted, and built upon.
If that describes where you are, there is likely a path forward that costs less than what you are currently absorbing.
– Ron Fauquher, cofounder of Ontario Systems, worked with Amy for nearly 30 years.
Frequently executive leaders possess wisdom. And sometimes they just simply know how to coach and pull wisdom out of their colleagues by leading with the appropriate question. Amy Kennedy is one of those unusual individuals that can do both.”