Do you have a New Supervisor Playbook?
Do you have a new supervisor playbook that you use when you promote or hire for supervisory positions? Are you finding that you make assumptions of how people will be with each other and then it doesn’t go as you expected? Do you find you have to spell out a lot more about people’s communication […]
Accountable=uncomfortable
Do you find that holding people accountable makes you uncomfortable? Oh, you start out fired up to hold people to their commitments. You ask clearly. You get them to restate the request. You set a date and time for completion…..and then they don’t come through. Wait, you did everything you were supposed to do, now […]
Reevaluating Priorities
How often do you throw all your cards up in the air and re-sort them in a new order? I’m going through that right now. Due to a much increased work load (all good) I’m rethinking where I put my time and attention. Obligations, burdens, previously fun stuff, the “of course I’ll do that” responses, […]
Deep Work
How much time do you spend each week on deep work – the most important projects you must complete to stand out in your position? For many of us, we have trouble getting even an hour. But, when you do make progress on a significant accomplishment, don’t you feel great?
Resolutions or Habits?
As we close 2017, I’ve been readings all the sage advice about New Years’ Resolution Making. I’m wondering if it should be resolutions or habits?
Just make a decision
While I was speaking with an executive this week, he complained that his team regularly asks him to make decisions for them. He doesn’t want to do that. He has a process. He asks them to: name the three best alternatives they have considered. explain their thinking. tell him which one they think is the […]
Applying business planning to personal goal planning
Frustrated with my lack of progress in losing the weight I’ve gained over the last 3 years, I decided I had to apply business planning to personal goal planning. And, I had to make it a game that I wanted to win. That would require a longed-for goal, a reward for achieving it, regular measurement, […]
You know it, so why don’t you do it? Part 2
Brilliant idea it was to address the question “you know it, so why don’t you do it?”. Then it occurred to me that I had written on this before. Sure enough. I had. And, I liked that post. And, I needed to go further.
How do you choose between the company and the relationship?
Don’t tell me you’ve never had to choose between what is best for the company and a family member, a business partner or a friend in the organization. Excruciatingly difficult, isn’t it?
Are you executing flawlessly?
Sitting in the airport in Frankfort waiting for the plane to Dubrovnik, I was thinking about all the steps that must be executed flawlessly for me to safely board the plane and arrive, without incident, in Croatia.