Selection of Leaders

Selection of leaders using complexity thinking, motivation, and development of current into future skills.

Trust and Accountability within Teams Workshop Notes

Team Building and Leadership notes and slides from a kick-off meeting with a management team. Focus on increasing Trust (within departments and between departments); Accountability (determining where accountability belongs and creating a culture of that is accountable); Working within the Matrix (using the teams existing knowledge and know-how to improve their existing work and to offer input to the Management team on how to improve their work)

5 Steps to a better employee appraisal process

Changing the appraisal / evaluation period from once yearly to monthly allows you as the manager and the employee to work in shorter time, adjust and move together towards shared work goals. This way either one of you can adjust and improve your performance in a time-span that allows for improvement and feedback.

NOISE Analysis: An Alternative to SWOT

The NOISE analysis is an alternative to SWOT. NOISE is a planning technique of looking at what is working and determining areas to improve.

Delegation Myths Managers Hold

When you work through your delegation myths you can increase discretionary time to actually manage.
Reframing the perception–belief cycle to one of staff development through delegation, offering greater value through your complexity management and skilled-knowledge leading to more great work being done.

Photo Inquiry Friday What is your destination?

“…complaints are sort of like subway tokens. That is, they get the person through the gate but that does not determine which train he or she will take, nor does it determine which stop he or she will use to get off. Where the person wants to go is not predetermined by where they start out.”

Delegation Setting the foundation of what is expected

When you have set the foundation and are sure that the delegation is appropriate and you are able to see how this delegation assignment is meant to increase your managerial-leadership leverage AND develop the employee WHILE freeing up time for the discretionary areas of judgment…then the solution to effective delegation happens.