Feeling stuck?
Looking for a Solution Finding Stimulus?
When I feel overwhelmed, lost, stuck, unsure of what to do (that happens every day)…Having a method to focus my thoughts and next steps brings me back to getting work done.
If it takes you a long time to learn the new way of thinking and doing things, you fear being punished for your lack of productivity.
We all get stuck in the explanation mode. Forgetting that progress towards meaningful goals is the driver of innovation and motivation.
As managers, we are often totally unprepared to conduct an effective interview. We interview candidates who have been coached or stayed up late the night before practicing their answers to what they think we will want to know. We often ask the wrong questions and allow our stereotypes to get in the way. Many of us end up making a decision within the first three minutes of the interview, based on misinterpretations and incomplete data, and are using ‘yesterday’s’ strategies in hiring.
The Current Method / Better Way Matrix is a team tool that can stretch peoples minds and assumptions to Enable Innovation and create a comfort level that allows for breakthrough ideas to happen.
It’s the first team-building exercise in which I’ve been involved that I actually enjoyed the activities and saw a purpose behind them.
There is a false belief that the actions and behaviors we see in the present have always happened, and that they must continue. While problems are important and must be acknowledged, the more effective focus is to determine the solution – what we want to have happen. This happens through a solution focused process of looking for exceptions and finding already existing small steps to take.
Facilitated a train-the-trainer team building and leadership development program with Stevens Institute of Technology orientation leaders.
If performance metrics are established based upon the “feeling of the manager” then you will achieve misery, anger and fear…which is mutually exclusive of engagement.
Had the joy of facilitating the professional staff from the University at Buffalo Campus Living for the 2nd year in a row!