All goals are time driven – whether we announce the time-frame or not ALL GOALS ARE TIME DRIVEN. As a Manager setting goals “What-by-When” is how you add value to those who work with you. As an employee completing goals “What-by-When” and setting goals for ourselves are what adds value to those who work with us. Determining your own & others time-span to complete a goal will make your work more fulfilling and innovative.
Every organization, team, and person wants to do amazing work the problem is that many systems within organizations do not allow people to do this. In the conversation above that I had with an executive who is in the Exponent Leadership Process, we explored the system for creating High Performance Teams.
Ensuring that those in managerial leadership are effectively exercising their responsibility to manage staff is a key accountability. Here are 4 Questions to consider about key systems and processes that all managers must ensure that every one of their subordinate managers are doing consistently and effectively. No manager is exempt from doing these things.
The main point is the particular traits have little effect upon a person’s in-role leadership work, UNLESS the traits are so far extreme or unacceptable that the person lacks control to keep from disturbing their working relationship with others.
In order to improve individual effectiveness and team processes; that result in increased productivity & people who LOVE the work they do. People MUST be properly matched to the role that fits them. This is accomplished in examining 5 areas;
Framing and determining facts that belong to the tasks being performed can be expressed through language, and that is all we can comprehend. Good or bad intent, behaviors we cannot have access to.
The line “…he lives eternally who lives in the present.” is the inquiry this week;
At the conclusion of the Exponent Coaching Relationship with Sharon:
Interviews and observations showed increased collaboration amongst the various departments and age groups of the agency. The younger staff felt heard and respected, the mature staff felt proud to share their experience and learn new techniques and ideas.
Can you answer these questions;
It is fruitless to ask “Is management or leadership more important in an organization?”, in the same sense that it is a non-question to ask whether the length and color of a stick are more important than the stick. You cannot have the thing without its properties.
Shared process and structure for leadership team to make decisions and solve problems within a time span.
Skill in active listening and communication to peers, supervisors and direct reports.
Co-creation of decision making methods for Leadership team to utilize in real-time. Leadership team will make a decision that is applicable to the organization at the time of our meeting.
Co-creation of team problem solving for Leadership team to utilize in real-time. Leadership team will solve a problem, develop an action plan & plan the step to a solution that is applicable to the organization at the time of our meeting.