When you’re driving change with a team, you’ll be holding at least a few meetings. To keep people coming to your meetings, be sure to greet them as they arrive. Arrive 10 minutes earlier than you usually would. Get all your things together for the meeting. Then, as people arrive, say something to them, anything. […]
When you’re leading a team, find your passion within the team’s project or goals and make the team’s work essential to you in some way. Maybe the team’s goal (e.g., expanding housing for the homeless) is your motivation. Maybe you’re indifferent to the goal (e.g., reducing the number of file cabinets in the department storeroom),
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For the next month I’m devoting the blog to a series of posts tailored for team project leaders and the people who support them (e.g., my favorite consultants and executives out there). I think you’ll get something from these posts, whether you’re leading a team at your church, in your volunteer organization, or at work.
Cassandra, in Greek mythology, was the woman gifted with prophecy, the ability to hear or see the future. Apollo, denied her love, placed a curse upon her so no one would believe her predictions. Her tragedy was her deep understanding and her powerlessness to make it known. As you work at driving change, as you
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In Trombone Player Wanted, Marcus Buckingham says that only 17% of people questioned in a Gallup poll said they play to their strengths most of the time at work. I’m one of the people in that 17% so most days are great for me, but today was an especially wonderful day. I feel strong when
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Today I challenge you to find something in your day that you can claim as a win. Did you arrive on time to the meeting you’re always late for? Win. Did you smile at your co-worker that always has a frown on his face? Win. Did you work up the courage to tell that annoying
Often change efforts stall during the summer months. People go on vacation. The daylight is longer and people’s attention for work seems shorter. Here are four rules to beat the summer lull: Rule 1: Don’t fight it. The lull happens. It’s what you do with it that matters. You could tidy up your project files
Do what you can with what you have where you are.” – Theodore Roosevelt Stop wishing for what you don’t have. Stop waiting to be at some other place–or some other time. Do something today. Drive change!
I’m always a bit spun up after I finished a challenging book and my latest read has left me more spun up than most. I’ve just finished reading Ayn Rand’s 650+ page The Fountainhead. I include how many pages the novel has only to shorten the time between when you consider reading the book and
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Years ago I fled my cubicle. The work that was in the cubicle was never enough for me. I wanted to work on the things that were about the work before it got to me or about the work after it left, be that Theory of Constraints for work queuing or manuals for standardizing processes.
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