Some people are great at avoiding conflict in the workplace. All you need to do is keep your mouth shut or yield to the strongest voice in the room. However you may be justifying your silence, passivity or lack of engagement, I want you to consider how damaging that behavior is for both you and your team.
When your company’s leadership team is meeting to resolve a people issue and the employee’s manager is about to talk with her or him to solve it, make sure the manager leaves the meeting with three examples of unproductive behavior that has been noted by members of the team.
When something good or bad happens, or when we have an idea, we want to share it. When we have a question, we want to ask it. When we are frustrated, we want to vent.
Sharing our news, ideas, questions and frustrations whenever the urge strikes, consumes an incalculable amount of time and human energy, and that matters because many of us say we don’t have enough time to accomplish everything we want to accomplish.
Because our biggest successes in business often occur when we make good choices about what to do and what not to do, put this imperative on your Don’t Do List today: Stop discussing the past!
From time to time, I have clients ask me if I can do anything to help them with personal time management. Typically, they have put too much on their plate and they can’t figure out how to get everything done. Here’s what I’ve learned over the years as I transitioned from a poor time manager to a more effective time manager: There’s a big difference between time management and effective time management.
For many of us, time management boils down to managing our to-do lists – trying to get more done and checking it off our lists within prescribed deadlines. But doing more doesn’t mean we are achieving what we want.
It is always a challenge to keep individuals and organizations focused, but that’s what great leaders do. Distractions abound, but great leaders have an internal compass that keeps them from drifting off course. Two things set your bearings – your why and your what.
YOUR PRIVACY CHOICES