The end of January already!
8.5% of 2010 gone, much of it disrupted by the big freeze.
Do you still feel snowed under, trying to restore the clarity of this year’s priorities?
Are YOUR plans and ambitions on target, or do you need to find ways to regain lost ground?
Here’s some tips from our experience in coaching top Executives :
- review TODAY’S priorities against your original targets : are they aligned?
- take your action list and try putting someone else’s initials against everyone of them
- keep your action lists for a month and reread them; see in a month’s time what were real priorities and what were illusions
- recognize what would happen if a personal crisis took you out for a week; who would take over your tasks? Which would just not be needed? Reprioritise your list this way anyway.
- when you’re asked to accept a new task, reply with ‘am I the best person to do this for you at the moment. Has someone else got the skills, knowledge and time you need to get it done by your deadline?’
These are all good tips, but I find the biggest barrier to delegation is trust. If you have built up a backlog of experience where delegated tasks were performed disappointingly, maintaining trust that ‘this time it will be alright’ is hard.
We can lose sight of the way we have conquered seemingly impossible lists of priorites in the past
It helps confidence to keep a record of the biggest blocks you encountered and how you have overcome them before
In my experience one man’s bullying can be another man’s effective leadership. Persistent humiliation of colleagues, often in the presence of others is, however, always unacceptable. I have seen it in action and have observed that it is as ineffective as it is unacceptable.
There is no denying that bullying in the work place can be effective to a point and it is a short term technique that can achieve results. However, the technique is very short lived and is counter productive actually producing poorer results in the longer term, causing sub optimal performance, higher sick absence and higher employee attrition therefore costing the business more. Not to mention it is an outdated and completely unacceptable way of working.