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"Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be."
Thomas Kempis
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1. What is the central purpose for the ____ process?
2. If you were hit by a contingency, what tasks would you quickly toss off your to-do list?
3. In what ways, other than functional expertise, do you make the mgt. team better?
4. Are your decisions driven by a scarcity or abundance mindset?
5. With whom could you connect next week and make the greatest difference toward achieving your goals? |
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| SENIOR LEADERSHIP EXCELLENCE |
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| What it Means to Be a Great Executive Team Member
By Lisa Haneberg
I lead a consulting team that does a lot of work with managers and leaders and there is an area that all organizations ought to spend more time on - developing great leadership TEAMS. In other words, improving how senior level professionals work together to lead the organization. In this short article, I would like to share several of the questions that we ask to determine the health and efficacy of senior teams. In forthcoming newsletters, we will continue to develop these themes. Premise/belief: What you do as a team may be more important than what you do as an individual. You ought to care about your team's effectiveness and the role you play in the result you collectively achieve. To continue reading the article, click here... |
| TURN OFF YOUR CELL PHONE |
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| By Lisa Haneberg
Regular phones, cell phones, Blackberries, pagers, and double bookings can wreck your company's focus and results. That's right, wreck them. You may think of electronic gadgets as productivity tools, and they can be invaluable when used properly. The problem is that cell phones and Blackberries can also make matters worse if they cause you to lose focus. Many managers don't take the time and attention to listen to what's going on with the organization and that is not good!
How many of these things have you done:
- Answered phone calls while meeting with someone in your office?
- Answered cell phone calls while in meetings?
- Received and read emails while in meetings?
- Scrolled through your pages or emails while talking to another person?
- Double or triple booked meetings so that you show up late or leave early?
To continue reading the article, click here...
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| THE COST OF COMMUNICATION IS TOO HIGH MOST OF THE TIME |
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| By Lisa Haneberg
I'm going to throw out a concept that might seem ludicrous. We need to communicate less. Before you conclude that I have lost all my marbles, stick with me here.
We send emails. We make phone calls. We distribute reports. We book meetings. We mail stuff. We talk to people. We CC, BCC. We FYI (for your information), BTW (by the way), and CYA (cover your arse).
And we do this without thinking twice about it. Do we consider the cost of all this communication? Top level costs: the cost of time for people to receive (hear, read) the communication and the cost for creating/delivering communication. If you send an email to your team of 50 people and if the email takes 3 minutes to read, and 15 minutes for you to write - the top level costs are people's salaries for the 3 minutes and your 15 minutes. Plus the costs of the email server time and space, etc... The time is the largest cost. You may think this is a small amount, but multiply this times 100s of emails we deal with each day, and the costs add up. If you book a two-hour meeting with 15 people, the top level costs are huge.
But that's just the start of the costs. There are two other important types of costs:
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Sincerely,
Lisa Haneberg, Vice President and OD Practice Lead, MPI Consulting |
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