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Monthly archives for October, 2011
Giving feedback the right way
Giving feedback is difficult.
Giving good (meaning honest and useful) feedback is really difficult.
But giving feedback is one of the key aspects for growing and tuning your people.
Feedback to be useful is not meant to be always “good” meaning it shouldn’t be always based on what the person did well: It should focus both on what was done well and what didn’t.
Let be more clear: could be difficult to talk to one of your resources and tell that something wasn’t as you expected. But if you can support this opinion, with the correct expected behavior/action and examples the “bad” news can transform into something valuable for his/her growth.
Another success factor is to have you prepare the feedback session: avoid doing this without being prepared, because the risk is to have a conflict instead of a mutual grow.
Law of Communications
The inevitable result of improved and enlarged communications between different levels in a hierarchy is a vastly increased area of misunderstanding.
Anonymous
Change management enablers
Many times we discussed on CM.
CM goes through many areas of action, but 5 are key to focus on well before starting:
- Vision: where you want to go? which is the scope? what are you aiming at?
- Communication: which are the stakeholders? leaders? what are the key messages?
- “Tools”: do you have anything needed? impacts are evaluated? key areas are set?
- “Accelerators”: leadership program ready? Key people on-boarded?
- Funding: are you covered enough to support your change?
- Path?: is it clear at least as a whole strategy? have you played a little bit of “what if” game?
Problems
No problem is so large it can’t be fit in somewhere.
Anonymous
Taxes and shots
Next to being shot at and missed, nothing is really quite as satisfying as an income tax refund.
F. J. Raymond
Machinery
Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it’s supposed to do.
R. A. Heinlein
Team work
Especially in big organizations, people tend to be stacked to policies (and that is a good thing most of the times) and to their own “backyard”(and that is a problem).
Being jealous of your own work is a symptom of attachment to work, but cannot exceed a limit that is set by each organization values.
Working in silos or try to obtain the best only for a certain part of the company doesn’t work, mainly because there are not “many” companies inside the company with different objectives: the objective is one and is split into different objectives for all composing units.
Remember that single objectives aim at same target, not at different ones.
Cooperating aligns organization to the common set of objectives and, most of the times, brings to a more friendly working environment, while maintaining focus.
Procrastination
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today. There might be a law against it by that time.
Anonymous
Moral
Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.
Salvor Hardin, “Foundation”
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