As a leader of change in complex systems, your many hats include a teacher hat. Maybe your teacher hat is a mortarboard that you would wear while beaming proudly over a graduation ceremony…
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As I write this, it has been a month since the 2016 presidential election in the United States. Upheaval is all but guaranteed in my work world…
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When you have a vacant position on your team, filling it is the most important thing on your plate. Truly, it is. Get the right person, and get ’em to work. The almost-right person will drag the whole team down and eat up all your time.
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The Position Promotion Push is what you need to do to get all the good candidates to apply for your open position all at once. It is a big, exciting, coordinated push to get the news of your open position in the right hands.
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In your work, you see ways to make things better. All the time, everywhere. Things to fix. This is great. This is a gift. You are a person of vision, a person for the future.
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I love a run chart: the simple process improvement graph that shows how a particular performance metric is moving over time toward a numerical goal. The values for the single measure on the vertical y-axis, the units of time (day, week, month) ticking by on the horizontal x-axis.
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