How scary is this? You’re mid-way through a project and/or delivery and you have an epiphany to pivot, change, alter your course of action. Worst, before you justify it to others you have to justify it to yourself. Even worst, you can see the different paths laid out in front of you and what they can represent – the good, the bad, the possible. It’s enough to make your gut lurch forward and leave you…
This is one of those knives through the heart type of thing. You have a team working towards a delivery, everyone has their piece that they are responsible for. At the meeting to discuss where things are on the deliverable, the team clearly has a lot left to do and is working through how they are going to accomplish that. You’ve just gone through all the issues when someone chimes in – “My part is…
What does that sound like to you? The sound of a keyboard furiously hitting the keys? The sound of a chainsaw revving up? The sound of knuckles cracking? The sound of laughter and excitement? The sound of silence? Whatever it is, we all have them, they are the sounds that when we hear them, we know amazing work is going to get done, be produced and wow us. Find your sounds.
Pushing out a meeting once is okay, acceptable, go for it, do it. Pushing it out twice, that should raise eyebrows and prompt questions. Why? What do you need? How can we help? Pushing it out a third time? Before you click send, look at that meeting, will it actually happen by that time? Do people need to know that it’s scheduled to feel safe about what they are doing? All you are producing at…
A good leader knows when to gear up. They know when there is work to do. If they don’t know what it is going to take, they know how to figure it out. They don’t have their finger on the pulse, their team is the pulse and they live and breath it. They know when it’s time to drop a gear and go faster and they know when it’s time to hit the higher ones.…