December 21, 2017
How many times have you been in a meeting with someone venting about another team member or colleague? I mean venting, ranting, screaming, full of losing it. Only to have that person end the rant with – “this person will never change!”, So if they won’t change, why can’t you? If you had been expecting this other person to change and conform to your standards, why can’t you change and conform to theirs? No one’s stopping you, but you.
December 19, 2017
Call it your worldview or framework, but what they really are, are your Internal Variables. The criteria that define what you, when you do it. They are your MAX_ACTION where you top out listening to someone complain about the same issue for the umpteenth time before moving on. They are your CURRENT_ATTEMPT where you are willing to keep doing something the old way before you realize there has to be a better way. They are your BOOL to realize that some answers are simply YES or No. And sometimes they are your open-ended variable that can hold anything and everything,
December 18, 2017
The Delta Manager is the manager who realizes they don’t know it all, they are in over their head, they are swamped with projects and timelines and deliverables and don’t know what path forward they can take. They are on the verge of paralysis with anyone and everyone lining up at their desk to ask them questions and lay their demands at their feet. They are overwhelmed and exhausted. So here’s where they apply the Delta. They take one thing, one small thing, and they get it done. Then they focus on the next thing. Then the next. They manage
December 14, 2017
It starts at zero. You didn’t come into this world trusting your parents 100%, you didn’t even know them. So you cried every chance you got. Over time you came to recognize their voice and touch and gave in to trusting them a little more each day. Your team is the exact same (save maybe the crying). You need to earn their trust so it goes above 100, not start at 100, letting it erode over time. Hint: Whether it’s growing from 0 – 100 or eroding from 100 – 0, the steps aren’t large, heavy actions, they are the
December 11, 2017
Have you ever had this happen? You have your own internal sense of what being “Complete” is. What you need to check the box and say “I’m here, I did it.” But then someone comes along and sees what you are doing and they scoff… they scoff so loud that it shakes everything about what you thought was right and now are a complete jumble of up, down and all around. What was your perfect Sense of Complete has now been thrown to the wolves? When this happens you only have one option – redefine your sense of completed and keep
