Today I’m launching a short and sweet eNews, Your Weekly Staff Meeting. (Email [email protected] if you’d like to be on the list.) It’s all about The Meetings Bucket—and each eNewsletter will include one of my 99 “take-home” ideas from the Management Buckets Workshop Experience.
Your Weekly Staff Meeting for August 28, 2006
Boring! Waste of time! Starts late, ends late! Yikes! Weekly staff meetings are rated right up there with dental appointments and mission statement brainstorming meetings. Your Weekly Staff Meeting eNews will change all that. Use this resource to add fun, interest and lifelong learning to your weekly department meetings or staff meetings. Enjoy!
WHY BUSINESS THINKING IS NOT THE ANSWER!
Help Your Team Understand the Difference Between Greatness and "Business-like"
"The moment you think of yourself as great, your slide toward mediocrity will have begun" says Jim Collins in his easy-to-read 35-page booklet, Good to Great and the Social Sectors. Your team will appreciate his insights on how a nonprofit or church measures results.
"All data is flawed," writes Collins. "It doesn't really matter whether you can quantify your results. What matters is that you rigorously assemble evidence--quantitative or qualitative--to track your progress."
Your Weekly Staff Meeting Questions:
1. Where are we on a scale of "mediocre" to "great?"
2. How rigorously do we assemble evidence to document our results?
3. What assignment should we make today as a result of this discussion?
Visit Jim Collin's website at www.JimCollins.com.
ARE YOU A READER OR A LISTENER?
Insights from the Management Buckets Workshop Experience
Peter Drucker said that you're either a reader or a listener. Ditto for your staff members. The most eloquent memo will go unread by the "listeners." And your latest verbal affirmation may be missed by the "readers." Does your corporate culture balance out the needs of both readers and listeners?
In our Management Buckets workshop experience, we talk about how to bless both the listeners and the readers on your staff team.
Your Weekly Staff Meeting Questions:
1. Is your boss (or board chair) a reader or a listener?
2. Are your direct reports readers or listeners?
3. In light of this, what needs to change this week?
Download the Management Buckets workshop brochure (Nov. 1-2, 2006) at www.JohnPearsonAssociates.com.
For the original copy of this week’s Your Weekly Staff Meeting for August 28, 2006, go to www. http://www.johnpearsonassociates.com/enews082806. To subscribe, just email me at [email protected].
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PETER DRUCKER said that “vision without execution is delusion.” For more help on vision implementation with detailed execution, contact me at [email protected] or go to www.JohnPearsonAssociates.com.
Ask about space remaining in the Management Buckets Workshop Experience, Nov. 1-2, 2006, or the Nonprofit Board Governance workshop, Nov. 3, 2006. Both workshops will be at the incredible Blue Lantern Inn (www.BlueLanternInn.com) in Dana Point, Calif. (South Orange County, overlooking the Pacific Ocean).
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