Issue No. 103 of Your Weekly Staff Meeting features a DVD to liven up your next meeting—and a worksheet to help you lead a balanced life. Carl Bard said, “Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.” And this reminder, visit the eNews archives here and check out my Management Buckets website with dozens of resources and downloadable worksheets for your staff meetings.
Your Organization’s Bucket List
Many friends and colleagues have congratulated me on my good timing when my book, Mastering the Management Buckets, appeared this year just after the release of the movie, The Buckets List. No credit taken, but it does come up often in radio interviews.
The hilarious movie, starring Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman, captures the poignant final six months of two cancer patients. Tossing caution to the wind (sky diving, race-car driving, etc.), they embark on a global journey—knocking off a daring list of adventures before they “kick the bucket.”
Suggestion: buy the DVD, find an appropriate film clip, and energize a future staff meeting with some bucket list questions for your organization. To order the DVD from Amazon, click on this title: The Bucket List.
Your Weekly Staff Meeting Questions:
1. In groups of three, after you’ve shared one item from your personal bucket list, suggest two or three bucket list goals for our organization.
2. Some call it a BHAG (Big Hairy Audacious Goal—or Big Holy Audacious Goal), but let’s call it the Numero Uno Bucket List Goal today. If we knew that our organization was going out of business (kicking the bucket) in the next three years, what is the most important goal we would want to achieve by the end of 2011?
Go Home! - Insights from Mastering the Management Buckets: 20 Critical Competencies for Leading Your Business or Nonprofit
Your work will never be done—so go home! That’s one of the big ideas in the Team Bucket, chapter 9, in Mastering the Management Buckets.
Ted Engstrom, a wonderful friend and mentor, was welcomed into heaven in 2006 at age 90. He wrote more than 50 books and we’re blessed that the wisdom of World Vision’s president lives on. Ted admonished busy leaders to schedule their week using 21 time blocks (seven mornings, seven afternoons and seven evenings). You can’t work all 21 time blocks, so agree with your team (and your spouse, if you’re married) on the maximum blocks you’ll work each week.
This fall season is the perfect time to make lifestyle changes and focus on those leadership practices that will ensure effectiveness. (Take time to sharpen the saw. For example, attend a Management Buckets workshop.) Read chapter nine for Ted’s system for blessing your team members and your family. To download the helpful worksheet, “The 21 Time Blocks,” visit the Team Bucket at the Management Buckets website. Check out the other books and resources on balanced living and maximizing your strengths (a big key to balanced living).
FALL 2008 WORKSHOP DATES. Join your colleagues at one of our Buckets or Board workshops this fall:
Mastering the Management Buckets Workshop Experience
September 16-17, 2008 (Colorado Springs)
October 14-15, 2008 (Chicago)
November 18-19, 2008 (Orange County, Calif.)
Nonprofit Board Governance Workshop
September 18, 2008 (Colorado Springs)
October 13, 2008 (Chicago)
November 21, 2008 (Orange County, Calif.)
For more details and to download the workshop brochures, visit The Workshop page on the Management Buckets website.
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