An employee, Steven Thomas (no relation, honest), recently his opinion assigned to here after taking a workshop at Microsoft keep projects to promote. I wanted to with his permission that pass "good parts" of the workshop on some ideas in John Kotter to expand book A sense of urgency. Take it way, Steven:
To bring the outside inside: too much leads internal focus to stagnation and complacency to the things happen, you sometimes need external point of view.
Act with urgency every day: Urgency must not mean scurrying in panic - it can also mean rationalization, what you do and respect people's time, for people on results and success can focus.
· Appeal to emotions, not only logic - use stories, to persuade them to justify data. Think of a good brown bag talk – what is engaged with a project?
· Get the stories from customers, the business as usual challenge - front line people have access to a gold mine. Customer feedback and community sites are all part of our work, and they all have stories to tell.
· Call data from competitive reviews and industry metrics that show our weaknesses-of which prevent you, but not make them feel, condemned to failure. A look at our website page metrics and trends is benign but there are still by our data on our competitor data compare to have more value.
-Identify and remove non-productive activities - to those meetings where you regularly not action points, and they would like to get your calendar to stop.
· Provide short-term objectives - what can I do next week?
· Is someone else created to optimize the resources delegate - better, in order to achieve this?
· Ask for short-term measures of employees - what you can do next week? Make sure that your sessions are non-productive for others not.
Thanks to Steven. Do you have a great tactic to make the day productive? Comment removed.
--Doug Thomas
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