Time? You only have so much of it.
Richard Morin • August 29, 2018
"It is a commonplace observation that work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion." C. Northcote Parkinson.
What is on your agenda for today? What important task must you complete and by when? What of your people? Is there a stated completion date / time on those things that need to be done?
- Think of meetings where there is no agenda and people just tee off on unrelated topics. Can you say a waste of time when it would have been so much wiser to create an agenda with bullet points and time allocated for each? Have you charted how expensive these meetings are in real terms?
- New competition in every industry feeds on the inefficiencies of the incumbent. With many products / services being more like commodities, what separates the profitable entities from those who are not?
- Time and it's application is what makes the difference!
Your success and that of your company / employer is determined by how well you and others learn to work with the 86,400 seconds a day, and importantly how you work with yourselves. Teams are made up of individuals that are focussed, and they always know how much time is left on the clock.
This is all about YOU Working With YOU
How will you write your book? Character driven or by an elaborate plot you came up with?
Use the PXTS hiring assessment to see applicants objectively
Why not add some objective information to help YOU, make a good decision when hiring? Rolling the dice on a hire can cost you a LOT.
Confidence comes from being deliberate, disciplined and as much as possible being in the moment.
If you have not used the objective data from a hiring assessment when recruiting, why not? Are you rolling the dice based on a rather thin resume that says ... whatever, and references from friends of the applicant?
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With job boards, a very transient work force, growing needs based on technology and importantly ... people skills, has your process changed in order to help you recruit and maximize on those you hire? Contact us for a conversation.
This is all about YOU Working With YOU, and if each person in your organization works on themselves, you will have created a winning culture and team. But ... it starts with you.
Are you and the team you are trying to build, confident? What have you done to make it so? Have you engaged in role playing for the various sales, customer service, HR & interviewing people on your team? Confidence is critical if you and your team / company are to succeed as you might, but it is a transient element as everything changes so often and in ways that leaves some people behind. Role playing is but one of the many tools you can employ to help people step up and become more fluid in how they deliver their message and communications in general. Another great tool is the sharing of books whereby the material becomes fodder for short and to the point meetings where the content is discussed or debated and the team learns from the session. Confidence you ask? Yes it is tough, and not everyone is confident all of the time, but we can all learn to improve and become more competent which leads to confidence. Bringing in a trainer / mentor can clearly help, the investment will more than pay for itself.
People are habitual, and YOU are no different. How will you accomplish those things that you say are important ... to YOU? Reading helps, and although fiction is OK, it will not help you in your quest. Mentors can do a lot for YOU, that is "IF" you listen AND apply those things that you and your mentor agree upon. "IF" you are coachable, who is your coach? Experience has taught me that the future is always different and that what I have done is not as important as what I will do. Therefore ... developing discipline, an ability to ask and then listen in order to learn and understand while remaining the moment, without distractions are what comprises some of the behaviours and traits that can help pave the way for YOU. Contact me ... I can help.