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Saturday, January 16, 2010

Measuring Success (Setting Life Goals)

Below is a quick exercise to assist you in making the proper goals in your life.

Blank Piece of Paper
Fold the Paper in Half
On the left side of the paper write at the top "Accomplishments"
On the right side of the paper right down the things you want highlighted about you at your funeral

Note: the younger you are you may not have much to list, but I challenge you to dig deep and think about the milestone you are most proud of. Secondly of the accomplishments you mentioned, how many would you want spoken about at your funeral?

The goal of this exercise is to establish the things most important for you to accomplish in your life time?

Things to consider when you are through evaluating what you want to accomplish...

What did I do today to accomplish these goals?
What do I have planned tomorrow?
Are my goals realistic?
What is the predominant theme of my goals? (spiritual, family, career, monetary)
How close is the situation I am in today helping me achieve what is most important to me?

Life is short! If your situation is off course, change it tomorrow!

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Monday, December 28, 2009

Knowing your Internal Compass (navigation guidance for your career)

What is your biggest motivator in life? If you were to sum it up into one word, what word would that be?

Name three things you value more than anything else?

What are your five greatest strengths? (solicit feedback if necessary, boss-peer-subordinate)

Name 3 development opportunities? (solicit feedback if necessary, boss-peer-subordinate)

Describe in detail what your life looks like in five years (where, what, why)

Name one person you can rely on no matter what! When the worst happens who is your greatest resource?

If today was your last day, how would you like to spend it?

Truth is people look for answers all the time, when most are right in front of you. This exercise is to serve as an internal compass…

Motivator- put yourself in situations where you can achieve this often

Values- surround yourself with people, companies, communities that share these values

Strengths- spend 85% of your time doing the things that your good at and continue to improve on them

Development- Spend 15% of the time managing the things that may make you fail. Be competent in those areas

Five years- go back to this every time you compromise anything from above

Person you trust- share this list with them, they will be your biggest cheerleader

Last Day- when you describe your last day, look back at your previous answers and how honest you were when you answered them

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Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Conflict Resolution

Identify conflict and form an opinion
Address immediately after or during conflict
Provide feedback (use Valhalla's SelfDiscoveryBH Model)
Gain commitment on future resolution behavior

Conflict is absolutely with out exception inevitable in any organization. However not all conflict is unproductive, in our organization conflict is channeled into the checks and balances which produce the must creative ideas or processes. It takes fundamental processes, but beyond having processes that set up appropriate communication in the work place there are ways too accomplish this. Conflict is a great opportunity to identify development opportunities in your staff. Always remember conflict is inevitable and a person is not bad for having conflict.

You must identify if the conflict needs you the manager to be involved, sometimes it is not necessary to give credibility to situations that don't warrant it. You the manager are a problem fixer, but it is not necessary to be a hero always.

Never ever wait 24 hours to address conflict, you lose the ability to address specific behaviors. Good or bad. Also please no matter what you do, do not bring both parties into your office together. It is unnecessary and you will not be able to deliver the feedback they deserve based on their behavior.

Provide feedback, individually address the specific behavior. i.e. "Jon when you say know to Jeremy's ideas, he feels as if your dismissing his input. You are one of the leaders of this team and the team needs you to be able to facilitate and engage the rest of the team."

Gain commitment on behavior going forward. i.e., "What can you do to manage this behavior in the future?" Follow up on commitment in their one on one. Ensure you get a commitment from each party on apologizing to the other.

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