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Identify Your Strengths & Weaknesses
Becoming fully aware of both your strengths
and weaknesses will make you more confident,
not to mentioned better armed for
improvement.
How to Do It:
- Take an inventory of your strengths
and weaknesses
- Determine a path to improve on items
of strength
- Look for more opportunities to use
your strengths
- If you can't improve on weaknesses
outsource, or avoid them entirely.
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"If you want a
place in the sun, prepare to put up with a
few blisters"
-Abigail Van Buren
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Finding Opportunity
Take some time to ask this question of
everything you do, you might be surprised
with the changes that follow: What is the
Opportunity Here? Chances are you'll find
solutions to problems, and new opportunities
in areas you haven't seen before.
- Ask this situation in regards to
negotiations for better deals
- Where is your entire industry
missing out on delivering a customer
need?
- Are there opportunities for
partnerships or teaming that will
improve work?
- Is there a opportunity on your desk
right now in the form of a problem?
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Motivational Exercise
Start by answering three questions:
The first question is, "What are my special
gifts?" or, "What am I good at?" What do you
do best? What are your talents and skills?
Make a list. Even if you think they aren't
unique or special, just jot down what comes
to your mind first.
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"Even if you
are on the right track, you'll get run over
if you just sit there"
-Will Rogers
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Table of Contents:
Welcome to the Inaugural Issue of
The Performance Report
"What we call results are beginnings" -Ralph Waldo
Emerson
We believe that inside of these (cyber) pages you
will find a refreshing, honest, sometimes irreverent
and always informative take on the leading issues in
managerial and workplace performance.
Whether your goal is to get ahead, stay afloat, or
simply improve your abilities to lead people &
organizations we'll be giving you fresh content
twice per month from some of the world's foremost
authorities on the subjects at hand. Enter, Enrich,
Enjoy!
Keeping Up: Current Events
Boomer Exodus, or Hoax?
Every day 10,000 Baby Boomers turn 55, and we're
sorry to report that they aren't going to start
getting younger. If the statistics tell the truth
then right now for every 2 employees leaving the
workforce to retirement we are getting only one
back. But not to worry - the retirement age is
stretching farther and farther - not out of
necessity, but rather with Boomers' abilities to do
their jobs well. And for the Millennials? There are
already signs that their generation-wide lack of
loyalty has been grossly exaggerated.
How
Green Is Your Company Feeling?
According to Forrester Research approximately 25
million Americans (12% of the population) are
"bright greens," buyers absolutely willing to spend
more for environmentally friendly electronics, and
another 90 million people (41%) make up the green
consumer group: they are concerned about
environmental issues but aren't yet willing to pay
extra for a green product.
Praise
& Awards go a long way
In a recent Business Week survey, 40% of employees
would choose a $10,000 bonus that was the largest in
their division over a $20,000 bonus that was the
smallest. Apparently it is not always about the
money.
Learner-Driven Content: The Next Big Thing?
User-generated content is becoming more prevalent in
all aspects of business as the lines between
"traditional experts" and "user experts" becomes
blurred. And the trend is growing as users are
discovering that they are indeed the experts when it
comes to practical use.
Failure - key to success
"I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career.
I've lost more than 300 games. Twenty-six times I've
been trusted to take the game-winning shot and
missed. I've failed over and over and over again in
my life...and that is why I succeed."
- Michael Jordan
Quick Career Breakthroughs
"You've got to jump off cliffs, all
the time, and build your wings on the way down."
- Ray Bradbury
It happens in every career, in every industry. A
feeling of being stuck, option less, and in need of
a jolt. A breakthrough is defined as "any
significant or sudden advance, development,
achievement, or increase that removes a barrier to
progress." These moments can be career awakening
epiphanies.
Experiencing breakthroughs can be a matter of
self-fulfilling prophesy. The less likely you feel
your chances of experiencing a career breakthrough
are, the more elusive they become.
However if you position yourself to be more open to
small advances, developments, and achievements, the
more prepared you will be to seize the opportunities
when they present themselves.
Breakthroughs differ from the more typical, long
range planning because they jump the tracks of
sequential thinking to create a quantum change in
results. Management consultant Lisa Haneberg said it
best when talking about breakthrough moments when
she summed up the difference between normal planning
and planning for breakthroughs.
She describes the results of a breakthrough as
"Something exists that didn't exist before. The next
step is clear. You seize an opportunity. You jump
onto a new path. Breakthroughs are important and
valuable. They can propel results to new levels in
ways that continuous improvement cannot."
Fad-Free Management Improvement
"I am a great believer in luck, and
I find the harder I work the more I have of it."
- Jack Kerouac
If you are a manager there is just one thing that
you can count on. Everyone has an opinion on how you
can do your job better than you currently are.
Thousands of books are published every year aimed at
telling you what you should know, why you should
know it, and how very important it is that you
change. All this is from people who've never sat a
single day in your chair, some of whom have never
been managers of any type. Typically, the most
popular books of the bunch are introducing a new fad
– some untested methodology based on a fleeting
industry trend.
Book Report
Outsmart!
How to do what your competitors can't
- Jim Champy
Pearson Publishing, 2008
"...business has never been more complex, volatile,
and demanding, yet so full of opportunity."
The author of former best-seller Reengineering the
Organization (Nicholas Brealey Publishing, 1993)
takes us through 8 case studies in how organizations
of all sizes and shapes can form, or reshape, their
viewpoint in order to achieve success.
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Situation Room
A new employee comes into your department after transferring from a
different site, and you will be her immediate
supervisor. Her move comes along with a promotion
from a front-line manager to an operations manager,
and raises the amount of direct reports she has from
4 to more than 20.
Although she is an extremely diligent,
intelligent, and willing employee she is having
trouble connecting with her new staff members. She
comes to you and says that she needs you to back her
up. She explains that the manager she replaced had
formed great bonds with the employees, but seemed to
lack any disciplinary responsibility for their
performance.
Raising the performance of the department is why she
was brought in, but the combination of perceived
resentment from the staff combined with her
no-nonsense attitude towards improvement has driven
a divide between her and those who report to her.
She is clearly frustrated and leaves your office to
tend to a matter that needs her attention, asking to
continue the conversation upon solving the problem.
When she leaves the office a longtime, highly
valued engineering supervisor walks by and you stop
him in order to get some opinion - as he now falls
under her charge.
You ask him how things are going with the new
Operations Manager and at first he speaks as though
everything is going well, but then switches gears
quickly. He is now clearly showing signs of
disliking the change himself. She is still quite
young and inexperienced, he says, and it is hard to
take orders from someone who has no idea what he
does or how he has always done it.
Send in
your situations!
Author Q & A
5 Questions with Dr. Richard Gerson
"Top performers are those who believe in themselves
the strongest"
The author of The Executive Athlete (HRD Press,
2008) and one of the nation's foremost sports &
business psychologists sits down with us to take
five of our most pressing questions on workplace
performance:
Q: How does a leader prepare
themselves mentally for success in uncertain times?
A: Well, it's always going to be
different for every person. But there are certainly
things that a leader, or anyone for that matter, can
do to get themselves into the right frame of mind -
a place that makes it more likely to achieve
success. It is proven that top performers are those
who believe in themselves the strongest. If we are
in tight economic times and one leader believes, and
is giving off the impression, that they can make
things right and the other leader is showing fear
because deep down he believes he can't do anything
to change the course it becomes pretty apparent who
the more effective leader will be.
Q: In The Executive Athlete you
talk about links between sports and business, what
are they and how can they be important?
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