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How to get on track to success with a team member performing poorly.
If a team member performing poorly relative to expectation, the team’s leader should first make sure basic tenets for success have been established using best contracting and governance practices.
- As the team’s leader, ensure that you:
- Know what the team counts on the team member to do
- Believe s/he has the ability do it.
- Want him/her to do it.
- Validate that s/he:
- Knows what the team is counting on him/her to do
- Believes s/he has the ability do it.
- Wants to do it.
- Verify s/he has what is needed for success; including resources (e.g., time, money, space), knowledge, experience, systems, and access to experienced advisors.
- Ensure there is sufficient incentive to perform up to expectation.
- Provide governance; i.e., every month or so, ask him/her to tell you:
- What s/he is trying to accomplish
- What has been done towards that end
- What has been the result of those efforts
- What has been learned
- What s/he plans to do next.
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Introducing Manage to Lead: Seven Truths to Help You Change the World as an interactive digital workbook.
Many intelliven.com blog posts are based on the slides and lecture notes from a masters class in Organization Development called Organization Analysis and Strategy offered at American University and taught by Peter DiGiammarino. These posts and other material from class, including:
- Work problems,
- Templates,
- Graphics,
- Slide shows, and
- Assessments
are available from Amazon as a softcover workbook or from iTunes as an iBook titled Manage to Lead: Seven Truths to Help You Change the World.
Whether one wants to change personal habits, implement a new information system, improve a business process, get team members to work together, increase a community’s appreciation for diversity, or even to topple a monarchy, taking seven actions driven by seven disarmingly simple truths will individually and collectively help achieve the goal.
Manage to Lead presents a framework to describe and assess any organization. It also provides a structured approach to plan and implement next steps for an organization as it strives for long-term growth and performance.
Readers are invited to select a familiar organization on which to apply the tools and templates introduced throughout the workbook. Exercises in each chapter produce essential elements for the organization’s annual strategic plan and lay the groundwork for implementing that plan.
Readers can package the key elements from Organization Exercises to form a strategic plan that communicates how the organization sees itself and where it is headed. At the end of the year leaders can compare actual results with what was described in the strategic plan to study what happened, why what happened was different than plan, what is to be learned from that, and what to do differently going forward as a result.
Repeat the process over several years and compare actual to planned results year-to-year to see the organization mature, perform, and grow to its full potential.
How to build a “pizza-making” business.
Chief executive officers, managing directors, executive directors, and chief administrators subscribe to intelliven.com for content, cases, and tools to help organizations they lead perform and grow to their full potential. Leaders of any organization, no matter how large or small, those who aspire to be leaders, and those who help and support leaders all find the site full of valuable content, examples, and templates to help in extraordinary, as well as every day, situations. Continue reading How to build a “pizza-making” business.