3 Ways to Increase Your Workplace Effectiveness
These steps will help you become a better teammate at your agency while contributing towards a more effective overall group.
Posts Tagged: effectiveness
9 Questions to Elevate Your Team’s Thinking and Just Possibly Save Your Project
Asking good questions is better than having the right answer. Good questions elevate your team’s thinking and increase your impact. That’s better for your project, your colleagues, and, ultimately, your career.
Defining Outcomes: 5 Questions that Every Organization Should be Asking
How an outcome-focused approach to operational effectiveness can produce measurable, lasting results, while simultaneously improving employee engagement and morale.
Don’t Just Improve Efficiency: Think Outcomes to Achieve Effectiveness
While focusing on efficiency is not a bad thing in and of itself, I would argue that a greater emphasis on understanding outcomes and effectiveness is where the transformational opportunity exists.
Real Effectiveness vs. Apparent Effectiveness
If you work in the federal government, you struggle with this notion of real effectiveness verses apparent effectiveness.
5 Ways to Stay Sharp As a Leader
My brother has his sword, and I have my mind. A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone. Tyrion Lannister, Game of Thrones We have all been there. The day in the office when you realize you have lost your edge. You aren’t as sharp as you used to be. Things seem toRead… Read more »
6 Ways to Get Thinking Right
You might be asking from the start, “what does that graphic have to do with thinking right?” Well, it depicts the problem of adversarial thinking and unfortunately, it’s the most common form we are exposed to and poison for an organization. Such thinking plays out in front of us every day in politics and religionRead… Read more »
The 2 Motives Driving Organizational Saboteurs
We’ve already discussed how the saboteur undermines an organization or cause by starting a cycle of operational drag and harassing and demoralizing their coworkers. But what drives a saboteur? Didn’t he want to work there in the first place? Wasn’t she hired because she was the top of her field? The number one motivation forRead… Read more »
The Simple Sabotage Field Manual, Cubicle Edition
Behold, published in 1944, the Simple Sabotage Field Manual. In its original context, the SSFM was applied to allied sympathizers in occupied territories during WWII. Today, the field guide has stunning applicability to 21st century organizations and employees. This blog reframes the Simple Sabotage Field Guide’s “tips and tricks” as a set of guideline forRead… Read more »
When Government Agencies Receive High Klout Scores, Does it Really Mean They Have More Clout?
IBM Center for the Business of Government recently issued a report that provides some very interesting social media insights for federal agencies: which agencies have the highest Klout rankings. If you are not familiar with Klout, it essentially measures your overall social media influence. For example, when you create content or engage through social networks,Read… Read more »