During your next meeting, look around: Almost half of your employees would rather be waiting in line at the DMV or watching paint dry, according to a poll by software company Clarizen. U.S. employees spend about nine hours of each week preparing for or attending team meetings, and more than a third of them believe those meetings are a waste of time.
Archives for December 2015
6 Insights to Help You Supercharge Company Culture
Roughly five years ago, few companies understood the role “culture” played in the workplace, or even what the term meant in the context of business. Although culture was slowly gaining recognition as a tool for growth, most C-level executives were focused on bottom lines, not crafting core values. But there was one notable exception to the status quo, and that exception was Cameron Herold, life-long entrepreneur, former COO of 1-800-GOT-JUNK?, and author of Double Double.
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Here is How to Save CEOs From Themselves
Most entrepreneurs suffer from what I call A.D.O.S. That stands for Attention Deficit Oh Squirrel.
The reality is Entrepreneurs and CEOs are often “Quick Starts” (a term from KOLBE A Profile I have all the CEOs I coach/mentor do). CEOs have an idea, and they launch right into wanting to do it that day. They return from conferences or events like EO, YPO & Vistage put on monthly with multiple great ideas or new systems that “will only take a few minutes to do”.
They rarely follow one of my favorite mantras “Plan, Brief, Execute, De-brief” instead they often get dragged kicking and screaming into planning meetings. They would rather quickly delegate/abdicate their “great ideas” and start things really quickly, passing them off to their bewildered teams often before the people are ready to run with them. Don’t get me wrong, the CEOs ideas are often bang on and perfect, however, they are often not as urgently needed to get started on and can wait a quarter or two.
CEOs can tend to get angry if their teams don’t run with their ideas as quickly as they want them to. And these entrepreneurs often feel an urgency to start the idea right now.
The reality is they just need a system to keep track of their ideas. And if they have a simple system in place to know their ideas won’t get lost, they’re more OK with starting them when the time is right.
Every quarter the team can vote on which ideas to start, which ideas to keep on the list, and which ideas to to finally throw out. At least the entrepreneurs ideas are kept somewhere safe.
I suggest using systems like Trello, Asana, Basecamp or Google document to save all potential project ideas.
Save the Entrepreneur from themselves by giving them a place to store their ideas and putting a system in place to allow the teams to vote on when to start them.
