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These three different observations led me to believe that time management, trust and training were at the core of delegation. Delegation being the “transfer of responsibility for the performance of an activity from one person to another with the former retaining accountability of the outcome” as described in a medical manual.
Time management
is so important as […]
In the Nursing Council of New Zealand’s guidelines on delegation there are five rules which I would like to share with you.
Right activity – here the manager needs to ensure that the activity needs to be done now by the team. Before this decision the manager should ask, “Could this activity be abandoned?” and […]
30+ Smarter Ways to Work
Around the world, teams are challenging old out of date work methods “other people’s thinking” as Steve Jobs called it, and replacing
this thinking with twenty-first-century smarter work methods. This working guide covers; how to Post-it reengineer, scrum meetings, Kanban boards, lean management techniques, and Toyota’s 14 management principles. This guide also explores some of the […]
This is an extract from a mini toolkit (article +E-Templates) that can be source from this link.
In every workshop, I ask one question, “Who has made a recruiting decision they have lived to regret?” Every manager puts his or her hand up. The carnage caused is relived in their facial expressions. Why does this happen so […]
Embracing abandonment
Management guru Peter Drucker frequently used the word ‘abandonment’. I think it is one of the top ten gifts Drucker gave all of us. He said
“The first step in a growth policy is not to decide where and how to grow. It is to decide what to abandon. To grow, a business must have […]
This is an extract from a mini toolkit ‘How the Millennial Manager can be a ‘Viking with a Mother’s Heart’ (article +E-Templates) that can be source from this link.
JACK WELCH, THE CEO who led GE (General Electric) from being worth $10 billion to $500 billion, had a long and distinguished career. He passed away in 2019, aged […]
1. Understand That Time Spent Recruiting Is the Most Valuable Time
Far too often managers, when looking at their calendar, throw up their hands when they realize that they have another recruitment interview to do. It is the last thing they need at this point in time. Yet, recruitment should be seen as the most important […]
(Extract from Winning Leadership: A Model on Leadership For The Millennial Manager – Toolkit (120 page PDF whitepaper + e-templates)
A majority of meetings are totally flawed. They are held because they were held last week, two weeks ago, last month. The actual fundamental purpose of the meeting has long been forgotten.
My favourite story is about a […]
(Extract from Winning leadership)
From the time we enter this world, we develop traits and habits that will be limiting factors in our management and leadership of people. We will always be running with a few cylinders misfiring unless we fully understand our behavior patterns and those around us. We inherit baggage from our ancestry, along […]
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
Key performance indicators (KPIs), while used commonly around the world, have never until now been clearly defined. Management personnel have identified measures as KPIs though these measures have never been KPIs. The lack of understanding of performance measures has led most monitoring and reporting of measures to fail. The casualty has often […]
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