If you’re on a path to becoming a multi-faceted professional, be aware that being productive is an art — a skill that can be refined over time. Through mindful transitioning and self-care, it is possible to master the challenges of changing context and accomplish your goals successfully. Take advantage of your multifaceted personality because it’s your best resource in the ever-changing workplace.
Striking the Balance Between “Thinking Outside and Thinking Within the Box” for Operational Excellence
Oftentimes, leaders face the difficult challenge of finding the balance between innovation and efficiency: on one side lies an irresistible urge to “think outside the box”, breaking free of conventional thinking to uncover groundbreaking solutions; on the other, “thinking inside the box” involves optimizing existing systems while increasing resources. Ultimately, reaching operational excellence requires mastering both approaches equally well.
Navigating the Minefield: How Disconnected Projects Threaten Organizational Efficiency and What We Can Do About It
Managing disconnected projects within organizations is like treading through an endless maze, riddled with operational and financial risks. We can avoid this danger zone through strategic planning, cross-functional collaboration, and effective project and program management. Leaders should recognize the significance of aligning all initiatives with an appropriate strategic vision – setting themselves up for operational efficiency and long-term success.
Searching for Permit A38: Quick Learnings to Facilitate Effective Management and Collaboration
The quest for Permit A38 in the whimsical world of Asterix and Obelix serves as a metaphor for management challenges in the workplace. The story highlights the importance of clarity, resource allocation, and fostering a culture of ownership and responsibility in teams. It emphasizes that effective leadership involves clear communication, resource support, encouraging ownership, leading by example, and promoting collaboration.
Leadership at 32,000 Feet: Why Putting on Your Own Oxygen Mask First is the Smart Move
Drawing inspiration from the aviation industry’s principle of securing one’s oxygen mask before assisting others during an emergency, we look into how this principle can be applied to leadership. The emphasis is on the importance of self-care in leadership, including mental health awareness, setting an example, making sound decisions, and maintaining a healthy work-life balance.
The Team We Need vs. the Team We Deserve: Closing the Gap Between the Two
In the quest to assemble the team we need, do we often get the team we deserve instead? They should be one and the same, yet that’s barely ever the case in practice. We want—and need—our employees to be engaged, curious, collaborative, knowledgeable, proactive, daring, and with a mindset of learning and growing. We’ve also been trained to seek out and recruit for these qualities, however accurate a recruiting process can be. And then we expect team members, new and old, to act and live up to the potential we’ve seen in them. Things get tricky when that doesn’t happen, and we’re left wondering what went wrong.