How to create your best management team

Try a 30-Minute Exercise to Kick-Start your Thinking.

Sometimes just getting started is the hardest part.

Especially these days—when working from home means that the intersecting, urgent obligations seem to crowd out that all-important, but non-urgent, time to just simply think.

For those of you who are struggling to focus and get some organizational thinking started, here is a 30-minute exercise to try that will get the juices flowing, and get your strategic thinking started regarding:

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Exercise: If you need to think about your management team

This exercise is for those of you struggling to focus and get some organizational thinking done during these difficult times.

On a piece of paper, write down the names of your three best managers. Come on…be honest. For each, write down the three things that they routinely demonstrate at a higher level than your other managers (e.g., delegation, communications, addressing conflict, change management, etc.)

Now, imagine if all your management team members had their level of competency in these areas too.

• How would that change your organization for the better?

• What would you be emboldened to try?

• What could the team achieve together?

• How would clients / patients / participants ultimately benefit?

Congratulations! You’ve just started some thinking on which you can begin to build a professional development and training plan for your management team.

If you’d like my coaching help to push this exercise into a fully-realized plan, please get in touch.