28: Get Out of People’s Way to Drive Productivity
Coaching for Leaders
Dave Stachowiak
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 12 March 2012
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
In episode #27, we looked at what we can do in order to coach others to be productive. Now, we’re turning the focus on ourselves as leaders to examine what we might be going to get in the way of people’s productivity.
Move to Outcome Based Meetings
“Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.” – Cyril Parkinson
Two Warning Signs:
- You can’t figure out what to talk about.
- You’re doing a data dump.
What would awful thing would happen if we didn’t meet today?
Am I clear on what outcomes I want to have come out of this meeting?
Move to outcome based meetings vs. schedule based meetings. You should have:
- Stated outcome
- Clear agenda
- Action items
Align working environments with people
Fortune Magazine says that drop-ins are the #1 productivity killer in offices
Be conscious of how and where people like to work
Put people on teams? By all means, assuming they work best that way. Otherwise, can people work alone?
Every leader should see this: Watch Susan Cain’s TED talk on The Power of Introverts
Create a Results-Oriented Work Environment (ROWE)
ROWE was created by Cali Ressler & Jody Thompson
Get clear on what you want people to accomplish this year
Get it on paper and establish milestones
Manage people towards that – not when and where they work
Lead people on their terms
How can I best support you and your development?
“Treating people fairly does not mean treating them the same.”
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to coaching for leaders. This is episode 28, airing on March 12, 2012. |
| 0:07.0 | Produced by Innovate Learning, Maximizing Human Potential. human potential. Welcome to Coaching for Leaders. |
| 0:18.0 | This is the show for Leaders who want to use coaching to engage and develop others without relying on authority or sanctions. |
| 0:27.0 | Whether you're a season leader or leading people for the first time, |
| 0:31.0 | improving your coaching skills will drive your success and most importantly the success of others. |
| 0:37.1 | This week's topic is how to drive productivity by getting out of people's way. |
| 0:42.4 | Well hello everyone and welcome to another episode of coaching for leaders. |
| 0:46.6 | My name is Dave Stahoviac and I'm coming to you from our studio here in Orange County, California where it was a beautiful weekend. I hope the same was true wherever you were and whatever you were doing this past weekend. |
| 0:58.0 | And we're back for another episode this week. |
| 1:01.0 | Last week we looked at how you can coach others to be more productive. |
| 1:07.1 | This week we're going to look at what you can and probably should be doing to get out of other |
| 1:12.1 | people's way in helping them to be productive. |
| 1:15.8 | But before jumping in there, you may have noticed there was a little different wording in the |
| 1:20.6 | intro today. |
| 1:21.6 | I did add in a few words and I was listening this week to an interview |
| 1:25.9 | that Daniel Pink was conducting with Gary Hamill, who's one of the top management thinkers out in the business world today, |
| 1:31.7 | and Gary Hamill said that when he works |
| 1:34.3 | with executive leaders one of the questions he asks them when he's working with |
| 1:39.2 | team retreats is he'll say how would you lead people if you didn't have any formal authority or |
| 1:47.0 | any access to sanctions and he said when he asks that of leaders, |
| 1:52.8 | most leaders don't know what to do. |
| 1:55.3 | And of course, he says that that's not really leadership. |
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