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People Management Training Process For Power & Influence
In your business life apply the "D4 People Management Process" for getting more done, in less time, with less cost, and less hassles, while involving more people so you are doing less to get more - whew!!
Managers' Outrageous Objective #1: Engaging, aligning, and committing people so s/he can get healthier, lead a more balanced work-style, all the while gaining more organizational power and influence.
Managers' Outrageous Objective #2: To have more employees aligned, engaged and committed to excellence so they can feel more fulfilled while developing more job security.
Challenged with a task or project that will eat up your time, time that you don't really have because you're already hard up against trying to do everything that needs to be done - yesterday?
Use the D4 People Management Process:
Do It -- If you really have to get done now and there is no one else to do it. And, only if your boss has made it really clear in no uncertain terms that it is a very high priority. Plus you have got her/his agreement that you will drop doing some other things to get this thing done -- just go ahead, get on it, and do it -- ASAP. This is a crisis mode method only to be used occasionally. Do not, under any circumstances, let this become a habit. This habit will either burn you out or kill you.
Demote It -- Before spending time on a project or task, do a quick analysis with you're your boss or a colleague to evaluate whether it really needs to be done, now -- or at all. Most managers, find when looking back, about 47% of projects or tasks were time wasters that did not yield the expected results. Make sure you give your boss the reasons for demoting it. Most importantly that; (a) s/he understands why and (b) that s/he agrees.
Delegate It -- There is a never-ending list of things for managers to do. So do a diagnosis to figure out if this project or task needs to be executed by you. Bring in your best employees to get their views. You may find that one or two of them may say "Hey we can do that!" So then it's off your plate. Make sure the drop-dead date is clearly understood. One of the most effective managerial skills to have and practice is to prioritize, figure out how the "it" can get done by when, and let them fly at it. Remember you should save your time for top priority things. If everything is top priority, then nothing is of priority and you, as manager, are out of control eroding your organizational power and influence.
Do-minute-ate It -- This is the one-step-at-a-time-minute-by-minute, to get it done rush job. You do it yourself or, ask someone else who is competent and motivated to do it -- to do it - now on the tight time line. This is the-be-in-the-moment strive for excellence objective. Nothing else matters. This is even more rushed than the "Do It" D. How well a manager handles these kinds of situations determines her/his organizational power and influence.
Dr. Jim Sellner, PhD:
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