The Poolside Development Checklist

By: |Published on: Jul 6, 2016|Categories: Leadership, Performance Improvement|

It’s that time of year again. Very soon, the schools will break for their summer vacation and many of us will be having a two-week break from work. With that in mind, your summer holidays are a great time to reflect on where you are now and what you should aim to achieve in the months ahead.

 

So whether you’re going to be lying by a pool, camping in a tent or simply having a few days at home, ask yourself these questions?

 

Personal Effectiveness

  • What demonstrable improvements in your capabilities have you achieved since last summer, and where are you treading water or going backwards?
  • Where could you best use your strengths to help your organisation achieve one of its key objectives?
  • What lower priority activities can you either stop doing or significantly reduce your time investment, in order to improve your overall productivity and effectiveness?

 

Team Effectiveness

  • How clear are your team’s goals and priorities, and does everyone know what success looks like?
  • Are all the members of your team playing to their strengths, with clear and stretching individual objectives?
  • How would you rate your team’s overall effectiveness and what barriers to better performance does it face?

 

Organisational and Strategic Effectiveness

  • How clear and compelling is your organisation’s strategy and priorities?
  • How well engaged with the strategy are teams from across the organisation?
  • What opportunities exist for better ongoing collaboration and more effective delivery of your operations and initiatives across departments?

 

Customer Impact Effectiveness

  • What can you do to spend more time with your customers (internal and external), observing how they use your products or services and identifying new needs and opportunities?
  • How can you and your team get more feedback from your customers to improve the value you deliver?
  • What can you, your team and your organisation do to create stronger relationships with your customers, increasing their loyalty and their likelihood to recommend you to others?

 

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