January, 2009

Anese Cavanaugh

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Is Your Organization Healthy?

Anese Cavanaugh

Qualities you’ll find in a healthy team/organization*: The organization’s vision is shared, communicated and alive. People have bought into it and know how their role directly supports it. People are self aware AND self possessed (in other words, they’re self-aware AND able to shift behavior/do something about their impact). Systems are in place so people know what to do, how to do it, and who does it (and can cross function in roles).

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Everything I need to know I learned in 2nd gradeā€¦

Anese Cavanaugh

What if the most simple and key principles of effective leadership and engagement were already in your bones and just needed a playful reminder? At the beginning of the school year, my son’s 2 nd grade class established class “ground rules” aka “Rules of Engagement.” These rules were set as guidelines by which they agreed to be treated and treat each other.