Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 11, 2012

Broad goals that are established within the proper context. To be seen as competent, managers must be able to understand the goals of the organization, how those goals affect his or her manager, how those goals will affect your work, and then be able to supply you with sufficient information and resources to allow you to do your best.

Metrics 161

Metrics Objective System Resources 161

Mike Cardus

JANUARY 2, 2012

Contact Mike and we will create this standard and develop metrics, coaching and feedback to make you teams and leaders better. For example, a new manager who has to set-goals, develop plans and delegate tasks BUT was never taught a method for how to do this. First you copy, Then Understand, Finally you master.

Innovation 131

Innovation Delegation Learning-by-Doing Metrics 131

QAspire

FEBRUARY 2, 2014

Leadership development efforts are not aligned with strategic goals and leadership development programs are oriented around commercial products that have limited relevance to actual needs or an organization. Use of incorrect “make-believe” metrics to gauge effectiveness of leadership development programs.

Training 172

Training Development McKinsey Long-term 172

Mike Cardus

JANUARY 22, 2013

Their direct manager is noticing a lapse in time for responses to customers and project members, poor delegation of tasks and prioritization of incoming and outgoing work, plus increased signs of stress with the employees. Delegation of short-term tasks, to free up time for the areas they have control over. Goal Setting and Time Span.

Objective 122

Objective Planning Development Management 122

Strategy Driven

MAY 14, 2021

There are several essentials of a good project plan and they are: Common project goals. Appropriate success metrics. Talk to your team members individually and find out about their career goals, immediate project interests, and anything else that they would like to share with you. What are the essentials of a project plan?

Efficiency 65

Efficiency Team Project Planning 65

HR Digest

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Link Performance to Goals It might be easier to convey a perspective with fixed start and end points in mind. While listing the things to say in a performance review, try to link it to a fixed goal so employees can visualize how they are currently measuring up to it without feeling cornered by your phrasing.

Performance Review 98

Performance Review Review Project Positioning 98

Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 19, 2012

This is sort of a team building , project management , goal-setting , communication kind of idea. The team already knew the Goal , has defined Roles , and we were continually re-working and adjusting it’s procedures …and they created a visual progress chart, that the team can look at and measure success and completion.

Team Building 137

Team Building Project Team Management 137

Mike Cardus

AUGUST 1, 2012

For example, consider a new manager who has to set-goals, develop plans and delegate tasks BUT was never taught a method for how to do this. The manager freaks out ( learning by drowning) YELLS at someone, and poorly delegates the work. Delegation as an example. Rote Copying. This is a shared standard. Personal Mastery.

Delegation 130

Delegation Innovation Retail Objective 130

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2012

Delegation sounds great on paper, but you're responsible for some major projects, and management expects flawless execution. Managers prone to micromanagement fall prey to several misconceptions about delegating to staff. The first is the assumption that delegation has an on and off switch. Who are they trying to kid?

Delegation 17

Delegation Micromanagement Learning Curve Metrics 17

Mike Cardus

MARCH 15, 2011

The staff now had clear and distinct goals and tasks to be completed within time frames, allowing for great work and customer service. Create metrics for feedback loops of success and failure. Specific Exponent Leadership Process content sections were used: Goal Setting and Time Span. Managing Time: Managing Yourself.

Succession 102

Succession Case Study Delegation Metrics 102

Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Assume People Know How to Achieve a Goal or Express a Value. Sometimes, you might be the disrupting factor (with other priorities you’ve delegated). The team has discussed their goal. Not yet—understanding the goal is one thing. Favor Friends and Former Peers. Be an Expert in Everything . Be a Push Over.

Management 591

Management Follow-up Motivation Goal 591

Leadership Freak

APRIL 30, 2012

Freedom ignites passion, imagination, and initiative; control destroys it. Freedom feeds vitality; control oppresses and limits. Freedom, however, is dangerous. Freedom is essential because their expertise exceeds yours, in their area. If you know more than everyone on your team, you have a weak team. Effective leaders set people free.

Team 221

Team Metrics Delegation Goal 221

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2014

They pushed management to change the metrics they used for measuring success from a focus on gross earnings to an emphasis on returns on their invested capital. They are to: Set the goals for the business. Define the metrics to measure the business’s success. Choosing your goals. “It’s our legacy. It’s our money.”.

Micromanagement 8

Micromanagement Policies Delegation Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 3, 2015

When skillfully done, it can help employees clarify meaningful goals and make progress toward achieving them. Coaching homework should help an employee make progress towards achieving a goal that he or she cares about. These activities and metrics help build structure, accountability, and results into the process.

Metrics 8

Metrics Learning-by-Doing Goal Project 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Across the health care industry, there’s a growing sense that pushing doctors ever harder to achieve productivity, quality, and service goals is backfiring. Doctors are working harder than ever and spending more of their time documenting clinical metrics and measuring patient satisfaction.

Health Care 8

Health Care Teamwork Survey Customer Loyalty 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2012

One CEO, for example, excelled at communicating to small groups, delegating and team-building. FACT : New CEOs should find out what makes a company tick and work with this reality to achieve goals. MYTH #4 : New CEOs must promptly define and communicate performance metrics. That's often not the case.

CEO 15

CEO First-mover Advantage Leadership Styles Execution 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2017

And the whole system, not just primary care, is responsible for quality metrics related to prevention and chronic care (e.g., Delegate Responsibility. At its core, the POE is an agreement of process and delegation of tasks between physicians and their administrative supports.

Health Care 8

Health Care Compliance Licensing System 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2014

Employees are more likely to follow through on goals set by a manager they trust and to be more forthcoming about the challenges they see on their level. Share as much as you can about the current health and future goals of the company. And yet it’s essential to boosting employee engagement, motivation, and candor.

Survey 13

Survey Case Study Metrics Goal 13

Leadership Freak

APRIL 30, 2012

Freedom ignites passion, imagination, and initiative; control destroys it. Freedom feeds vitality; control oppresses and limits. Freedom, however, is dangerous. Freedom is essential because their expertise exceeds yours, in their area. If you know more than everyone on your team, you have a weak team. Effective leaders set people free.

Team 100

Team Metrics Delegation Environment 100

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2013

If you speak candidly with a manager's direct reports about his development needs, their comments tend to focus on a fairly predictable set of issues: fairness, delegation, openness to their ideas, the quality of performance feedback, coaching, and career guidance. Appreciate the Source's Perspective — and Potential Bias.

360-Degree Feedback 8

360-Degree Feedback Delegation Career Execution 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2018

At the same time, our prediction is that AI will also lead to a greater emphasis on the “soft” elements of leadership — the personality traits, attitudes, and behaviors that allow individuals to help others achieve a common goal or shared purpose.

Leadership 8

Leadership Short-term Agility Emotional Intelligence 8

Mike Cardus

JUNE 1, 2011

We’ll be happy to propose a price once we understand your goals and objectives. The team is given customer expectations, tools and time to delegate their responsibilities amongst team members for maximum success. The riddle uses a complicated code, somewhat like the word systems used for job descriptions, or for organizational metrics.

Team Building 110

Team Building Team Participative Guidelines 110

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2012

Brand experience is the outward expression of what goes on inside an organization, and it's hard to wallpaper over structures split by inconsistent goals and cultures that do not value collaboration. This is not as simple as organizing and delegating tasks—it is a messy, ambiguous undertaking.

Horizontal Integration 8

Horizontal Integration Company Engineering Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2015

One of the team’s central findings is that TDABC cannot be delegated to the finance function. The HBS team has been using Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing (TDABC), an approach initially proposed by one of us (Bob Kaplan) and Michael Porter, to help providers pursue the value-based delivery of care.

Mayo 8

Mayo Health Care Committee Project 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2016

I’ve seen it over and over again: when most managers have a new project or task to delegate, the question that they naturally default to is “Who has capacity for this”? Remember that challenge trumps capacity. Sometimes this simply means, “Who could do this task easily and quickly?”

Innovation 8

Innovation Delegation Creativity Project 8

The Empowered Buisness

OCTOBER 17, 2014

The “hard” aspects of business — strategy, systems and metrics – often trump the intangible aspects. As a result, they resist “owning” their leadership role, delegating and holding themselves and others accountable. 2. Leaders tend to focus on the tangible, at expense of the intangible, aspects within their organizations.

Leadership 109

Leadership Self-aware Cost Teamwork 109