QAspire

OCTOBER 13, 2014

Specific, measurable and time bound goals are important to set expectations on results and drive performance in short term. Goals is like math; they address the head. Goals have an end date. Goals however, are not sufficient. A disengaged workforce that just complies to goals, and that too – dispassionately.

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QAspire

JANUARY 2, 2013

Drawing the same analogy for an organization’s leadership, cohesion is the degree to which senior leaders belong to each other and to the collective goal as a team. If senior leadership team is not cohesive, organization runs in different directions and becomes difficult to just sustain, forget about growing further.

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QAspire

JANUARY 6, 2013

In a cohesive team, the end goal or outcome assumes higher importance than an individual. In an organizational setting, senior leaders have a common and over-arching goal. Tough and tricky decisions have to be made keeping this goal in perspective. This failure is not because of me.”. In a system, parts represent the whole.

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Team Leadership Bottom-up Goal 144

QAspire

JANUARY 22, 2012

Look for professional integrity while hiring, because that is at the core or self-organization. Strong purpose and clear goals automatically establishes a demand for performance. Offer/arrange for help: When people try to organize their work, they will definitely need help. Related Posts at QAspire. -

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Team Delegation Agility Constraint 178

QAspire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

She has spent her career leading teams in Fortune 500 Human Resources organizations. Chief executives of smaller companies and international and national organizations and leaders also regularly tap her expertise as coach, consultant, and/or lecturer to help them hone their positive cultures. Adams] Thanks Tanmay.

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Learning-by-Doing Innovation Long-term Books 70

QAspire

MARCH 8, 2015

If ‘customer centricity’ is one of your key values, you should consider optimizing the whole customer journey with your organization – not just your development processes. For customers though, complete product is an experience they receive through each interaction with the organization. Often, we also optimize that which is measured.

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Root Cause Analysis Senge Metrics Software 70

QAspire

MARCH 20, 2018

Being able to effectively choose the response to the triggers in a way that brings you closer to your intent and goals. Leading organizations, teams and initiatives is all about producing tangible outcomes. Being fully available, present, attentive and engaged in present moment, conversations, tasks and challenges.

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Productivity Products Leadership Charisma 153

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. It is high time for organizations to identify this waste and look carefully at how people are developed. Stay Tuned!

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Training Development McKinsey Long-term 172

QAspire

JUNE 16, 2015

Much like electricity which cannot be seen but empowers the devices, culture is an invisible force that drives beliefs, habits, rituals and outcomes of an organization. In fact, culture is a sum total of an organization’s shared values, behaviors, rituals, beliefs, attitudes, goals and practices. Reward what you want more of.

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Company Drucker Goal Strategy 70

QAspire

MAY 8, 2012

Set improvement goals: Once a reasonable buy-in for improvement exists, set goals on what needs to be achieved. Involve them and set them free: Once broad goals are established, set people free. Make those results tangible, understandable and relevant to business goals. Review and revise these targets as you go.

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Document Goal Blog Commitment 136

QAspire

JANUARY 29, 2013

Being at a certain position within organization means that you have a higher visibility which needs to be extended to others. Keeping People Uninformed: The more people in your team know what your goals are, the more buy-in you will get – and hence better results. Team also needs your guidance on how something can be accomplished.

Bottom-up 171

Bottom-up Information Definition Team 171

QAspire

AUGUST 19, 2012

Jay was expected to reach his goal while following the exact process and still doing twelve other things that were unstructured. In this case, to keep Jay focused on one important goal is the accountability of his boss – and if the boss failed on this one, Jay would definitely fail. Accountability does not work without authority.

Compliance 150

Compliance Project Leadership Styles Creativity 150

QAspire

AUGUST 8, 2010

I have seen extreme cases where organizations either measure so much or they don’t measure anything at all. Whether measuring a project or a business, here are a five steps to map your metrics with your business objectives: Know your goals : Identify what are your strategic, tactical and operational goals. You get the point.

Business Objectives 142

Business Objectives Metrics Objective Directory 142

QAspire

JULY 10, 2016

Last week, during an internal team event, we organized an interesting activity. To achieve the goal and overcome challenges, team members had to contribute equally – each link of the chain was important. Agility: 8 Pillars For Building Self Organizing Teams. Team members were asked to form a human chain by holding hands.

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Emotional Intelligence Team Agility Diversity 70

QAspire

OCTOBER 10, 2012

Appreciation is a fuel that helps others move forward in direction of their goals, yet we often see that managers take others/their work for granted thinking, “So what if they’re doing it – they’re paid to do just that.”

Team 170

Team Power Self-aware Learning-by-Doing 170

QAspire

JUNE 1, 2014

John Hunter of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog presents his post “ A Good Management System is Robust and Continually Improving ” and says, “ An organization succeeds because of the efforts of many great people. Read more in her post “ 3 Steps to Transform Your To-Do List ” ( @SusanMazza ). That’s it for this month’s edition.

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Leadership Development Development Leadership McCarthy 185

QAspire

JULY 22, 2013

Vision and values are not “feel good things” written on the wall plaque – they have to be lived in every decision that an organization takes. When you encounter an ego situation , quiz your goals. It is said that an organization is an elongated shadow of the leader. Monitor progress, not people. Be graceful , always!

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Team How To Mentor Bottom-up 191

QAspire

MARCH 6, 2016

The article also provides an excellent context of leadership storytelling and offers practical ways to frame your narrative depending on your goals. Leveraging Storytelling in Digital Organizations by Abhijit Bhaduri (Talk). I recommend that you read the original article. The clues to a great story – TED Talk by Andrew Stanton.

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Storytelling Power Leadership Article 70

QAspire

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

Depending on your approach and your mind-set, the experience of organizing and managing a project can be miserable or deeply satisfying. The way you organize projects, prioritize, and manage your energy is arguably more important than the quality of the ideas you wish to pursue.”. On Progress. On Managing Your Energy. On Taking Charge.

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Gantt Chart Bureaucracy Project Long-term 147

QAspire

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

More importantly, the overall goal of transformation is not just to execute a defined change — but to reinvent the organization and discover a new or revised business model based on a vision for the future. At Quality and Innovation blog , Nicole Radziwill also explored this critical difference between change and transformation.

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Reference Business Model Review Execution 70

QAspire

JANUARY 30, 2011

My Writing at QAspire Blog: A Worthy Goal for 2011 and Beyond. 5 Key Lessons From Learning Organizations. Creating a Learning Organization: 10 Actions For a Leader. Don’t Just Punish Them If They Don’t Comply. Excellence? Gandhi, Leadership And A Few Lessons On Simplicity. Value” and “Waste” – Watch Them Constantly.

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Blog Learning Organization Energy Review 91

QAspire

APRIL 17, 2016

In an organizational and team context, being able to coach people means helping them overcome their own resistance, get unstuck and move forward in the direction of their goals. Doing one at the cost of the other can be a great disservice to organization and its people. Great coaching is at the heart of meaningful accomplishments.

Books 70

Books Handbook Mentor Resistance 70

QAspire

JULY 1, 2012

New leaders often find it difficult to generate acceptance because a team/organization is a complex network of emotions, relationships and issues. Establish goals, keep setting expectations, define milestones and let your team members stretch to achieve those. The history comes along, but is invisible to this new manager.

Team 176

Team Resistance McCarthy Energy 176

QAspire

MAY 14, 2012

One of the biggest wastes in any organization are ineffective meetings. Some great tips, including this one: The goals of the daily stand-up are GIFTS. I love SCRUM methodology because it focuses on making meetings effective. Focus is on decisions and actions. A quick stand-up meeting everyday to track progress.

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Bond Tips Operations Motivation 173

QAspire

JULY 1, 2010

For any effort where you have goals, time line, constraints, dependencies, risks and need of resources to be managed - you have a project on your hand. Know your goals (Vision) : Lets say you want to pursue a certification in your field. Now, that’s a goal - a project for you. Name it as “Project Certification&#.

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Project Learning-by-Doing Constraint Planning 149

QAspire

AUGUST 29, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer ‘Their Work’ Versus ‘My Work’ When you work in an organization or within a team, you can think of it as ‘doing the work for someone’. On one side, they work for an organization, but on the other, they also aim to attain personal mastery in whatever they do.

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Maturity Blog Follow-up Project 149

QAspire

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

When we reach (or beat) our goals, do we conduct a robust ‘after action review’ to get to the bottom of what went right? She consults with organizations to develop and deploy innovative instructional designs and training worldwide. We indeed do learn from our mistakes. But, can we say the same about our successes?

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Succession After Action Review Learning-by-Doing Bottom-up 155

QAspire

AUGUST 5, 2010

Inspire them with stories about the organization. Your people, new hires and aspiring leaders are not as fascinated by numbers as they are with the stories associated with the organization. As a sales leader , you can use power of well crafted stories to project your organization. They make a point at the end of each story.

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Quality Blog Storytelling Management 155

QAspire

JULY 27, 2010

Now think about your organization. A common mistake organizations commit is to deliver great experience first time and then take the customer for granted. While reading I recalled one of your tweet “Quality is never a short-term goal. Yes, quality is a long term goal that requires discipline over a period of time.

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Quality Long-term Loyalty Compliance 141

QAspire

JUNE 26, 2014

We have to seriously rethink about how we lead ourselves, others and our organizations. What is the biggest challenge of living in a VUCA world as an individual/organization? The gift of VUCA – learners for life.Appreciation for the here and now.Interdependence of goals. ~ @tanvi_gautam. - – - – -.

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Agility Leadership Career Short-term 177

QAspire

JANUARY 16, 2011

When leaders are absolutely clear of their vision, goals and the means to attain those, they can simplify things a great deal. So here is a BIG question : How are you contributing towards simplifying the business (of your organization or your customer’s organization) and life (yours and people who work with you)?

Leadership 160

Leadership Directory Blog Quality 160

QAspire

JULY 14, 2010

Truly organic leadership is one that: - creates best value - is sustainable - is not harmful to the culture and quality of the organization - produces nontoxic output By Tanmay , July 15, 2010 @ 1:07 pm @Setu Vora - Thanks for adding those brilliant points. It should all start from Top in an organization.

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Long-term Short-term Quality Blog 154

QAspire

JANUARY 17, 2016

When you ask more questions to get to the WHY of things (and then to what and how) When you carry an open frame of mind that is receptive When you look for process and patterns even in discrete situations And when you use your understanding to connect the dots and look at a larger picture When you enjoy the process of learning without getting too anxious (..)

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Self-aware Mentor Learning-by-Doing Process 56

QAspire

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

Here are a few insights on organization life extracted from posts that I loved reading. Leaders can talk about goals and missions as well as plans and techniques but until a single version of reality is established, effectiveness will be hindered or thwarted.” – from the post Getting Real. - – - – -.

Organization 70

Organization Cooper Loyalty Objective 70

QAspire

DECEMBER 21, 2010

Well regarding, Servant Leadership, can you please explain where can this kind of ideology fit in a leadership activity or what a leader can benifit and when, by following this attitude of being just a server or a purpose to attain a end goal for organization. I hope this helps.

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Quality Blog Management Self-aware 120

QAspire

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

That is the common perception, and also a reality in many organizations even today. The cause of building a memorable organization. Alignment of each team member to goal/results leads to a flat structure where role of a leader is that of an enabler. A leader is placed at a higher rank and subordinates are at a lower rank.

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Quality Blog Management Reference 84

QAspire

MAY 13, 2021

Leaders create learning organizations. Not accidentally, the first letters of these four competencies (and steps) spell the word “SAGE”—a helpful mnemonic as well as a symbolic representation of the goal, the power-free facilitation of learning. So, what do leaders do in a learning organization? They mentor!

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Mentor Learning-by-Doing Open-book Books 172