Issue No. 12 of Your Weekly Staff Meeting features The Delegation Bucket and The Crisis Bucket. Why a weekly staff meeting? Is it really needed? Zig Ziglar said, "People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing ñ thatís why we recommend it daily."
Read This Classic Book
on Effective Delegation
Why delegate a task to an inexperienced team member when you can nail the project faster, better and with less hassle yourself? If you thrive on being the Problem Solving Guru on your team, this book is for you and your ego. You'll learn how to get the "monkey" (someone elseís assignment) off your back and how to avoid accepting monkeys in the first place.
If you've been "delegating" for years, but have never read this book, there's still hope. Buy The One Minute Manager Meets the Monkey and learn the three impositions on your time, the four rules for caring for and feeding monkeys, and the two monkey insurance policies that will lead to your success.
Co-authors Ken Blanchard, the late William Oncken, Jr. (the original creator of the Monkey workshop), and Hal Burrows penned this humorous classic on delegation. When your entire team understands and uses this powerful "monkey" analogy and language, it will dramatically change your office culture.
Invite Blanchard Training to present the "Monkey" workshop to your team.
Your Weekly Staff Meeting Questions:
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1. Raise your hand if you've ever had any formal training, read a book, or listened to a tape or CD on delegation.
2. For ECFA Members: Here’s a quick review of what it takes to remain an ECFA member in good standing.
3. Think of someone who is a thoughtful delegator. What have you learned from their delegating style?
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Insights from the Management Buckets Workshop Experience
Your CEO, senior pastor, vice president, department head or key leader has just resigned. Rumors are flying, but none can be substantiated. Whoís in charge? Who can speak to the press? Do you call your lawyer, your board chair or the F.B.I.?
Excellent organizations and churches have best practices already in place for addressing a crisis. Frances Hesselbein, former CEO of the Girl Scouts, writes that "crisis management is not a discipline to be learned on the job, in the midst of the storm. It must be learned and practiced when there's not a cloud in the organizational sky." Read Crisis Management: A Leadership Imperative.
In our Management Buckets Workshop Experience, we review best practices for bailing water when The Crisis Bucket inundates your organization.
Your Weekly Staff Meeting Questions:
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1. A reporter is interviewing your staff in the parking lot about an organizational rumor. What do you do next?
2. Expect the unexpected! On a scale of one to 10 (10 is excellent), how prepared are we for the next crisis?
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