Quick Tips for New Leaders

Project Management

You need well executed projects to accomplish your goals. Clearly define and delegate.

• Define the elements of the project and assign responsibility to those best able to manage and execute those elements.
• Once assigning a task to someone – let them handle it. They should be accountable to you, but you should not rush in to micro-manage or to give others pieces of the project.
• Respect the chain of command you have established.
• Allow project leaders to pick your own team (committee) and manage them
• Clarify team (committee) goals and deadlines – hold people accountable.
• Always give positive recognition.

Meeting Management

Your time and everyone else’s is of incredible value. Invest it wisely.

• Set and keep a time schedule.
• As meeting manager (CEO or facilitator) be on time.
• Have an agenda – and publish it – also have paper copies.
• No surprises – everyone involved should know the purpose of the meeting.
• If guests are invited, advise them in advance that they are guests and will be given the opportunity to speak when it is appropriate to the reason they are in attendance.
• Nurture a climate that encourages people to express their own views – and to offer constructive disagreements and/or criticism.
• Share the responsibility of the meeting with attendees by having them responsible for different aspects of the agenda.
• Have a living agenda rather than a static one and allow others to input into the agenda before it is published.
• Start and end on time – that shows respect for others

Meeting Management

Meeting Management

In the past I’ve written extensively about types of meetings and managing them.  In this brief article, I just want to add a couple of important tips:

·       Set and keep a time schedule

·       As meeting manager (CEO or facilitator) be on time

·       Have an agenda – and publish it – also have paper copies

·       No surprises – everyone involved should know the purpose of the meeting

·       If guests are invited, advise them in advance that they are guests and will be given the opportunity to speak when it is appropriate to the reason they are in attendance.

·       Nurture a climate that encourages people to express their own views – and to offer constructive disagreements and/or criticism

·       Share the responsibility of the meeting with attendees by having them responsible for different aspects of the agenda.

·       Have a living agenda rather than a static one and allow others to input into the agenda before it is published

·       Start and end on time – that shows respect for others

·       Summarize the meeting – have action items at the end,