Keith E. Webb's Blog, page 18
November 3, 2014
Coaching the Positive Impact Scales
After my previous two posts on Positive Impact Scales I was asked how to coach using them. I have seen incredible changes in people and their organizations as they made changes in these four areas: Purpose, Impact, Money, and Ease. Here is my toolkit for increasing Positive Impact.
First, let me overview my 4-step process to coach the Positive Impact Scales.
I look at Purpose first. If the activity doesn’t fit Purpose, don’t be tempted, just eliminate it.
Next I look at Impact. What would produc...
October 27, 2014
Want to Tick Off Your Boss? Use Your Smartphone in Meetings
You are in a meeting. Your phone vibrates, youread the message, type a response and set the phone back down. The whole process takes you only 15 seconds. A new study says you’ve just irritated your boss and colleagues.
Lets face it, smartphones are everywhere. Yet, smartphone etiquette has not kept up.
One time, I witnessed a pastor take a call in the middle of teaching a group of people. “Hello? Can I call you back, I’m teaching. Yes, right now. There’s a group here. I’ll c...
October 20, 2014
4 Strategies You Follow That Reduce Positive Impact
Effective leadership producesa sustained result within the organization’s purpose. I developedthe Positive Impact Scaleto manage tradeoffs between Purpose, Impact, Money, and Ease. I wrote about those in 4 Tradeoffs to Create Positive Impact. This article looks at 4 strategiesyou may follow that actually reduce Positive Impact.
It’s sometimes more instructive to talk about what not to do. I’ve seen 4 common mistakes that leaders makewhen trying to create positive impact. By...
Using Positive Impact Scales To Lead Effectively
Effective leadership producesa sustained result within the organization’s purpose. I developedthe Positive Impact Scaleto manage tradeoffs between Purpose, Impact, Money, and Ease. I wrote about those in 4 Tradeoffs to Create Positive Impact. This article helps you to use the Positive Impact Scales in real situations.
It’s sometimes more instructive to talk about what not to do. I’ve seen 4 common mistakes that leaders makewhen trying to create positive impact. By understand...
October 13, 2014
4 Tradeoffs to Create Positive Impact
“Changed lives,” Peter Drucker said, is the bottom line for the not-for-profit organization. To produce the sustained ability to change lives, you need purpose, effort, organization and money. Everything you do is a trade off between resources and results. Here are 4 scales I use to plan and make decisions to create sustainable positive impact.
Let me explain the four scales first, then I’ll show you how they interact.
1. Purpose
Regardless of whether you are a solopenuer or large o...
October 7, 2014
Do It Now: Change the Toilet Paper Roll and 19 Other Things to Boost Your Productivity
We are really good at putting things off until later. Some things, like changing the toilet paper roll, are better done now. Leaders who Do It Now at work and at home have more focus and greater productivity.
When I postedaphoto on Facebook of an empty toilet paper holder and a new rollset on the counter, I received a lotof comments.
What surprised me was how many people defended setting the toilet paper on the counter rather than taking 10 seconds to put it on the holder. It’s a small thing, y...
September 29, 2014
Psychology Tells Us How to Improve Our Planning
We allstruggle with our schedules. We don’t get done what wewant to. Manythingstake longer than we expect. And urgent tasks regularlybump out more strategy things. The good news is, psychologists have foundtwo predictable ways that we mess up our planning – and what to do about them.
Psychologists understandour difficulties in planning. They know why we are late to appointments. They know why we makecommitments that we later regret.
Here’s what to do about it and how to plan...
September 23, 2014
Technology Has Completely Changed Our Communication, and What You Need To Do
Before mobile phones, telephones were wired to a place – ahome, aoffice, a store. If you wanted to speak with someone you called the place where you expected them to be. Now that most people have cell phones we call the person.
Moving from place to person is a paradigm shift.
Today, it isone phone per person rather than a phone for a group of peopleat a place. Growing up, when the phone rang I raced my brothers to answer it hoping that it was one of myfriends calling. The onl...
September 16, 2014
Why Leaders Need To Develop Their Root System
We don’t normally see roots. We see the results of roots –a strong healthy plantand its fruit. A leader’s roots are hidden out of sight but the condition of those roots isclearly evidentin the life of the leader. Weak roots make aweak leader.
My neighbor had a 150foot tall Douglas fir tree that was probably 70 years old. One day,it started dropping all it’s needles. After a couple of weeks it was a naked, sick-looking giant.
The tree died even though it was so strong and healthy for 70 years be...
September 7, 2014
Want To Be Happy? Embrace Your Problems
Too often people find a new job, house, friend, or spouse, only to discover that the problems of the previous one followed them.Happinesscomes not by changing the scenery but more often by changing our perspective.
We don’t like pain, dark questions, and life’s tensions.But it is one of life’s great ironies that personal growth and happinessare often a resultof journeying through the tough times, not avoiding them.Shortcuts andBand-Aid solutions only repackage and prolong ou...
