High Performance Leadership

Don't start another project. Launch it. Give that project the energy, the momentum, the power it needs to focus on the goal, work the plan, and create something both useful and memorable. Your project is worth it. Give that new start the focus it needs with a workshop that brings together all of the key constituents. Let your project team feel part of something special by celebrating before they even get started. Giving your project a collaborative workshop launch could be the most high impact thing you could do for it. What goes into a collaborate workshop launch? You decide. I have found it helpful and energizing to include these: A vision/mission for your team.  This could be your project goal, expressed in a way that drives some excitement into the project A team identify. Depending on the project (and your budget) that could be as simple as matching T-shirts and coffee mugs, or as elaborate as a team name theme song, and video Carefully prepared agenda. Make si...

Do you have the people you need on your team to solve your biggest problem? You might need to find them. You might need to develop them. You might need to recruit them. But, you need them. You need who you need. It doesn't fool you or the problem to proceed pretending that you can solve that big problem without the necessary resources. Get what you need or stop fooling yourself. I hear what you're thinking (that's spooky but you know what I mean, don't you?) in that sometimes you just have to suck it up and put on your super hero cape and get it done all by yourself or with the limited resources you have. Just because resources are limited doesn't mean you can't develop them. And, just because resources are limited doesn't mean you can't interest another superstar in your work if the work is valuable enough. Your work IS valuable enough, right? Get the help you need. Even superheroes need teams when the problem is big enough. -- Douglas Bre...

How old is the data that you are relying on to complete that project? How certain are you that the information you are relying on is timely and true? Statistics age faster than milk. Get fresh data when you need it. Oh yeah, you probably need it now. -- Douglas Brent Smith Are you launching a big project? Contact me today about how to get your project team ready for success. doug@frontrangeleadership.com

What's your biggest project? High performance leaders tackle tough projects -- big projects. Projects that make life better, healthier, or more peaceful. Projects launched with big aspirations, big expectations, and the energy it takes to take them on. Think about the biggest project you've ever completed. What made it work? What were the things that you did to propel that project forward? What were the results? Important projects don't always find us -- sometimes we need to launch them ourselves. Projects about things we deeply care about. Projects with outcomes that change the world for the better. What if your life were a series of projects to create a better, more fair, and more healthy world? Wouldn't that be time well spent? -- Douglas Brent Smith Front Range Leadership: Fast, affordable leadership training workshops , webinars , and teleclasses .