Do One Thing to Make a Difference
November 28, 2008 by Phil Gerbyshak
Filed under management hack
Today, think of 1 thing you can do to make a difference for 1 person on your team. If you don’t know 1 thing that would make a difference to 1 person on your team, take 10 minutes today to meet with the best person on your team, and ask them what would make a difference for them. then do it.
Next week, do another thing.
Then do another thing…and another thing…and another thing.
One thing can make a difference. YOU can make a difference.
One thing photo credit to Joe Shlabotnik
1 thing a day is not easy. I would rather do one thing that made a difference to my whole team, and then deal with the individual people.
- Jacques
http://www.theslackermethod.com
I just read The Dream Manager by Matthew Kelly, which talks about helping your employees achieve any of their important personal life goals.
Which leaves me wondering - in your opinion, how directly related to the person’s work should that one thing be?
Shawn
- New reader, great content!
Jacques - You are absolutely right! Doing one thing per person isn’t easy. If it were, everyone would do it. Much as I’d like to say I do it every day, heck every week, I don’t. I aspire to do so, and when I do, I see the results. It’s SIMPLE though.
Shawn - Thanks for stopping by and weighing in with your question. I’ll answer your question in a future post so I can give it the thought it deserves. I read Dream Manager and have thought some about this question…but not enough to do it justice here.