You’re probably familiar with the term KPI’s or Key Performance Indicators. KPI’s are driven by top-down leadership decisions. These are the Key Performance Indicators for the company based on the Annual, Quarterly and Trimester planning and strategy meetings businesses have to set direction for the business.
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Increase Accountability with OKRs – Objectives and Key Results
Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Dec 29, 2014
Topics: Accountability, employee performance, meeting rhythms, Alignment, precision and specificity
Warm chocolate chip cookies and radishes! You’ve smelled fresh baked chocolate chip cookies haven’t you? They smell delicious.
Topics: time management, habits, The Power of Habit, precision and specificity, routine, Willpower
Where Does Confidence Come From? Giving Positive Reinforcement
Posted by Douglas A Wick on Thu, Aug 21, 2014
Topics: Employee Feedback, employee engagement, positive reinforcement, confidence, precision and specificity
Key Behaviors Build Effective Energy Management Rituals
Posted by Douglas A Wick on Thu, Oct 3, 2013
Think of something as simple as brushing your teeth. It is not something that you ordinarily have to remind yourself to do, is it?
Topics: employee performance, precision and specificity, The Power of Full Engagement, Strategic Statement of Values
Time Management - Managing Energy Versus Managing Time
Posted by Douglas A Wick on Thu, Sep 19, 2013
Topics: priorities, time management, performance, precision and specificity
Discernment should be a gift we all have with the talent to use it wisely. One of the greatest challenges we face is how and where we spend our time.
Topics: Discipline, Acute Myeloid Luekemia, priorities, precision and specificity
In my last blog Discipline Scheduling - Three Keys to Building Effective Rituals we looked at three keys to building effective rituals. The three keys are:
Topics: Discipline, rituals, precision and specificity
Discipline Scheduling - Three Keys to Building Effective Rituals
Posted by Douglas A Wick on Thu, Apr 7, 2011
How important is it to specify the time you are going to do something to predict accomplishment? Precision and Specificity is one of the three key to establishing effective rituals. Researchers have found that even chronic procrastinators are eight times more likely to follow through if they set a specific time to complete it. Here’s an example from Be Excellent at Anything that illustrates the importance of precision and specificity.
Topics: time management, rituals, precision and specificity, routine
Priorities Discipline Requires Precision and Specificity
Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Apr 4, 2011
How well do you get things done? Do you get your daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly priorities completed on time? How well do your people do at this?
Topics: Discipline, priorities, rituals, precision and specificity
“I’d get up at 4:30 AM, exercise, read something inspirational, and then have a healthy breakfast. That was my routine.” My client was explaining why he decided to re-gage our coaching work. When we were working together this had been his faithful morning regiment, every day. For the past year or better he explained he’d not been following this routine and he found his business and personal focus suffering.
Topics: Accountability, rituals, precision and specificity, The Power of Full Engagement, routine