What’s the theme for the day at IEE?
“I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail. In the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life, such are the clouds and storms and quicksands and thousand-and-one items to be allowed for, that a man has to live, if he would not founder and go to the bottom and not make his port at all, by dead reckoning, and he must be a great calculator indeed who succeeds.
Simplify, simplify.”
Today: IEE team meeting involving some of our key partners distribution and training partners from Maryland/DC, Iowa, Illinois, Connecticut, New York, Kansas, and Texas. There are seemingly thousands upon thousands of important topics for discussion…so how to we make it an efficient and productive day that can help set course for a dynamic 2010-2011?
We began by brainstorming and agreeing upon a list of norms for the day using a real Power2Achieve Tool, the Portable Compact-4-Excellence. Here’s what we agreed to do:
- Say on task
- Courage to bring us back
- Respect different needs & personalities
- Don’t be “innocent bystanders”
- Use time & talent well
The entire process for the formation of our Portable Compact took over an hour…a waste of time with so many priorities and such finite time? That’s not exactly how we see it, because the process simultaneously allowed us to simplify…to focus on what everyone needs to be able to do when they leave this room today:
1) Communicate clearly {efficiently & accurately}
2) Build to meet the need
3) Exercise expertise
