I've collected the following links recently about selling your vision and obtaining buy-in. Hopefully these will be helpful to you.
3 Tips to Re-Focus Your Team on the New Strategy
http://web.hbr.org/email/archive/managementtip.php?date=101510
Know Your Enemy: The People Who Block Buy-in by John Kotter:
http://blogs.hbr.org/kotter/2010/09/know-your-enemy-the-people-who.html
"Four Ways to Kill a Good Idea" by John Kotter
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6471.html
Buy-In by John Kotter and Lorne A. Whitehead
http://www.kotterinternational.com/kotterprinciples/BuyIn.aspx
Selling Your Vision:
http://www.inc.com/magazine/20101001/john-kotter-on-selling-your-vision.html
Involve Frontline Employees in Creating Strategy:
http://web.hbr.org/email/archive/managementtip.php?date=100110
Other Leadership and Management tips:
http://twitter.com/managementtip
Protect Your Good Idea
http://s.hbr.org/9wHQa5
What are your thoughts? Please comment!
Saturday, October 30, 2010
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Discussion points for the first mentoring meeting
Someone recently asked me to mentor them.
From past experience and looking around, I found this list to be a good starting point for our first meeting. I asked them to schedule the first meeting and I suggested that we would start with discussing the following points:
1. Introductions and experience background of each of us (let's please exchange resumes and/or brief autobiographies before the first meeting)
2. Goals? (for both of us)
3. Constraints, issues, boundaries, and considerations
3.1. Confidentiality
3.2. Duration, frequency, and Length of meetings (How long of a commitment will this be for? How often will we meet? How long will we meet each time?)
3.3. Checkpoints to assess the mentoring status and/or if we should continue
3.4. Considerations of environment: such as lack of confidence, new to position, etc.
3.5. How will we consider that we're reached the goal
3.6. Can we contact each other ad-hoc? Under what conditions and how?
4. Agenda for our meetings?
5. Who will take notes (i.e. action items, learnings, agenda for next meeting) and how will these notes be shared?
Big consideration for the first meeting: Is there any way that we can meet in person? Even if our periodic meetings must be on the phone, can we at least meet in person for the first meeting?
A few reference articles for mentoring:
I'm open to suggestions for improving this list. Please leave a comment!
From past experience and looking around, I found this list to be a good starting point for our first meeting. I asked them to schedule the first meeting and I suggested that we would start with discussing the following points:
1. Introductions and experience background of each of us (let's please exchange resumes and/or brief autobiographies before the first meeting)
2. Goals? (for both of us)
3. Constraints, issues, boundaries, and considerations
3.1. Confidentiality
3.2. Duration, frequency, and Length of meetings (How long of a commitment will this be for? How often will we meet? How long will we meet each time?)
3.3. Checkpoints to assess the mentoring status and/or if we should continue
3.4. Considerations of environment: such as lack of confidence, new to position, etc.
3.5. How will we consider that we're reached the goal
3.6. Can we contact each other ad-hoc? Under what conditions and how?
4. Agenda for our meetings?
5. Who will take notes (i.e. action items, learnings, agenda for next meeting) and how will these notes be shared?
Big consideration for the first meeting: Is there any way that we can meet in person? Even if our periodic meetings must be on the phone, can we at least meet in person for the first meeting?
A few reference articles for mentoring:
I'm open to suggestions for improving this list. Please leave a comment!
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