How To Protect Your Team Part 1: USE YOUR EAGLE EYE—SPOT DANGER

You’re not supposed to let bad things happen to your team

It’s up to you to look out for you. It’s inevitable. Let’s say you work with someone for a long period of time. You work together on projects where there are responsibilities and deadlines.  

 

Sooner or later they’re going to let you down.
Most of the time it will be by accident but nevertheless, it’s going to happen unless you make sure it doesn’t.  

 

How can you do that?
You keep a close eye on the situation…AN EAGLE EYE.  You can stay aware of how things could go wrong. You can set the other person or the other people up for success by putting things in place that minimize the chance for problems.

 

 You can make sure your instructions are clear:

• establish deadlines, milestones, benchmarks
• checking and inspecting
• continue to give key reminders
• give encouragement when they are on track 
• constantly stay on top of things

It’s your life, your reputation and your business. It’s your job to protect them. If you can’t shift that responsibility to others and they drop the ball…you are the one that gets hurt.

Stay alert, use your EAGLE EYE to spot dangers. When you see it, don’t hesitate, POUNCE on them and protect your world!

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This is the introduction to a Series on HOW TO PROTECT YOUR TEAM. More on this subject will be posted soon.

The Mediocre Complicate. The Great Simplify.

Anybody can complicate it. It takes a special effort to come up with a simple solution.

“Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand.” —
General Colin Powell

This is important because one of the main responsibilities Leaders have is to keep things moving forward at all times. It's inevitable that problems will occur and if the Leader can’t come up with solutions fast, the team grinds to a halt.

The difference between a complicated and simple solution is often the difference between winning and losing.

• If its complicated it takes more skill to do it - requires a gifted person
• If its complicated it takes more time to do it - ruins your efficiency
• If its complicated it takes more training to do it - bogs down your speed of implementation

When you are looking for Leaders, look for the one that can come up with the simple solution.