Sunday, November 1, 2015

The Why Of Work: Actions and Outcomes

"Leaders create a line of sight by crafting "if...then...." logic"

Our performance metrics are often based on then. My role is to identify for myself and my team what our if's are to ensure that we get there. Once I know this it becomes my responsibility to share these.

The last entry I did on this book I published my action item. A simple task of bringing up the idea of higher quality office furniture/ decor as a method to support a more positive work environment for our team. It took much longer than I anticipated for me to bring it up, and ultimately it came up during an e-mail discussion about recent employee engagement survey results.

Learning that I feel a sense of obligation to those random folks who read this, the action challenge that I am going to set for my self is going to be a team update call in December looking at the first 4 months of the Fiscal Year. Acknowledging that our metrics are based on Outcomes (Thens) and sharing what our actions (if's) need to be for us to find success.

Our actions define our outcome even when variables are beyond our control