L'art de (se) diriger ( le blog de Laurent Pellegrin)

Pendant mon cours la semaine dernière, l'une des grandes interrogations était liée au croisement entre les notions de leadership et le temps disponible pour s'y consacrer au-delà de la pression quotidienne. Je vous propose une nouvelle fois de lire l'excellent blog de Mike Myatt et notamment cet article sur les voleurs de temps dont voici 15 "workplace time-wasters " à considérer avec attention :

1. Not Listening: Don’t make the mistake of thinking you’re saving time by not listening – the reality is you’ll be doing just the opposite.
2. Not Finishing: People who make effective use of time don’t talk about what they’re going to do – they simply do it. The easiest way to measure how effective someone is with their time is to measure what they actually get done. 
3. Working Longer Hours: Working consistently long hours numbs your mind, hurts your relationships, stifles your creativity, hinders your development, and it sets the wrong example. Working longer hours simply means you don’t understand how to use your time well.
4. Inability to Focus: A lack of focus and shifting priorities will create unnecessary chaos in the life of any leader. It’s important to remember that part-time efforts yield part-time results.
5. Technology Interruptions: Allowing technology (phone, email, IM, texting, social media, etc.) to serve as a distraction instead of an enhancement.
6. Bad Planning: Few things adversely impact productivity like a lack of planning. There is an old military saying that I’ve always found true – Prior Proper Planning Prevents Poor Performance.
7. Initiative Overload- Biting-off more than you can chew is a sure way to over-complicate things in a completely unproductive fashion. 
8. Drop-in Visitors;  If you don’t respect your time, neither will anyone else.
9. Ineffective Delegation;  Smart leaders view delegation as proper alignment of resourcing such that the best talent is matched with the greatest opportunities or the biggest challenges – nothing more, nothing less.
10. Poor Organization: Leaders who are not organized will become failed leaders. 
11. Procrastination;  Real leaders don’t avoid big issues, they hit them head-on. A proactive approach is almost always a better position to be in than finding yourself in a reactionary defensive posture.
12. Improper use of “Yes” & “No:”  Using yes or noimproperly simply because it’s the easy thing to do is not good leadership. Real leaders understand that questions deserve more than an answer – they deserve the correct answer.
13. Unproductive Meetings: If you find yourself leading or attending unproductive meetings you need to change the culture within your organization. Meetings should catalyze fruitful outcomes, not squander resources and adversely impact morale. The best leaders understand the meeting never takes place at the meeting – preparation matters.
14. Not Learning: Great leaders are always ahead of the curve by knowing what and with whom to invest their time in. Static, outdated thinking will only cause you to make poor choices with regard to how you spend your time.
15. Not Engaging: If you don’t spend time in collaboration and dialog with others you will miss significant opportunities to leverage time. 

Read the complete post att : http://www.n2growth.com/blog/leadership-and-time/