It’s Wednesday.  How are you doing on your leadership priorities this week?

If you are starting to feel the week slip away from you, here’s a blunt reminder and a few tips to focus on your true priorities.  The week’s not over yet…and victory is still within your reach. It’s time to fight off the fires and push away from the urgent-unimportant.

Are you make one on one time for your associates?

Adjust the calendar to fit in some one on one and team coaching time.   If there is no give in the middle, look to the beginning and end.  Meet your team member for coffee (you buy) or order in lunch (you still buy) and provide the focused coaching and feedback that people need to perform at a high level.

Are you making the decisions that free your colleagues to move forward?

Every decision you don’t make or that you forestall has a ripple effect throughout your team.  Try pushing decision-making downstream, or face up  to the fact that for some issues, the buck stops with you.  Make the call.

Is your concern over risk affecting the speed of your decision-making?

Check out the timeless advice that I received from a seminar participant in Decision-Making and the Three Rules of Risk Management.

Is fear crippling your team and keeping people from focusing on creating value and solving problems?

This is a common problem in this economy.  As Herbert said, “Fear is the Mind Killer.”  Spend 7 minutes and listen to my podcast on Dealing with Fear in the Workplace, and then put the suggestions into play.

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Here’s the blunt part.  GET MOVING!

Oh, and have a great and productive rest of the week.  -Art