Management and leadership tasks can be hard.
But there’s a bunch of easy stuff too. So get that right.
I was listening to Scott Galloway talk the other day and his advice to young people included “get the easy stuff right”.
It occurred to me that this is generally good advice for life.
And it’s good advice for managers, but especially new ones.
The time will come when we’re asked to grind out some hard tasks. Hard because they take more developed skills. Hard for the effort required. And hard because they involve tough decisions.
But there’s many things we can do that are not hard at all. So why waste the opportunity to get easy things right, like:
- Schedule regular one on ones with your team, a long way in advance
- Say hello to your team members, everyday
- Show an interest in people as human beings, instead of treating them like lifeless drones
- Organise regular team meetings
- Make all actions SMART and allocate them to someone. Every single one
- Define the purpose of every meeting
- Arrive on time (if not a little bit early). Every time
- Say what you’ll do. And do what you’ll say
- Turn up to meetings prepared
- Be honest. Always
And the number one easy thing to get right?
Be kind. Always 😊.
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