
Daily
- Management By Walking About!
- Half an hour of ‘getting ahead of the game’ time in your diary (this might be thinking, or doing something like investigating a problem, improving a system, etc)!
- Jobs to do list at end of day
Weekly
- Thank everyone who works for you, one to one, for something definable that they have done!
- Team meeting – just half an hour!
- One to one coaching of one person per week !
- Time planning: transfer from your master list to your diary for next week
Monthly
- Review each person’s progress relative to the goals set at their appraisal!
- Project progress review meetings for each project
- Do a motivation review: sit and think about each person: are they motivated, what challenges have they been given, do they each have ownership of something, what are they learning, what coaching might they need?
Yearly
- Appraisals of every person who works for you !
- Ask the people who work for you “How can I be a better boss?”!
- Address the troops as one large group, on past present and future !
- Do between a day and a week of “Back to the Floor”!
- Review your personal goals and life quality – are you enjoying your work, what’s your stress level etc!
- Go on a course of some sort – get some new ideas!
- Read a book on the subject of your work (management, selling, negotiating, etc)
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