Pave That Dirt Road Set A Direction Your Team Will Follow

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Pave That Dirt Road! Set A Direction Your Team
Will Follow

• Lonnie Pacelli
• Leading on the Edge International
• lonnie_at_leadingonedge.com

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Bumps, bruises flat tires
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Components of a quality direction statement

• Realistic
• Inspirational
• Doable
• Understandable
• Relevant
• Embraced

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Takeaway 1 Dont make direction setting harder
than it needs to be

• Dont get wrapped up in terminology
• Use simple-simon language
• Avoid marathon sessions

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Takeaway 2 Empower the team to take a voice in
direction setting, but dont delegate away
accountability

• Understand expectations up, down, and around
• Let others voice viewpoints, then figure out what
  to do with them
• Keep it moving forward
• Be involved, be very involved

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Takeaway 3 Clearly understand and communicate
priorities and tradeoffs

• Know what your boss needs to deliver upon
• Be realistically aggressive in what you take on
• Be manic about addressing mismatches in priorities

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Takeaway 4 Live the direction you set

• Keep your direction prominently posted
• Regularly review your direction with your team
• Use the direction as a litmus test for new
  projects or initiatives
• Hold team members accountable for living the
  direction

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Takeaway 5 Enlist others to help you achieve
your direction

• Check your ego at the door
• Use a mentor or coach
• Seize opportunities to present your direction to
  peer groups
• Actively look for partnering opportunities

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Next Steps

• Review the planning, process and people
  attributes on the following slides
• For each attribute, self-assess your capability
• 3 Yes, I do this well
• 2 Sometimes I do this well
• 1 I dont do this very well
• 0 I dont do this at all
• Choose your lowest three scores and develop an
  action plan for how to address
• Consider asking a colleague or mentor to assess
  you to get additional perspective

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Takeaway 1 Dont make direction setting harder
than it needs to be
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Takeaway 2 Empower the team to take a voice in
direction setting, but dont delegate away
accountability
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Takeaway 3 Clearly understand and communicate
priorities and tradeoffs
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Takeaway 4 Live the direction you set
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Takeaway 5 Enlist others to help you achieve
your direction
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