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William Kiefer: his life and his wierd outlook. Follow me on Twitter @jsbachop1 want to comment? Contact me at jsbachop1@aol.com
My core ideology is to faithfully love and serve God, my family, my country and ease the suffering of others through selfless compassion and charity.
Values that I believe are most important are:
  • Trust
  • Fidelity
  • Contrition
  • Duty
  • Dignity
  • Idealism
  • Humor
  • Teamwork
  • Individual Responsibility

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High performance

Co-workers will often group people in 1 of 3 buckets.  The buckets are: agent of change, holding status quo, or going back in time.  We each find our place of comfort.  Some people advocate for the changes they want to see and act it out in their lives.  Other people find that they hold what is good and comfortable about how things are run now.  Then there are others who loved how things were in the good ol’ days and they often remember how things did run. 

I observe myself in all three roles at some point.  There are times when reflection on how things used to be can help us realize how we got into a particular situation.  Then there are times where upholding the process and enforcing the policy will make for the best outcome in situations.  There are also times when we see that change is imminent or that change is needed to resolve and issue and we swoop in to help facilitate the inevitiable.  In short, we aren’t born in a bucket, we can move between them as the situation allows.

I will be making a list of ways that our team makes or saves money for the company.  I will post that visibly in my office and make sure I promote efforts towards those activities.

I will work to show that my values will make people want to be lead by me.  I want to exude an attitude that attract people to my leadership guidance.

I will conciously delegate more tasks and make sure I follow-up on delagated tasks.  I will also reward positive results. 

Overall, I want to improve my management skills to beware that I make sure I balance which bucket I am in.  I will make sure that I take the actions above to improve how I lead at work.