Golden Circle

Based on the TEDTalk by Simon Sinek

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Simon Sinek's concept of a Golden Circle has practical application for Grassroots leaders as they build a

management plan. At the hear of Snek's circle is WHY. Leaders who can clearly and concisely explain why they are passionate about their initiatives expand their options for building support and building their teams, according to Snek. Once your audience knows your WHY, they are more hope to hearing the HOW and WHAT.

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Drawing and filling in your golden circle can help provide you with clarity and focus as you build your management plan.

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The TED talk by Yves Morieux comments on management and how to build collaborative culture.

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Morieux's TEDTalk explores collaborate leadership as part of an effective management style. He challenges his audience to build collaborative leadership into their management plans. These strategies which work well in the corporate world have application to Grassroots leaders as you build your management plan.

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In the TED Talk Morieux states:

TEDTalk TEXT borrowed from https://productivitysteps.wordpress.com/2015/09/27/blame-is-not-for-failure-it-is-for-failing-to-help-or-ask-for-help/​

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"Collaborative style"

 

"Building a reputation as a collaborative, helpful and hard working person is going to pay dividends many times over as you progress through your career. Not only will it open your mind to the wider goals of your organization, it will help you build the network of advocates that you will need to succeed as a project manager. People will also be much more willing to help you in return when you are facing challenges.

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How do you embrace a collaborative style? Make sure you are proactively identifying your stakeholders, involving them early and bringing them along for the journey of your project. If you are in a Program, make sure instil a culture of collaboration with your team so that they work with other project streams and you are being transparent and continually collaborating. This will ensure your team doesn’t go too far down the wrong path before realising that a solution they are designing won’t work with a solution another team is designing. This in turn reduces risk to your project delivery.

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Failing to ask for help – Trying to be a hero could get you into a lot of trouble

If you’ve come from into project management after having been a senior project delivery person such as a Business Analyst, Change Manager or Developer, you will have a strong tendency to try to solve problems yourself. While project managers will definitely appreciate this in their team members, when you are a project manager yourself you need to resist the urge to jump in and solve all the problems that come up.

For example when the 1st problem arises you may jump in and solve it but while you’ve been deep in thought working on that problem another 3 arrive. And they’re from totally different streams of work that require different expertise. Then you start working on problem 2 but another 2 arrive and you have 5 open problems. Also during this time you’ll need to perform your project management duties. You can see that you’ll be spread too thin and nothing will be done to a good level of quality.

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You may be reluctant to put more work on your team because they’re already busy with a full workload, but you still can’t start trying to take it on yourself because this will likely lead to disaster! To avoid this situation you need to remember that blame is for failing to ask for help. If the team doesn’t have capacity to take on the extra issues, this is where you need to switch to your project management skillset rather than attempt to solve the problems yourself. You’ll need to communicate the issues, outline the options and make a recommendation that could be to hire another person, de-scope a feature, extend the delivery dates, or other solutions."

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TEDTalk TEXT borrowed from https://productivitysteps.wordpress.com/2015/09/27/blame-is-not-for-failure-it-is-for-failing-to-help-or-ask-for-help/​

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