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Leader’s Guide: Your Leadership Preventative Maintenance Plan continued from page 9 time will be required? Which tasks can you delegate or even move to your “To Don’t” list in order to free up the necessary time? If you would schedule downtime to improve a machine then it will be difficult to justify why you would fail to invest the same percentage of time in your leadership capability. 4. Accountability. How will progress be measured? Who will measure and how often? The same motivations that make it easier to be consistent about physical training when you have a work out buddy apply here. Consistency trumps perfection, your progress will be measured in small successes, less frequent derailment, and faster recovery time. In times when you need a reminder to get back on track it will be helpful if you have scripted things for your colleague, ala, “Remember when you told me . . .” 5. Rewards and Consequences. With successful completion of the goal what benefit will you enjoy? What will the impact be on the company or the leadership team? Most often the positive or negative consequences are built in. They may be as public as prosperity or private as a New Years resolution. One of the reasons be explicit about this is that the promises we make to ourselves are often the most impactful, and the easiest to break. In some cases it may add motivation to keep these important promises if you impose a dire consequences upon yourself. A light-hearted example was the CEO that promised, “If I do not lose the weight by March 1 I will stand on the shipping scale for all to see at the companywide meeting.” We are talking dire consequences. What is the work you were born to do? What talents, skills, and experience most often combine to produce your peak performance? Which of your strengths, if you were to focus for an improvement of even 10%, would have the greatest impact for you and those your lead? You can improve your effectiveness with a personal leadership PM plan. If you would like to share your plan, along with its successes and setbacks, contact me at scottellis@ psquaredusa.com. 

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