Effectiveness

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Effectiveness Ideas

I have had two great innovations for Effectiveness this semester.

First, in the Memo Planning Grid for Goals for Last Week, the last box is "Accomplished?"  One member (Colleen McHugo) had the idea that if you DON'T achieve your goal, you give a reason why, either citing one from Effectiveness or making up a new one.  One interesting aspect of this approach is that you can arbitrarily rule out external reasons for non-accomplishment (snow storm, the dog ate it, etc.), forcing the writer to take responsibility for doing better next time.  Effectiveness can use this part of the grid for their end-of-Cycle 1 evaluation.

Second, we just had a great Effectiveness presentation (Chris Martin & Matt Stone).  They put us all in no particular order, spread all over the room, and had us throw a tennis ball to another person.  Then they added more and more balls until they overwhelmed the system.  Then they sat us down, and, together, we did a Force Field Analysis of what helped and hindered the goal of having the greatest number of balls caught and the smallest number missed.  People really understood the Force Field.  Then we picked the element that would give us the biggest improvement bang for the buck (a system) and tried it out.

RP
March, 2008

"Shortage of short Greeks ruining us," the Mike Royko newspaper article originally used to illustrate effectiveness: http://www.chicagohamburger.com/html/forum5.htm

Key Variance Analysis of Memo Ranking

Joint Directing, Effectiveness, Group Exercise