Pivot: Small Moves and Big Results

No doubt many of you are starting the new year off with all sorts of resolutions. And if we're being completely honest here, most will fall by the wayside around the third week of January. Your intentions aren't bad. However, if this keeps happening year after year, (and it probably is), you're approach could use some tweaking. Here's some small moves you can make to get big results.

Act now. Not later. Like many of you, I'm striving to live a more healthy life. But here's where we probably differ. I started my journey towards better health around Halloween and have stayed the course right through the holiday season. As a result, I'm pounds ahead (or in my case, I've left pounds behind) than my friends who were telling me (as they reached for another cookie) they were committing to a more healthy life at the beginning of the new year.

Many of you have been talking about changing out your leadership team, investing more in your people. and working on improving your own leadership skills for months now. Then of course there are those who keep swearing they'll look for a new job or switch careers right after the first of the year. And here we are. Another new year and what have you done?

Picking artificial dates to do something that we deem important is nothing more than procrastination. Do it now or take it off your list.

Chunk things up. I get the fact that you want to take a big bite out of your workload, but sometimes smaller bites are more satisfying and will get you results that are more sustainable. Here's an example of this.

I had a client whose goal was to reduce their employee turnover. Sounds like a noble goal right? Yet, this client was trying to solve the wrong problem. If I hadn't suggested that we take a step back, they'd still be spinning their wheels today.

I broke things down for them and put a plan in place to look at all aspects of the hiring process to determine where things were breaking down. By slowing them down, we were able to take huge leaps forward and implement some significant changes, which has resulted in annual savings of over $1M a year (their numbers, not mine). It pays to slow down so you can speed up.

Get help. Some of my best clients told me for years they could do something on their own. And now we're working together. There's no shame in asking for help.

There's only so much each of us can do and with the current labor shortage, your team may not be as strong as you'd like. Go outside the organization when you need to and bring in the best resources you can find. Yeah, I know. You still think you can do it on your own. If you really could, then why haven't you done so already?

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Roberta Matuson is the author of the newly released second edition of Suddenly in Charge, The Magnetic Leader and Talent Magnetism.