Of course you are! Let’s do this, for in May we can make a significant difference in your workplace with this one value. Believe me, you don’t want to wait.
As before, 5 Steps to your Jumpstart this month:
1. Continuity. Let’s start with our vocabulary, and Language of Intention. Here is a new word for you:
Ho‘olōkahi; To bring about unity. To make things peaceful and harmonious.
Truly, work can be this way! This is our overall objective this month, that the workplace you manage will calm to a better atmosphere of more peace and harmony felt by all. Think about this and jot down some notes: What would help calm things down at work so people are more receptive and can focus better?
2. Review pages 107-112 in MWA on the Lōkahi Challenge for Managers mentioned in our Talking Story Ho‘ohana yesterday. Those pages include the section on Pace and Momentum.
If your reading stirs up any questions for you, log them down, preferably right in the margin spaces of the passages you are reading. Just doing so will subconsciously steer you toward seeking your answers in real-time work practice as the month continues.
3. Choose one or two current projects you now need to complete at your workplace which could benefit from the synergy of a group, team, or departmental effort versus an individual one. Optimally, choose one you’d like to tackle and complete within the window of this current month, and one which IS realistic and achievable.
Our intention here is to help you get it done, while simultaneously using it as a case study and pilot for how to use Lōkahi when you manage teamwork from now on.
Write a short paragraph or some bullet points which will give you clarity on what that project will look like, feel like, sound like, BE like when it is done, and your project group has achieved the most successful outcome possible with it.
4. Be proactive and devote the time to doing a comprehensive Weekly Review so you are in the right frame of mind to tackle the project you are choosing with full ATtention and INtention. Clear the clutter which will distract or potentially interrupt you, delegating or rescheduling what you can. Get ruthless and honestly delete the stuff that should not be draining your energies.
You may also want to revisit this: Loving my Weekly Review.
5. As we’ve been doing, give yourself some Lōkahi affirmations, both to keep focused personally, and to share your intention with those you are working with:
Choose from those sentences in the brown box of page 104 (or reprinted on the Talking Story Forum page if you want to cut-n-paste it) and compose a new line to add to your email signature. Come up with your own mantra of the month on what you’d like Lōkahi to mean for you. This is what I will have on my emails all this month:
Ho‘ohana with us, and Manage with Aloha with the value of Lōkahi this month! Lōkahi gives us a demeanor (the ‘alo’ of our aloha) to strive for in working with each other in the best possible way. Read more on www.managingwithaloha.com and talk story with the Ho‘ohana Community on my blog.
Your Jumpstart is about preparing yourself for the rest of the month, so be expeditious with these 5 Steps. Let’s look ahead for some added incentive with this: On May 26th I will be posting the results of our Ho‘ohana Community May Learning Forum on ideas for Business and Workplace Reinventions. The work you do before then on Lōkahi will prepare those who have worked on the project you are choosing, so you can continue their momentum by assigning a next project connected to the Learning Forum idea you are most excited about.
How cool would that be?
--------------------Tracking MWA Jumpstart:
NEXT JUMP: Lead a Great Group.
Also: If you struggle to pick a project to work on this month, consider my suggestions for reinvention in this article I have written for Lifehack.org: A Reinvention Revolution: 3 Sacred Cows to Start With
BACK TO THE LAST JUMP: Your last day for Mālama?
Our May Ho‘ohana: Lōkahi; How managers impact teams.
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