Take Ownership of Your Performance
This category reveals the next four of the Power Skills for interacting with your leaders:
9. Don’t dump and run
10. Bring solutions with problems
11. Close issues
12. Meet commitments.
9. Don’t Dump and Run
When you have an idea for an improvement, don’t transfer that idea to your leader and then wash your hands of it. Be willing to be its champion and become part of the solution. Your leaders have neither the duty nor the bandwidth to personally take on and work every good idea to closure.
Example
Dave is a project manager. He works in an organization where the project management methodology has weakly been defined and is marginally encouraged and supported. Dave sees the value to the business in ...
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