Publisher's Synopsis
This Playbook is about Organizing!
Organizing is your ability to synergize all your human, physical, and financial resources to consistently produce excellent results. Organizing is also one of these eleven Core Competencies of your effectiveness and success at work and in life: Followership, Delegating, Planning, Organizing, Communicating, Problem-Solving,Decision-Making, Awareness, Training, Motivating, and Character. This book is for everyone in the workforce who reports to another person for their work assignments, including employees working for an employer and small business owners, entrepreneurs, and the self-employed working for customers, clients, or patients. Simply stated, this Playbook is for you regardless of your occupation, position, or level of authority. I speak from 24 years as a US Army Officer and 20 years as an Executive Coach in Corporate America in Seattle, San Diego, Kansas City, and Phoenix. As an Executive Coach, I was blessed to work with some of America's most successful men and women, including hundreds of business executives, teams, and small business owners. I documented what they said, did, how they did it, what worked and what didn't. But, most importantly, I documented how they made others feel. As a result, I learned that the most effective and successful people stood out because they were able to do these two things better than anyone else:
- First, to consistently produce excellent results.
- Second, to add value to those who helped produce those results.
This Playbook will enhance your ability to do both. The fact is that right now, you may be the top producer or the hardest worker, but if your Organizing Skills are lacking and you haven't added value to those who've helped you achieve your results, especially your boss, you'll never become effective or successful, period. What new Organizing Skills or abilities have you acquired in the last twelve months? What contributions have you made to your current position since this time last year? And, most of all, what are you doing about it? This Playbook is unique because it:
- Gives you the most actionable tactics, techniques, and tools needed to consistently produce excellent results, which is why it's called a Playbook.
- Teaches you the best practices used every day by the most effective and successful people in their field, which you were never taught in school.
- Provides you with step-by-step instructions explaining what and how things should be done that you won't find anywhere in academia or Corporate America to help you maximize your true potential.
- Contains everything you want to know about Organizing, plus everything you didn't realize you need to know about how Organizing can enhance your effectiveness and success in business.
This Playbook is my way of paying it forward to you and all those I leave behind, something I never had. I know that by learning, using, and sharing the best practices found here, you'll be well on your way to becoming more effective and successful. Unfortunately, you have too much to lose by not taking a more active role in learning the most critical Organizing Skills needed for successful job performance. Remember, no matter how good you think you are, you can always be better. So, who else is going to help you enhance your Organizing Skills? Stop wishing you were better and do something about it TODAY!
