Too often, we believe that to be effective at anything is a natural gift. And while it’s true some of us are gifted in administration, visionary leadership, or charisma, it still takes effective practice to get anything done.
What do you mean we have to practice being effective? Peter Drucker addresses this in the book. He equates it to the musician playing scales. It’s getting to the basics and doing the hard work.
Manual workers need only to be efficient. Knowledge workers can only be effective if they are efficient at the right things.
For me, that leads me to consider what is effective communication in the information age. And what does it look like to effectively communicate to internal and external audiences.
As I start the work week, I am asking myself, “How can I be most effective to my organiztion?” Perhaps, I should ask that at each start of the week.
So how about you? How are you habitually practiving effectiveness?
