At Microsoft, I regularly mentor some fellow softies.   It can be tough to navigate the waters, find your strengths, figure out worklife balance, and deal with the stresses of the job, all while making things happen.  I help my mentees learn  the most effective ways for getting results in a tough, competitive environment.  It's challenging.  It's rewarding.  I've had several great mentors throughout my life at Microsoft, so mentoring is a way that I give back, sharing my lessons learned and helping others grow.  While my 1:1 sessions are the most effective, I try to share key practices more broadly in posts.  Here's a roundup of my various posts for improving effectiveness at work and life.  I organized them by meaningful buckets and provided an A-Z list at the end.  Enjoy.

Career 
Learn how to find your path and get more from your career.  Work with the right people on the right things making the right impact.  These posts focus on career and worklife balance:

• Life Frame
• Patterns and Practices for New Hires
• Thinking About Career Paths

Communication 
Communication is among the most important skills for getting results in work and life.  Empathic listening is the most important communication skills.  Improve the quality of your communication, and improve the quality of your life.  These posts focus on communication skills:

• Echo It Back to Me
• How To Use the Six Thinking Hats
• Ken Blanchard Speaks at Microsoft
• One-Sliders
• Put Your Thinking Hat On
• Stephen Covey Speaks at Microsoft
• Strategic Stories
• What's Their Story
• Win the Heart, the Mind Follows

Email 
Don't be a slave to your mail.  With the right approach, you can spend less time in your inbox and enjoy an empty inbox on a regular basis.  These posts focus on email management:

• Clearing Your Inbox
• The Zen of Zero Mail

Intellectual Horsepower 
Thinking is asking and answering questions.  Learn ways to improve your thinking through question-driven techniques and changing perspectives:

• Cutting Questions
• Decision Making with Criteria and Weight
• Focus Changes Your Brain
• How To Use the Six Thinking Hats
• Put Your Thinking Hat On
• Solution-Focused Questions

Leadership 
Leadership is influence.  Amplify your results by improving your sphere of influence.  Leadership starts with self-leadership.  These posts focus on leadership skills:

• Influencing Without Authority
• Ken Blanchard Speaks at Microsoft
• Leadership Styles and Development Levels
• Leading and Influencing Mindful Change
• Outlook Reminder for Leadership Practices
• Pattern-based Leadership vs. Fact-Based Management
• Two Reasons Why People Resist Change
• Win the Heart, the Mind Follows

Learning 
Learning is a life-long process.  Adopt practices that help you grow.  These posts focus on improving your learning:

• Analyzing a Problem Space
• Focus Changes Your Brain
• Growth Mind-set Over Fixed Mind-set
• How To Research Efficiently
• How To Share Lessons Learned
• Pruning or Preserving a Synapse

Motivation 
Motivation is your energy or desire to make something happen.  It's also the energy or desire for others to make something happen.  Learn how to improve your own passion for results as well as how to influence and motivate those around you.  These posts focus on motivation:

• Catalysts and Drains
• Forcing Functions
• It’s Between Your Ears
• Reward Yourself in the Moment
• Turning Chickens into Pigs
• Two Reasons Why People Resist Change
• Use the System to Educate

Personal Development 
Personal excellence is a path, not a destination.  In life you're either climbing or sliding.  One key is to find ways to climb faster than you slide.  Another key is balancing your multiple demands and growing in your mind, body, career, emotions, financial, relationships and fun.  These posts focus on personal development:

• 30 Day Improvement Sprints
• Adapt, Adjust, or Avoid
• Expectation Shapes Reality
• Improvement Frame
• Journaling for Improvement
• Ken Blanchard Speaks at Microsoft
• Lessons Learned from Peaceful Warrior
• Lessons Learned from Per
• Life Frame
• Making 30 Day Improvement Sprints More Effective
• Monthly Improvement Sprints
• Stephen Covey Speaks at Microsoft
• The Better Adapted You Are, the Less Adaptable You Tend To Be
• The Change Frame
• Why 30 Day Improvement Sprints

Personal Productivity 
Make stuff happen.  Drive or be driven.  With the right approaches, you can carve out time for what's important and prioritize more effectively.  This is the key to getting results.  These posts focus on personal productivity:

• Actions, Insights, and Notes
• Clearing Your Inbox
• Collection Pools
• Execution Checklists
• Framing Results
• How To Do Tasks More Efficiently
• Iterate More, Plan Less
• Monthly Results
• MUST vs. SHOULD vs. COULD
• My Personal Approach for Daily Results
• Quick and Dirty Getting Things Done
• Rituals for Results
• Scannable outcome Lists
• Start with Something Simple
• The Zen of Results
• The Zen of Zero Mail
• Time-boxes, Rhythm, and Incremental Value
• Worst Things First

Project Management 
If you need to get something done, make it a project.   Whether it's a small-scale, personal project or a large, team-based project, there's patterns and practices you can use to be more successful.  These posts focus on project management:

• 2 Key Process Pitfalls
• 7 Habits of Highly Effective Program Managers
• 10 Success Patterns for PMs
• Flawless Execution
• Project Success Indicators (PSI)
• Ten Steps for Structured Project Management
• Tests for Success
• Three Keys of a Business Case
• Turning Chickens into Pigs
• Vision Scope Template
• Vision, Mission, Values
• What are You Optimizing

Teamwork 
Effective teamwork is a key skill in today's workplace.  Learn how to get more done with your colleagues.  These posts focus on improving your teamwork:

• Daily Syncs
• Focus and Energy
• How To Use Six Thinking Hats
• Influencing Without Authority
• Put Your Thinking Hat On
• Results-Focused Teams Over Role-Focused Teams
• Turning Chickens into Pigs

Time Management 
You can't add more hours to the day, but you can spend your time more effectively.  You can also add more power hours to your day.  These posts focus on time management:

• How To Use Time Boxing for Getting Results
• Manage Energy, Not Time
• The Secret of Time Management
• Time-boxes, Rhythm, and Incremental Value
• Timebox Your Day

Questions 
Questions are a powerful way to shape your thinking and mindset.  Ask better questions and get better answers.  These posts focus on asking and answering better questions:

• 4 Questions to Cap Your Day
• Cutting Questions
• Don't Tell ... Ask
• How Might That Be True
• Solution-Focused Questions

A-Z 
Here's the posts organized in a flat A - Z list for easy scanning:

• 2 Key Process Pitfalls
• 4 Questions to Cap Your Day
• 5 Keys to Improving Your Reading Speed
• 7 Habits of Highly Effective Program Managers
• 10 Success Patterns for PMs
• 30 Day Improvement Sprints
• 30 Days of Living Foods Ends Today
• Actions, Insights, and Notes
• Adapt, Adjust, or Avoid
• Analyzing a Problem Space
• Catalysts and Drains
• Clearing Your Inbox
• Collection Pools
• Cutting Questions
• Daily Syncs
• David Anderson's Recipe for Success
• Decision Making with Criteria and Weight
• Don't Tell ... Ask
• Echo It Back to Me
• Execution Checklists
• Expectation Shapes Reality
• Flawless Execution
• Focus and Energy
• Focus Changes Your Brain
• Forcing Functions
• Framing Results
• Get Lean, Eliminate Waste
• Growth Mind-set Over Fixed Mind-set
• Harvard Business Review and The Economist
• How Might That Be True
• How To Be a Leader in Your Field
• How To Differentiate
• How To Do Tasks More Efficiently
• How To Research Efficiently
• How To Share Lessons Learned
• How To Use the Six Thinking Hats
• How To Use Time Boxing for Getting Results
• Improvement Frame
• Influencing Without Authority
• Iterate More, Plan Less
• It's Between Your Ears
• It's the Fast That Eat the Slow
• Journaling for Improvement
• Kaizen
• Ken Blanchard Speaks at Microsoft
• Leadership Styles and Development Levels
• Leading and Influencing Mindful Change
• Lessons Learned from Peaceful Warrior
• Lessons Learned from Per
• Life Frame
• Life's an Experiment
• Making 30 Day Improvement Sprints More Effective
• Manage Energy, Not Time
• Monthly Improvement Sprints
• Monthly Results
• More Effective Feed Reading
• MUST vs. SHOULD vs. COULD
• My Personal Approach for Daily Results
• One-Sliders
• Outlook Reminder for Leadership Practices
• Pattern-based Leadership vs. Fact-Based Management
• Patterns and Practices for New Hires
• Prioritizing Scannable Outcomes
• Project Success Indicators (PSI)
• Pruning or Preserving a Synapse
• Put Your Thinking Hat On
• Quick and Dirty Getting Things Done
• Results-Focused Teams Over Role-Focused Teams
• Reward Yourself in the Moment
• Rituals for Results
• Scannable outcome Lists
• Scenarios in Practice
• Solution-Focused Questions
• Start with Something Simple
• Stephen Covey Speaks at Microsoft
• Strategic Stories
• Success is When the Response Meets the Challenge
• Success Strategies
• Ten Steps for Structured Project Management
• Testing Your Organizational Clarity
• Tests for Success
• The Better Adapted You Are, the Less Adaptable You Tend To Be
• The Change Frame
• The Five P's
• The Secret of Time Management
• The Zen of Results
• The Zen of Zero Mail
• Thinking About Career Paths
• Three Keys of a Business Case
• Time-boxes, Rhythm, and Incremental Value
• Timebox Your Day
• Turning Chickens into Pigs
• Two Reasons Why People Resist Change
• Use the System to Educate
• Using Scannable Outcomes with My Results Approach
• Vision Scope Template
• Vision, Mission, Values
• What are You Optimizing
• What's Their Story
• Win the Heart, the Mind Follows
• Why 30 Day Improvement Sprints
• Worst Things First

Sources of Insight 
If that's not enough for you, check out my project blog: Sources of Insight.  Sources of Insight is a browsable KB of insights and actions for work and life.  It's where I share my lessons learned from books, heroes and quotes.  You can read more about the mission and vision in the About page.

Published 13 October 08 06:36 by J.D. Meier Filed under: Effectiveness

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