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Monday, January 12, 2009
Attached is a simple template for capturing action items that I've honed over the years while trying to balance diligence with simplicity. Several of my clients and managers have found this helpful so I thought I'd share it along with some thoughts on action item management.
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The most critical elements for effectively managing action items are: the action item itself being clear, one accountable owner, a due date and regular follow-up. This may seem like complete common sense and it has become pretty normal for people to capture action items at the end of most meetings, but so often this fundamental management technique is improperly done rendering it useless or worse - driving bad behaviors.
Posted by Tom Wolf on Jan-12-2009 10:53 pm
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Friday, December 19, 2008
Below you can find a link to download both the presentation slides and the Visular Team Assessment tool from the December 2008 discussion at our Wordpress site. The post is protected with the password distributed at the meeting.
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Thanks for your participation in the discussion. Feel free to make any comments for continued group discussion under this blog entry.
Posted by Tom Wolf on Dec-19-2008 10:55 pm
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