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Multifamily Leadership: Follow Through
Up to this point in our Seven Behaviors Leadership Series we have talked about Knowing Your People and Knowing Your Business, Insisting on Realism , Setting Clear Goals and Priorities.
In today’s entry we are going to discuss follow through. I have disclosed my follow through epiphany story a couple of times on this and a couple other blogs. It really was the turning point for me in my career as the point of follow through hit me right between the eyes. It was one of the those duh! moments.
Multifamily Team Follow Through
That said and on the heels of our Relentless Courage a couple weeks ago. The post spoke to people withholding comments and feedback in group meeting forums. So much gets missed if we don’t encourage an open culture where feedback is paramount to getting better. Once you have the sharing culture set in place; follow through should be next on the list.
Four Things to Consider
1. Team leaders/communicators have to make objectives or action items very clear. Ask clarifying questions such as; Do you understand what is expected? or Is there anything you don’t understand about what we need to get accomplished?.
2. Help people understand the ‘Why behind the what’ of follow through items. Helping people see the big picture assists with two things
a. They see the action item as a mission and not a task
b. They understand that the action is assisting in the creation of something bigger than self. A key motivating factor for many
3. Set the right follow through mechanisms in place. Who is responsible? How will they track? Who will they report out to? When?
4. Ask questions along the way. Don’t just assign and forget. As the leader, it is imperative that you check in along the way.
5. Always conduct postmortems? Review the results of follow through or lack thereof. There is tremendous value in replaying events.
Your off to follow through on today’s commitments contributor,
Multifamily #Trust30 – Divinity
Day 8 of the #Trust30 challenge hits us with The Divine Idea
Imitation is Suicide. Insist on yourself; never imitate. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Write down in which areas of your life you have to overcome these suicidal tendencies of imitation…
(Author: Fabian Kruse)
Let me start by saying this is a tough one for me as I believe in and have utilized the highest form of flattery in the past; that is, borrowing multifamily business and marketing concepts and adding a twist or two to make it my own. I am certain that I have employed a few former employer concepts at my current place of business.
Multifamily Blog
To speak to the point of today’s prompt. What are those area of my life? I would say the multifamily space leads the way. I have the tagline on my blog; Out to put a dent in the multifamily universe and I believe that will come in the way of insisting on myself as suggested above. I like to think we did as much back in 2006 or 2007 when we created the Portland Rocks Newsletter Blog while working for EQR. After a few platform changes and copy amendments we settled in and went for it. The team went on to win an inagural award for, in part, being the most innovative group in the bunch. Blogging today, while not mainstream, is certainly more prevelant that it ever has been. And, it will only continue to get more exciting. We like to think we were part of the catalyst that got the party started.
Today, we are constantly working on identifying new and exciting ways to enhance our organization through the use of exciting new technologies. And, look forward to continue to flatter and uniquely innovate in the space.
What about you?
Your, not sure if Imitation is suicide, contributor,
M
Mills Properties: Blog Stats
Thought it would be fun to share our Neighborhood Blog stats from time to time in a snap shot view.
Melissa P wrote about the team in her post titled: (B)usiness (L)ove and (O)ther (G)uts whereby she laid out the overarching premise of our new marketing strategy.
Our first blog post went live on November 24, 2010 and since that time we have achieved the following.
Stats are accurate as of lat May, 2011.
Multifamily #Trust30: Right Now
Day 7 of the #Trust30 challenge – and, today is a challenge! Whoa!
What is burning deep inside of you? If you could spread your personal message RIGHT NOW to 1 million people, what would you say? (Author: Eric Handler)
It’s All About Choice
The message is something to this effect – the difference between that which you are and that which you want to be is the sliver of a space between stimulus and response – you are what you ‘choose’ to be and you can be what you want to be by choosing differently.
How would you answer the question above?
Your lovin’ the #trust30 challenge contributor,
M
Multifamily #Trust30: Afraid to do
#Trust30 – Day 6
This reminds me of the saying; The thing you fear most is the thing you should do next. Or, do something everyday that scares the hell out of you.
Public Speaking
I love the multifamily business with a purple passion. It has been the avenue that has paved lots of good fortune for me over the years. And, any chance I get to talk about any aspect of it; I take it.
Last night, I was a guest speaker for a professor at Washington University in St. Louis. I spoke on the topic of marketing and leasing up a re-development project called The Laurel Apartments. It’s an amazing project with amazing potential to change the social landscape of the neighborhood. It has everything a marketer could ever hope for in the way of an assignment.
That said and to the point; public speaking scares the hell out of me. It’s a dream of mine to be an accomplished public speaker over time so I jump at every scary chance to present not in spite of that fear but rather in celebration of it.
What are you afraid to do?
