Check Your Performance - Thoughts on Community Health Center Governing Boards and Executive Directors

Check Your Performance - Thoughts on Community Health Center Governing Boards and Executive Directors

Effective leaders check their performance. They write down, "What do I hope to achieve if I take on this assignment?" They come back and check their performance against goals.

This way, they find out what they do well and what they do poorly. They also find out whether they picked the truly important things to do.

There are a great many Executive Directors who are exceedingly good at execution, but exceedingly poor at picking the important things. They and their Governing Boards are magnificent at getting the unimportant things done. They have an impressive record of achievement on trivial matters.

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