Community Health Center Management Principles - Principle 11 - Thieves of Effectiveness

Community Health Center Management Principles for Boards and Senior Managers - Principle 11 - Thieves of Effectiveness

This is a continuing series for effective Community Health Center Governing Boards and Senior Management.

Today we address:

Principle 11 - Thieves of Effectiveness

Thieves of Effectiveness

1. Not owning your time

2. The flow of events

3. The organization itself

4. Being inside the organization’s filter


The Effective Response

1. Setting and adhering to priorities

2. Setting and adhering to criteria

3. An effective, personal plan to manage results

4. Planning for results outside the organization



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Community Health Center Management Principles for Boards and Senior Managers - Principle 10 – What is Effectiveness?

Community Health Center Management Principles for Boards and Senior Managers - Principle 10 – What is Effectiveness?

This is a continuing series for effective Community Health Center Governing Boards and Senior Management.

Today we address:

Principle 10 – What is Effectiveness?
· Effectiveness: Doing the right thing (vs. Efficiency doing the thing right).
· Effectiveness is not a function of intelligence, hardwork, or good intentions.
· Intelligence, knowledge, and insight need effectiveness to convert them onto results.
· Effectiveness is a major practice of its own; it converts effort into results.
· Managers must be effective, because they cannot rely on the inherent utilitarian value (e.g., in a pair of shoes) of what they do.

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Community Health Center Management Principles for Boards and Senior Managers - Principle 9 - Practices of the Effective Manager

Community Health Center Management Principles for Boards and Senior Managers - Principle 9 - Practices of the Effective Manager

This is a continuing series for effective Community Health Center Governing Boards and Senior Management.

Today we address:

Principle 9 - Practices of the Effective Manager
· Manages time
· Sloughs off what has ceased to be productive
· Decides which tasks to tackle (Prioritizes and stays with decisions – Sets the right priorities)
· Decides which tasks not to tackle (Posteriortizes - Picks the future over the past)
· Makes decisions at the highest level of conceptual understanding
- Is this a generic situation or an exception?- What is this decision to accomplish?- Have I started out with what is right? Knowing I will have to
compromise later?
- Can I convert this decision into work?
· Focuses on overall contributions rather than on the details of the work.
· Builds on strengths or self and others - mobilizes the correct strengths.

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