Comments on: Follow up! It’s Not What You Say… It’s What You Do http://talkingstory.org/2006/02/follow-up-its-not-what-you-say/ Starting new conversations in the workplace! Mon, 26 Jul 2010 22:24:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: ModernMagellans http://talkingstory.org/2006/02/follow-up-its-not-what-you-say/comment-page-1/#comment-1864 ModernMagellans Mon, 11 Feb 2008 16:16:07 +0000 http://talkingstory.org/?p=639#comment-1864 <strong>If It Ain't Broke - Maintain It</strong> There is a tendency to put something together and then walk away. The hope is that the installation will go well and that the something will just work as it was intended for years and years.It is more fun to... If It Ain’t Broke – Maintain It

There is a tendency to put something together and then walk away. The hope is that the installation will go well and that the something will just work as it was intended for years and years.It is more fun to…

]]> By: Gloria Ilagan http://talkingstory.org/2006/02/follow-up-its-not-what-you-say/comment-page-1/#comment-1863 Gloria Ilagan Fri, 01 Sep 2006 13:15:25 +0000 http://talkingstory.org/?p=639#comment-1863 Aloha Rosa, Mahalo for introducing this valuable and important truth about gaining trust and respect from those you lead. This book is a must for basics in leadership. I'm adding this one to the list! What you say, is what you do...follow through, follow through, follow through and they will follow you! Aloha Rosa,
Mahalo for introducing this valuable and important truth about gaining trust and respect from those you lead. This book is a must for basics in leadership.
I’m adding this one to the list! What you say, is what you do…follow through, follow through, follow through and they will follow you!

]]> By: Management Craft http://talkingstory.org/2006/02/follow-up-its-not-what-you-say/comment-page-1/#comment-1865 Management Craft Mon, 20 Feb 2006 08:01:34 +0000 http://talkingstory.org/?p=639#comment-1865 <strong>Free Webinar that you MUST not miss!</strong> My pal, Laurence Haughton, is giving a free Live Meeting presentation on Tuesday, February 28, at 9am Pacific, 12:00noon Eastern time. The talk is called, The Art of Follow Through. Laurence is amazing to listen to. He is provocative, sassy, Free Webinar that you MUST not miss!

My pal, Laurence Haughton, is giving a free Live Meeting presentation on Tuesday, February 28, at 9am Pacific, 12:00noon Eastern time. The talk is called, The Art of Follow Through. Laurence is amazing to listen to. He is provocative, sassy,

]]> By: Steve Sherlock http://talkingstory.org/2006/02/follow-up-its-not-what-you-say/comment-page-1/#comment-1862 Steve Sherlock Fri, 17 Feb 2006 22:59:13 +0000 http://talkingstory.org/?p=639#comment-1862 Rosa, after reading your interview with Lawrence I have definitely put the book on my to do listing. Oh, and I'll follow through on it :-). I concurr with his fourth point: Maintain momentum long after the mood has passed. I could also phrase it "be patient and let the changes take effect before chaning again." Once problem I have seen too many times is management does not have enough patience to allow the changes to run their course. Someone will come in and after their study (usually a quick one in less than 3 months, longer more serious 4-6 months) then the changes start. But change takes time. Kind of like the adage, if you teach an elephant to dance, you better be prepared to dance. Unfortunately, they just get the elephant to start dancing and they leave, bringing in yet another manager and another way of doing things, and the cycle is frustrating for those in it. More frustrating for the customers of it, in this particular case, mostly internal customers who have no other choice but to stick around; otherwise, if it was an external customer base, they would have walked out the door along time ago. Patience is indeed a valuable virtue! Rosa, after reading your interview with Lawrence I have definitely put the book on my to do listing. Oh, and I’ll follow through on it :-).
I concurr with his fourth point: Maintain momentum long after the mood has passed. I could also phrase it “be patient and let the changes take effect before chaning again.” Once problem I have seen too many times is management does not have enough patience to allow the changes to run their course.
Someone will come in and after their study (usually a quick one in less than 3 months, longer more serious 4-6 months) then the changes start. But change takes time. Kind of like the adage, if you teach an elephant to dance, you better be prepared to dance.
Unfortunately, they just get the elephant to start dancing and they leave, bringing in yet another manager and another way of doing things, and the cycle is frustrating for those in it. More frustrating for the customers of it, in this particular case, mostly internal customers who have no other choice but to stick around; otherwise, if it was an external customer base, they would have walked out the door along time ago.
Patience is indeed a valuable virtue!

]]> By: Recruiting.com http://talkingstory.org/2006/02/follow-up-its-not-what-you-say/comment-page-1/#comment-1866 Recruiting.com Fri, 17 Feb 2006 13:19:22 +0000 http://talkingstory.org/?p=639#comment-1866 <strong>Executioner's Song</strong> The Final Word on Follow-Thru Execution Master, Laurence Larry Haughton, wants to put you in project heaven. And MS Office has given him a platform from which to do it. Price: Free. More info here. Place: Online. Sign up here. Date: Feb 28, 2006. Time:... Executioner’s Song

The Final Word on Follow-Thru Execution Master, Laurence Larry Haughton, wants to put you in project heaven. And MS Office has given him a platform from which to do it. Price: Free. More info here. Place: Online. Sign up here. Date: Feb 28, 2006. Time:…

]]> By: Gary Bourgeault http://talkingstory.org/2006/02/follow-up-its-not-what-you-say/comment-page-1/#comment-1861 Gary Bourgeault Fri, 17 Feb 2006 01:48:16 +0000 http://talkingstory.org/?p=639#comment-1861 This review reminds me of an old saying someone once challenged me with: Doing it is doing it! So many times we are trapped by the words we speak because we listen to ourselves so much that we start to believe that what we say is what we are doing. If the book does nothing else but remind us that, it has already done us all a service. This review reminds me of an old saying someone once challenged me with: Doing it is doing it!
So many times we are trapped by the words we speak because we listen to ourselves so much that we start to believe that what we say is what we are doing.
If the book does nothing else but remind us that, it has already done us all a service.

]]> By: Marketing Interactions http://talkingstory.org/2006/02/follow-up-its-not-what-you-say/comment-page-1/#comment-1867 Marketing Interactions Fri, 17 Feb 2006 00:40:32 +0000 http://talkingstory.org/?p=639#comment-1867 <strong>The Art of Follow-Through</strong> Laurence Haughton, who wrote It's Not What You Say...It's What You Do, and It's Not the Big That Eat the Small...It's the Fast That Eat the Slow: How to Use Speed as a Competitive Tool in Business ( with Jason Jennings) is hosting a Webinar on February... The Art of Follow-Through

Laurence Haughton, who wrote It’s Not What You Say…It’s What You Do, and It’s Not the Big That Eat the Small…It’s the Fast That Eat the Slow: How to Use Speed as a Competitive Tool in Business ( with Jason Jennings) is hosting a Webinar on February…

]]> By: Bren http://talkingstory.org/2006/02/follow-up-its-not-what-you-say/comment-page-1/#comment-1860 Bren Fri, 17 Feb 2006 00:10:02 +0000 http://talkingstory.org/?p=639#comment-1860 I loved it too--definitely a keeper. Looking forward to the interview! I loved it too–definitely a keeper. Looking forward to the interview!

]]> By: Rick Fuqua http://talkingstory.org/2006/02/follow-up-its-not-what-you-say/comment-page-1/#comment-1859 Rick Fuqua Thu, 16 Feb 2006 13:48:51 +0000 http://talkingstory.org/?p=639#comment-1859 In my experience, the simplest ideas are usually the best. Stick to the basics and stay on course until it is purposely decided to take a new course. Try to mitigate outside forces that will take you off course before you know what happened. Manage change - don't let change manage you. I look forward to reading this one. Sounds similar to "Leading Change, Overcoming Chaos". In my experience, the simplest ideas are usually the best. Stick to the basics and stay on course until it is purposely decided to take a new course. Try to mitigate outside forces that will take you off course before you know what happened. Manage change – don’t let change manage you.
I look forward to reading this one. Sounds similar to “Leading Change, Overcoming Chaos”.

]]> By: Steve Sherlock http://talkingstory.org/2006/02/follow-up-its-not-what-you-say/comment-page-1/#comment-1858 Steve Sherlock Thu, 16 Feb 2006 09:53:57 +0000 http://talkingstory.org/?p=639#comment-1858 Rosa, thanks for the lead. It looks like a book to add to my list. Rosa, thanks for the lead. It looks like a book to add to my list.

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