Project e-Tip of the Week
August 27th, 2003 by Hal
This Project e-Tip comes courtesy of a fellow blogger and close friend Joe Ely. Joe writes in the blog Learning About Lean. He shares with his readers what he is learning as he and his company adopt a lean approach to the design, fabrication, and construction of pre-engineered wood structures. As usual, Joe made some great comments to last week's e-Tip. I've used them as a basis for this. Thanks Joe. Hope you enjoy Purple Cow. It's in the mail!
 The Project Reformer's e-Tip of the Week |
| 015: Make Any New Practice a Habit |
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One of the challenges on every new project is getting project team members to adopt a standard set of practices. These might entail planning, reporting, preparing to start a task, and simple communication protocols among team members. Here's a way to turn your intention for a new practice into a new habit. The following example uses the contrasting intention-commitment statement pairs used in Project e-Tip 014: Shift Good Intentions Into Commitments.
The intentionality and deliberateness of this exercise are what makes it work. And you might discover it is not easy to stay on a program of this sort. You will learn what it takes for you to produce a new habit. That will be great data for you when working with team members who are trying to do the same.
This Project e-Tip is based on Joe Ely's comments to last week's e-tip. Joe writes Learning About Lean. |
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August 28th, 2003 at 4:36 pm
The practice of charting one’s behavior is an invaluable tool in reinforcing commitment, developing habits, and quite simply, getting things done. I used this as the basis of my Get Clients Now! system, and encourage all my clients to try it for any sort of personal agenda. I have used a daily chart of actions and commitments myself for everything from getting a book written to drinking 8 glasses of water a day. The very act of looking at the chart reinforces your commitment to developing the new habit, and seeing how well you are doing on a daily basis pinpoints exactly where you need to focus in making the shift.