Comments on: Staying people AND performance focussed http://www.samradford.org/2008/07/03/staying-people-and-performance-focussed/ Life, Culture, Politics, Leadership, Sport, and Other Random Stuff Sat, 22 Nov 2008 04:40:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Simon Slive http://www.samradford.org/2008/07/03/staying-people-and-performance-focussed/#comment-278 Simon Slive Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:25:01 +0000 http://www.samradford.org/?p=115#comment-278 Hello Sam! Can I just start by saying how truely pleased I am to hear the news that your giving up some of your paid work in Sheffield in order to roll up the sleves, pitch in, and get down to business an extra day a week with Mosiac! Thats bloody commendable stuff that is and should go unrecognised or rewarded! Good leaders always have to make these kind of tough decisions, often when the heart and brain are saying entirely different things! But you stuck with it and seen it through. Good show old boy. As for the timeless quiery of focussing people against focussing performance, you'll be pleased to know I have a few ideas of my own! You see I once owned a cat. Sebastian. Wonderful creature, we were hardly seperated untill Patty, bless her, ran my poor old kitty down while nipping out for humus. Put a damper on that house warming I can tell you! Anyway I wanted to learn from the experience I really did. Tears were shed, and plenty of them but I did recognise TWO very important things. The first is that it should have been me nipping out for humus, not Patty, and I would have made exactly the same mistake, and second if we had identified the lack of humus as an earlier point this whole dastardly mess might never have occoured! So in conclusion, BE people focused and not people critical. People will make mistakes, but they are also capable of the most amazing of ideas and insights. They are your most important comodity, treat them with respect. The second is PLAN AHEAD which really seems quite bleeding obvious but I suppose its the idea of focussing performance. IF I'd planned ahead, I wouldn't have had the problem with the staff (Patty in the case), IF I'd spoken my plans through with the staff (still Patty) then they might have noticed humusgate before poor old Sebastien so tragically lost his life. Keep up the good work! Hope I didn't rabbit on too much! Warmest regards, Simon Slive Hello Sam!
Can I just start by saying how truely pleased I am to hear the news that your giving up some of your paid work in Sheffield in order to roll up the sleves, pitch in, and get down to business an extra day a week with Mosiac! Thats bloody commendable stuff that is and should go unrecognised or rewarded! Good leaders always have to make these kind of tough decisions, often when the heart and brain are saying entirely different things! But you stuck with it and seen it through. Good show old boy.

As for the timeless quiery of focussing people against focussing performance, you’ll be pleased to know I have a few ideas of my own! You see I once owned a cat. Sebastian. Wonderful creature, we were hardly seperated untill Patty, bless her, ran my poor old kitty down while nipping out for humus. Put a damper on that house warming I can tell you! Anyway I wanted to learn from the experience I really did. Tears were shed, and plenty of them but I did recognise TWO very important things. The first is that it should have been me nipping out for humus, not Patty, and I would have made exactly the same mistake, and second if we had identified the lack of humus as an earlier point this whole dastardly mess might never have occoured! So in conclusion, BE people focused and not people critical. People will make mistakes, but they are also capable of the most amazing of ideas and insights. They are your most important comodity, treat them with respect. The second is PLAN AHEAD which really seems quite bleeding obvious but I suppose its the idea of focussing performance. IF I’d planned ahead, I wouldn’t have had the problem with the staff (Patty in the case), IF I’d spoken my plans through with the staff (still Patty) then they might have noticed humusgate before poor old Sebastien so tragically lost his life.
Keep up the good work! Hope I didn’t rabbit on too much!
Warmest regards,
Simon Slive

]]>