Glen Aubrey
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Follow Through
 

How well do you and your team, follow through? How do you know?

Follow-through is the act of accomplishing tasks and closing communication loops associated with them. It doesn’t happen nearly often enough.

Following through begins with a decision about success. Within this framework actions are decided, duties assigned, tasks accomplished, and communication is completed. If follow-through isn’t happening on your team, consider why.

People who don’t follow through may be ignorant or lazy. Regardless, their inactivity prevents progress. People who don’t follow through often burden a work group with huge losses of energy and wasted resources. Bottom line: They refuse to make decisions about success.

On a healthy team, members follow through because they want to, not because they have to. Self-motivated individuals possess positive motives and make proactive decisions to promote success. They do their jobs with excellence and communicate well. They don’t wait to be chased down nor do they refuse communication until asked. They take personal initiative.

If the degree of follow-through is not what it should be on your team, ask the members why. Listen to their answers. If they own responsibility then ask them to define what follow-through should be. Let the team tell and then show. No excuses here. Follow-through emerging from right motives and evidenced in correct actions can define greatness for any team who wants to improve.

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