If you’re reading this email, it’s a sign that you have successfully completed your EMP journey. No doubt, you’re in a different place than when you started. Though you’ve reached the finish line, learning and growing don’t stop here. 

Throughout the EMP, you’ve developed the knowledge and skills to purposefully and systematically reduce dominant habits that have kept you from developing as a manager. Now is the time to think about additional ones you plan to work on alone.

To get things going, I have put together a list of habits that Administrators like you should seriously consider reducing. Doing so will allow you to reach even more ambitious goals and to position yourself for future promotions.

Good luck!

Etika

Habits for Administrators to consider reducing:

First Priority

1. demanding organization at all times;
2. developing organizational processes and procedures;
3. ensuring the strict following of procedures;

Second Priority

1. prioritizing procedures over other considerations;
2. focusing too much on details;
3. avoiding spontaneity;
4. holding back progress because of procedures;
5. oversupervising;
6. focusing on procedures at the expense of results;
7. ensuring systematic completion of tasks;
8. rejecting different ways of doing things;
9. concentrating on the “small picture” instead of the “big picture”;
10. slowing down progress;
11. thinking things out too much;
12. behaving very formally;
13. rejecting any possible shortcuts;
14. acting very carefully and hesitantly;
15. insisting on orderliness;
16. always working by the book.

Best wishes

Etika