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The Power of Red Traffic Light with Strategy Execution

Onni Matti Manninen 


There are only few things that are able to make people stop. One of the strongest stopping signals is the red traffic light.

 

While managing matters and people, there is always constant movement and action. However, when the situation demands correction, the direction and the movement needs to be changed. If you know anything about physics, the change of direction means, that you have to stop before you can move to another direction. That’s also the situation with leadership, people need to be stopped on the point to adopt and compose new operating model.

 

But how can you stop the people when the situation needs correction? Management monitors objectives and actions, which holds the people’s motion and direction on course. When problems and sudden changes arise, the unnecessary movement and action needs to be stopped. How can you do it? Free tip – use red traffic light signal in support of your management activities. Everyone knows that the red traffic light means that you need to stop.

 

Ask the designated personnel to pinpoint the challenges in your monitoring system with a red traffic light. After that, stop by the red traffic light items on your monitoring sessions. Let the people to elaborate the situation and propose corrective actions to fix them. It’s more probable to find a common stance and make decisions together and move further toward right direction from that stagnant position.

 
The red traffic light is a great interceptor in challenging situations. You should not be afraid to utilize it, because you are more probable to receive support to your situation, when a group of intelligent individuals are forced to stop and chew the situation over.

If you are interested in hearing more about these thoughts, please feel free to contact the LATO team

anytime!

In LATO we believe that transparency, employee contribution and systematic goal and action planning and follow-up is the key for successful strategy implementation.  This is why we created a tool that solves all this with speed and accuracy. 

The Power of Red Traffic Light with Strategy Execution

Onni Matti Manninen 


There are only few things that are able to make people stop. One of the strongest stopping signals is the red traffic light.

 

While managing matters and people, there is always constant movement and action. However, when the situation demands correction, the direction and the movement needs to be changed. If you know anything about physics, the change of direction means, that you have to stop before you can move to another direction. That’s also the situation with leadership, people need to be stopped on the point to adopt and compose new operating model.

 

But how can you stop the people when the situation needs correction? Management monitors objectives and actions, which holds the people’s motion and direction on course. When problems and sudden changes arise, the unnecessary movement and action needs to be stopped. How can you do it? Free tip – use red traffic light signal in support of your management activities. Everyone knows that the red traffic light means that you need to stop.

 

Ask the designated personnel to pinpoint the challenges in your monitoring system with a red traffic light. After that, stop by the red traffic light items on your monitoring sessions. Let the people to elaborate the situation and propose corrective actions to fix them. It’s more probable to find a common stance and make decisions together and move further toward right direction from that stagnant position.

 
The red traffic light is a great interceptor in challenging situations. You should not be afraid to utilize it, because you are more probable to receive support to your situation, when a group of intelligent individuals are forced to stop and chew the situation over.

If you are interested in hearing more about these thoughts, please feel free to contact the LATO team

anytime!

In LATO we believe that transparency, employee contribution and systematic goal and action planning and follow-up is the key for successful strategy implementation.  This is why we created a tool that solves all this with speed and accuracy. 

toggle mobile menu

The Power of Red Traffic Light with Strategy Execution

Onni Matti Manninen 


There are only few things that are able to make people stop. One of the strongest stopping signals is the red traffic light.

 

While managing matters and people, there is always constant movement and action. However, when the situation demands correction, the direction and the movement needs to be changed. If you know anything about physics, the change of direction means, that you have to stop before you can move to another direction. That’s also the situation with leadership, people need to be stopped on the point to adopt and compose new operating model.

 

But how can you stop the people when the situation needs correction? Management monitors objectives and actions, which holds the people’s motion and direction on course. When problems and sudden changes arise, the unnecessary movement and action needs to be stopped. How can you do it? Free tip – use red traffic light signal in support of your management activities. Everyone knows that the red traffic light means that you need to stop.

 

Ask the designated personnel to pinpoint the challenges in your monitoring system with a red traffic light. After that, stop by the red traffic light items on your monitoring sessions. Let the people to elaborate the situation and propose corrective actions to fix them. It’s more probable to find a common stance and make decisions together and move further toward right direction from that stagnant position.

 
The red traffic light is a great interceptor in challenging situations. You should not be afraid to utilize it, because you are more probable to receive support to your situation, when a group of intelligent individuals are forced to stop and chew the situation over.

If you are interested in hearing more about these thoughts, please feel free to contact the LATO team

anytime!

In LATO we believe that transparency, employee contribution and systematic goal and action planning and follow-up is the key for successful strategy implementation.  This is why we created a tool that solves all this with speed and accuracy.