Chasing people to get things done?

• Pressure makes us anxious, we work faster and feel impatient.
• We battle against being driven by anxiety.
• It's hard to think clearly and make sound judgements.
• At such times, our emotional intelligence is severely tested.
• Ask yourself - do you really need to feel anxious and impatient?
• Who or what is driving you into this state?
• If you can't change your circumstances, can you simply decide to feel differently about it - given that no one can force you to feel anything.
• When we chase people we create a self-fulfilling prophecy that motivates people to let us down continually.
• People resent being chased and so take less responsibility for their work thereby forcing us to keep chasing forever.
• If you are chasing, then you are part of the problem - perhaps its cause.
• There's no problem with monitoring people's work. You aren't otherwise.
• It is ad hoc chasing that causes difficulties.
• Better to agree completion and periodic review dates with people.
• Leave them alone in the meantime unless a crisis arises.
• If people know when a review date is coming up they can prepare themselves and strive to ensure that the project is at the stage it should be at.
• How can you move beyond simply giving people responsibility to motivating them to want to take hold of it fully?