Three Reasons Your Boss Is Constantly Disagreeing With You
Maybe you’re too committed to your own ideas—or maybe your boss is just a micromanager.
Tag: management
5 Ways to Build a Team of Leaders (While Saving Yourself Some Work)
When putting together a group of individuals to work together on a project, it can seem easy to simply delegate all that you have to do to other people. What this doesn’t do, however, is set up anyone else on staff to lead after the leader’s departure.
The lack of initiative that comes with passivity may actually be crippling to an organization, especially one striving to grow in multiple, independent departments. Here, then, are 5 great ways to build a team of leaders from within, while encouraging your best employees to move up the ranks themselves.
4 Ways to Develop the Leaders You’ll Need in the Future
One of the most challenging aspects of leadership development is consistently and effectively identifying the next wave of leaders.
Hiring Great People Is More Than a Gut Feeling. Here Are 8 Ways to Get it Right Every Time
A framework will help you avoid these common (and sometimes fatal) errors
Do You Know How Each Person on Your Team Likes to Work?
When we travel to a country that has a different culture than ours, many of us spend time learning ways to communicate and connect with the people there. We might look up the meanings of common terms and access maps of key attractions.
Similarly, when you first become a manager, it’s helpful to spend time up front connecting and creating a common language with your team. When your team knows how you like to work and how you plan to manage them, they’re able to produce results faster. When you know how each of your direct reports likes to work and communicate, you’re able to save time when setting direction and following up.
3 Practical Team Strategies For Managing The Fear Of Conflict
When you shake a carbonated beverage and then open it, pressure gets released. It’ll be ugly and messy but eventually that messiness will be cleaned up and you can enjoy what you have — a nice tasty beverage.
Teams work the same way. Tensions build over time because that’s the nature of relationships. Conversations in teams often create emotional tolls — a “deposit” that positively resonates with people and a “withdrawal” that conflicts with others’ values and beliefs, therefore creating conflict. Neither one is bad. In fact, you need both deposits and withdrawals to keep that team’s bank account (i.e. performance) healthy and flowing. Conflict is healthy. It’s just not comfortable.
What to Do About Mediocrity on Your Team
The toughest test of a manager is not how they deal with poor performance — it’s how they address mediocrity.
7 Ways To Make Your Monday Morning Sales Meetings Buzz
Why is it that many salespeople hate internal sales meetings?
You know, the ones where everyone sits round a desk and covers off the trivia and very quickly get bored with the whole process because the only result is that the manager gets to criticise and moan about the current sales figures again?
Meetings where everyone gets together should be vigorous, exciting affairs that get everyone buzzing and ready for the next sales call, not a dreaded amalgam of dry, stale and flat minutia.
The Key Management Skill for the 21st Century: Leading Remote Teams
As a manager, understanding how to lead a remote team and doing so effectively will likely be critical to your future career potential.
Ten Signs Your Boss Is A Manager — But Not A Leader
A simple way to answer the question “What’s the difference between managing and leading?” is this:
Managing people means watching them to make sure they do what they’re supposed to do.
The concept of traditional supervision is rooted in the fear that working people will misbehave or make mistakes if someone isn’t watching them to make sure they don’t.