Management and Team Leadership Is Telling People What To Do

The next time you find your staff and work team not doing what they are supposed to do. Ask yourself and your team Do you know what you are supposed to do? If the answer is no, tell them and you will be amazed at the results and at your talent as a manager and team-leader.

Are people punished for doing their work well?

Consistently I find that those that are seen as high-performers get more work. They come to be resentful of the extra work so they slow down their rate of production or lessen the quality of their work or stop trying so hard or fall into victimhood or seek to transfer out of the company all together.

Behavior Precedes Your Story of Work, Teams and Leadership

Suggesting that he should act ‘As-If’ his work life was organized, his executive team made better decisions quicker and his team achieved what we defined as high-performance. This was more than a thought exercise, it was time for this executive to actually behave As-If.

7 Principles of Leadership Development Managers as Mentors

Developing a mentoring process with existing managers is a way to create discussion a shared language of work between the leaders being developed and those that are already doing the work. Bringing the leadership development to a pragmatic level placing the focus on what matters; Seeing the work get done and having the opportunity to ask questions, and have someone with skilled-knowledge answer those questions.

Management Coaching and Development. Situation, Objectives and First Meeting Plans

Coaching and development for 5 high potential managers. Currently the managers are struggling with a change in their role. Their direct manager is noticing a lapse in time for responses to customers and project members, poor delegation of tasks and prioritization of incoming and outgoing work, plus increased signs of stress with the employees.