What are you doing that is working well?
What are you already doing that is working well?
Within Work Nothing Happens All The Time There Are Exceptions
It has happened to all of us, someone at work (your manager, coworker, subordinate, peer, vendor, customer, etc…) pisses you off and you go off an angry tirade about how resistant and uncooperative they are.
On and on and on.
While these statements may be true, they are not really useful in creating any solutions and changes to getting your work done.
How might these concepts apply to your day to day work?
There is a fallacy we all fall for that we must raise everything to the most conceptually complex level we can…then the solutions must be just as complexly conceptual.
I say phooey!
When people do not feel they have influence they stop supplying feedback
If people do not feel that they have some upward influence on their manager over time they will stop supplying advice or feedback.
Blocks to Creativity and Innovation Tools to Release Creativity and Innovation
Innovation is a repeatable system-that-drives behavior in people, that are goal driven (by a Manager, themselves, or a customer), to fix an existing problem OR to fix an hypothesized future problem.
I am right you are wrong can we have an open discussion
The issue starts when, for some crazy reason (which is not so crazy) we feel a need to prove that our view is the right one, while at the same time saying and truly believing you want to have an open discussion.
Praise for the High Performance Teambuilding Program
“Mike is a great person, ally, and educator! His easy-going and humorous way of running our class was a great example of exactly what we came to learn: how to lead a high-performing team.”
Do we really need a policy stating Employees Cannot Wear Shorts to Work?
Many companies and managers think that what they are doing and the choices they make increase trust. While in reality they only reinforce the suspicion that already exists.
The Team That Parties Together Does Not Necessarily Get Their Work Done
It is nice if people at work are all friends, but not necessary.
It is necessary that people at work know what the Goal is and understand how the work they are doing contributes to accomplishing that goal.
Solution Descriptions Differ From Problem Descriptions
Developing steps to identify what you want to happen, as opposed to what you don’t want to happen can seem to simple. And, if we begin to identify what we want to have happen, using language that describes the solution – a different use of the language is created within teams.