Strategy for Leadership Development
Effective leadership development is too important for the present and future success of a business to be left to the human resources department. It is a core activity to grow leaders.
3 Ways to Handle Conflict on Teams
All teams have conflict.
Team conflict can be a positive thing, if it is able to move the team forward. Team conflict can be a negative thing, if it holds the team back.
When conflict happens, deciding whether to Deal With It; Give In; or Hold Out; is a choice that you must make.
One Person Must Be Responsible For The Work
If more than 1 person is Responsible for completing the goal, they all have valid arguments, they all are doing what they should be doing….and the because they all are Responsible for the outcome and want to do their best work it causes role confusion.
This may be fixed, somewhat resolved, if we have a single Responsible person…and that Single Responsible person, if confused, had access to the project manager for clarity on the goal.
Work is Selling We are all in sales now
Work is selling and we all need to focus on persuading others to assist us in completing our work. Managers, especially, need to work to uderstand other perspectives. Plus an understanding that looking for certain personality traits in employees is a waste of time.
10 Steps for managers to get Work Done
Organizations and teams exist to get work done. This often proves to be challenging. It requires a structure with competent people at each level of the organization and procedures which allow them to do their best, unencumbered by red-tape and nincompoop managers who shouldn’t be there in the first place.
2 Reasons for Follow-Up and Why Team Leaders Need to Follow-Up
Follow-up is about showing that the task is important and allowing the manager to better be able to predict the work-flow and longer goals that are keeping the company and team working.
Is it Useful to the team? If not then STOP IT!
You follow advice from someone or are convinced that X is useful, and Y did X so therefore it will work for me.
That makes sense. Until you do it and it does nothing.
Thinking Through Innovation With Canisius College
Canisius College’s Center for Professional Development and I are offering.
Thinking Through Innovation
A highly interactive skills course transferring creative ideas into innovative practices.
It Cannot Hurt to Know Your Teams and Your Behaviors IT CAN HURT IF IT IS WRONG!
It Cannot Hurt to Know Your Teams and Your Behaviors.
IT CAN HURT IF IT IS WRONG!
Or used against you to get a job or promotion Or is costing the company $$ because they just bought an assessment that the sales person claimed will cure all your team problems.
Meeting Zombies How to Avoid Your Brain Being Eaten
You have been a meeting zombie, I have been a meeting zombie…We both are guilty of spreading the Zombie virus to others in the meeting room.
How can this be avoided?
There are a couple things.
Meeting Zombies thrive on apathy and mistrust