Right Bus Right People Right Seats Your Team is Still Unproductive

Much of the confusion and frustration comes from having too many layers of management in the organization. In other words:
Like Collins in Good-to-Great, getting the right people on the bus in the right seat is important. Unfortunately companies keep adding seats and squeezing in extra and unnecessary layers. Causing increased tension and everyone feeling squished, micromanaged, distrusted and unsafe.

Too Close? Too Far? Just Right? Matching the Manager-Employee Capacity

A persons behaviors can become extreme as a sign of an inept manager-employee situation. As a manager you must have the capacity to complete the required responsibilities, if your capacity is lacking then effective management cannot take place.

There is one condition that I consider to be more important than the rest, and it is the foundation of “People join companies and leave managers.”
Optimum Manager-Subordinate Distance.

5 Steps to Determine Competency in Work

Competency in work is more that just intelligence. It is a combination of cognition, values, knowledge & skills, people skills and behaviors. How do you figure out all those things?

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.

Teams or Teamwork What you mean affects the work

Teams vs. Teamwork the terms mean different things to different people. In order work to get done a shared understanding must be known. Groups may require teamwork even
when they do not need to work as a team.

7 Areas for Team Building Facilitators to Observe with Teams

For team development and team building to happen, the facilitator must know how to build the team. Leading a series of “games” that have no purpose is recreation. Read ‘Sometimes I Feel Like Team Building is Sweet Frosting on a Shit Cake.’ The facilitator must be aware of the team, the individuals on the team, … Continued