When someone tells me how Football or Baseball or Hockey or choose your sport are great example of organizations and team-work. They made interesting points and I politely listen, and still don’t really care about sports.
This image above explores the differences between an Organizational Structure that has NO managerial-leadership coaching and an Organizational Structure WITH managerial-leadership coaching.
Just because he is caring or exudes great charisma for the work does not mean that he has the competence to handle the position. Managers who are nice and caring BUT incompetent are dangerous to the organization.
As a working professional you are expected to walk into the door already being a master of the work you do. This is tough because mastery of a process and work may take years.
I see people just fake-it. Quickly learning by drowning then that one swimming-stroke saved them, it’s all they ever use.
This is a very honest post, about the struggle that I deal with in trying to make teams and leaders better. If we are to really make your organization function and achieve high performance, we need more than window dressing, recreation and placing Fish stickers on the wall. Bromides of – team excellence, Good-to-Great, Management By Objectives, etc… That we have all heard and wondered, what does that mean?
Systems-Drive-Behavior if you are seeing outcomes that you don’t want then we must examine the system that created that behavior. This will force you to face what you believe vs. what is the evidence, and one of those has to win.
What is an Organizational or Work System? Here are 4 properties or attributes of a system. Each one helps clarify what makes systems unique and how they impact our entire lives.
End of the year and my calendar is filling with Strategic Planning Facilitation and meetings. Where Managers, Employees, Team-Members, Entire Companies trap people in a room and look back at the magic that was last year and project the WOW! of the up-coming year.
Can a hierarchical organization with Manager / Subordinate relationships increase and attract trust? Can individuals be free in a system like this? Are justice, fairness and equity false assumptions within hierarchies? Isn’t authority the same as authoritarianism and autocracy; which repel trust for the sake of those in power?
All goals are time driven – whether we announce the time-frame or not ALL GOALS ARE TIME DRIVEN. As a Manager setting goals “What-by-When” is how you add value to those who work with you. As an employee completing goals “What-by-When” and setting goals for ourselves are what adds value to those who work with us. Determining your own & others time-span to complete a goal will make your work more fulfilling and innovative.
Being a Manager is tough and being accountable for the work as well as the behavior of a subordinate adds another layer of complexity to your challenges. Ensuring that the right person you promote is capable of doing the work and Fit-In with their new work peer group is necessary.