Leading and working with teams, the people who make up the team have a desire for Self-Direction (autonomy) to make their own choices AND have a desire to be Other-Directed (dependence) to be told what to do. Each has there benefits and challenges.
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.
People are NOT psychologically damaged, either is your manager or you. The behaviors you are seeing come from a seriously flawed Organizational & Management System. Determine how your team and/or you can improve what you can and make the system function. OR maybe they are really f-ed up in the head!?
Can you OR should you try to change an asshole employees behavior?
What you see is the outline for a 5 month Emerging Leadership Program that I am creating and facilitating for about 30 students enrolled in a Local College. This challenge was unique, the Deans I am meeting with wanted “Something different than the typical Leadership program.”
For participants to experience a D – Dominance type culture. In this activity all people are asked to use their Dominance to accomplish a task that has a tight time frame and a decision must be made.
Higher-Level-Leadership Training what does that mean? Is it a Manager’s ego that certain basic Managerial Leadership Skills are below them? Below is a piece of a conversation I had with a manager about goal-setting and Higher Level Leadership.
I am going to ask you a weird question, Pretend that we all go on break and during this break your team does what is normally does on break…But unknown to the members of your team everyone else was shown which rope is the correct rope to choose. BUT your team did not know this because you all were on a break. In what ways, besides just telling you which rope was the correct choice, could the people and teams support, guide, serve your team in making the right choice?
Working with a team of 5 Executive Directors from a company that employs ~2000 people we identified a gap in the Managerial Leadership Training, Mentoring and coaching of employees prior to being promoted to a Manager Level within the company.
Do people or the systems that they work in create bad behaviors?
You know what I mean, it is really wondering “Why would a sane person, who is like me choose to be that much of an Asshole at work?”
Planning is toted as one of the most important things that Teams and Managers do and I still see many people who really suck at it! Why?
Because they are poorly constructed and STOP at Goal Setting.