Too often organizations try to push flying lessons to caterpillars.
I know some of you are thinking WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?
It means that what we are trying to do is far too advanced at that time, or the person is not ready to develop the skills yet. In reality they may never be able to master the skills you are trying to train and develop.
Management is tough and determining what the role for the promotion and hiring requires will ensure that the right person, at the right time, with the right skill set, with the right current capability needs will make your job as manager easier.
The main point is the particular traits have little effect upon a person’s in-role leadership work, UNLESS the traits are so far extreme or unacceptable that the person lacks control to keep from disturbing their working relationship with others.
Currently there is an authoritarian style of management creating a decrease in morale, satisfaction with work and innovation amongst employees. This is developing a feeling of strife, hopelessness and contempt amongst management and subordinates.
Working through personal conflicts within teams and re-establishing trust is a necessary component of high performance teamwork. Inquiry this week; If your problem with this person did not exist, what would you be doing more of? If your problem with this person did not exist, how would you spend your time? If your problem with … Continued
We always want to share our experience and how we solved problems. When someone shares a problem they are facing, we quickly jump into the “If I was you…” “Here is what I would have done…” “That happened to me and I …” “why didn’t you just…” etc. This is especially true with a manager subordinate relationship.
“Before walking into the operations team meetings, and shooting off ideas that I think would be easy for the other directors. I should make an appointment, speak with them, get there input and involve them in the plan.”
Shared process and structure for leadership team to make decisions and solve problems within a time span.
Skill in active listening and communication to peers, supervisors and direct reports.
Co-creation of decision making methods for Leadership team to utilize in real-time. Leadership team will make a decision that is applicable to the organization at the time of our meeting.
Co-creation of team problem solving for Leadership team to utilize in real-time. Leadership team will solve a problem, develop an action plan & plan the step to a solution that is applicable to the organization at the time of our meeting.
“It’s good to know what doesn’t work, but it’s really helpful to know what does.”
The final Step in Developing High Performance Teams is exploring Why continue?