The balance of Enthusiasm, Competence, and Passion has both nature and nurture components. How you balance and use / illustrate your Enthusiasm, Competence and Passion in work and how your work system is set-up to allow you to be enthusiastic, competent and passionate about what you do can be a struggle.
Below are 4 Minimum authorities that every manager must have in order to be an effective and trustworthy managerial leader. Each has a short video and written explanation of why the authority is necessary and how can make your team and leadership better.
Have you ever wondered, why do we care what someone who is watching us thinks? Especially when it’s someone close like a spouse or loved one. Possibly someone who has control over your work, like your manager or subordinate.
We are all in service positions. As a manager your job is to offer services to subordinates to complete their work. Be it coaching, training, motivation, resources, discipline, delegation of tasks, mentoring, etc…Often we are too quick to offer help, and be the Hero that we think we are!
Consulting & Coaching a Management team, we created this 2 x 2 Goal (what-by-when) matrix.
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.
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.
All managers should be provided with the unequivocal authority to decide that a particular person, who is no longer working at a minimum effectiveness required for their role (for example the persons best is NOT good enough for the role), whether due to loss of commitment, not keeping up with new knowledge and technology, whatever the reason. This person will no longer keep their position with that manager, they have been de-selected.
The complexity of a problem does not lie in the complexity of the goal, BUT in the complexity of the pathway that has to be constructed and then traversed in order to get to the goal.
Meaning that – the complexity in the task lies not in the goal (itself) BUT in what you have to do in order to get there.
Building and Sustaining a team is a requirement of every manager, whether you are a shift manager at a grocery store or a Chief Executive of a bank, the process of building and sustaining an effective team of subordinates is necessary. When consulting & coaching managers one common complaint is Missed Deadlines. In the Developing … Continued