Consistently I find that those that are seen as high-performers get more work. They come to be resentful of the extra work so they slow down their rate of production or lessen the quality of their work or stop trying so hard or fall into victimhood or seek to transfer out of the company all together.
Team Building and Leadership notes and slides from a kick-off meeting with a management team. Focus on increasing Trust (within departments and between departments); Accountability (determining where accountability belongs and creating a culture of that is accountable); Working within the Matrix (using the teams existing knowledge and know-how to improve their existing work and to offer input to the Management team on how to improve their work)
When you work through your delegation myths you can increase discretionary time to actually manage.
Reframing the perception–belief cycle to one of staff development through delegation, offering greater value through your complexity management and skilled-knowledge leading to more great work being done.
Continually I see ideas hap-hazardly put into organizational practice and managerial-leadership ONLY making matters worse. Leading to Executives, Human Resources and team leaders grasping at the ‘Next Thing’ in order to cut the down on the felt mounting bureaucracy and dis-trust within the organization and team.
Any manager has the ability to make work a joy or miserable. If your manager is great perhaps you are on a project team and that project manager has the ability to make you feel great and want to do more or make you want to stop everything and do as little as possible.
Two favorite images illustrating the need for Managerial-Leadership and Team Development systems to be used within companies. Great teams and managerial-leaders happen on purpose.
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!
High performance teams have known methods and procedures. They also have effective meetings that are managed by the Team-Leader. Here is a checklist for Team Meetings.
Wisdom has to do with the soundness of a person’s judgment about the ways of the world, and about what people are like, and how they are likely to react.
This image above explores the differences between an Organizational Structure that has NO managerial-leadership coaching and an Organizational Structure WITH managerial-leadership coaching.