Your organization and work are changing around you, whether you want it to or not.
Having an understanding of how this change takes place, the steps that people go through and the systems-that-drive the negative and positive behaviors to this change are requisite to this change lasting or fading away.
Companies look for a quick fix creating management positions, they really believe will help. When it backfires and creates more problems. They don’t look at what caused the problem, improper organizational design, they throw training at it hoping for more quick fixes.
5 Steps to ensure that team-work gets accomplished and everyone knows what to-do.
“Happy teams are all alike; every unhappy team is unhappy in its own way.”
As a manager, developing staff is your job. It cannot be delegated off to Human Resources, Organization Development or someone else. You are the manager. Your primary accountability is to add value to the team and staff.
Great Team Building is recognizing that all good solutions have one thing in common – they are obvious, but only in hindsight.
This advanced program will assist Managerial-Leaders in developing the skills needed to successfully master the management of organizational complexity.
We had a GREAT time completing the 2nd offering of the High Performance Team Building Certificate Class – offered through the University at Buffalo School of Social Work Continuing Education Department.
The most frightening thing about having a manager that is “Too small” and creates under-performance and dis-engagement is the gradual reduction in level of competence of the subordinate team, which creates broad departmental under-performance and increased dis-engagement. The department begins to sink in scale, matching the competence of its manager.
Few companies know to deal with hiring and promotion mistakes and they repeat them, knowing that they are creating failure and organizational chaos.
Unfortunately the employee, that is now in the role that they cannot adequately fill, is usually punished by termination or sent to training.
You cannot teach a tadpole to be a frog by giving it jumping lessons.
People cannot be taught, coached, developed and/or trained to work at a level of complexity above what they are capable of doing.