Excessive layers of Management Crush High Performance Teams

I Continue to see excess layers & honor promotions leading to made-up positions that only increase the bureaucracy and frustration of everyone in the organization.
What is hell is a ‘Deputy-Associate Vice President’?

10 Steps for managers to get Work Done

Organizations and teams exist to get work done. This often proves to be challenging. It requires a structure with competent people at each level of the organization and procedures which allow them to do their best, unencumbered by red-tape and nincompoop managers who shouldn’t be there in the first place.

Managerial-Leadership is a Social Exchange Relationship

It is not just a matter the manager’s saying ‘Do this it’s what you’re paid for!’; it is requisitely a matter of saying, ‘I want this task done and I am assigning it to you; I am accountable for assessing the outcome.

Quick fixes are making your team’s problem worse

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.

5 Steps to Determine Competency in Work

Competency in work is more that just intelligence. It is a combination of cognition, values, knowledge & skills, people skills and behaviors. How do you figure out all those things?

Goals Tasks Purpose Objective Call it what you want the work has to get done

As people and people who create organizational-systems of work Managerial-Accountability-Hierarchies purpose and the Goal means very much to us. So much that if the goal is not explained to us and we make choices, we will create the goal to match the choices we made. Creating purpose out of the work we did, because nothing is more demotivating than thinking all of our hard work was for naught.

Requisite Organization for Service

Understanding of time frame and skill capabilities of people within an organization is necessary for leadership. Once leaders comprehend the various Stratums of training & development within the time frames, a greater match of person to accountabilities is established.