You may be the incompetent manager
You may be the person who is unable to handle the complexity of your role. Pointing up or down the hierarchy is easy. It is challenging to see the mess you created within your team.
Leadership drives the company or the company drives leadership
Young start up organizations the leader drives the company. Mature developed organizations the company drives the leader.
7 Common Team Problems and Practical Solutions
The work of the team is not getting done.
Systems-Drive-Behaviors. Here’s 4 solutions to achieve high performance team work.
A system that works to drive out fear to attract trust will see growth and financial gains
When an organization is developed & designed for learning. Mangers are “Big Enough”, people work to their full capacity within a system that is actually built upon innovation, autonomy, idea generation, learning teams, & continuous growth. A system that works to drive out fear – to attract trust, we can see rapid growth & financial gains.
7 Principles of Leadership Development
Don’t ever criticize a manager for not being a leader if no one has ever told him or her what the role is. Rather criticize the inept organization that appointed them.
Before Spaying or Neutering Your Managers with External Assessments Answer These Questions
Prior to assuming that “we have strong personalities” and removing (or abdicating) the accountability & authority of the direct manager to an external assessment several questions need to be answered.
Behavioral Assessments do Little to Change Work Behaviors
Using personality or behavior assessments (DiSC, MBTI, Big 5, etc.) continually reinforces the false belief that people are the problem and they are not good enough being who they are.
How to Determine the Basics of the Company and Your work
Organization Design is the foundation of the company and how you operate day to day to accomplish work. With pressure the foundational cracks become more apparent and enlarge. Leaving everyone to do the best they can while their work and capacity to improve the company is crumbling around them.
The Work Itself as a Source of Reward and Punishment on the Job
Rewards and Punishment that may come from the work itself.
Shifting the Team from Separate Functions to Systems Thinking Case Study
Using real work for Team Building moved the people on the team;
from functional autonomy to interdependence;
from lone experts to a collaborative, focused team;
from impulsive to disciplined;
from the use of experience and instinct to the use of data;
from separate functions to systems thinking.