Chances are that you have at least two or three significant and aggravating people issues that you know you SHOULD do something about and haven’t. A few examples: An employee or peer who complains constantly and is “high maintenance. A manager who is completely lacking in leadership skills and treats his peers and/or employees with […]
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Leaders Don’t Allow Tasks to Take Time Away from People
With business demands and the amount of information increasing, it is tempting for managers to hunker down and spend most of their attention on tasks – dealing with customer/supplier issues, operational issues, answering email, endless meetings and the never ending to-do list. By spending so much time on tasks, the leader tends to spend less […]
When Achievers Stall
High achievers are prone to enter a time in their career where they plateau or stall. Perhaps promotions are not coming as fast and furious as they once did or in some cases, they have achieved every goal they have set and have run out of challenges. Achievers will ask themselves, “Is this all there […]
Coaching a Manager Who is Too Tough
In a previous post we examined a manager who was too easy on his team. In many cases an assignment will come in to work with a manager who has the opposite challenge – he or she is too tough on employees. Often these hard-nosed managers tend to work long hours, do the work his […]
Coaching a Manager Who is Too Easy
The Plant Manager was becoming increasingly frustrated. His production manager was struggling to meet plant performance targets and was not getting his team to take ownership of achieving results. The initial diagnosis was that the production manager was being too easy on his team. As with most management problems, only two or three behaviours cause […]