The Twelve Red Flags that Indicate Managers Need Help
There are three possible roadblocks to managers’ effectiveness: They’re uncomfortable in their role. They lack confidence in their skills. They simply don’t know what to do. Let’s take each of…
There are three possible roadblocks to managers’ effectiveness: They’re uncomfortable in their role. They lack confidence in their skills. They simply don’t know what to do. Let’s take each of…
The Surprising Power of Peer Coaching is an article by Brenda Steinberg and Michael D. Watkins for the Harvard Business Review. They write about small coaching groups comprised of executives…
The Problem: Traditional management development lacks results. The Reasons: The programs provide general knowledge without direct and reinforced application on the job. Managers perceive that self-organized and self-managed forms of…
Workplace learning is broken. It takes too much time, is costly, has insufficient practice, is rarely reinforced, and doesn’t show results. A recent article by Melanie Fellay, “5 Steps to…
If you are a human resources manager, you wear many hats. You may oversee staffing, classification, training, compensation, and benefits programs, handling and trouble-shooting daily employee and program issues. You…
Peer learning groups help managers get the skills they need to increase employee engagement, productivity, and retention. They are easy to set up and schedule just-in-time when managers are faced…
It’s not easy to move from a contributing role to the role of manager. The technical skills you’ve developed in your position do not automatically transfer into your new role.…
Good managers increase employee retention, productivity, and engagement. Here are the twelve ingredients in our recipe for a good manager. Good managers: are transparent. They are authentic, truthful, open, straightforward,…
Peer coaching for your managers and employees will guarantee greater organizational success. How? Through stronger cross-functional relationships; more effective interpersonal communication; better problem solving; improved best practices; and greater efficiency,…
The Great Resignation may have your organization scrambling to fill vacant positions and that is a priority. It is also a priority to make sure that your new hires get…