The Best Manager

Imagine you have a person who is always late to work. In your environment, this causes an issue since people are working on teams. One approach would be to simply tell the person that if this behavior continues, a person will be fired. Scared, the person for a while might show ...

Coaching starts with good intention. Coaching is about enabling another person to solve a challenge, think from a new perspective, be more creative, get unstuck and so on.  Behavior management assumes that a person will only be motivated to develop or solve a challenge if there is a reward or challenge behind ...

Coaching is behavior intended to enable another person to develop, improve or correct something which is not working. Coaching also can enable someone to be more creative, get unstuck or resolve a current or ongoing challenge. Coaching can enable someone to make a better decision, work through a conflict or improve ...

Vision and structure To be a strong leader takes a compelling vision for people. It also requires an ability to set up goals and follow-up on it. In addition to this, to enable great things through people, it takes a softer side, a caring side. That is what you call coaching. Focused on enabling great results ...

People gain their self-esteem from their work Work takes up the majority of one's life. The contributions we make, the feedback we receive, the new opportunities – all contribute to our self-esteem. When people feel good about their work, they communicate better, establish better working relationships, and feel ...

[caption id="" align="alignright" width="176" caption="pics courtesy: intratrain.com"][/caption] Senior leaders must ask people how they feel about the organization and be prepared to listen. Are business indicators improving as a result of new approaches to leading? They should! Are customers saying good things about the organization? Is the organization gaining new customers, getting more return business from existing customers? All of ...

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="196" caption="pics courtesy: insights.sererra.com"][/caption] When leaders, especially top leaders start to coach, building stronger relationships with those who they lead, a new energy builds in the culture. People feel more supported and, as a result, they enjoy their work more which leads to better productivity.  Customers feel the effect as well as those internal ...

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="200" caption="pics courtesy: changeboard.com"][/caption] Many leaders are more comfortable with giving one way communications and expecting compliance. This can get short-term results scaring people into action but leads to long-term mistrust and burnout of those who they lead. Many leaders have poor role models and are fearful that their new ...

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="176" caption="pic courtesy: leadershipsuccessnow.com"][/caption] The first way is to start showing people what you want them to learn and do. Leaders as teachers facilitate shared learning through listening, guiding, and setting clear goals. Next, leaders collaborate with the people they are leading. This is the opposite model from micro-management. Leaders appreciate the diversity of the ...

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="172" caption="pic courtesy: ronmartin.net"][/caption] Many leaders and organizations make a mistake of placing the emphasis on the outdated reward and punishment model of management.  Programs that are meant to motivate others come and go. People are given great rewards only to find out later that the expectations for rewards grow higher with each new ...