Did your boss do a poor job delegating work across your team this week? Swipe left. Did a fellow manager do a great job coaching you through a project? Swipe right.
Committing to and establishing recurring, personal meetings with each of your team members is vital to creating a constant feedback loop, where everyone receives praise and constructive criticism first and fast.
Traditional performance management is anything but People Positive, and it’s incoherent when it comes to developing mastery.
Feedback is the bridge between training and implementation. It’s what turns instructions into productive, applicable lessons. A successful trainer not only hosts a training but observes the trainees in action to point out and alleviate their mistakes.
Every member of your sales team may struggle with a unique set of challenges. Classifying them into different sales personas not only helps you identify the root of the problem but also helps you manage the sales team more effectively.
Engaged employees are a rare commodity nowadays. These employees are reliable, produce a high level of efficient work, and bring future-thinking opportunities and innovation into the organization.
Developing a culture of candor is an effective strategy for teamwork, innovation and greater speed. Instant candor and fast feedback help working relationships. Candor improves the quality of work and encourages ideas to develop.
Today, Leadership Expert Dana Brownlee is out to change that archaic mindset for the modern workplace with the release of The Unwritten Rules of Managing Up: Project Management Techniques from the Trenches (published by Berrett-Koehler).
While there are many trainable leadership skills and tools in such core leadership competencies as strategic thinking, political alignment, smart communication and talent motivation, they do not, by themselves, produce effective leadership.
Feedback is an essential component at every level of leadership. Yet, for many people, sharing and receiving feedback can be a daunting experience.