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Best Practice Steps for Delegating Tasks to Employees

When delegating tasks to employees, to ensure that the tasks get completed to your satisfaction and to ensure that employees get the support they need to be successful, take these best practice steps:

Choose the right employee to delegate to. Be sure the employee has the basic skills to get the task completed and the […]

The Need to Build Relationships: A Mini Case Study – Part II

Read Part I for background information.

You need to change everyone’s perception of you. What are you going to do? In order to move forward in this particular situation, consider apologizing to colleagues for “plowing ahead” with your ideas and suggestions. You might note that you are excited about the potential and simply got carried […]

The Need to Build Relationships: A Mini Case Study – Part I

When you first joined the company over 6 months ago, you tried to move forward with a number of initiatives that were successful at your last company. You met quite a bit of resistance from business line managers (your peers). You couldn’t seem to move forward with any of your initiatives.

In a recent conversation […]

The Complaining Team Member

Do your employees complain but don’t want to help find a solution?

Do you have members of your team who frequently complain about others on the team, but seem to not want to do anything to resolve the situation? Or, to leave it entirely up to you to resolve, therefore absolving themselves of all responsibility?

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Changing Your Mindset Around Performance Reviews

It’s that time of year for many organizations – performance reviews! Three of my clients are in the middle of performance reviews and for each of them it is a dreaded project!

How you behave as a manager impacts your mindset around performance reviews. For example, if you see yourself as a partner with your […]