Sometimes we have great teams, but most of the time we need to help develop them. We all want highly effective teams, here’s how to create one for yourself.
This is part three of a three-part series entitled “The Real Job of a Manager and Why it’s Easy to be Bad at It”. Part 1 focuses on The Fundamentals of Management, part 2 focuses on Managing the Work and part 3 focuses on Managing the People. We’ve covered how to Manage the Work with… [Continue Reading]
Your most important job as a manager is to build the skills and nurture the qualities of your team members. Yeah, the work is important, but at the end of the day, your people are what matter most. Projects come and go, deadlines are hit and missed, but rarely do these milestones have the same… [Continue Reading]
Brian. Oh Brian, Joshua whispered to himself, thinking about the meeting that just happened. Brian, his direct report, was like a stream roller whenever he got involved with a project. People were afraid of him because of his approach to everything. No one wanted to discuss their ideas, for fear he would tear them apart…. [Continue Reading]
Rich was a rock star, and everyone knew it. He walked into work, like he did every day, knowing he’d be contributing something amazing to the team’s project. He always produced the best work and was happy his manager, Antonio, gave him the toughest assignments. Today, however, Antonio asked him to work on putting together a few… [Continue Reading]
Fred decided he was fed up working with his team members. If he just did it himself, he wouldn’t have had to go back and make so many corrections. He liked the other guys—honestly, he did—but after all these weeks, they were just starting to annoy him. Teams are just not very effective sometimes, he… [Continue Reading]
