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]
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]
