It’s never too late to lead with authority: Even if you’ve let things slide for years, you can reset expectations and take charge, starting today. Accountability starts with ownership: Admitting past leadership mistakes builds credibility and opens the door for real change. Consistency is key: Clear, repeated communication and follow-through are essential to shifting...| RainmakerThinking
Every manager knows who the indispensable superstars on their team are. (If you don’t, you really should.) And most of those managers also know that in order to keep those superstars on the team, they must recognize and reward them accordingly. But what if there simply aren’t any more resources—money or otherwise—for a manager to leverage, even with top performers they can’t afford to lose?| RainmakerThinking
Building a great one-on-one management dialogue with every boss is a lot easier to accomplish in a workplace with stable and clear reporting relationships and direct lines of accountability. But as we all know, in the real world, such workplaces are rare.| RainmakerThinking
The best people you manage want freedom to maneuver at work. They want some latitude when it comes to their schedule, where they do their work, whom they work with, what they do, and how they do it. The problem is that every task, responsibility, and project has parameters that constrain every employee’s freedom. ...| RainmakerThinking
It keeps getting harder to manage people. Most managers still struggle to provide employees with the high-structure, high-substance coaching they need.| RainmakerThinking
Nobody likes confrontations, especially when it’s with an employee you manage. But managers can't afford to overlook small problems. Blog by Bruce Tulgan.| RainmakerThinking
Undermanagement is the number one cause of common preventable issues at work. In fact, there are eight costs that can be traced back to undermanagement.| RainmakerThinking
The last twenty years have been a time of radical transformation in how we all work. Advances in technology have led to greater flexibility, convenience, and comfort for legions of people now able to work remotely. Improvements in diversity, equity, and inclusion have expanded the talent pool for employers and created opportunities for employees. Whole...| RainmakerThinking
Most people prefer instead to go to colleagues who know how to work professionally and methodically within the system and stay in alignment with the chain of command.| RainmakerThinking
The collaboration revolution has ushered in a huge increase in interdependent working relationships where lines of authority are not clear, along with the rise of so-called “self-managed teams” and the thinning out of management ranks in many organizations, all of which flatten hierarchies and widen the spans of control for managers. In this environment, the... The post Don’t Let Diagonal Working Relationships Hold You Back appeared first on RainmakerThinking.| RainmakerThinking
Nate works as a manufacturing manager in a major company that makes truck steering systems. To do his job, he regularly collaborates across the organization, whether it’s with purchasing or quality or engineering. One of his biggest frustrations is when things don’t go well with his counterpart from another department. It’s never clear how to... The post Are You Caught In an Authority Conundrum? appeared first on RainmakerThinking.| RainmakerThinking
