Most managers are familiar with performance-based incentives. These are the rewards your team or team members earn by achieving a set goal. There is another layer to incentives that adds value to your organization in a way that a performance-based incentive can not. I call it the team satisfaction incentive. The team sat incentive is […]
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Building Up Your B Players
Every team has a mix of players. A few are the stars or A players. The bulk are B players. Then you have a few that are C players. An article in Inc Magazine, “Managers Need to Start Focusing On This One Group” promotes the idea that managers should focus their attention on developing B […]
Be A Scheming Manager
The art of managing is found in balancing the individual strengths, weaknesses, and desires of a team of people. Every person is great at something, weaker at other things and is hoping to do something beyond the dictates of their current role. Your mission is to align all of those elements within each person and […]
Start Here: Live And Learn
There are so many ways to consume content these days. From YouTube videos to blogs, podcasts to tweets, many of us can satisfy our info fix in a myriad of ways. We know, though, that some of the greatest leaders of our time were avid readers. John Coleman, author of “For Those Who Want to Lead, […]
What Were You Thinking?
Everyone makes mistakes. As a manager, you move your team members through failures to help them become better employees and individuals. Addressing errors, especially big ones, can be challenging for everyone. Confrontation is as uncomfortable for you as facing their mistakes is for your employees. A poor manager dismisses an error with a judgement about […]
Be The Great Manager You Want
Marcus Aurelius said, “Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself!” A client of mine, Jack, worked for a small software company. Like many of these businesses, it was started by a young, serial entrepreneur. The company grew fast and hired faster. Neither the founder nor her […]
