You will be surprised as a Manager and a Leader. Especially as a first-time Manager with front-line accountabilities for ongoing operations. I certainly was. Organizational life will, as Dwight Mihalicz’s ‘5 Requirements of Effective Managers’ sets out, now be...
Dwight Mihalicz in his Workshop on Management Effectiveness includes practical, recognizable operating models and structures. Examples demonstrate that different industries have different tolerances for different risks. Amongst all the models, the ‘ah ha’ for me was:...
Do your team members go home at the end of the day feeling badly about what they didn’t get done, instead of feeling good about what they did get done?We are working more, but not seeing expected results. We are running faster and more furiously than ever, and it’s...
I have a pet peeve, and it’s how people today talk about leadership as if it was some magical substance that occurs spontaneously only at the top of an organization and nowhere else. For example, if there is an issue at the frontline, there is a tendency for employees...
Whether you’re becoming a manager for the first time, or moving into a new managerial role, it’s important to start out on the right foot. So what should you do in the first few days, weeks, and months to get up and running as a new team leader? Using the 5...
“You trust your team, but you’ve got to trust yourself. Or you’re inauthentic. You’ll know it first. Everyone else will know it second. By the time they notice, you’re too far gone.” – George Strombolompolous I came across this quote from...
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