Searching for Answers…

One of the great things that a blog can do tell you exactly what people typed in their search engine to get to your site.
Yesterday two of the search items that led people to me were:

Can Managers Be Effective Leaders?

and

Are Leaders Always Managers?

In short I believe that the answers are Yes and No respectively. [...]

Communication: Companies need less . . . not more!

This is the title of a great post on the Slow Leadership blog. Dave Woods says:
‘I work with a large variety of CEOs, senior managers and key employees. If I ask about the needs and issues within the company, I almost always get the same response: “We need more communication.”
My reaction to that is [...]

You Are a Superstar: 90% of Managers Are In the Top 10%

This from the ‘business pundit‘ blog recently:
″A new study shows that 90% of managers think they are in the top 10% at their workplace.
Believe you’re among the top performers in your office? You’re not alone.
According to a new survey, an impossible 90 percent of managers think they’re among the top 10 percent of performers [...]

Developing a Coaching Culture – A Big Mistake

It seems that every other Human Resources manager I meet these days talks about the work that they are doing to develop a ‘Coaching Culture’.
Now why would anyone (other than a consultant selling coaching) want to develop a coaching culture? A learning culture, maybe. A performance or achievement culture definitely.
But a coaching culture [...]

Feedback – Making it Work in the Real World

I recently had a meeting with a member of the Progressive Managers’ Network and he was asking me about a challenge he was facing in putting feedback into practice. I train people to use both affirming and adjusting feedback.

Affirming feedback is given when an employee exhibits a good behaviour at work and the manager [...]

The Team Building Away Day – And Why They Never Work

 
“In order to strengthen the concept of team working and/or cross sector team working, part of the awarding authority’s training budget is allocated to teams/regions for development days out of the office. Corporate training days for all the awarding authority’s staff are also held three times per annum, with the aim of promoting communication and [...]

Progressive Managers Network partners with YMCA Training

I am delighted to say that the PMN has established a new partnership with YMCA Training in Harrogate to add to existing partnerships with the Leeds Jewish Welfare Board and The Goodwin Development Trust in Hull.
PMN events will be available at YMCA Training from October. The first launch event is free of charge. [...]

The Truth About Performance Management

What is performance management about really?

Outputs?
Outcomes?
Impacts?
Measurement?

In truth performance management is a communication process that helps individuals learn and grow in their ability to connect with, and contribute to, the organisation’s priorities. This connection between the individual, their values, beliefs, skills and aspirations and the purpose or mission of the business is the real [...]

Some More Great Questions for Managers

First posting for over 2 weeks – courtesy of a family holiday – with no laptop!
I have been reading Drucker, again, and found another really useful set of questions for managers to ask of themselves. They are also the kind of questions that you should be able to answer for each of your team [...]