Given the opportunity to understand how his oftentimes painstaking and pedantic ways affect his colleagues, and then given the tools and encouragement to make positive changes, Eeyore could be perceived very differently. With a different communication style alone, his valuable contributions to the team would be recognised as beneficial and potentially indispensible.
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It’s a deliciously proven fact, the findings of which have been published in the Journal of Nutrition, that consuming chocolate, wine and tea daily actually helps improve our cognitive performance.
Unfortunately, having been given the task of implementing the assessment and then the feedback session itself, John’s lack of understanding on the process has given him a very negative viewpoint towards it. This will inevitably filter down through the ranks to the team members who are taking part in the appraisal itself.
Encourage their thinking, and use the opportunity to coach them,
rather than tell them.
We don’t always recognise the signs that we’ve developed some unhelpful habits, or that we’ve got areas of behaviour that could be improved
Alchemy for Managers Weekly Tip – guest post from Paul Matthews. We all have the experience of applying a solution to a problem, and the problem gets worse.With hindsight we look back, and realise that we came up with a solution without properly understanding the cause of the problem. An example is a team that [...]
Use care when using psychometrics that label people, or group them into a particular category.
The most effective leadership isn’t focused on the leader.
Knowledge allows you to see things as they are; imagination allows you to see things as they could be.
‘I will do it…’ vs. ‘I will try to do it…’
Which one do you prefer to hear?