Think about the best manager you have ever had. If you have never had a good manager, and sadly some people haven’t, then imagine what one would be like.
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Empowerment
The key is evidence. Any complaint about a bullying boss or
co-worker will flounder without some evidence. This should be a
list of incidents, a short description of what happened, and how
this affected the recipient.
Remember, invisible miracles don’t impress anybody.
Others think of you in terms of what they know or
notice about you.
As a manager, every time you provide your people an answer for which you could have asked a question, you have removed their need to think for themselves.
Mastery and purpose have a far greater impact on levels of motivation than financial reward
Just occasionally in business, the habit of sharing information openly comes back to bite you.
Motivation to act (or not) arises from our assessment of the consequences of acting vs. not acting
Use care when using psychometrics that label people, or group them into a particular category.
Many of the ideas of management grew out of the latter stages of the industrial revolution where there was careful measurement and specification of results.
Dave Hall, CEO of HFL Sports Science, reflects on his experience of the Highlands Ability Battery and the ‘Aha!’ moment it unveiled: The HAB experience is an intense one – challenging the complete set of faculties to expose natural tendencies within operational, interpersonal and management styles. Familiar already with many (more simplistic) psychometric testing regimes [...]