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Paul Matthews give us our weekly Alchemy for Managers Tip I was reminded this week of a way to look at management from a new perspective. Think of management as a service you provide to the people on your team so they can get on and do the work. There are many things you provide [...]
Encourage their thinking, and use the opportunity to coach them,
rather than tell them.
Do you habitually talk about problems, or talk
about solutions?
When you meet people, look for a connection to something that is bizarre yet memorable.
Using both formal and informal feedback mechanisms incorporated within a 360 degree feedback can help us to understand how our behaviour and leadership skills impact others.
Remember, invisible miracles don’t impress anybody.
Others think of you in terms of what they know or
notice about you.
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
Most people are framing their meetings with an activity focus versus an outcomes focus.
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 [...]