Blog Entries tagged 'management style'

One manager is getting it right!

maureen

I was listening to a client this morning as she described how she planned to manage her new team. She has a number of relatively new managers, people with great technical skill but, typically, little management expertise. As best as I can remember, she put it like this.

“They avoid conversations. They let small things slide and then they grow into bigger things. When they realize they have to take some action, they come in heavy han [...]

Talking so you get things done

admin

As managers, many of us do indeed talk straight. We identify problems, decide on solutions, allocate responsibilities, communicate it all to our people with standards and deadlines … but the job doesn’t get done! Managing would be easy if only people would do what they have been told to do. And they have been told. Straight!

We all know what it’s like to be on the receiving end of this style of management with manag [...]