2 Ways to Build Trust Between You and Your Team
During Steve Smith’s ‘Power, Authority and Teams’ session at AYE 2010, one of the attendees mentioned that her team has told her that they don’t know what she does. I’ve been a manager before and now as a coach/consultant, I’ve experienced the same issue and I’m guessing other managers probably have as well based on my experience. A couple of ways for handling this are: Make YOUR work visible: I’ve used personal task boards at previous companies,...
Read More3 Reasons Why Setting Expectations Matters
I was on vacation last week and was working on a blog post when my 5 year old barged into my office asking me to play dominos with him. I figured I needed about 10 minutes to finish up the post so I asked him to go look at his clock and tell me what time it was. He rushed out, came back and said, ‘daddy, its 9.25′ so I said, ‘I will play dominos with you in 10 minutes.’ Expectation set. At 9.35 he comes back in and grabs my arm and says ‘ok, its 9.35, lets go...
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