Get 2-Way Manager-Employee Feedback Fast
"I wish my manager would ask me for my feedback sometimes," Monique, a seminar participant, told me at the conclusion of a two day training program in Baltimore about how to give employees performance feedback. She had several ideas that would improve how they worked...
How can something so well-intentioned end up so poorly?
The purpose of giving employees performance feedback is a positive and beneficial one, done for all of the right reasons. Yet, giving-and receiving---feedback is one of the most difficult, if not the most difficult, workplace conversation managers and employees will...
Why Employee Performance Doesn’t Improve Between Reviews
You're glad when performance reviews are finally done. Your employees are, too. Perhaps you feel that you conducted them as best as possible, given the limitations of the form you may be required to use, and other factors, including a shortage of time. You may...
Asking Your Boss to Improve How S/He Works with You
How do I give my boss feedback?" This is one of the questions I get most often from managers and other training program participants after they've learned a skill to give their employees feedback. "And how can I do this safely?" they add, "without getting into trouble...
Got Managers Who Butt Heads?
Most organizations do. And when managers have conflicts, or ineffective work relationships, these problems not only affect their performance and results, but multiplied in other areas of the organization. If they're department heads, which they are often are, their...
Eliminating the Biggest Employee Complaint
Over the past 25 years, I've conducted hundreds of consulting and training assignments in many different types of organizations, including manufacturers, service providers, professional practices, the military, and non-profits, including churches. I've met and worked...
You Dislike Their Idea but Don’t Want to Say So
How many times have you, and others in your organization, heard proposed ideas recommendations, or strategies that had flaws or other potential problems, but you didn't know what to say, or how to say it? And you didn't want to offend the person who presented them, so...
6 Step High Productivity Delegation Skill
If delegation has so many benefits, why don't more managers do it? How many times have all of us, including supervisors, managers, and executives, read or heard, "delegate to get more done, complete more strategic tasks, and develop your employees?" A lot. Yet much...
3 Skills to Confirm Employees Understand You
If you've ever had employees who directly report to you, then you're likely already more than familiar with this frustrating workplace problem. You give an employee a job assignment; or inform them about an important regulatory change; or delegate a multi-step project...
3 Questions to Develop an Outstanding Leadership Vision
After you read the vision statements below, I'll ask how they impacted you, and share their impact on several hundred participants in leadership development programs: "If there are poor on the moon, we will go there, too." -Mother Teresa "Ordinary...
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