There is something happening more and more today that just has got me fired up, the lack of personal accountability or responsibility. I don’t know if I am more sensitive to it or just that the frequency of the occurrences have increased. Either way, I am sick and tired of witnessing this. How about you? [...]
Posts Tagged ‘trust’
What – No Personal Responsibility?
April 27th, 2010 
Steve 
Posted in Observations 
Tags: accountability, fear, motivation, people, performance management, trust 
1 Comment »Words That Should Be Spoken
April 20th, 2010 Steve At work a co-worker emailed me a link they felt I would find interesting. It was a post by Karen Burns on Money and Yahoo Finance, 7 Things Never to Say to Your Boss and 7 Things your Boss Should Never Say. I found both pretty good. What about the items that should be said? I think [...]
Posted in Leadership, Leading Teams, Observations Tags: communication, goals, Leadership, Leading Teams, managing, relationship, trust 1 Comment »How Do You Influence?
September 10th, 2009 Steve As many can tell from many of my posts, my career has been mostly as a manager. I have a somewhat easier route to influencing my direct reports. I’m the manager who coaches and mentors his employee’s. I’m the manager that writes and determines their compensation. I have more direct connection to my employee’s. Influencing [...]
Posted in Leadership Tags: challenges, Leadership, Management task cycle, managing, performance management, trust No Comments »Experience: My Learning’s
September 7th, 2009 Steve I wrote an internal blog post to share with other managers in my company – about a year ago. I was reading it the other day and felt like a top ten list of what I have learned would be a great summary of my experience. I got that moment of well, I really don’t [...]
Posted in Leadership, Leading Teams, Observations Tags: Leadership, Leading Teams, listening, managing, people, traits, trust No Comments »Ok, The Horse is Dead….
September 4th, 2009 Steve When I was growing up, my dad was full of sayings that just were not very politically correct, but they made their point. One of those, that I believe many pf you have heard before is – “How many times are we going to beat that dead horse?” Happens when someone just keeps harping on the issue [...]
Keep Talking, I’m Listening – NOT
August 5th, 2009 Steve Something from time to time catches my eyes (or ears) that just does not sit right. It could be the no so subtle comment about you or your team, it could be the back of the hand compliment, or maybe the way folks act. They are all around, microinequities. You have to first define it [...]
How Do You Tell Your Manager – Enough Already
July 7th, 2009 Steve Sometimes you feel like – okay, enough already. You have tried to work very hard on developing a strong working relationship with your manager. You have done just about everything you can think of and many of the options from your friends. Nothing seems to be getting through – what next? Confront the situation [...]
Posted in Leadership, Observations Tags: coaching, managing, micro-managing, team dynamics, trust No Comments »Managing Your Manager
July 6th, 2009 Steve The other day I was asked by the person I am mentoring, do you manage up? I thought about that for about 3 seconds, the simple answer is of course. I was told that secret many years ago, by a person that mentored me! Managing up is the best tactic for getting more responsibility [...]
Posted in Leadership, Leading Teams Tags: challenges, Leadership, managing, team dynamics, trust No Comments »Why Do Managers Fear Internal Social Computing?
June 5th, 2009 Steve I think everyone can safely say that for businesses external social computing is definitely a go forth and use. Internally on the other hand, that is definitely not the case. I have been participating on many efforts internally and have witnessed a very long list of fears. Are these fears real or just roadblocks? [...]
9 Practices That Will Guarantee You – A Bad Leader
June 1st, 2009 Steve There are many ways to educate, learn and practice concepts. If you have kids you probably use this technique – show what is the wrong in the situation with potential consequences – in hopes of teaching what should be done. Well, below I have taken 9 practices that I have witnessed over the past [...]
Posted in Leadership Tags: coaching, Leadership, Management task cycle, managing, traits, trust No Comments »
