New starters join you from someplace else in the world; another department, education, travels, a competitor, supplier, other. Wherever they came from and whatever they did there, they have two unique...
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As managers, we’re dealing with humans.
As managers of knowledge workers, we dealing with humans who’s value isn’t measured in equal units - it’s not about productivity points or hours on the...
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You’re busy. Your team is busy. The clock keeps ticks and the day-to-day is a conveyor belt of tasks to do and fires to fight and crises to manage. You move...
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It’s a shock, I know, that everyone isn’t just the same as you. They like different things, hate different things and have skills and preferences that leave you standing. Which is...
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It’s not all blue skies and daisies.
Every manager, sometime, has to have one of those conversations - to call out one team member’s behaviour toward another.
Maybe it’s lack of respect, maybe...
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