Oddly when hiring people for management positions, rarely do we ask to speak to those they’ve managed. We speak to their prior supervisors, but not to those who were actually impacted by their ability to manage.
When you ask for references, ask them to include those individuals they have directly managed.
It was 2003 and I was three weeks into taking the helm of a moving company and the department of transportation was about to shut us down. The company had received a horrible audit six months prior and nothing had changed. I begged the auditor to give us a few more weeks to become compliant and instill a new (legal) way of doing things. For safet Read more >
Culture consists of collective, coordinated choices – creating maddening mayhem or productive, pride-filled joy. Your culture’s music rises from the efforts composed by individual influencers of your concerted team. When you close your eyes, do you like what you hear?
Bring your team together. What melody do they hear? Talk through…
“New Year’s Day is every man’s birthday.” Charles Lamb
Once a year, a few times in a lifetime, we are given an official, societally supported, new slate chock full of beginnings and infinite possibility. Now’s the time to leverage the universal and monumental New Year with your team.
Full of new commitments, renewed efforts and the potentia Read more >
Responsive.
Management responsiveness is mis Read more >
