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How to Stop Micromanaging and Motivate People to Top Performance
Removing Obstacles to Success
February 23, 11:55 am
What follows are some excerpts from my ebook on The Really Simple Way to Hire, Train, and Retain Great Employees. (this book is now absolutely free — my way to help stimulate good hiring practices)
First, if you don’t have a job description for a position you wish to fill, you’ll save yourself needless trouble […]
October 8, 9:57 am
Are you on a team? Are you putting one together? The commonly accepted practice is to assemble a bunch of subject matter experts and other smart folks. It’s even better if these people are passionate about what they do.
Well, this is not necessarily the best practice.
Over the years the above approaches may have been […]
September 28, 9:16 am
If you try to motivate people through insults and intimidation (and I know a few of you do), you may want to think about the ripple effects of your actions.
A story appearing in the New York Post and the Hollywood Reporter (among others) informs us that yet another contestant from the TV show “Hell’s Kitchen” […]
July 16, 1:48 pm
Are you aware of how much it costs to have an ongoing conflict at work? At one recent meeting with an HR manager I learned he had created a “cost of conflict” calculator — a computer program used to determine exactly how much unnecessary conflict was costing his company.
As I suspected, the numbers […]
July 13, 5:14 pm
Have you noticed how some people are addicted to negativity, blame games, and/or being a victim? Too often, “naysayers” downplay the value of good interpersonal skills training, mainly because they don’t know how to calculate the return on such an investment. It’s a soft-skill, not a tangible capital investment, and because most MBA programs […]
June 21, 3:16 pm
By Dan Bobinski
I’ve decided to pen an open letter on behalf of mismanaged employees everywhere. After 20+ years of training and consulting in hundreds of companies of all shapes and sizes, I’ve seen many managers who think they’re strong, but are not. And their teams suffer as a result.
Sometimes these managers are easy to […]
June 16, 1:29 pm
Someone recently asked me “Do leaders shape cultures, or do cultures shape leaders?”
My answer is “both.” From one perspective, a leader should be influencing an organization’s culture, otherwise the leader would be a follower (of the culture). For example, while serving aboard a destroyer during my time in the US Navy, I […]