Posted on January 27th, 2009 by Aaron The Great
I remember my first “real” job out of college. I also remember my performance appraisals during the 8 years I spent at the firm. Every one of them focused on my weaknesses; my lack of efficiency; my under performance in this area or that. Then I recall, clearly, the painstaking efforts of having to come up with next quarter’s goals that would help me improve the very things I hated doing.
If my manager would have tried to get to know who I was and what my strengths were, she would have never asked me to any of the things she was forcing on me.
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Filed under: Leadership, Management, Motivation
Posted on January 20th, 2009 by Aaron The Great
As a manager, how can you get people to do what you want them to do when you are not there to tell them to do it?
Here is a clue… YOU CAN’T. You can’t make anything happen. All you can do is influence, motivate, berate, or cajole in the hope that most of your people will do what you ask of them. Your predicament is compounded by the fact that human beings are messy. No matter how carefully you selected for certain talents, each of your people arrived with his own style, his own needs, and his own motivations.
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Filed under: Communication, Leadership, Management
Posted on January 7th, 2009 by Aaron The Great
When we talk of hiring someone, we immediately fall back to the “traditional” hiring criteria: Experience (how good the resume is), Intelligence (where a person got their degree and how many degrees) and Will Power (grit, determination, the “will” to succeed). We get most of this information from a resume that was most likely [...]
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Filed under: Assessments, Hiring, Leadership, Management
